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DS Wants You! To Watch Toku(-inspired) Anime!
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06-15-2022, 07:05 PM
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DreamSword
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Michigan
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FINAL THOUGHTS ON ICZER
The
Iczer
franchise is certainly a unique beast of a franchise, even by the standards of today.
What started off a simple H-Manga in
Iczer-1
ended up being transformed into a movie that crosses over so many different genres while all falling under the message of how love and emotions bring people together and can get us through our darkest of hours.
The closest I can think of to compare
Iczer
to is stuff like
Tekkaman
and
Detonator Orgun
, but even then they really don't hit that same mark. Especially not in terms of graphic content.
Iczer-1
is very much made for adults. With brutal fights, plenty of gore, and various body and cosmic horror tropes at play that are very much not kid friendly. But yet, the very blatant Toku elements thrown into it all makes me think that it was made specifically for adults who grew up with Toku and wanted more adult themes out of it. So, in a sense,
Iczer-1
was basically
GARO
before
GARO
was even a thing.
...Which makes it so interesting and kinda funny to me that its direct sequel,
Iczer-3
, very much swings in the opposite direction and is very much made with kids in mind.
Yeah, it very much has a smaller budget. Yeah, the horror, Yuri, and gory content is very much downplayed. And yeah, its focuses almost entirely on humanoid action with the mecha stuff very much an afterthought.
But ya know what? It's still fun in its own regard, and that's all I'm ever asking for.
I would be no means say that
Iczer-3
is any sort of bad when compared to its predecessor, but a very different flavor. But I will acknowledge that that sort of thing makes for a really tough sell when making a direct sequel, ya know? It kinda reminds me of how R-Rated movies used to get cartoon adaptations back during the 80s.
Sure,
Iczer-1
is far more "sophisticated" in its content and focuses alot more on character development, but there's something to be said about
Iczer-3
knowing exactly what it wanted to do and just gunning for it, simplistic or not.
Do I personally think that
Iczer-1
is the better of the two? Sure. But again,
Iczer-3
was still an overall enjoyable experience for me, and it never felt like a waste of time or a complete betrayal to what came before it. It was clear to me that the people behind
Iczer-3
had seen the original, and were trying their best to fit in various aspects that older fans would recognize and appreciate such as subspace and the character development of Iczer-2.
Heck, it doesn't stop there for the franchise either. Did you know that there's actually an audio drama where
Iczer-1
crosses over with
Dangaioh
? Odd choice for a crossover to be sure, but should that audio drama ever actually get translated, I'm definitely interested in it!
(And no, I will not be covering
Dangaioh
in this thread, as it is unfortunately not even remotely Toke-like despite having a shout out to
Space Sheriff Gavan
.)
I guess the best way for me to sum this all up is that the
Iczer
franchise is definitely a unique experience, I'd recommend anyone even remotely interested in it to try it out.
In the end, I give
Fight! Iczer-1!
a
4/6
and
Adventure! Iczer-3!
a
3/6
. Very solid stuff all around.
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