Dark Cat: The Worst Horror OVA Ever? | KYOTO VIDEO
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Shoujo horror was big in the 80s and early 90s, but that was not reflective by the OVA market. Especially not indicative by a past-its-prime movie studio choosing to do a cheap-o adaptation of one the big mangas released in that period. This is 1991's Dark Cat, one of the worst horror animes ever.
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KB is their name and talking about old animation is his game! If you want deep analysis and history on the realm of retro anime and old animation, then you've come to the right place. Be warned though. Being a possum means he loves consuming trash, media-based or otherwise.
now I'm kinda curious about the history of Halloween in Japan.
Same!
in japan jack skellington is called "annual spooks man" and he lives on the moon
Junji Ito was a dentist assistant? That was an unexpected bit of information about a legendary horror mangaka. The more you know, I guess.
Be a dentist, you have a talent for causing things pain!
@@jasonblalock4429 🎶 People will pay you to be inhumane! 🎵
I dunno, this is exactly the sort of dub I'd expect from somebody who calls themselves "T Bone".
Every time you do a video on an anime that was already covered by BennettTheSage, my fiancée couldn’t help but shout “Better than BennettTheShit’s review!!!!”.
Early Bennett is such a weird relic of the era now. The guy himself has matured a lot and moved on to doing more interesting things years ago at this point, yet the fact that he was one of the first people talking about older anime on UA-cam and did so in such a cavalier fashion sort of haunts this space. To that end, I'm thankful that we have folks like KB revisiting some of these titles and giving them proper context and filling in the technical details, even if the fundamental consensus that some of these shows absolutely honk remains the same.
Only good thing about Bennetttheshit is he allows one to find old school anime that looks interesting, but his reviews stink and sometimes its just shallow & miserable
thing is, Bennett would most likely agree with you
Usually I would say that since Bennet is absolutely awful. But I can't say that anymore, after KaiserBeamz's dogshit Street Fighter Animated Movie review. Now he's fallen right into the exact same TYPE of awful as Bennet.
@the-NightStar Hey, we got the best alternative to BennettTheSage, and now you’re viewing KaiserBeamz as another BennettTheSage?!
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I watched a clip of the dub once. I couldn't believe it was professionally made and not some bad fan dubbing by bored UA-camrs.
i saw dark cat in my early stage of anime whatching and personally i loved it
Out of curiosity, I went to see if any of the Dark Cat manga was translated to see if it was any better than the anime, and to my surprise the first couple of chapters are scan-translated in English, and it’s actually not half bad. Naomi Kimora is a lowkey good artist, especially with her psychedelic coloring.
The voice acting sounds like it’s a gag dub that forgot to be funny.
Like when 'Teen Titans Go' did A gag dub of the original show to spite the fans.
Well goddamn, the Japanese animation industry REALLY doesn't like shojo stuff! I feel bad for any woman or girl who were fans of the manga and were looking forward to this OVA.
I will say this, I feel really bad for those Japanese Seiyuus who were involved in this atrocity of an OVA. They were much better in other roles that I mostly prefer.
Never made the what I now know would have been a regrettable decision to take this one home from the rental shop, but as always, your channel's considerable library of programming (because my old man energy prevents me from the using the term content) has been bolstered by another quality episode.
'DARK CAT, YOU MISERABLE PHSYCO!' #SwatKats Also, I like the insert of the 'Looney Tunes' screaming voice on the 'VHS Market Of The Damned' title.
I haven't seen Swat Kats in over 2 decades and I still know exactly what scene that is 😂
When I first found this anime, I wondered if it was a hentai with all of the sex scenes cut out for UA-cam or something. Learning about the studio that made it explains a lot.
You just don't like it because they turn into cats, not possums. ;P
I can never go one day without Toshiki Inoue popping up somewhere haha.
"Kolchak: The Night Stalker with Cat Boys." - Love it!
Ending the episode with "Lovecats" = Chef's kiss.
YAAAAASSS! I've been hoping you'd do Pet Shop of Horrors someday. Total forgotten gem that really deserved to be more popular and get more releases, especially given how long the source ran for.
