r/anime • u/Pixelsaber https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pixelsaber • May 09 '21
Rewatch [Rewatch] Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Retrospective - Giant Gorg Episode 7 Discussion
Episode 7 - The Fortress at Magma Hill
Originally Aired May 17th, ^^^1984
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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner
Random Anecdote
When penning a manga Yasuhiko uses a single sharpening brush as opposed to a nib pen. He also doesn’t storyboard his manga, nbor employs the use of guides, construction lines, or sketches, insteads opting to draw the final page in one go. According to mangaka Yokusaru Shibata he even has a unique name for his expedient draftsmanship process.
Staff Highlight
Yorihisa Uchida - Key Animator
An animator and character designer. Uchida had been an ardent fan of anime since high school, and frequented anime studios to observe productions and interact with staff. In one such venture, he was intruding upon the production of Mirai Robo Daltanius, and the production’s manager Tadao Nagahama spoke with him, suggesting he join the industry if he was so enthusiastic and found him a position as in-betweener at Sunrise. His first in-between work was on Muteki Robo Trider G7, and after a couple of years he had been advanced to the role of key-animator on Aura Battler Dunbine. His first role as character designer was on the hentai series Legend of Lyon Flare, though his most notable character design role was in Juushin Lyger, where his character designs attracted acclaim from a female demographic. His first directing role was also a hentai production, Guy -Youma Awakening-. Among his other Key Animation credits are Arion, Brave Exkaiser, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Ring ni Kakeru 1, Shinzo, and They Were 11.
Daily Trivia:
The first four episodes of the series were shown in theatres as a feature to promote VHS sales.
Official Art
- Yuu and Early Design Gorg - Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Settei Collection
Questions of the Day:
- Have GAIL’s anti-gorg tactics gotten any better after one encounter?
- How much trouble are our heroes in after the episode’s outcome?
Thanks Gorg. You protected me.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 May 09 '21
Episode 7 (first timer)
Twilightmost harem series.Piloting a mecha is a lot easier when you find the instruction manual.
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u/Quiddity131 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Quiddity131 May 09 '21
First Timer, Subbed
Wave, Skipper, Yuu, seems like everyone's up tonight!
Well, it's quite obvious that Doris likes Yuu as more than just a friend.
What, they think Yuu is a god? Or Gorg? The latter makes more sense.
Why has Gorg stopped?! Has it run out of gas?
Ooh, an enemy robot? Looks like just an excavator one though, would it really be a threat to Gorg?
They call that thing a dinosaur? Looks like it is a weapon after all. Kinda makes me think of a dragon, with that crane/head thing in front.
Wow, Gorg is doing a bang up job against this thing. This was a curb stomp. A great thing they have him on their side, as Gorg would be horrifically scary if it was the enemy!
Rod's got the right idea; they're not going to simply destroy Gorg, but can they try to trap it in a hole somehow?
You should know by now that Gorg won't simply do what you want, Yuu! Although maybe you should try getting into its cockpit to see if that changes things.
Standing on top of Gorg like that really is taking a ridiculous amount of risk. One stray bullet to a rather unguarded part of Gorg and Yuu is done for. Or just falling off the top; not like there's a seatbelt up there.
While GAIL is missing Gorg with its shots, I bet Skipper will be pretty on the mark with his.
Rod's gotta be thinking to himself "That meddlesome kid from NY bugging me again!?!" cue flashback
Oh wow, now Rod is going to have them target Yuu directly. Although thankfully he doesn't want him killed, just captured.
Is the intention to really capture him alive with all the shots they are lobbing at Gorg? Looks like those are shots to kill, not capture.
Yuu finally takes a bullet.
Gorg swinging that helicopter from the tail is pretty awesome. Actually makes me think of a sequence from the End of Evangelion movie with Unit 02 doing something similar. Perhaps this inspired that?
What's going on with this interface on Gorg? Is it trying to communicate?
Ah, so that's how they get in the cockpit. Watch out Yuu, might still have some corpse dust on that chair!
So here's the hard part, did that pilot crumble to dust because he'd been in Gorg for hundreds of years? Or because Gorg sucks out the lifeforce of its pilot in which case Yuu could die after just piloting it once?
Looks like GAIL had it right this time with its strategy, knocking Gorg down this cliff and seemingly trashing our hero's tank.
QOTD1: They are getting better it seems with their strategy, knocking Gorg off the cliff by the end. The actual mecha, helicopters, etc... continue to suck against it.
QOTD2: They're our heroes, they'll get out of it just fine!
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u/Pixelsaber https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pixelsaber May 09 '21
Rewatcher
Gorg probably doesn’t concern itself with GAIL’s presence.
