History of the Nausicaanade

The Nausicaanade is not just a mixed meta genre, it also is one of the most popular recent meta genres in the history of modern fiction, period. 

The Modern Nausicaanade goes far back to the publication of Albert Robida’s Saturnin Farandoul in 1879. 

The meta genre maker is Wama Son of the Moon, created by the late Mexican comics giant Joaquín Cervantes Bassoco. The comic is so little known to modern non-Hispanophone viewers but indirectly influential outside of Latin America, it’s safe to say that the ridiculous current Mexican copyright laws do not help matters at all. Also, it is basically Nausicaa starring a Tarzan Boy, who is a serial lemon Stu living with certain strange fantasy animals. 

The meta genre codifiers are Wama Son of the Moon’s far more popular and directly influential spinoff, Tawa the Gazelle Man, the Japanese Toku Monster Prince and ultimately its fellow Sagisu family creation Spectreman, plus Star Fleet. The former is Nausicaa starring a Tarzan boy, who isn’t much of a serial lemon Stu in spite of living with certain strange fantasy animals. The second and third are basically Nausicaa starring a Tarzan boy living with remnant cryptid pseudo dinosaurs and Nausicaa starring a dullard spiritual predecessor to both of Tatsuya Yasuda’s Steel Jeegs. The latter is a chronological cross of Nausicaa and Grendizer, starring an outer space team battling a corrupt empire and its wicked military. 

The manga that helped popularise the modern Nausicaanade to Japanese audiences and ultimately other consumers from the rest of the world is the genre namer itself, Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Its compressed film adaptation, which actually was conceived first, is even more influential, inspiring the ATLA franchise and James Cameron’s Avatar amongst many others in recent years. Its sole major imitators are Elfie of the Blue Sea and Green Legend Ran, themselves cult classics featuring humanlike mermaids and monsters representing a bunch of debilitating natural disasters, as well as Fern Gully, which itself stars tropical Australian animals, and Nadia: Secret of the Water, a Jules Verne inspired anime show which itself inspired Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which is Nausicaa with amortal sea dwellers, and another Jules Verne inspired anime show called The Secret Of Cerulean Sand, which is Nausicaa with bright minerals. 

The legendary Farscape by Jim Henson Productions is a cross of Nausicaa and Space Battleship Yamato, starring an outer space team battling wicked empires and corrupt militaries. 

Its own relatives, James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, is Nausicaa featuring a human interacting with catlike, tall and blue but rather annoyingly Stuish aliens. 

Their spiritual successor is Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon, which is more than just a variant of Nausicaa featuring mildly stereotypical Native Amazonians battling tooth and nail against a mining company. Not only is its links with Nausicaa very apparent, if rather indirect, the first word of its title, which means ‘girl’ in a Panoan language called Shipibo Conibo, rhymes with The English word for the goddamn frigging Rainbow.  

The Bots of Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 2

There Are More Bot characters To Come! 

The Antagonist Robots: A heap of Antagonist Robots. 

Achlys: Achlys is defined as a moderately unattractive super robot made mostly with copper alloys. 

The Sexy Ladies: The Most Awe Inducing Beautiful Bots in the world. 

Steel Artemis: Artemis is a wolf eared female super robot known for regulating the environment.  

Fe-Ni-Co Epiales: Epiales is a plain coloured robot known for witty remarks. 

Crucible Steel Circe: Circe is a Mischievous Robot Crone, a fellow of other robots like Proserpina and Hebe. 

Mu Metal Hebe: This one is a mischievous little fella, a super robot Kitten familiar of Proserpina. 

Cu-Ni-Fe Proserpina: Proserpina is a cat eared super robot who minds the High school. 

Gunmetal Empiusa: Empiusa is a seagoing super robot built from a dead lighthouse at the beach. 

Martensitic Stainless Steel Flora: Flora is a Robot Zebra Finch, who is the companion of Joss. 

Wootz Steel Carmenta: Carmenta is a super robot which demolishes buildings. 

Demeter: Demeter, The hardest working super robot regularly shown, has a multipurpose body and is a farmer’s bot by career. 

Ceres: Ceres, A cute morphing infant super robot, which is shown to have bunny rabbit ears. 

Vesta: Vesta is just well represented as many other upcoming female bots, as it has cat ears and a very muscular body. 

Tethys: Tethys is a turquoise coloured robot mermaid. 

