#tatsunoko animation

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TODAY'S GENDER is Voiced by Anairis Quinones and Animated by Tatsunoko

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Speed Racer (1967)

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Ken the Eagle by Alex Ross.

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman Original Hand Drawn Settei Proposal Documents

Art by Tatsuo Yoshida.

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Roll!

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You are the end

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Promotional material and production excerpts from Neon Genesis Evangelion by Hideaki Anno, Gainax, and Tatsunoko.

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from Time Bokan (1975)

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Shin Seiki Evangelion

ENG Title: Neon Genesis Evangelion

JP Title: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

Action・Drama・Mecha・Mystery・Psychological・Sci-Fi TV・26 Episodes Year: Fall 1995 Studio: Gainax Tatsunoko Production Character: Penpen ( ペンペン ) Asuka Langley Souryuu ( 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー )

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Speed Racer art!

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (1972).

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman comin' at ya!

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Quick sketch from last night;

Apple, from Red Photon Zillion

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July 1988. An art book for a show that never quite came to be, ROBOTECH ART 3 is also the official account of how the planned sequel to ROBOTECH fell apart. if you've heard of ROBOTECH, you're almost certainly aware that it was an amalgamation of three similar but unrelated Tatsunoko anime series, tied together with a new storyline by American producer Carl Macek as a multigenerational saga with enough episodes for American TV syndication. The dilemma this presented (other than for aggrieved weebs insisting that the new storyline was a bastardization of the presumptively superior original series) was that characters from the different generations couldn't really interact, and some important plot elements could only be presented through exposition. ROBOTECH II: THE SENTINELS was to be a 65-episode original series that would chronicle how the survivors of the first generation (adapted from the popular SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS MACROSS) set out to make peace with the Robotech Masters of Tirol (the villains of the second generation, adapted from SUPER DIMENSION CAVALRY SOUTHERN CROSS) and ended up embroiled in a war with the Invid, the villains of the third generation (adapted from GENESIS CLIMBER MOSPEADA), who eventually conquered the Earth. This was to lead up to the finale of the original series, which would be the starting point for a subsequent series.

For various reasons chronicled at length in the book, the project collapsed after only a handful of episodes were completed. (The surviving footage was later released on home video.) Macek's story outlines were then adapted in several similar but distinct ways in a series of prose novels by "Jack McKinney" (a pseudonym for the writing team of Brian Daley and James Luceno), in the Palladium roleplaying game, and later in American comic books by John and Jason Waltrip. There was also a fanon take that mostly rejected all of the other versions as incompatible with the actual scripts and footage of the original show, which eventually led Harmony Gold, the American production company, to retroactively declare the entire project apocryphal. Harmony Gold then hired the Waltrip brothers to create a five-issue comic book prelude to its truly dire 2007 direct-to-video animated sequel, ROBOTECH: THE SHADOW CHRONICLES, which is heavily reliant on the events of the SENTINELS storyline without being entirely compatible with any previous version of it, and is frustratingly unsatisfying to anyone who actually liked any of them. (Nobody won, in other words.)

THE SENTINELS is often derided for no particularly good reason. The basic storyline has its clunky aspects (in addition to the continuity issues the RRG contingent identified), but so do the original Japanese shows, and the Japanese MACROSS franchise has subsequently gone a lot of weird places that tend to undercut the claim that ROBOTECH is categorically inferior. Both have their flaws, but ROBOTECH and THE SENTINELS are hardly without merit. (The dismal SHADOW CHRONICLES is another matter …)