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Captain Future remake?

Santaman

Santaman

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In the 1940's Edmond Hamilton wrote a pulp series called Captain Future, in the '70's Toei Animation created an anime version of it and that one was incredibly popular in Europe, and I think even moreso in Germany which had its own version.
Usually in the summer vacations my brother and I would watch the anime on one of the german channel (ZDF das ferienprogram IIRC)

I hope this bit of footage is really meaning that there's going to be a remake of the series..
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http://www.futuremania.de/news1.html
Captain Future fan site.
 
That would be nice. Captain Future is a classic character, so it would be cool to see him make a comeback-- if they do it right.
 
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And I always loved the ending, with all those anachronistic bizarre images...
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I've grown up with the German version which has been edited to shorten it, the German sounds and music is also different.
I really hope they'll pull this off...
 
Santaman said:
I've grown up with the German version which has been edited to shorten it, the German sounds and music is also different.
I really hope they'll pull this off...
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Why was it shortened? Was it considered too violent? I remember it was quite tame (for an anime, anyway) and his protagonist preferred using his brains, not resorting to violence (it was quite a difference with the other anime heroes...).
 
It was to make it fit into a particular timeslot, they only had so much time to air it, a few eps they even aired without the outro IIRC because of time limitations.

Its been quite a while since I've seen it.
 
Santaman said:
It was to make it fit into a particular timeslot, they only had so much time to air it, a few eps they even aired without the outro IIRC because of time limitations.

Its been quite a while since I've seen it.
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I see. I asked because in Italy when they cut anime usually was for the sex or violence... :lol:

I just googled a little bit and I found this:
Sie wurde aufgrund von Elternprotesten jedoch recht bald abgesetzt – hatte aber bereits viele Kinder maßgeblich beeindruckt
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According to Google Translate:
However, it was dropped off quite a bit due to parental protests - but had already impressed many children significantly. *
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Can you confirm this? I believe that it was one of the most innocuous anime ever broadcast...
 
Skipper said:
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And I always loved the ending, with all those anachronistic bizarre images...
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So does that stuff in the circles in the end credits have nothing to do with the actual show?
 
I'm not sure what the Germans were complaining about, I saw the series halfway the 80's and it was broadcasted every year in and around the school holidays in the afternoons and now and then even other anime series like Ulysses 31 and some anime movies, later on they started to broadcast series like "The Vision Of Escaflowne" and "Lupin the third." etc on other channels late at night
 
I'm German but this was before my time. Only know of it from the Internet. Wasn't on screen in my childhood (born 1988, GDR).
 
I'm not sure when they stopped with Das Ferien Programm but it was probably before the fall of the wall.
Captain Future indeed vanished for quite a while, I think it was broadcasted again in Germany late 90's but I don't remember what channel it was.
 
In the early 00's, the then-recently returning TV station Tele 5 re-aired the show in their animation block. Soon after that, the DVD sets were released to great success.

Before that, I think the German main theme was released as a single in the late 90s, becoming a big hit in discoteques.
 
I have to say that the German intro is quite catchy...
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But you know, the Italian one still holds a special place in my heart. :)

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I was reading the German wiki page about the anime, and even there they say (Google translated):

The anime series was the first of its kind in Germany, aimed at children beyond the elementary school. The then director of the children's and youth program, Josef Göhlen, was convinced that science fiction stories would be very well received by children. The series was edited according to the understanding of the protection of minors for German television and was successful in Germany by the sale of merchandise articles. The broadcast also led to strong protests among parents and youth organizations; Even in a school book was warned before the series. ZDF bought no further rights to the series.
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Captain Future was probably one of the less violent anime ever and it was
further edited for the German broadcast. And still parents protested?!?

And I believed that the American parents were a little too much sensible about violence in cartoons...
 
Kai "the spy" said:
In the early 00's, the then-recently returning TV station Tele 5 re-aired the show in their animation block. Soon after that, the DVD sets were released to great success.

Before that, I think the German main theme was released as a single in the late 90s, becoming a big hit in discoteques.
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Phill Fuldner's The Final indeed used the German music, "Feinde greifen an" which is "Enemies attack."
I actually have that CD single LOL
 
Different times, different sensibilities.. what was accepted back then isn't accepted nowadays anymore.
 
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