Posted by SignOfZeta on August 08, 2024 at 12:14:38 EST in reply to I remember looking often at the Hameln LDs back in the day, and thinking that there was something odd about how they were sold, but I was pretty sure all of the 25 episodes were on there. During my 2020 rewatch, I remember trying to find the official, legit DVD set of it online, but I was so confused and unsure that what I was going to buy was a knock-off, so I just gave up.
The only kind-of related thing I heard back in the day, was that one of the middle episodes during its original run was pre-empted by a big news event, and then never re-aired. They just kept playing the following Hameln episodes without going back to re-show the missed episode. I think this was relayed to me by Leon back in the day when he couldn't find the bootleg tape of that episode in Chinatown... but who knows. If it's actually true, it's certainly a hilarious addition to how disrespected the show was.
Also, talking about this makes me want to re-watch Giant Robo now. (n/t) from Bean.
Yeah, I eventually learned that all the episodes are on LDs. The sequencing is less than ideal though for the publisher and the fan buying the last volume because it’s a five episode two disc collection. Typically TV anime is a half hour and a CLV LD is two hours so they sell four episodes on a disc or perhaps eight episodes on two discs. So this needed one last disc to get the last episode on which raised the price by like 1500 yen. It seems like they could have avoided that with better planning. I have a fair number of TV series on LD at this point and none of them were sequenced that oddly.
Robo just rules. That show never gets old or goes bad. The ending, it’s actual plot, not the plot it seems to have when it starts out, is so great it spoils me for lesser works. While grand in scale we sometimes all feel like Franken Von Folger…like we’re the only one on earth that isn’t crazy. When you’re the only one not buying an electric car, for example, and people who apparently never heard of the famously failed and ecologically calamitous pushes for E85 and diesel…people who literally confuse ignorance with insight…outnumber logically or historically minded people. It can make you want crawl into a hole and not come out again until you have an invention that can save the whole world at once.
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