Wow. Yeah that’s very Viva Las Vegas insomuch as instrumentation and production.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
There's some irony that the American dub of the anime made it so much less clear that it was a "love letter to American culture" Though that's because the American dub was produced for like $600
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There seems to be a lot of Japanese media that’s doing just that for some time. Or the stuff I was exposed to, I’m hardly a barometer of that at all.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
The usual take is that the US distorted Japan around its gravitational pull unusually hard even compared to what we've done to other countries Given that the US literally occupied Japan after the war with the intention of rebuilding Japanese culture from the ground up etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean I heard so many of the beat em up arcade games sort of drew from Streets of Fire being huge over there. The iconography divorced of the reality of the place. I mean Akira is West Side Story.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
Yeah it's funny, Streets of Rage ends up being this parodic caricature of the '80s Reaganite conservative fear of "the inner city" as a churning cauldron of violence Literally you're just walking down the street and everyone attacks you
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Is that the one where the mayor starts throwing hooks? In suspenders. That ruled.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1 @Cybren
The beat-em-up that defined my childhood, of course, was Turtles in Time Where everyone on the streets has been replaced by Foot Clan soldiers, who arrived just before you This both makes a lot more sense and a lot less sense
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Especially with the time travel angle, so in one of the levels you're just going through a Wild West town in the desert and it's filled with ninjas in cowboy hats and ponchos
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren
And a crocodile man on a train. It rules.
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The local barcade here has a Turtles In Time machine. It holds up.
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