The Traumatic Babes 

Iron Juno: Iron Juno has a feminine body and a skinny build. 

Hera: Hera is a creepy, gray super robot with a dragon tail. 

Silver Steel Ichnaea: This is the uglier and more off putting companion of Hera. 

Lithium Chaos: Lithium Chaos is much differently bodied from most other robot antagonists. Not only is it Much creepier than most of said antagonists, it’s also a grey war robot to begin with! 

The Military Robots

Ananke: Ananke is a muscular super robot painted with the influence of America in mind. 

Hestia: Hestia is a robot which has an athletic female body, along with a pair of Lop Rabbit Ears. 

Copper Thalassa: Thalassa is the junior companion of Tethys. 

Nemesis: Nemesis, meaningfully nightmarish as it is, is a super robot which often does badass arm folds even when sleeping. 

Diana Nemorensis: This is Another Robot in the Venus Line, a stronger grownup sister of both Diana and Venus. 

Stainless Steel Aegle: Aegle is a super robot Skeleton with a Female Mohawk, who is the older companion to Mene. 

Maraging Steel Mene: Mene is a rather ugly woman robot with a skeleton head. 

The Mazinger Maids

Phoebe: Phoebe is a super robot fuelled with electricity in mind. 

Guanin Arke: This Latin American beauty is known for wrestling with High Speed Steel Libera. 

Rhea: Rhea is a grown up female robot with rabbit ears. 

High Speed Steel Libera: Libera is a Lanky Shaped Super Robot Known for its long legs. 

Gaia: Gaia is a brown super robot with sea lion ears. 

The Team Supporters 

Doré Alectrona: A Dragon Shaped companion to the X Bomber. 

Antanium Hecate: Hecate is a robot which rides Alectrona off to space. 

The Archive Panic and The Audience Alienating Premise

Archive Panics and Audience Alienating Premises are two different things. 

Mazinger, Cirque Du Soleil Style! Part 3

The Mazinger Universe has a lot of potential. Here are almost all of its honorary crossover characters from SpectreMan and the Alexander Belyaev novels Ariel and the Amphibian Man. 

The Scientists 

Adamo Salvatore: Internationally renowned and utterly insane Uruguayan mad scientist known for his many birth defects, themselves caused by, well, ridiculous amounts of ancestral incest. 

Kensuke Gori: Adamo Salvatore’s saner and not as inbred anti-villain pupil, Kensuke is himself partly Japanese Brazilian. 

Luisa Gori: Half Japanese and Half Mulatto Brazilian mother of Kensuke Gori and the wife of Armando Villarreal. 

Armando Villarreal: Adamo Salvatore’s unhappy and disengaged fellow, and the father of Kensuke Gori. 

The Ibn Rashid Family

Jibreel Ibn Rashid: Mermanised Younger Brother to Iskander and paternal uncle to Ichneumon. 

The Ocampo Hermosa Family

Jaime Ocampo: Afro Venezuelan relative to Christina Hermosa, Jaime Ocampo, came illegally to Argentina when he was a young teenager, in the midst of the Dinero crisis. 

Ichneumon Hermosa Ibn Rashid: Aka Ichthyander, Ichneumon Hermosa Ibn Rashid is the son of a Mauritanian and a Venezuelan. 

Balthazar Hermosa: A distant brother of Ichneumon's mother Christiana Hermosa. He and his other brother Christopher have a complicated relationship with Reba Dolores Havel Zurita, who in turn beats the crap out of both her husband and only son. After losing his wife to cancer, he accidentally turned into a werewolf, but at the cost of himself losing a lot of memories and later on being traumatically murdered by Adamo Salvatore when he finally set afoot in the wild, along with his merman colleague Jibreel. 

Christopher Hermosa: Balthazar’s brother and another distant maternal relative of Ichneumon and his mother. After seeing Reba Dolores bet the crap out of both her husband and son, he let them escape her psychopathic wrath. After all, he actually got murdered by Reba Dolores herself afterwards. 

Olga Gutierrez: Olga Gutierrez was Randy Kapoor’s Argentine wife, and the mother of Peri Kapoor Gutierrez Hermosa. 

Christiana Hermosa: Christiana was the mother of Ichneumon and wife of Iskander Ibn Rashid. She briefly turned into a two legged mermaid beforehand dying of animal diseases in the eyes of a recently born infant Ichneumon. 

