If there is im not aware of it. I was one of the hopefulls that Goshou would find it and update it to his website. Ive seen some scans of a manga related to one of the J-ark clones powered by a Zondar core and out to smash Soldat up. Here are some key points id love them to touch on in video format and let me know if i miss any: -The rivalry between Shuu and Guy with a nice climactic battle -Allouete the cute genius working on GaoFighGar's programming -the aforementioned manga with Renais infiltrating one of gimlet's sexy parties with the help of Volfogg's holo cammo. -a FULL episode related to where 3G space base was crashing to earth being saved by GaoFighGar -of course aforementioned King J-der Vs. Himself smackdown. -a nice sentai hommage episode featuring those ID suits and whatever previous incident they were related to. -and if its not too much trouble, an episode related to the Blockaded Numbers clips where Hyuma and Tiga get Zondarized and have to be saved by Grand Pressure and Silvarion Hammer. Again if anyone finds these manga and wouldnt mind scanning them it would fill up that chocolate layer nicely for a few fans here. *no i dont want much i just want to live in Japan where all the nice stuff is* Oh and Episodes 1-28 of J-decker series have been downloaded so far, but the D/L rate seems to drop off the face of the earth at times and people need to start leaving their computers on longer so i can get the rest pretty please.
Id also like to note that ill try to get in a nice weekly review of each series and my perspective on it, but please keep in mind that my attention span for the earlier series is quite lacking, and i will probably do what ive done with the episodes of J-decker i have so far and just skip and get the jist of it. Without subtitles its kinda meh unless theres some nice hardcore Da Garn like Mech action that kept me interested(i honestly cant say enough about the series so ill probably do Da Garn next)
Dang, now I want to watch Da Garn. Hmm, well, 17 episodes subbed in English and the rest in Chinese, it's a start! I had a GGG Manga somewhere. Not sure what it was, I think it was about the creation of GaoFighGar and probably included the orbit base rescue storyline. I'll see if I can dredge it up, it must be on some backup storage by now.
Ultra Raker and God Silverion showed up this morning. Very fast shipping on Rinkya's part, though I'm still peeved on the overall price. God Silverion looks amazing. You can tell the toy has been played with, but all the bots have neat transformations. Fire Silver is definitely my favorite out of the four bots. I was a little underwhelmed by Ultra Raker; probably because I've wanted one ever since I found out about the Brave series a few years back. While my toys have pretty tight joints, I need to clean Green Raker up a bit. The chest shield has a bit of sticker wear as well. I wish someone made Repro-labels for Braves, because I really want to re-sticker Ultra Raker. Overall not a bad haul, but not $175 good. Ultra Raker has wet my appetite for more Exkaiser mecha so I'll probably use Celga to buy a God Max and Dinoguyst sometime later on this year
Congrats on your haul . Yeh I think God Silverion is great although the legs falling off in combined mode erks me.
Good news, I found my GGG Final Manga! It's over 200 pages long, so I've not had a chance to go through it, but I think most of what Tarngold mentioned is in there. Except bizarrely the Orbit Base episode which I was certain was in there - but it ends with Alouette and GaoFighGar.
Alright, get that sucker scanned so i can complete my GGG archive further! Also....... ......FORM UP! BRAVE POLICE! J-decker download COMPLETE!! NOW were cooking with FIRE!