Pretty sure woman are also the biggest horror fans in the west as well.
This OVA belongs in the Cat Piss Pile. There I said it.
The voice acting sounds like some 14 year old that went on CastingCallClub to get VAs for his fandub, and casted the first people that auditioned
The whole dub feels like some random joe's first attempt at shambling together a fandub for something. Voice acting, sound mixing, and script. The only thing it's missing is having half the voice actors sound like they're recording through 15 year old webcams that're on the verge of cutting out at any given moment.
13:47 also in the latin-american dub, the voice of Trent is the one from Kakashi Sensei from Naruto
Wow, the sound editing is real bad in that anime... The unmotivated voice acting, music too loud... That is the true horror.
It's truly terrible and that's what I love about it
For all this anime's faults, i kinda like the design of the older brother 😅
Too bad it was wasted on ... this
liked, comment and will watch after work thanks. love your takes on old school anime
1:32 : Wait, what did this come from?
Because, to me, they look like the cheesy critters from the old 70s Sci-Fi Monster Movie called "The Green Slime' (yes, I'm old enough to remember it from back then, although I hadn't even hit my first decade yet 😅): ua-cam.com/video/mVvm8YMz6z0/v-deo.htmlsi=Dl_xGYzpm1YqONb0
Huh, checking Wikipedia I see it was a Japanese production to begin with, so I guess I'll hunt down this anime....although it seems a bit on the 'racey' side 😊
Honestly, I think T-bone Wang’s name is pronounced exactly like the slang term it’s for. I only see him credited on either hentai or crap like this, so I’m pretty sure it’s a pseudonym that the person behind it just wanted to have fun with.
What gets me is that Dark Cat is technically a shojo series. What do girls like? Lets replace the snakes from the manga version with pus filled dick worms! Like, are you really gonna argue that boys would rather have pus filled dickworms over snakes? You mentioned how they aren't exploitative about the worms but honestly, I almost prefer they had been because at least they would be aiming at a market instead of this. Imagine you were a fan of the original anthology series and the only thing the gen pop remember is this crap.
1:33 hey! It's the 🎶GREEN SLI-i-i-ime GREEN SLI-i-i-ime bwaaa 🎶 What anime is that from?
Okay, so movies to look up:
*Call Me Tonight*
*Curse of Kazuo Umezu* (is that the one where the girl with the nightmares is the spider demon?)
*Bride of Deimos*
*Battle Can Can*
*Maryuu Senki*
*Dream Hunter Rem*
*Dark Cat* is hilarious. There is enough story to have something to follow, and at least it's done in a way that is fairly easy to follow. The english dubbing is just a bonus (especially the girl). This is unintentionally right up there with *Ghost Stories (2001)* for most hilarious english dubbing.
3:08 that's about how I felt after watching *The Last Jedi.*
10:45 _NO._ If there was any example of an anime with no effort, check out *Nora Rock Me.* Kenny Lauderdale did a wonderful video on the OVA.
No.
Petshop of Horrors?! Gonna be an interesting sale on that one. Admittedly hadn't seen it in years but it didn't really stick with me. Anyhoo, nice little use of Love Cats there at the end~
How is it out of all the defunct companies involved in this anime, how is Media Blasters still around?
I remember there used to be a version of the dub uploaded on UA-cam by the main male love interest VA. He seemed pretty blase about the dub itself, hope he's doing well
You mean the guy behind the alias "Otto Focus"?