Iskander Ibn Rashid: Iskander Ibn Rashid was the father of Ichneumon and husband of Christiana Hermosa. After witnessing his wife dying of animal diseases after dangerously turning into a mermaid for just a month due to Dr Salvatore’s Tried and True insanity, he himself successfully went on to become a mermaid a year later and survived for two to three more decades, but at the cost of himself living almost fully under the sea. He himself died of fishy diseases when the latter was about twenty one. 

Peri Gutierrez Kapoor Hermosa: Peri is Randy and Olga’s daughter, and Balthazar Hermosa’s adopted daughter. She was one of Ichneumon's only friends and is Jack Olsen's wife. 

Florian Wisniewski: Balthazar Hermosa's wife and Peri's adoptive mother. 

The Zuritas 

Pedro Zurita: Pedro Zurita is a wishfully minded schooner operating without the incestuous clutches of his mafia mother’s underground enterprise. He finally made sure that Ichneumon would remain free on his own after realising that the latter was mostly out of breath, and unhappy in a cage! 

Reba Dolores Havel Zurita: Pedro’s Czech born mafia gangster minded mother and Angelo’s murderous wife. Also known as Leo Havel’s domineering older twin sister. 

Angelo Zurita: Pedro Zurita’s unhappy and disengaged Mestizo Venezuelan Father. He and his son are the most frequent target's of Reba Dolores Havel's murderously scary plans. 

The Ultra Recycle Inc Crew

Joe Takahata: Joe Takahata is a dude with dead parents and a pet mongrel dog whom he looks after. That said, he and his dog had witnessed said parents' deaths in the hands of an ultraviolent Bigfoot family mafia, led by a notorious couple (read: the same guys who killed almost all the senior Matois and Tetsuya's paternal grandparents), before they were brutally bloodied and bludgeoned by the Ogopogo who killed another senior Matoi by marriage, Kelli Matoi's paternal grandmother Luna. 

Hiromi Endo: Hiromi Endo is a thuggish young lady, mostly because her home life is a lot worse than those of all the Kapoor siblings combined. She is herself a leg and arm cyborg lady, thus she turned Joe Takahata and his dog from normal beings into leg and arm cyborgs. 

The Beasts

Psychola: Psychola the dolphin was another of Ichneumon's few friends, who truly was from a really screwed up pack of dolphins, with most of whom being confirmed to be psychopathic blue and orange murderers themselves. Psychola herself is also a pretty murderously cunning psychopath as well, letting her brothers maim and murder Reba Dolores with just their fangs, which in hindsight is actually a pretty satisfying death of a complete monster asshole. 

Ether The Sea Succubus: Ichneumon's power hungry and ultimately murderous marine based succubus 'wife'. When she barrelled Adamo Salvatore's clothing into the sea after his death got confirmed to the whole city society by a reporter, she ultimately made herself more powerful than ever, by honour killing him in legs and arms, due to the fact that he's already on his last legs at that point in his life. 

The Public Domain

Implementing a human creator’s rights onto a franchise, while not easy to begin with, is actually far more difficult and at times nearly impossible in both America and Mexico, because of how influential a lot of their corporations are. 

Even if they change as usual, most national versions of the Public Domain will definitely still be under far more threat from corporate raids than any other intellectual property topic shown. 

Family Estates

There are Japanese creator/family estates that double as merchandising and manga studios; with Tezuka Productions, Bird Studio, Dynamic Inc and Ishinomori Pro being very good examples of such a concept. Nonetheless, they sorely do need a huge generational shakeup in order to keep catching up with the times. 

A few of the most influentially litigious Creator/Family Estates in the world are mostly from the USA. Alexander Key Pro, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, and Robert E Howard Productions are good examples. A lot of exceptions from other countries include Moulinsart Hergé Inc from Belgium and the C B Adams Studio from Mexico. 

A heap of Plausible Adaptations to relatively obscure Pop Culture Works

Hi there! I’m checking out a list of my potential adaptations to relatively obscure pop culture works. The future is so unpredictable that, if I become rich via textiles, guess what? In most cases, I’m thinking of future permissions from the companies behind my favourite secondhand items! 

