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I am interested in philosophy, linguistics, history…
I like to consume manganimedoujin, especially Leiji Matsumoto’s work (check out my Alberich’s Dream page and my Leijiverse tag on the right sidebar, or just click on Queen Promethium).
The title of the blog is a ripoff homage to Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft (“Critique of Judgement” in good English). So “kritik” in animekritik is not “critic” but “critique”. I am no critic. Criticism just happens here (or did).
Any queries, comments, life issues, inheritance notices, feel free to contact me at animekritik@hotmail.com. I can handle Spanish, French and Thai (the last two poorly, but I manage) and I have enough willpower to decipher any other language under the sun so if you need to rant in Esperanto or Old Irish go right ahead!
日本語もしゃかりきにｃｏｍｍｕｎｉｃａｔｉｏｎできますので、なにかがあればぜひ前述のアドレスに！
***Header credits → To your left, Captain Harlock. To your right, Emeraldas.
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This is a list of Leiji Matsumoto works I have watched or read (following a generously ample definition of what constitutes a Matsumoto work). I’ve added the number of tankobon volumes for each manga next to the title (if there is no tankobon edition then I have gone with the bunkobon figure).
COMPLETED ANIME:
Adieu Galaxy Express (film)
Arcadia of my Youth (film)
Arrivederci Yamato (film)
Be Forever Yamato (film)
Cockpit (OVA)
Cosmo Warrior Zero (OVA)
Fire Force Dna Sights 999.9 (OVA)
Galaxy Express 999 (film)
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy (film)
Galaxy Railways (TV)
Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet (OVA)
Galaxy Railways II: Crossroads to Eternity (TV)
Gun Frontier (TV)
Harlock Saga (OVA)
Interstella 5555 (film)
Maetel Legend (OVA)
Mirai – Snow Angel (TV special)
Ozma (TV)
Queen Emeraldas (OVA)
Queen Millennia (film)
Saint Elmo: Apostle of Light (OVA)
Space Battleship Yamato (TV)
Space Battleship Yamato II (TV)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (TV)
Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Endless Odyssey (OVA)
Space Symphony Maetel (TV)
Yamato: The New Voyage (film)
ANIME IN THE PROCESS OF WATCHING:
Arcadia of my Youth: Endless Road SSX (TV) [watched 1-19]
Galaxy Express 999 (TV) [watched 1-39]
Millennial Queen (TV) [watched 1-10]
Space Battleship Yamato III (TV) [watched 1-9]
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COMPLETED MANGA:
Black Ships of Nothingness (2)
Daifurinden (1)
Demodori-shainden (1)
Diver Zero (1)
Drifting Express 000 (4)
Eternal Story of Jura (oneshot)
Great Yamato (2)
Harlock Saga (8)
Insect (1)
King Millenniam (oneshot)
Majo Tenshi (1)
Millennial Queen (5)
Miraizer Ban (3)
Mystery Eve (2)
Otoko Oidon (9)
Petfather (1)
Queen Emeraldas (4)
Sexaroid (4)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (5)
Tale of a Time Gone By (2)
The Crow Story in the Moonless Night (1)
The Tochiro II (oneshot)
Tiger-Striped Mii (1)
Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba (2)
V2 Panzer (2)
Wadachi (2)
Yojigen Tokei (1)
MANGA NOT COMPLETED:
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy Arc [Volumes 19-21]
Ganso Dai Yojohan Dai Monogatari [two of six volumes]
Gun Frontier [two of three volumes]
The Cockpit [two of five volumes]
Kritik der Animationskraft 
I like this. Into the feed reader you go. Kant is a bitch to read, I hope you’ll give me an easier time.
I can’t say I won’t try 🙂
what the fuck, i just found out you don’t like guren lagann? How can you not like the anime adaption of the epic of Gilgamesh?! and the show has so many dense psychological undertones I’d have thought you could do an absurdly massive post series on it.
i blame ghostlightning and his gossipy ways. i really wanted to keep this a secret, but he keeps bringing it up. i don’t know why, i just don’t dig the show…
It’s no crime to dislike a show that digiboy likes. I tried to watch FLCL thrice and I swear I can’t get past 2 episodes.
whoa! not liking flcl. now that’s criminal 😉 i wonder what gainax show digiboy doesn’t like..
Well, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World sucked. And I haven’t watched Mahoromatic or He is My Master or finished Shikabane Hime or Melody of Oblivion.
But are we counting those? :p
I love Daicon 4, Otaku no Video, Gunbuster, Evangelion, FLCL, Diebuster, and Gurren Lagann.
Well, I haven’t seen Honneimaise yet, so maybe and opportunity awaits?
And AK not liking GL is easily as criminal as not liking FLCL
Oh! I forgpt a few! I loved Kare Kano, haven’t finished Nadia, and Abenobashi I had dropped long ago but might speed-run sometime soon.
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Fuzakenna! » Blog Archive » Everybody Gets One – Anime’s Personal Rage Machines said this on August 11, 2009 at 11:04 am |
Totally recommending your blog to Ikari “Mike” Gendo.
