Mar 16 2009Classic Japanese Battle: Spider-Man Versus Professor Monster
As anyone who's looked through Chip Kidd's bizarre and hilarious Bat-Manga knows, giving the Japanese full control of mainstream American comic superheroes inevitably leads to madness. Watching their vision of the characters is like remembering a dream where, once lucid, you realize you got almost everything wrong. Case in point, Japan's '70s Spider-Man series, which, having been fed through the Sony Japanimizer, bears more than a passing resemblance to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Here's the trailer:
So that's how Spider-Man closes his suit: a zipper. Now everything makes sense.
Marvel just bought the rights to the series, and they're posting an episode a week. Hopefully the episodes will inspire Sam Raimi to improve Spider-Man 4 by including Amazoness and her giant, sentient dung beetle sidekick.
Reader Comments
1. Skeeter - March 16, 2009 2:48 PM
NEATO!!
2. Jimmy Changa - March 16, 2009 2:53 PM
This one looks better than Tobey McQueer!
3. PILLS HERE! - March 16, 2009 3:00 PM
this is AMAZING!!!!!!
4. Mr.Anderson - March 16, 2009 3:00 PM
I'm sorry but Itailan Spiderman is better.
He slaps women and doesn't afraid of anything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU
5. WTF?!? - March 16, 2009 3:12 PM
This is the stupidest f*cking thing i've ever seen!
*Update - I stand corrected. I just saw Spiderman 3...
6. JagedNS - March 16, 2009 3:35 PM
That..................................was..........................................AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. Elmo - March 16, 2009 3:43 PM
I love the Japanese!
8. Joshua Simone - March 16, 2009 7:32 PM
HAHAHA! That Italian Spiderman is great I am finishing up the episodes now!
9. Hal - March 16, 2009 8:49 PM
Choicest cat slice in half @ the 1:00 mark. Kitty hiss SLASH split. One dreams that in the actual series the black cat then reforms into TWO CAT DEMONS like unto the Hydra of lore... Oh, the dreams of what a Japanese Thor or Japanese Captain America could have been...
10. Matt Erickson - March 17, 2009 2:20 PM
Lulz! I love Spiderman with that sub-machine gun!
11. phibz - March 17, 2009 5:25 PM
I'd rather watch infinite seasons of this than watch Emo-Maguire do another trilogy. Next Toei should do a Masked-Rider revamp of GHOST RIDER!
www.thebananatimes.com/blog/
12. Right Fury - March 18, 2009 10:35 AM
Why does everything have to have giant robots and ninjas in it? It's like they have zero original thoughts and can't write a script that doesn't include that. What in the hell is with the guy from "big trouble in little china"?