A potential Multimedia Universe is yet to be on the way for Leo the Lion and his fellas Ki Gor, Nizar, Sheena, Tibor, Naja and Akim. Said Universe will be much more interlinked and satirical than the works that they’re all based on. In addition to both the scare factor and dramedy, it will primarily feature good old secondhand songs by internationally known Japanese pop folk giants the Kome Kome Club; with the sole major exception being Akim, which has a strong south asian soundtrack. 

A whole new Light Novel branch for the Mazinger franchise will include a very consistent yet more adult (and more faithful to the whole roots) take on Mazinger Z and friends, as well as a hotter and sexier variant of Go Nagai’s Star Fleet (Stories).

Two of Alexander Belyaev’s Public Domain works will soon become honorary relatives of Mazinger Z and friends starting with the Amphibian Man, The technically Prototypical DevilMan, which is about a grey eyed orphan named Ichneumon, aka Ichthyander, the son of a female mix race Venezuelan and a male Haratin Mauritanian social worker. Ichneumon is also the pupil of an equally infamous Italo Uruguayan mad scientist named Adamo Salvatore. Its spiritual sequel, Ariel, will feature the somehow more heavily modified titular protagonist as the sole known functioning male heir to a technically dead dynasty of minor Habsburg era nobility. 

A trio of Public Domain works by the late Russian adult and teen fiction visionary Alexander Green will finally have their own animated counterparts. Said works are named The Scarlet Sails, Jessie and Morgana, and The Girl Who Runs On the Waves. The former and latter are quite optimistic but not too Disneyish; plus they both share some things in common. Jessie and Morgana is very different; being a stunning horror novel filled to the brim with nightmare fuel. 

There is a much bloodier spin on the cult classic show SpectreMan, a legendary Toku that predated Steel Jeeg and pals by just two years. Its preceding story is set after the end of civilisation as we know it, simply called Monster Island, which is based on another Tomio Sagisu (aka Souji Ushio) show called Monster Prince. 

A crapload of works by Souji Yamakawa will all be set in their own shared universe, albeit on very different time periods. 

Mazinger: The Minami Legacy

Mazinger is a franchise that actually needs and deserves a MAJOR light novel branch, bundled with a continuity which is both good and consistent as well as being largely snarl free. This is mostly due to Go Nagai being both forgetful and a bit superficial, partly because of how busy he is as an old man.

As the franchise original and its spinoffs are still making a lot of money internationally, let's say that, because of how many super robots the franchise has, a MAJOR light novel series reimagining is going to make sure that the continuity snarl is in other branches instead, with only small bits of said snarl remaining in the light novels themselves. The series of Light Novels, called Mazinger Fantasy, is gonna be good if handled well and properly licensed. But here's a catch; the whole novel series could never be released in certain countries for political reasons. 

The first few chapters of the very first novel will focus on Imo Minami, a young man who got stranded on the coast of Cabinda within the far north of Angola, near both Congo Brazzaville and the Congolian Democratic Republic, following a fallout with Shyam Lahiri, who himself had long been mutilating his eyes so much that they appear blind. From then on, he lived alone in the nearby Mayombe Woyo jungle, west central Africa's most biodiverse region. Having initially met his slightly older scientist girlfriend online, he slowly gets immersed into her culture. They got married a few years later, but in the midst of a habitat loss driven cultural conflict between the majorities of both Cabindans and Angolans vs their highly corrupt governmental regime. 

The rest focuses on how Imo and Monica raised their children in their mother's birthplace. For their oldest child and daughter, Viva, she had to look after her own younger sister Hikaru, and two younger brothers Goku and Koji Minami. In succeeding books, the mother dies, her husband later becomes a shellshocked man, and their children find heaps of goddamn super robots, start to meet their spouses, and have families of their own after marriage. 

The Star Fleet Stories consists of spinoffs set in different time periods of the same continuity. The first, X Bomber, is basically a somehow hotter and sexier take on the original live action puppet show, which itself is inspired by Thunderbirds and in turn has partially inspired Taiwan’s Legendary Puppet Drama show Pili.  

The second one is Ryunger, a sequel to X Bomber anyway, which focuses on a stranded soldier named Cyril Eno instead of Duke Fleed as in the original Toei anime and Tv Magazine manga. 

The third one is Spectreman, a much bloodier and gorier spin on the original Toku show. It focuses on an orphaned high school jock named Joe Takahata, himself the only child of family making latecomers, who finds out that he partially got Cyborgified by a fully organic trans human technician trying to save his bodily life from a history of soccer related concussions. 

