CB Character Go Nagai World Japanese with English Sub

Had to return the first copy because of the two big razor blade cuts across the front of the cover as seen in the pictures. They immediately ordered another one for me as a return, and it came in an even smaller, less protected package and received minor damage to the top corner. The second copy is manageable, but disappointed as a collector to receive it like this.As for the product itself: it's brand new in the case, sealed. The DVD disc is in perfect condition, plays perfectly fine. The image and audio quality are nice, clean and crisp.Gave 3 starts only for the hassle of having to return the first copy and the second copy also having minor damage to it.

Go Nagai works in chibi works quit well for me. Very funny, only for fans.

After watching the second episode of the Devilman OVA series, I always get sad that it ended like this. Without any conclusion to this saga. Until I learned in 2018 that CB Chara Go Nagai World, whom I had heard of since 2000, was a semi-continuation/conclusion to what Akira Fudo, Ryo Asuka, and Miki Makimura experience in Devilman. While also exposing the big answers behind Violence Jack, another Go Nagai series that started in 1973, a few weeks after Devilman‘s tragic finale. And with the many nods and references to Devilman in Violence Jack, readers had many questions to ask. So in a way, the CB Chara Go Nagai World series, directed and written by Umanosuke Iida, is a complete story that acts as a sort of conclusion to Iida’s Go Nagai projects. While rendering in Chibi designs many characters of Go Nagai’s series.Indeed, the story starts as Akira, Miki, and Ryo wake up in a parallel universe, invisible to the rest of the world. Rendered in super deformed versions of themselves. With larger heads and minuscule bodies. And while they try to return to their home world, they encounter antagonists like Shirenu, Kaim, Jinmen, but also heroes like Koji Kabuto and his Mazinger Z robot. Also rendered in CB format. And from these many encounters, the mysteries behind this super deformed universe are revealed, alongside other secrets within the Devilman saga about those pulling the strings around Akira and Miki.In sum, we are offered a complete storyline fitting inside three 40 minutes episodes. With characters voiced by some actors from the original Mazinger Z series, new figures like Megumi Hayashibara, but also performers from the Devilman OVA classic which Iida made with Go Nagai.Except here, he is working by himself. Without Go Nagai as co-writer. Though we can sense — regarding the Devilman-Violence Jack revelations — that Go is behind them and has given them to this series director. Who is working with all his Devilman colleagues. With Kenji Kawai at the soundtrack and Kazuo Komatsubara behind the character designs and animation. Which is wonderful as together, these people give us a pristine continuation to what they did with Iida.A semi continuation-conclusion to their Devilman project. With Shirenu, Baron Ashura, Jinmen Dr. Hell, and Kaim mixing comedy into their drama with Akira, Mazinger Z, Koji, Sayaka and Miki. In such a clever way that it never disrupts the scenes. Making them memorable and worth talking again after the series ends. All of them well written with superb dialogues and excellent repartee from everybody.In its technical aspects, the animation work from Kazuo Komatsubara and his team is excellent. Cartoonesque and dynamic, its animation is as fluid as a Studio Ghibli production. Following Iida’s storyboards and using clever camera movements in some instances (ex: Akira dangling from a light and the camera zoom backs and forth). For the character designs, the mixture of cartoony designs with, in some instances, more mature models is adjust. Always employed for the proper context. And the many scenes Iida offers with the Mazinger Z characters makes me wish that he could have worked on a 1980s adaptation of Koji’s story. That could have followed more closely the mature comedy/drama of Go Nagai’s pen. Even more awesome would have been an adaptation of Violence Jack from Iida. Indeed, what he displays in the Violence Jack storyline of CB Chara Go Nagai World shows a better understanding of that apocalyptic landscape as a world where humour, friendship, and life flows alongside its violence. Which the 1986-1990 Violence Jack series lacked as it focused on the violence and neglected the humanity/comedy of its story.Furthermore, I also love the soundtrack Kenji Kawai made for these three episodes. Some of them orchestral remixes of his Devilman soundtrack, but also of classical tunes in the 1972 Mazinger Z TV show. Alongside original tracks that show how mysterious and moving this Chibi universe is for all its inhabitants.Though I find it a bit of a bummer that some characters presented in the opening credits, such as Cutie Honey, do not appear in the show at all. Just like I find it disappointing that there hasn’t been a Soundtrack release made out of Kawai’s compositions. And that we do not have any CD release of the ending theme song Pending Now!. One of the best tunes I have heard in an ending credit series, that I would love to hear in its full version; a song which everyone has commended for being very beautiful, and melancholic.In the end, CB Chara Go Nagai World is a beautiful piece of animation for fans of Go Nagai, but also of classics like Devilman and Mazinger Z. Who can see through it a new perspective into these treasures of Japanese Folklore which have transfigured our world’s pop culture.

