Cyber City Oedo 808 DVD

nero120 · 17 Sep 2006 at 22:25

I just recieved this DVD and am totally bummed to find out that the original Japanese theme music awas included rather than the awesome soundtrack from the english version that was on video! Goddamit!

This anime is awesome though. Very gritty and violent and loads of fun! Sengoku is the shiz! If you get a chance to see it then definitely check it out! Watch the english vhs version though!

Van Hellseek · 17 Sep 2006 at 22:36

nero120 said:
Watch the english vhs version though!

worst advice ever tbh.

EasyG · 17 Sep 2006 at 23:01

i saw this yonks ago when channel 4 used to show varying anime on saturday nights, this came on and i thought it was the bomb!

am not a big fan of anime but deff some of the best i have seen.

Sparky__H · 17 Sep 2006 at 23:20

Oedo 808 was always my favourite from the cyberpunk collection but sadly I have it on VHS and I don’t have a VHS player anymore

Genocyber was pointless violence and AD-Police was just one of those films I never got around to watching again due to the lack of impact.

Did they ever re-release oedo 808 on dvd?

Van Hellseek · 18 Sep 2006 at 00:06

Sparky__H said:
AD-Police was just one of those films I never got around to watching again due to the lack of impact.

ad-police was awesome! even if only because it was a spin-off of the amazing (original) bubblegum crisis.

Robosapien · 18 Sep 2006 at 00:41

The Cyber Punk Collection!

Cyber City Oedo 808 is awesome, I remember being very impressed by some of the swearing in it! I still have a tape of it recorded off tv in a box in the attic. The music was absolute quality, is the original soundtrack very different?

AD Police was the 2nd best for me, I have to say I wasn't that keen on Genocyber at the time, from what I remember I'd probably be a lot more into it now though...

GSXRMovistar · 18 Sep 2006 at 01:48

I got the DVD but still haven't got round to watching it, loved it years ago when it was shown on C4.

nero120 · 18 Sep 2006 at 13:17

seek said:
worst advice ever tbh.

Why? Are you a jap fanboy? Do you speak Jap? Have you even seen the english subtitles on the dvd (Broken english subtitles!)? Have you heard the absolutely crap jap music on the dvd?

The english vhs version is far superior. The characters are made 10000 times better because of the awesome english dialog - that is what makes the series.

nero120 · 18 Sep 2006 at 13:21

Robosapien said:
The Cyber Punk Collection!

Cyber City Oedo 808 is awesome, I remember being very impressed by some of the swearing in it! I still have a tape of it recorded off tv in a box in the attic. The music was absolute quality, is the original soundtrack very different?

The english version owns the jap based dvd. You can select jap audio (with english subtitles, or should I say engrish?) or english audio. The english audio has the same voices as the english vhs and tv version, but unfortunately the jap original theme music not the awesome english theme music. The jap music is terrible, and really does kind of ruin the episodes. The original music is typical jap pop-rock ****. I was so disaapointed when I got ready to watch ep. 1 and after the intro was waiting for the awesome guitars to start shredding and some bloody nobby jap cack music came on instead. Suffice to say, I will never look at sengoku the same way again!

panthro · 18 Sep 2006 at 14:19

I always remember the advert for

The Cyberpunk Collection!!.....the guy with the real gritty voice!

Ive only ever seen the english VHS version of Oedo 808. But I always preferred AD Police

krooton · 18 Sep 2006 at 15:01

I didn't think much of AD Police, always getting boobies out, BC was much more enjoyable

Cyber City rocked though, Sengoku is indeed the nuts!

EasyG · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:57

nero120 said:
The english version owns the jap based dvd. You can select jap audio (with english subtitles, or should I say engrish?) or english audio. The english audio has the same voices as the english vhs and tv version, but unfortunately the jap original theme music not the awesome english theme music. The jap music is terrible, and really does kind of ruin the episodes. The original music is typical jap pop-rock ****. I was so disaapointed when I got ready to watch ep. 1 and after the intro was waiting for the awesome guitars to start shredding and some bloody nobby jap cack music came on instead. Suffice to say, I will never look at sengoku the same way again!

what u been smoking?

how can the change in intro music ruin the entire DVD?

i kinda agree that the Jap music is crap compared to the american one but who cares, there still the same episodes. i have the DVD and the ones when they were shown on TV years ago and ther eidentical bar the intro music, which in no means spoils the feel or anything about the series.

personally i grew to like the JAp version but i still prefer the US one, but either way cybercity is a classic series no matter what bloody intro music is on which btw lasts about a 2minutes. Mute the tv for 2minutes and watch a classic series.

job well done!

Robosapien · 18 Sep 2006 at 23:14

I'm sorry but the american/vhs music on this kicked ****.
It makes it so much cooler.
Especially in the episode when he is walking up that red scaffolding to fight that cyborg thing.
I can't imagine watching it with some jap pop rock.
Techno + thrash guitars suit it so much better.

nero120 · 19 Sep 2006 at 01:28

EasyG said:
what u been smoking?

how can the change in intro music ruin the entire DVD?

i kinda agree that the Jap music is crap compared to the american one but who cares, there still the same episodes. i have the DVD and the ones when they were shown on TV years ago and ther eidentical bar the intro music, which in no means spoils the feel or anything about the series.

personally i grew to like the JAp version but i still prefer the US one, but either way cybercity is a classic series no matter what bloody intro music is on which btw lasts about a 2minutes. Mute the tv for 2minutes and watch a classic series.

job well done!

Dont get me wrong, I still love it, but was ultra dissapointed when I heard the jap music, not partly because it is incredibly bad jap music! Yes, the episodes still rock, but music is important to me. Plus, the first time I ever saw this series it was the music that really grabbed me and made me watch the rest of it. Hopefully it will be released at some point with the english music!

nero120 · 19 Sep 2006 at 01:31

Guys go here:

http://www.oedo.net/808/

and click on the sounds link at the top. They have both english and jap themes - have a listen and see which you think is better!

EasyG · 19 Sep 2006 at 10:28

see i really like the JAp version of the intro, sure the US is better, but for some reason even though i have no idea what shes saying, i really like the woman singing on it.

oh yeah and BEnten blatantly is the best, sure hes a big dress wearing freak, but hes totally nails!

that razor wire thing that comes off the ring he wears is well solid! way better then the rafael from turtles weapons that sengoku and gogul use.

p.s - thats a cool website btw.

nero120 · 19 Sep 2006 at 11:14

EasyG said:
see i really like the JAp version of the intro, sure the US is better, but for some reason even though i have no idea what shes saying, i really like the woman singing on it.

Each to his own I guess - I hate it!

oh yeah and BEnten blatantly is the best, sure hes a big dress wearing freak, but hes totally nails!

that razor wire thing that comes off the ring he wears is well solid! way better then the rafael from turtles weapons that sengoku and gogul use.

p.s - thats a cool website btw.

Click to expand...

Yeah he's pretty cool in a cross-dressing freak kind of way! His weapon is actually a Monomolecular wire. Sweet weapon, but you'd have to be a friggin Jedi to wield it!