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A patron reward for Octavia Melody. He wanted a drawing of Octavia and Vinyl as if they were characters from the late 80’s, early 90s manga and anime Dominion Tank Police Link Link
The mini tank went through a few changes between the various issues and episodes of the anime and manga. This is how the tank more or less appeared in the 1992 story Dominion Conflict One: No More Noise. So here’s the music horses in one of the mini tanks that main character Leona Ozaki loved. She named her’s Bonaparte.
One of the most complicated things about this drawing was those damn tracks. In fact reviewing my references I discovered that often you couldn’t see them completely because the artist put things is front of them, showed them in motion where they were a blur, or used lots of dark Zipatone-style screentone shading Link to obscure much of their detail. But I prevailed in the end.
The mini tank went through a few changes between the various issues and episodes of the anime and manga. This is how the tank more or less appeared in the 1992 story Dominion Conflict One: No More Noise. So here’s the music horses in one of the mini tanks that main character Leona Ozaki loved. She named her’s Bonaparte.
One of the most complicated things about this drawing was those damn tracks. In fact reviewing my references I discovered that often you couldn’t see them completely because the artist put things is front of them, showed them in motion where they were a blur, or used lots of dark Zipatone-style screentone shading Link to obscure much of their detail. But I prevailed in the end.
Yes! That’s the right dub! That anime is timeless!
@ABronyAccount
After discovering anime and becoming immediately interested in it and wanting more I completely turned my back on American animation. I was always searching the TV guide for more and once in a blue moon I would catch some Japanimation on Sci-Fi or MTV or, later on, satellite TV during the short duration that we had it. Yeah, I amassed my own little horde of taped anime. hehe The ones I really, really liked I wound up buying years later off of ebay. (early ebay before paypal! Suncoast video in the mall also had some later on.)
Anime of the ’80s and ‘90s was so vastly outlandish and different from what I grew up watching. It did not care what age the viewer was and it always told a deep story and the animation quality was of such a higher caliber. I remember being excited when in 1998 I learned there was a comic book shop only 10 minutes away that rented out anime on VHS. This was right around when cartoon network’s early years of toonami was airing. 1997 and earlier were the dark ages for us as it was so hard to find and it was such a real treat when we got to see an anime we had never seen before! Still, the best ever was getting to see that week long Japanese Animation Marathon on the Sci-Fi channel and realizing what I had been missing.
Gotcha. I wasn’t sure if they were supposed to be some kind of wall climbing gadget or something like that.
Is this the dub you were talking about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1FbK4Amgu8
A fellow survivor of the “Japanimation” era! I’ve got a stack of anime taped off of satellite TV in the late nineties, and probably a few illicit copies of rental VHSes that are even earlier.
Cool World wasn’t anything to write home about.
They don’t give a reason for the aggressive tracks. “Dominion Tank Police” 1992 is the date of the English Dub, the original Japanese version came out in 1989. The best dub to watch is the European 1992 English dub because of the dance music it has. “New Dominion Tank Police” wasn’t any good and I do not recommend it.
The first time I saw Dominion Tank Police was in 1994. The Sci-Fi channel had, in May of 1994, an Animation Marathon Anime ‘94 for one week and it was hosted by Ralph Bakshi, the animator for “Cool World” which I never did get to watch. Anyway, every night for one week they showed a full length anime movie. It started with “Project Ako” then “Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight”; “Venus Wars”; and then “Dominion Tank Police Part 1 and 2” were shown Thursday night and Friday night. I managed to tape Dominion Tank police and I literally wore the tape out. This was before anime became mainstream here and it was not easy to obtain. I’ll never forget that week in May of ’94.
Do they ever give a reason for those super aggressive tracks, though? Just rule of cool?
The commander staring down a runaway AI truck will always be memorable, as will the thermobaric flour dust in the warehouse.
Edited
Aye, I read the description. I didn’t, however, know that it’s what inspired it. Neat stuff!
Hmmm, pony slug you say…
It’s from Dominion Tank Police, which was one of the things that inspired Metal Slug’s whole aesthetic.
Hmmm, a heavy metal slug, you say…
“Is that motherbucking Bonaparte?”
(clicks)