Geez you guys are killing me here! Theres little to no activity in the thread as of late, and if you guys wonder why the site isnt already done its due to the level of interest mainly. Anyway, heres yet another in depth review of the J-decker series. I know its not Da Garn, but while watching the series i was taken aback and felt a serious need to get the review for this off my shoulders, i powered through all the episodes in 3 days, so here goes! J-Decker Brave Police J-decker is the 5th installment of the series. As an evolution of brave over the past few installments this series is part of the "now lets try something different but the same" catagory of series that started with Might Gaine. We still have all the base elements but has many other focus points that make it a truely unique series. The backstory for the series focuses entirely on the creation of a Super AI that allows for robots that think. Alot of the key characters and villains touch on technology advancements that deal with this very Cyber punk style age of humanity. The very first successful Super AI was tested with a special police unit that eventually develops into Brave Police which is considered to be a Japan focused unit that has divisions in other parts of the world, as well as internally. Gun Max for example was considered part of a highway patrol unit. Duke was part of a Scotland Yard division, with units that look alot like the Diver team from Might Gaine with a different colorscheme and some slight styling. When i first started watching J-decker, i had a funny feeling it would be like certain police based anime, where individual cases were presented each episode. I couldnt have been closer to the truth if i had stepped on it with steel toed boots. Fans of the usual type of Brave series will find that this lacks the collective villain aspsect weve come to enjoy. In its place we get Villains of the Day instead of monsters of the day. The way the villains of the day are presented is sometimes in waves which focus on a single mecha characters introduction and span a few episodes. The real villains if you want to say there are some in this series on a whole touch on the main theme of the series. Ill just say this. In the very end, this harkens back to the Exkaiser series in a rather unique way. I guess i should touch on the series shining point to clarify the theme. This series focuses on the characterization of the mecha. It does an awesome job doing so, and i would consider this the best series for that out of any Brave show. By the end of the series i was left with an attachment for each mecha presented. The Designs are very reminiscient of the series theme, and are so good they leave me with a big mechanical stiffy. Animation is the best, through and through. Theres only about .1% of the total series that has a degridation in animation, but its so unnoticeable unless your really paying attention to it. Imagine that those awesome transformation sequences spanned the whole episode and youll get some idea as to the shear level of quality that was put into the mech and character animation. The combat is ALWAYS good animation, and overall im not left dissapointed in any episode. The human characters are very well visually represented, and i just cant stop noticing their hair! Alot of the episodes in the series can be counted as my favorites overall for the Brave series. The writers did a very good job on all fronts aside from a few select episodes and things in general. I know ive been rather positive this whole review, and havent said anything substantially bad about the series. So let me get the bad comments out of the way now. About the only characters that urked me a bit were the annoying neighbors in Yuuta's town. About the only thing i dislike about the series other than that is the narrator, who is guaranteed to pop in and explain stuff each episode, mainly due to the fact that were introducing a new villain every episode, giving us a breif explaination without allowing us to figure it out by watching the episode itself. I would have appreciated an effort to work it into the episode with flashback or possibly enough at the start of the episode, but then again were given episodic exposure so its hard to without making the episode longer than the alloted timeslot, not to mention that the target age group needs a few things explained. please keep in mind i dont have any idea whats going on in this series aside from visuals and certain key words that i understand, and i was still able to get out of it what i needed without explainations. I seem to remember that other police anime suffer from this exact same thing, but i cant think of any other shining examples. Other than that I would have appreciated some kind of main villain such as a crime syndicate funding the other lesser villains, but no such luck, it felt like the villains were handled a little half assed and were left entirely to the writer for that episode to work in. Again its something thats a side affect of the series focus which is entirely on characterizing the mecha of the series and the theme of can a robot be considered as more than just a robot. Of course theres still the main theme of courage that resounds throughout the series. Despite its small incidental flaws i highly recommend this series.
The first episode has more to do with 'heart' than courage and bravery. Only Gaogaigar actually directly uses bravery and courage in the show. Nice review though .
Don't worry tarngold i'll be putting all yr Brave reviews under my favorites soon. it's really a thankless job & i really appreciate what you're doing bro . great & in-depth review btw. (hmm maybe i can add a link on the Brave wiki to yr reviews once you finished reviewing all of em' )
If anyone's interested, HLJ is having a clearance sale of Genesic GGG. 30% off the regular price. Here's the link: Brave Gohkin Genesic Gao Gai Gar
Even though that with EMS shipping it jumps up to about $195, that's still roughly what I paid new for my non-upgraded version a while back. It's not a steal, but it's definitely a fair price.
My CMS Sunrise Mechanical Action Da Garn X and Star GaoGaiGar finally arrived today! I don't have pictures at hand at the moment. Anyhow, some things I noticed about the figures. First up Star GaoGaiGar: He's rather back heavy thanks to Stealth Gao II. It really needs a support or some fiddling to get him to stand without toppling over. Switching out hands is a bit annoying, since the joints are rather tights. The painting on the rings is a bit wonky. Besides that it is a great representation of the mecha. The manes of Galeon can move around a bit. This is pretty neat since it allows a bit wider range of poses. Next up, Da Garn X: The lower arm armor can slide off when you change around hands. The chest armor is a bit loose. Nothing too bad, but it could be a bit tighter. I really like its big feet. It's pretty sturdy this way. All in all great representations of their anime counterpart. This line reminds me of the Gundam Fixed Figuration line, great detail, but sometimes loose parts. These figures are definitely not for playing around, I'd rather call them pose able display pieces. They are worth it if you want an anime accurate figure. If you want a figure to play around with and transform and combine, don't get these.
It seems that J-Decker's first episode is subbed! http://a.scarywater.net/yuusha/[English]_J-Decker_01.avi.torrent