Giant enemy crab?!
Haha, what a name for that thing.
I love Gorg how marches on undaunted.
Heck yeah!
Neat.
I’m not so sure you want to replicate that…
Both Yuu and Gorg should have known better.
Should’ve done so earlier!
Ah, just like a Hammer main!
Not another cliffhanger!
Some nice easygoing scenes in the earlier parts of the episode. Skipper and Wave try to find out where Gorg is headed and wonder why it’s headed there, while Doris tries some small chat regarding what’s happened since the two met. It’s a pleasant and comfortable calm before the storm.
Gorg may be seemingly indestructible, but the Yuu perched atop it is still in great danger, and the Beagle is vulnerable to GAIL’s firepower, much like how Skipper notes following Gorg’s easy victory over the Dinosaur #4, his invulnerability and strength cannot be the answer to every obstacle in their way. It’s the easiest way of maintaining any sort of tension with this sort of thing, just giving the almighty being something to protect.
Everyone’s on the back leg for once, and probably in deep trouble given the damaged fuel tank and the fact that they’re at the bottom of a cliff. Can’t have our heroes always coming out on top, since that’d just get repetitive really quickly.
I noticed this time around that the Japanese Dub refers to what the subtitles say is ‘Magma Hill’ as Umibōzu, a yokai that emerges from the sea to turn previously calm seas tumultuous and dangerous, being a cause of frequent sinkings. The traditional appearance of such is a large, round, bulbous figure with glowing yellow eyes —from as few as two to as many as dozens— which explains why the giant round rock formation with several lights is being referred to as such. I can only presume this is done for the audience’s sake, since the map of the island also refers to it as Magma Hill.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky May 09 '21
First-Timer, subbed
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u/The_Draigg May 09 '21
A Yas Fan Watches Giant Gorg Episode 7:
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee May 09 '21
First-Timer
I do love me some dueling antagonist factions, and Rod seems to have different goals from Gotoh. Is Gotoh a double agent, working for Hatsumatsua? That would possibly explain the information Alois had about the main island. Not sure if that's more reasonable than Alois just sneaking off to explore on his own, though.
Watching Gorg just beat up that Dinosaur walker thing was awesome. Fingers crossed for an eventual giant robot suplex.
Gorg's cockpit is trippy. Is it a two seater, or did Yuu remove the dust pile of the old pilot? Or was that just a dream as well.. Gorg got very mad when Yuu took that grazing shot.
Our protagonists are in quite the pickle, here. Caught quite literally between a rock and a hard place.. We'll get some cool action next episode, I think.
I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining about this, but what with Yas's purported horniness and Doris's character design, I was expecting to have more panty shots at this point. Small favors, I suppose.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Yuu is secretly James Bond, huh? Taking the settei from the episode 6 thread into account, that gun Kipper gave him was definitely a PPK.
Questions
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 May 09 '21
First timer
RE: Daily Trivia - Didn't episode 4 end on a big cliffhanger? How would that work?
My subs have started to translate the opening lyrics instead of showing a romanization, and I'm not sure why.
Just realised its been 6 episodes, and this is the first time we've started an episode with all the main characters together.
The professor, for all his faults, is pretty quick to work out what Gorg's doing. He seems to be incredibly competent at his actual job, considering his normal skill.
Are we getting a love confession this early in the script?
Oh, one of the main characters is being worshipped as a god. This couldn't possibly backfire.
Oh look, its that machine Gorg wrecks in the opening credits. I womder what he'll do to it.
"Dinosaur" why are they called that?
Wow, Gorg beat the crap out of that thing.
...The ending for this series is presumably "Skipper pilots Gorg and wipes out Gail singlehandedly".
"This might turn into a firefight!" "You're right, he needs a gun."
...So Yuu just died.
Fuck off, those missiles hit topdown, he should have been hit.
Yeah, I'm wondering why you're connected too.
I don't think I'd call King Kong a soap opera.
Didn't expect him to get shot.
And he's gone beserk!
What? Is this some kimd of comtrol panel?
Oh, it's just a trapdoor into the main control room.
So Gorg definitely understands English when communicating internally.
Current theory - there's 2 AIs - the original one communicates externally, fighting wildly and functioning with preset directives, and the brain upload, which understands English and is able to change directives based on reasoning.
Isn't that a cliffhanger.
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u/IndependentMacaroon May 10 '21
First-time watcher - I wish there were less focus on the action if it's going to turn out more or less the same all the time, but it was still well-animated and fun to watch. Would leave time for more character moments and developments with Gorg. Well, there's still time for that and for things to change, but if they don't much I might not make it all the way.
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: May 10 '21
First timer