the turtle demon is a wimp

This is a very strange animated film, being a Go Nagai fan I was quite excited when I saw this for sale as it had classic characters as Mazinger Z, Devilman and Grandizer. worth a purchase

After watching the second episode of the Devilman OVA series, I always get sad that it ended like this. Without any conclusion to this saga. Until I learned in 2018 that CB Chara Go Nagai World, whom I had heard of since 2000, was a semi-continuation/conclusion to what Akira Fudo, Ryo Asuka, and Miki Makimura experience in Devilman. While also exposing the big answers behind Violence Jack, another Go Nagai series that started in 1973, a few weeks after Devilman‘s tragic finale. And with the many nods and references to Devilman in Violence Jack, readers had many questions to ask. So in a way, the CB Chara Go Nagai World series, directed and written by Umanosuke Iida, is a complete story that acts as a sort of conclusion to Iida’s Go Nagai projects. While rendering in Chibi designs many characters of Go Nagai’s series.Indeed, the story starts as Akira, Miki, and Ryo wake up in a parallel universe, invisible to the rest of the world. Rendered in super deformed versions of themselves. With larger heads and minuscule bodies. And while they try to return to their home world, they encounter antagonists like Shirenu, Kaim, Jinmen, but also heroes like Koji Kabuto and his Mazinger Z robot. Also rendered in CB format. And from these many encounters, the mysteries behind this super deformed universe are revealed, alongside other secrets within the Devilman saga about those pulling the strings around Akira and Miki.In sum, we are offered a complete storyline fitting inside three 40 minutes episodes. With characters voiced by some actors from the original Mazinger Z series, new figures like Megumi Hayashibara, but also performers from the Devilman OVA classic which Iida made with Go Nagai.Except here, he is working by himself. Without Go Nagai as co-writer. Though we can sense — regarding the Devilman-Violence Jack revelations — that Go is behind them and has given them to this series director. Who is working with all his Devilman colleagues. With Kenji Kawai at the soundtrack and Kazuo Komatsubara behind the character designs and animation. Which is wonderful as together, these people give us a pristine continuation to what they did with Iida.A semi continuation-conclusion to their Devilman project. With Shirenu, Baron Ashura, Jinmen Dr. Hell, and Kaim mixing comedy into their drama with Akira, Mazinger Z, Koji, Sayaka and Miki. In such a clever way that it never disrupts the scenes. Making them memorable and worth talking again after the series ends. All of them well written with superb dialogues and excellent repartee from everybody.In its technical aspects, the animation work from Kazuo Komatsubara and his team is excellent. Cartoonesque and dynamic, its animation is as fluid as a Studio Ghibli production. Following Iida’s storyboards and using clever camera movements in some instances (ex: Akira dangling from a light and the camera zoom backs and forth). For the character designs, the mixture of cartoony designs with, in some instances, more mature models is adjust. Always employed for the proper context. And the many scenes Iida offers with the Mazinger Z characters makes me wish that he could have worked on a 1980s adaptation of Koji’s story. That could have followed more closely the mature comedy/drama of Go Nagai’s pen. Even more awesome would have been an adaptation of Violence Jack from Iida. Indeed, what he displays in the Violence Jack storyline of CB Chara Go Nagai World shows a better understanding of that apocalyptic landscape as a world where humour, friendship, and life flows alongside its violence. Which the 1986-1990 Violence Jack series lacked as it focused on the violence and neglected the humanity/comedy of its story.Furthermore, I also love the soundtrack Kenji Kawai made for these three episodes. Some of them orchestral remixes of his Devilman soundtrack, but also of classical tunes in the 1972 Mazinger Z TV show. Alongside original tracks that show how mysterious and moving this Chibi universe is for all its inhabitants.Though I find it a bit of a bummer that some characters presented in the opening credits, such as Cutie Honey, do not appear in the show at all. Just like I find it disappointing that there hasn’t been a Soundtrack release made out of Kawai’s compositions. And that we do not have any CD release of the ending theme song Pending Now!. One of the best tunes I have heard in an ending credit series, that I would love to hear in its full version; a song which everyone has commended for being very beautiful, and melancholic.In the end, CB Chara Go Nagai World is a beautiful piece of animation for fans of Go Nagai, but also of classics like Devilman and Mazinger Z. Who can see through it a new perspective into these treasures of Japanese Folklore which have transfigured our world’s pop culture.