Japan, you're on probation

[Howard Alan Treesong]

You made a serious drama about crime-fighting cellphones?





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Japan, I want you to think about what you just did.

[Akala]

 

I wait for the American remake.

[Don Flamenco]

This is already my favorite show ever based on the first pic alone

[Vizzys]

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[cool breeze]

this actually exists, like, this is actually real...wow

[CurseoftheGods]

omg

[Howard Alan Treesong]

the...the series director for this...is Takashi Miike

[Don Flamenco]

the...the series director for this...is Takashi Miike

oh, so it's probably satirical...that takes out half the fun, but I bet its pretty damn good and hilarious.

[BlackMage]

too bad japanese people aren't funny

[Don Flamenco]

too bad japanese people aren't funny

[cloudwalking]

shot of the office at 1:14 in the first video totally looks like CTU

24 ripoff?

[The Fake Shemp]

The world's deadliest counter-terrorist mobile device, BlackJack Bauer, must battle power hungry mafiaso device Carmine iPhoni and the sexy terrorist sympathizer, Ms. B.B. Curve.

[Eric P]

i'm sold

time to check Dragoneye.ca

[cloudwalking]

the show is called phone braver 7? that's awesome

[The Fake Shemp]

I'm working on the American remake for CBS - "Razr Warz"

[Tauntaun]

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With boost mobile, you always know where you at.

[chronovore]

the...the series director for this...is Takashi Miike

Yes, you pleb. If you ask nicely, I can burn you some DVDs; my HDD recorder still has the first 15 eps or so from broadcast. It's not dejihousou or anything, just regular ANAL-OH-GEE.

[bork]

I like the Knight Rider remake that is going on now, but how much more awesome would it have been if KITT was a transforming cell phone?? 

[Beezy]

The world's deadliest counter-terrorist mobile device, BlackJack Bauer, must battle power hungry mafiaso device Carmine iPhoni and the sexy terrorist sympathizer, Ms. B.B. Curve.

I'm working on the American remake for CBS - "Razr Warz"

[muckhole]

Man, Japan is really phoning it in these days.

[Himu]

America remake this

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

There's a full 51 episodes of fightin cell phones.  Its a currently ongoing series.

oh, and Mamoru Oshii and Shusuke Kaneko (Godzilla: GMK, 90's Gamera films, those too popular Death Note movies) both guest directed at least one episode.  Freaking Oshii did this!

[Flannel Boy]

America remake this

In NA, I don't think the show would cell. 

[Don Flamenco]

America remake this

In NA, I don't think the show would cell. 

Yeah, probably wouldn't get a very good reception. 

[Flannel Boy]

America remake this

In NA, I don't think the show would cell. 

Yeah, probably wouldn't get a very good reception. 

Depends on whether it would receive good coverage.

[Don Flamenco]

America remake this

In NA, I don't think the show would cell. 

Yeah, probably wouldn't get a very good reception. 

Depends on whether it would receive good coverage.

Certain regions may have a sizable fan base, depending on where you at.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

i think the flavor of the show might be Out of Range of American audiences.
and the problem with keeping shows on the air today is that so many viewers today are Roaming Charges, just flipping the station whenever they like.
furthermore, moving a Japanese tv show so far Out of Area from its country of origin might make for a Bad Connection to American audiences.

and in further cell phone entertainment related news, perhaps you weren't all aware that there's been a recently released Hong Kong made official remake of Cellular.
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the cell phone/action genre is obviously booming in all parts of Asia.

[Great Rumbler]

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With boost mobile, you always know where you at.

You hear that chirp?! You hear how clear that is?!

[Eric P]

Its like the Japanese equivalent of creating a cartoon to sell shitty action figures.

I think the japanese equivalent of creating a show to sell action figure, is a show to sell action figures.  This is some next level shit.

selling cell action figures

they just squared it

[Howard Alan Treesong]

famicon MM != NES MM . And there is that password...

[Positive Touch]

now they need to sell a cellphone/transformer hybrid device to tie in with the show

[Joe Molotov]

famicon MM != NES MM . And there is that password...

Superior PC Version

[Howard Alan Treesong]

famicon MM != NES MM . And there is that password...

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html

wowzers , i was completely in the dark that there were THAT many differences.

dude, the guy who wrote that article came to Thursday night drinking club! I totally geeked out with him about Maniac Mansion

and that's just the NES version; the Famicom version had worse graphics, more changes, no good music, and a like 100-character password (EDIT: 104). it was a COMPLETELY different port by a Japanese company, can't remember who right now. it came out three years before the NES version.

so yeah, calling the Famicom version "kusoge," while disappointing, is not really unwarranted

[Don Flamenco]

famicon MM != NES MM . And there is that password...

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html

wowzers , i was completely in the dark that there were THAT many differences.

The mansion contains a number of arcade video games. One was called KILL THRILL. The name had to be changed. Doug Glen, our Director of Marketing, suggested that we change it to MUFF DIVER, which I thought was a pretty good idea. Unfortunately, I later became aware of the NES Game Standards Policy, which stated in part:

Nintendo will not approve NES cartridges...with sexually suggestive or explicit content

Yikes, MUFF DIVER had to be changed again. In order to minimize the impact on the artwork, I needed to substitute MUFF with another four letter word that was less suggestive that could make sense with DIVER. We settled on the word TUNA.

 

[recursivelyenumerable]

dude, the guy who wrote that article came to Thursday night drinking club!

You know, I'd read that Maniac Mansion article before and also read some of Crockford's libelous JavaScript stuff, but never realized they were the same person.