![]() ![]() In 2004, Gainax penned Melody of Oblivion for J.C.Staff. Gainax also collaborated with Game Arts in 1992, resulting in the video game Alisia Dragoon. It teamed with other groups to create various works, such as a 1987 promotional video for the song "Marionette" by Boøwy and the 2006 Momoko-based "Gainax Girls" fashion dolls created in collaboration with a Japanese fashion doll. Role-playing parody of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kaiketsu Zubat, in which the titular hero sightsees in San Francisco, California (while in costume) ![]() The Eight-Headed Giant Serpent Strikes Back ( 八岐之大蛇の逆襲, Yamata no Orochi no Gyakushū)Ī 72-minute sendup of daikaiju (giant monster) movies and the most heavily promoted of the Daicon tokusatsu short films. Parody of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kaiketsu Zubat, in which the titular hero sightsees in San Francisco, California (while in costume) Kaiketsu Nōtenki in USA ( 快傑の-てんき in USA) Parody of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kaiketsu Zubat, in which the titular hero faces off against Mecha Noutenki, a mechanical clone of himself. Kaiketsu Nōtenki 2 - Pure Love in Minato City ( 快傑の-てんき2 純愛港町篇, Kaiketsu Nōtenki 2 - Junai Minato-cho Hen) Parody of a title of the same name, with New Ultraman/Ultraman Jack portrayed by Hideaki Anno wearing a jacket with Ultraman's signature red and silver pattern. Return of Ultraman ( 帰ってきたウルトラマン, Kaettekita Urutoraman) Parody of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kaiketsu Zubat Swift Hero Noutenki ( 快傑のーてんき, Kaiketsu Nōtenki ) Parody of the popular Super Sentai shows (mostly from footage in Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan) and the Russo-Japanese War, with the members of the title team (AiKamikaze, AiHarakiri, AiSukiyaki, AiGeisha, and AiTenpura) fighting the evil plan of the Red Bear Empire (led by "Death Kremlin") to brainwash the children of Japan by replacing the pages of their textbooks with red paper in this "episode". Patriotic Squadron Dai-Nippon ( 愛国戦隊大日本, Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon) Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C³ The studio changed its name to Gainax in 1985, basing the term "Gainax" on an obscure Tottori Prefecture term for "giant", with the English suffix -x added because it sounded "good and was international". The Daicon IV short firmly established Daicon Film as a talented new anime studio albeit small and with only ¥20 million (about US$200,000). The action was all set to the Electric Light Orchestra song "Twilight", though the group's failure to properly license the song would prevent the short's official release on DVD (and make the limited laserdisc release of the Daicon shorts very rare and highly sought after items). Starting with a better animated recap of their original 1981 short, the short then moves to the girl as a grown woman, wearing a bunny suit and fighting an even wider range of science fiction creatures (including various Mobile Suits from the Gundam series, Darth Vader, an Alien, a Macross Valkyrie, a Pern dragon, Aslan, a Klingon battle cruiser, Spider-Man, and a pan across a vast array of hundreds of other characters) while surfing through the sky on the sword Stormbringer. ![]() The group made a much bigger splash with the short they produced for the 22nd Annual Japan National SF Convention, Daicon IV, in 1983. ![]()
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