Video: Vintage robot rampage remix
13 Apr 2007
Old-school anime bots go wild in this video pieced together from the robot battle scenes in Toei’s 1965 animated film Gulliver no Uchuu Ryokou (”Gulliver’s Space Travels” or “Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon”). The video was created by Steven Wagner of Astropolitan Pictures, and the soundtrack is Japanoise band Melt-Banana’s “Alpha Boost,” which was remixed for Salvo Beta’s Evil Against Evil compilation.
[…] There’s really nothing better than hot robot on robot violence, I say, and so I was very glad to come across this video from Steven Wagner (via Pink Tentacle) that was pieced together from some old anime footage that was clearly done as a warning to the Japanese about the dangers of building robots. […]
Fricken’ sweet.
Melt Banana’s “Alpha Boost” samples Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell” opening sequence.
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Old Scifi is the bomb! I grew up watching that stuff all the time.