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petran79
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then you could help adding something interesting |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Can someone provide a good picture of Dominion Tank Police for the Encyclopedia? There were two pictures (see below) that had been submitted but both turned out to be the 1993 sequel by J.C. Staff.
 
So far the best picture I could find is the LD jacket, yet it was still illustrated by Masamune Shirow, so the art style is manga-ish. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Paploo
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"I saw copies going online for as much as $100"
That's INSANE. I just got my copy at HMV for 13 bucks around October or so- guess I was lucky they still had copies in stock at the distributor [though I missed out on Shamanic Princess]. I saw it on Space TV [Canadian Scifi network] ages ago, and was extremely happy to find the dvd, as it completed my collection. I'd got NDTPolice when it first came out on DVD, and had really enjoyed that too....... Shirow's style really works with comedy. It's a shame it's OOP though- I would suggest checking with Canadian distributors though, as it looks like HMV.ca still has it in stock.... it's an anime classic, and it's too bad if it slipped out of CPM's hands. The disc might not be the best, but it's still serviceable, and was nicely priced. |
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Monumension
 Posts: 268 Location: Norway |
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I've never seen a single clip nor episode from Dominion Tank Police, but I still remember it well because it was my first exposure to anime. There was an article in one of Norway's biggest taloids around 1990 called "What's wrong with the Japanese?" (I never forgot that title!) that was about the explicit nature of anime. DTP was one of the series it described.
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Hon'ya-chan
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Here ya go: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/initialdorg/DominionTankPoliceCover.jpg |
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Jkid
 Posts: 197 Location: Capitol Heights ,MD |
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That was one of the first anime I saw when I was a child. I watched it first on VHS, which I only aw the first two episodes. I got the DVD version of the OVA last year at AnimeUSA. That DVD actually cost $15-$20.
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Viga_of_stars
 Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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I first watched this on demand and loved it. Plus the american theme is way more awesome than the original. Tank poliiiice! Feel the power that we got! Tank poliiiiice!
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Vicserr
 Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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I remember seeing the 1st episode in Spanish ("La Patrulla del siglo 21" or something like that) alongside M.D. Geist in Spanish and a couple of episodes of BubbleGum Crisis many moons ago at a comic shop I used to visit in the late 80's early 90's. then I saw the edited version on SCi-Fi channel alongside the rest of their classic anime that they broadcasted, I can say that this and New dominion are in my collection, I should rewatch it sometime.
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Anime World Order
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I, too, was first introduced to Dominion: Tank Police courtesy of Sci-Fi Channel's Anime Week, the year it was hosted by Ralph Bakshi. This was also when I first saw Project A-Ko, The Venus Wars, and...Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight. After the one-two punch of not just Odin but also Ralph Bakshi it's a miracle I continued to watch anime at all, but that was a time when I had the whole anime week recorded and saw in fine print "watch for Ralph Bakshi's Wizards coming soon to the Sci-Fi Channel" as I was freeze-framing through the closing credits one time. Freeze-framing recordings to read through credits was something you once needed to do since there was no IMDB at the time.
I didn't find out how dreadful Wizards was until several months of semi-anticipation to see "the movie made by this anime scholar who created The Mighty Heroes and The Hobbit!", neither of which I'd seen aside from the short clips played during Bakshi's interview. Perhaps the act of finally seeing Wizards after somehow deluding myself into thinking it was going to be cool was when everything inside of me finally died. Don't watch Ralph Bakshi movies, kids. Their lameness will steal your soul. The Sci-Fi Channel broadcast of Dominion was not only edited for television, there was dialogue replacement to remove or at least significantly cut down on the swearing and innuendo. The "urine" and "piss" getting stolen from the hospital became "plasma," and the "Erect-A-Cockies" lines were referred to solely as "weapons" or "the ultimate deterrent." All scenes involving giant plastic penises in festive colors were deleted entirely, so it seemed like the plastic discs on the ground were just futuristic landmines or something. It wasn't until years later when I saw an uncut broadcast on Showtime that I realized the show had been edited at all. The entire ending credits consists solely of Annapuma and Unipuma swimming naked underwater--this was back when high-speed Internet didn't exist, thus limiting an adolescent's daily pornography intake to mere still images--and it was no longer in a small window such that you couldn't tell what was going on. All this was overshadowed by the fact that Showtime played an uncut version of Wicked City soon afterwards. Truly the "state of the art Japanese animation" that the Streamline trailer with the 8 Man After Casio keyboard soundtrack was telling me about. |
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ingram_pilot
 Posts: 66 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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Although I had seen a lot of anime as a kid in the mid '80s I had no idea what anime was, or that it was japanese. I just thought they were fancy cartoons.
Dominion Tank Police (which I saw on Space TV) was the first anime I saw where I knew that it was anime and that it came from Japan. So in essence it was my official introduction to the genre; and it's what made me into an anime fan. Because of that, it remains one of my favorites. Then again, as Justin mentionned, it could just be because of the "boobies". 
Also, since I'm a harcore Patlabor fan; when I saw the title of the article, the first thing that came to mind was that I'd have to mention the similarities DTP and Patlabor. But I should've known he would mention it himself. |
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Moomintroll
 Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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The UK DVD releases of both DTP (dub only) and NDTP are still in print and easy to find cheap. I got both volumes of DTP last year for £5 off Amazon.co.uk (about $10) but, frankly, it was a waste of a fiver.
It's not terrible exactly...but I'd struggle to find anything positive to say about it and I had to really force myself to sit through it. I can understand how the rose-tinted spectacles of nostalgia could result in a completely different viewing experience (something that wasn't applicable to me since I had only the vaguest memories of seeing a few minutes of it back in the early '90s) but I really can't recommend it to anybody who doesn't already remember it fondly from their childhood. Mind you, if this selection of reviews is anything to go by, it's the sort of thing people either love or hate. |
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fuuma_monou
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The most overt Looney Tunes reference (Road Runner, to be precise) I've seen in anime is in the last two episodes of Yamamoto Yohko TV. Was quite refreshing since I usually only heard about the Disney influence on Tezuka, etc. |
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petran79
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of the ones I watched I think Fritz the Cat, Coonskin and Heavy Traffic were actually good. As for the rest I agree. Fritz the Cat in fact is one of the best animated US movies I've seen. The first X-rated movie and the first to break Disney's established formula that cartoons are just for kids Adult cartoons and anime owe this movie a lot. |
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silentjay
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Out of print, eh? I guess I need to run out at grab that $10 clearance copy I saw the other day. I love DTP, and own the RPG, but still haven't upgraded to the DVDs yet.
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