＠Ray
Thanx, I appreciate it. Hope you’re enjoy the blog!
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This has been bothering me for a little while, but I keep forgetting. I don’t know if it’s just on my site, but you’re site link is always ‘wordpress.animekritik.com’ which when clicked leads to a whole lot of nowhere. yeah.
really? it should be animekritik.wordpress.com!! i wonder if there’s something i need to change on my end?
Oh, THIS diet is most nourishing!
It’s practically a Matsumoto-only diet, so I’m not surprised you find it nourishing!!
NOURISHING DIET IS AWESOME! 😀 Even though I know so much I have seen so little D: This makes me sad …
Well, you’re young. Get cracking then! I bet you could finish watching all of Matsumoto’s anime by the time you’re 65 or so.
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Hi,
How is everyone?
Has anyone seen or knows if any of the imax GE999 specials that have come out in Japan over the years is available anywhere on the net etc? (GALAXY EXPRESS 999 The starlit sky is a time machine Solar System/Extinction of the Dinosaurs ) is the name of one of them
thx for you’re time!
Michael
Sorry, I don’t know anything about this. Interesting that the starlit sky as time machine crops up in the Miraizer Ban manga as well…
hey, I am wondering:
Which Photography History book have you read to make comparisons with the Tokyo Red Hood?
I am very curious to know.
I am following you by tumblr. I’m AnaCalavera.
Your blog intrigues me a lot! 😀
If I recall correctly, this is the book I was talking about:
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Into the Leijiverse: Space Battleship Yamato First Impressions | Draggle's Anime Blog said this on August 27, 2011 at 4:16 pm |
This is incredible material, and information, insight and peripheral stuff I didn’t think anybody else really thought much about. I’d be happy to contribute anything, images, etc, scans, etc, whatever you might like.
Hi I have a couple of questions. Did Saji completely removed Sonsaku dragon and can she completely control it?
Did sonsaku ans sousou cause the volcanic activity and the typhoons and why did she pass out when she met him?
I guess you’re talking about the latest chapter,s right?
No one has any control whatsoever over the dragons. Shiba’i tried her best to manipulate things but she failed. Sonsaku cannot control it, neither can Sousou nor Ryuubi.
Yes, the volcanos and typhoons were all caused by the great warriors as they fought, because they are associated with elements (Sousou = fire, Sonsaku = water).
Sonsaku passes out because she has visions, I guess. Either that or Sousou is just too darn dreamy.
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
No problem.
Hi sorry to bother you again but I noticed in the newer translations of the manga they started using the term special A-class is that different from normal A-class fighters?
Thanks.
Yes, special A-class fighters are stronger normal A-class fighters. You have the following ranks:
1) Special A
2) (Normal) A
3) B
4) C
5) D
6) E
Special A-rankers have clear or transparent magatamas. Normal A-rankers have golden magatamas.
Thank you once again. Is shigi taishiji & ukitsu special A-class or it’s only Shiryu Choun and Kanu?
Neither Shigi nor Ukitsu are special A (according to Japanese Wikipedia anyway).
Forgive me I’m really sorry for asking all these questions but was it ever stated Koukin Shuyu replaced Kannei as one of Nanyo’s Big Four, also was it stated he hhas the power to become A-rank? And what rank is he currently?
I don’t remember reading of anything about this, so the best I can do is tell you is that most websites state that:
1) He’s in Nanyo’s Big Four, replacing Kannei.
2) He’s a C rank.
3) He has the ability to become an A-rank.
It’s possible that this info is old, but I honestly don’t recall the manga recently discussing Koukin’s progress.
I want to say by this message: great thanks for your site! And I want pour my sore point: Please, tell me that Leiji Matsumoto’s Universe would survive all times! (God almighty! Nowadays most of anime has no rights to life)
Hope that i didn’t made mistakes =)
As long as there are fans the Leijiverse will be around, so keep it up!
The Arcadia roams in my mind freely and proudly…
I have the Galaxy Express 999 train running through my digestive system. Sometimes it gets stuck in my throat and it really hurts 😉
See – the Leijiverse is perfectly safe 😀
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Hey didn’t you have a want-to-read list somewhere? Asking this because I found a Leiji manga on ebook Japan that you might want to look at called “Gennai”. It appears to be historical fiction.
This excited me until I read the historical bio on the guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraga_Gennai
I don’t know if I want to read a manga about him!!
Wow, looks like he was an interesting guy. Would like to read that essay.
I need to start learning Japanese soon so I can actually read Leiji’s manga.
My recommendation: take a class.
Yes, there are tons of ways to do self-study, and tons of resources online etc., but if your native language is Indo-European, I really recommend you to take at least a year of solid study with a teacher. It’s just a tough language to get into all alone.
Good idea.
Ok, got the scans for this. Are you interested in reading it if I give you a link to the Dropbox file?
Of course~
Ok, just sent it to animekritik@hotmail.com
You should get it soon.
Thanks!!