Mazinger: The Fantasy

Ahh, I am finally having a good time pinning Mazinger Z images, especially of the surprisingly Manga accurate Mazinkaiser, simply because the series itself doesn’t just contain the hugely popular first instalment of the same name, it has a sequel called Great Mazinger and also has spinoffs like Grendizer, Goldorak, Grendizer Giga, Mazinkaiser, Edition Z: The Impact, Mazinkaiser SKL, Internal Peace and Infinity. 

The original Shonen Jump manga and its siblings, such as the junior high school Tv Magazine variants, are all written and drawn by Go Nagai. There are also retellings by Gosaku Ota and Yu Kinutani. 

The Mazinkaiser direct to video show is technically the most stylistically modern style Manga Accurate of the adaptations, due to the fact that Kenji Hayama was surprisingly good for the job and I wish he will truly do something different, like illustrating lots of artworks for things ranging from light novels to films! Being fairly loosely based on both the original manga that started it all and the Mazinger section of Super Robot Wars in its early years, it has a few misses, but is otherwise a very good and strongly energetic watch. It is also the first Non-Toei spinoff to be pretty much dubbed into English, but its film companion, Mazinkaiser Vs The Great General of Darkness, would not be dubbed into English until 2023. It also has a trio of regular manga companions. The first one was a spiritual predecessor drawn by Koichi Maruyama, then a comically wild 2002-03 manga was created by Naoto Tsushima, the man behind The Fighting Foodons, and the last one was a partial continuity reboot of the predecessor manga itself, written by Go Nagai. 

The Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact tv show is rather less stylistically accurate to the modern style and somehow cuter looking than Mazinkaiser, which kinda makes sense as it’s a multimedia event crossover doubling as another dark and dank retro futurist reimagining of the original manga. It hasn’t been dubbed into English for a long while, mostly due to how complicated its plot really is! It also has a more stylistically Manga Accurate manga adaptation, which is even darker and crazier, and has even gained a side story and a sequel, during its run and after its run ended! 

The original Mazinger duo and Infinity are not just in their own heavily knitted continuity now, most of said Toei works are much less stylistically Manga Accurate than other adaptations. The first show actually has three English dubs, one from Hawaii which was pretty meh, another from the Philippines which is both an improved sequel to the Hawaii dub and probably being beloved lost media in that country, and the third being a heavily censored Cult Classic in a so bad it’s good way. However, said show’s sequel Great Mazinger isn’t dubbed into English except for its back door pilot’s very minor moments in Tranzor Z; and so are the many old Grendizer-related, usually non serial Mazinger films, mostly due to legally complicated reasons that render the act of dubbing them into English pretty much impossible for now. 

Infinity has its very own secret; an English dub which is actually much better than the English dubs of its predecessor show, though it does have some shortcomings. Also, it is stylistically a bit more similar to its spinoff predecessor, Mazinger Edition Z, while also retaining some of its 70s anime tints. Its own manga spinoff midquel, Internal Peace, got released at the same time as the film. 

The original Grendizer is itself actually a spinoff of the original Mazinger duo, and is technically not a fully canonically and officially recognised sequel, as it is set in a timeline which is considerably somewhat different from that of the serial tv anime duo’s. Besides being the first Mazinger spinoff to really be partially dubbed into English, but twice, one being probable lost media for the Philippines and the other for Force Five in America. 

Its very own pretty insane unfaithfulness to the three volumes of its equally kind of canon but somehow more stylistically Manga Accurate first two manga companions by Go Nagai and Yu Okazaki are pretty much increasingly well proven. Its two sole regular films aren’t really dubbed into English, however smooth they may be. It also has two other manga companions, one by Gosaku Ota which is a depressing reimagining, and the other by Eiji Imamichi which is more tongue in cheek! Decades later, said spinoff got its own fourth and much cuter manga adaptation called Grendizer Giga. Another spinoff was made in France, but is instead a largely non canonical sequel to the original anime’s own famed French dub known as Goldorak. 

The Mazinkaiser SKL tv show is definitely a banger and, like its spiritual prequel with a similar name, it got dubbed into English, but its original manga source material is obscure. Ironically, it feels like an anime oddball amongst its fellas due to its very different art style, which is basically a Seinen one.