Did his channel get terminated? Or is it still around?
it's true GIRLS LOVE HALLOWEEN 🎃
First shot after the OP is footage from Nightmare Before Christmas. So far, so good.
the dub is the single greatest piece of video I have ever seen in my entire 27 years on this planet. I saw it when I was like 12 and have laughed about it to myself at least weekly every since. it was a staple 'dude you have to watch this' video in my house when people came over as a teenager. it's so poorly done on every level. the anime itself was already terrible, and the dub enhances it to an almost magical piece of gonzo art. from the fact they forgot to include the sound effects, to brilliant intelligent dialogue like 'hey f-slur, we just beat the shit out of you' to the magnificent performance of our lead male student who sounds like the kid in your middle school class who couldn't really read the teacher would call to read whatever book in english class to be a dick. it's something special.
it's even funnier to think about in the context of how niche anime was in the west in the 1990s. you think of heavy hitter films like akira, ninja scroll, ghost in the shell. presumably most video stores probably are only carrying these, plus a few random OVAs like this. some guy you know is telling you about how cool japanimation is. it's cartoons, but for ADULTS. now you take your happy ass up to the store on your night off, and of course they're sold out of those ones your friend told you about. so you rent this. you'd go home and watch this garbage and decide, yeah it's not for me. cartoons for adults, huh? adults in japan must be mentally ill. talking cat people, horny teachers with diseased cocks for tongues, 0 explanation that is actually clear about what is happening and why, dropped plot threads, stunted still animation. you'd think that friend of yours was a crazy person.
12:34 true facts you spit out here
I wonder why Japanese Woman like horror so much
Horror movies often explore more mature themes than other media.
And since Horror is mostly dominated with female leads, they're also a great representation of what it's like being a woman, and can often picture them selves as them.
Even a movie like Ju-on which is about a vengeful ghost who just hates everyone because of her husband can be very fun for a woman.
You can say Horror is a Wish Fulfilment for woman.
@@Ineedgames And they're better than most movies aimed at A wider audience these days.
@@Launchpad05 That's because Horror forces directors to be more creative.
@@Ineedgames Unless the studio interferes.
Pet Shop of Horrors. Ah, yasssss.
dark cats unite
For me, Dark Cat is the most hated OVA I've ever watched it in 2023, but, the greatest 80s OVA is Bubblegum Crisis.
My god, this scene at 2:52 is just. God I don’t know exactly what it is that bugs me about it so much, maybe it’s the animation, maybe it’s the camera work and all the weird ass cuts, maybe it’s the stilled kinda empty feeling English voice acting, I don’t know, but something about it is just…So bad, in so many ways, and couldn’t hope to possibly describe them all.
So sorry you had to watch this man, it seems absolutely awful in a way that it wasn’t even intended to be.
Thanks for talking about manga based on horror films, now I'm just curious to what else is there!
That one guy sounds like a bad Bobcat Goldthwait impression.
Abridged?
Horror anime, that strong drink at a bar.
The Malort of anime
Has media blasters made any good dubs?
They can make a good dub when they aren't dealing with immensely low-rent shit like this and Genma Wars.
Nice
I actually really like this one, great video!
Please do a video on Crying Freeman
Where did you find the manga online
Love this channel
Best channel on youtube.
Warrior Cats X Twilight
Still A better love story than 'Twilight'. (Almost)
@@Launchpad05 Twilight would be much better if it was just about cats...
As a long time fan of "Pet Shop of Horrors" I am ecstatic to see that one covered
Okay?.
You know your Media Blasters dub is awful when otherwise competent Funimation dubs are given favorable comparisons...
It would be much appreciated if you add the titles of the different clips you show, regardless of how well known they are.
They could be hit, or miss sometimes.
@@Launchpad05 Well on many of Kaizers videos for instance since they like to cover older/retro anime, I have watched alot of them but since its been so long I dont remember the names. Unlike more recent anime sometimes doing a reverse image search comes up with either nothing or vaguely similar anime characters. There are many other people who add the names of the random clips they throw in or use for examples so whenever I see videos that dont, especially well made videos it just irks me.
Looney tunes history
Still waiting for A new episode of that.
Wait! Toshiki Inoue was involved in this? Next thing you tell me is that Riku Sanjo(of Kamen Rider W, Kyoryuger, and Digimon Fusion fame) was involved with MD Geist.
Worst horror ova? Well let's hear about it
Yeah it's stupid but as usual good detective work 👍
That sucks because th disign looks pretty noce, badass catboys deserve better.
And good drama storylines.