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The Mike Toole Show - Saint Shingo

I saw the first one. I think it was the Toei show that replaced Dragon Ball GT.

Kozo Morishita was also the producer and planner for pretty much every Dragon Ball animated material conceived.

Did the Shingo pair really work on the character designs in the Studio Gallop Yu-Gi-Oh! series as well?

I'm not so sure they were ever married. When Araki passed away, many Japanese websites like this one mentioned his widow Hiroko as the one who represented his family at the memorial service.

And though I wouldn't call Ring ni Kakero 1 "loved" on the fansub circuit, because if it was "loved" then the English fansubs wouldn't be stuck half-way through Season 3, it's nice to see someone else bring up the title for once; anyone who's thinking about checking it out should definitely do so, since it's simply great fun to watch. And Fuuma no Kojirou, too, which kind of surprised me; that's easily a case of a Kurumada manga being animated due to the popularity of another title (Saint Seiya, in this case).

I believe it's Eisaku Inoue who's been providing the artwork for the latest Saint Seiya merchandise, including the video games. He might have been the animation director on the all-new sequences Toei made especially for the pachinko machine, too.

I just looked up Shingo Araki's bio again. What you forgot,Mr. Toole,is that he did some American work as well. He did some animation work for "Inspector Gadget" and "Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats." He also did work on a direct-to-video film called "The Adventures of the American Rabbit." It's a shame you didn't tell anyone about that. I don't see anything wrong with doing American animation. Why you omitted that part is something I'll never know.

Well... a huge number of shows I like tend to stall out in the fansub phase within three or four episodes. I figure anything that gets past an entire season has SOME sort of fanbase, yeah?

I've liked the Fuma I've seen, but it's awfully hard to get past the "star system" approach, since the entire main cast look like Saint Seiya guys. Has that one been fansubbed, I wonder?

Though it isn't really liked by YGO fans due to it's multiple changes from the manga, mostly to tone down the craziness that those chapters contained, I'd easily buy "Season 0" if it got licensed one day.

At any rate, I'm pretty sure Yugi's grandpa does appear in that first series, but not 100% sure. Anyone want to watch the whole thing and check?

Sure, Ulysses 31 isn't as easily recognized as that of Inspector Gadget or Heathcliff, but I'm sure it's way more recognizeable than The Adventures of the American Rabbit, which I don't think even you know much about.

Anyway, the shows you mention aren't bad, but they don't have that Araki Pro feel that the ones I mentioned, by and large, do. Inspector Gadget, in particular, had much of its animation work done in Japan, but the initial character atwork was created by Bruno Bianchi, so I think of it as "his" rather than an Araki Pro joint. Bruno passed away a few days ago; may he RIP as well!

I do recommend that everyone go and grab the AMERICAN RABBIT film. It's not an OVA, it was released in theatres by Clubhouse Pictures, the studio that was formed by Atlantic Records in the wake of the Smurfs film's successful US release. IMO it's more of a Fred Wolf picture than any other senior contributor; you should be able to get it on DVD for under $5.

Lord Geo wrote:

Though it isn't really liked by YGO fans due to it's multiple changes from the manga, mostly to tone down the craziness that those chapters contained, I'd easily buy "Season 0" if it got licensed one day.

It will never happen because the studio and TV station that were involved in it's creation cannot sell it themselves. Toei Animation animated it to air on TV Asahi, and the second series was animated by Studio Gallop to air on TV Tokyo. Toei and TV Asahi have re-released the Movie that was made after the original series (season 0) on DVD (in Japan) because it's an original storyline, but they lack the rights to the storyline from the manga so they are unable to sell the series, let alone sell the rights to a company overseas to sell it.

In fact, I think the perfect way to sum up the pair is by looking at their work on Ulysses 31. Yes, I'm talking about Ulysses 31 again, deal with it! (Also, watch this hilarious recreation of the OP by hipsters using household items.)

Funny how a lot of Araki's work was seen by typical cartoon-watching North American kids of the 1980s. They never had Saint Seiya or Rose of Versailles, but they could still catch Maple Town, Mighty Orbots, Ulysses 31, and even The Adventures of the American Rabbit. And maybe, in some alternate reality, they saw Lupin VIII.

Sure, Ulysses 31 isn't as easily recognized as that of Inspector Gadget or Heathcliff, but I'm sure it's way more recognizeable than The Adventures of the American Rabbit, which I don't think even you know much about. It seems like you just listed American Rabbit because it was on his ANN encyclopedia page, not because you have any real nostalgia towards it, unlike how G.I. Joe the Movie, which Araki worked on, was brought up in these comments because of nostalgic reasons.

I just want to say we haven't dropped Ring ni Kakero S3. We're just a very slow fansub with like 3-4 people not to mention that our main translator and leader also does french fansubs as well. Plus, Ring ni Kakero 3 is one of our side projects. Hiei- (translator and leader) actually managed to get his hands on the season 4 dvd.

Lord Geo wrote:

Sure, Ulysses 31 isn't as easily recognized as that of Inspector Gadget or Heathcliff, but I'm sure it's way more recognizeable than The Adventures of the American Rabbit, which I don't think even you know much about. It seems like you just listed American Rabbit because it was on his ANN encyclopedia page, not because you have any real nostalgia towards it, unlike how G.I. Joe the Movie, which Araki worked on, was brought up in these comments because of nostalgic reasons.

I recall watching this film back in the 80's myself.

Hold on. You're saying this movie DID get a DVD release (in Japan of course): anime#2760

Can you show me evidence of that? Or better yet, where I could buy it!