Zebraman 2: Attack On Zebra City

[AnimeOnBlu]

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City Blu-ray

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City Blu-ray Review

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY

Flower Mound, TX (June 11, 2011) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced it has acquired the rights to distribute the live action film, ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY, in the U.S. Directed by Takashi Miike (ICHI THE KILLER) this film is a sequel to the 2004 film by the same director.

About ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY

Let's get ready to fight!

By 2025, fifteen years after Zebraman defeated the Aliens, the world has changed entirely. While Zebraman has lost his memory and is in a rehabilitation facility, Tokyo has renamed itself Zebra City, and has instituted a “Zebra Time” starting at 5:00 AM/PM for 5 minutes in which the government allows the Zebra Police to attack any and all presumed criminals. One Zebra Time results in the attempted murder of ex-teacher, Shinichi Ichikawa, also known as Zebraman. Surviving the attack, he meets other survivors of Zebra Time who plan to revolt against the new fascist system lead by the mysterious Zebra Queen. Ichikawa finds himself teaming up with television's fake Zebraman and a young protege to save a mysterious little girl from Zebra Queen and her Zebra Police. Will Ichikawa regain his memories and realize he's Zebraman in time to stop Zebra Queen before she can use the strange aliens from 2010 to bring Zebra Time to the whole world?

FUNimation will offer the film on Blu-ray and DVD later this year. ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY will also be shown at the 10th Annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas in July.

- http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pres...-on-zebra-city

[u_nick]

Will blind buy with out a doubt. Netflixed the first movie years ago, and had a lot of fun with it. I wish they could have wrestled the first's rights away from MB too. Or at least hope it sells well enough that maybe MB will put that one out on Blu.

Great news!

[Kevtronn]

Amazing News!!! Day 1 for sure, I loved Zebraman 1 which I have watched many many times. I really did not think this would be released in the U.S. and would have to import...

[AnimeOnBlu]

Just wanted to note this might be a BD25 release (as the Japanese release was BD25).

[AnimeOnBlu]

Got my copy today.

-BD50
-Japanese TrueHD 5.1 (no dub)
-White English subtitles
-Extras on Blu-ray
-Region A locked
-DVD case with no slipcover

[Forever Knight]

Loved the first movie, the scene with the old school hero (Hiroshi Watari) sold it for me haha.

Can't wait for this one.

I didn't know Tokusatsu fans existed on this forum lol

[Cat III]

Originally Posted by AnimeOnBlu

-DVD case with no slipcover

Ugh. Why put this in a DVD case? My collection will look whack. At least that's another Miike movie making it stateside.

[madlost1]

Originally Posted by Cat III

Ugh. Why put this in a DVD case? My collection will look whack. At least that's another Miike movie making it stateside.

Because thats what funimation does. Just print out a custom cover and throw it in a blu case.

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[G:Box]

that's a whole lot of Zebra in that synopsis

Day One

[Kentai]

Originally Posted by Cat III

At least that's another Miike movie making it stateside.

I think all of the Miike BD releases have been a letdown in the states so far.

Audition: Sourced from an Interneg with zero restoration
Sukiyaki Western Django: CUT by 23 minutes
13 Assassins: CUT by 15 minutes
Ichi the Killer: ...not even going there!

I'll be sure to pick this up. Loved the first Zebraman, though the sequel looks like a completely different kind of film.

[Cat III]

Originally Posted by madlost1

Because thats what funimation does. Just print out a custom cover and throw it in a blu case.

Problem is I don't have a high caliber printer so it will end up looking cheap. It's a shame really, as that's some nice cover art.

I think all of the Miike BD releases have been a letdown in the states so far.

Normally cutting a movie down would be a major no-no for me, but I didn't mind it for 13 Assassins (haven't seen Sukiyaki Western Django yet). I've avoided buying Ichi because of the poor reviews. Audition is a letdown, but not as much as some people make it out to be when you consider the low-budget of the film and limited audience. I'm just glad it's on Blu-ray. The DVD of Happiness of the Katikuris was surprisingly good. That one along with Izo and The Great Yokai War would make for great Blus.

[Deciazulado]

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City Blu-ray Review

[zombeaner]

The specs on the case say 1080i native, but the review says 1080p.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Cat III

Normally cutting a movie down would be a major no-no for me, but I didn't mind it for 13 Assassins (haven't seen Sukiyaki Western Django yet). I've avoided buying Ichi because of the poor reviews. Audition is a letdown, but not as much as some people make it out to be when you consider the low-budget of the film and limited audience. I'm just glad it's on Blu-ray. The DVD of Happiness of the Katikuris was surprisingly good. That one along with Izo and The Great Yokai War would make for great Blus.

I'm glad we've reached the point where the real Miike fans have stopped expecting him to re-direct Audition for the rest of his life (we're looking at you, Eli Roth ), and have now accepted his new career of gonzo big-budget action/fantasy epics.
As one critic put it "It's like Peter Jackson before and after LOTR--Give him a real budget, and watch him grow up."

Unfortunately, most of us sensible folk are in the minority--There's the worshiping Auditionites, and then there's the rest of the population that's never heard of him.
Even I haven't found any trace of the Yattaman movie, or even of the cult-anime series he was suppoed to be paying tribute to. Unless it's samurais, yokai, or universally-weird, his new stuff's just a little TOO cultural to export.

[Forever Knight]

Picking up my copy later today.

[Ragged_Clown]

Originally Posted by EricJ

I'm glad we've reached the point where the real Miike fans have stopped expecting him to re-direct Audition for the rest of his life (we're looking at you, Eli Roth ), and have now accepted his new career of gonzo big-budget action/fantasy epics.
As one critic put it "It's like Peter Jackson before and after LOTR--Give him a real budget, and watch him grow up."

His career has taken an interesting path over the last 6 or 7 years. Pictures like Crows Zero and Like a Dragon are entertaining and well-made but have very little of Miike's personality in them, but he still tackles more personal projects from time to time -- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A is as outre as anything he's ever done, for example.

Not to veer too far off-topic, but I personally love his 95-99 era the most. It was an incredibly fertile creative period that yielded a lot of really extraordinary films. They were crammed to overflowing with interesting ideas, and despite all of the off-the-wall humor and absurdism that ran through most of the work, there was a genuine warmth to the films, an affection for and identification with the characters (usually outsiders of some kind). I saw an interview Miike did in which he admitted that when he looks at his earlier work, he feels like he's lost something since then, and tries to compensate with technique. Much as I continue to admire his work, that's a point I agree with. All one has to do is compare Crows Zero with his earlier The Way to Fight. The more recent film had a much, much larger budget, and that can easily be seen up there on the screen. It's a slicker, much more polished film. The Way to Fight has a somewhat similar subject, but on a much smaller scale. It was probably made on a budget of about $1.50, but it's a really lovely film, overflowing with the kind of goofy humor Miike's famous for, as well as an overwhelming feeling of melancholy and nostalgia for youth. Crows Zero feels completely soulless by comparison. Even 13 Assassins feels sort of impersonal when compared to some of the genre films he made earlier, like Rainy Dog or Ley Lines. The newer work just isn't as deeply felt as those earlier films.

[The Conspiracist]

Why does the site administrator delete legitimate 'user reviews'? I posted mine yesterday; it was there last night; and it's gone today.

[Cat III]

Originally Posted by EricJ

I'm glad we've reached the point where the real Miike fans have stopped expecting him to re-direct Audition for the rest of his life (we're looking at you, Eli Roth ), and have now accepted his new career of gonzo big-budget action/fantasy epics.
As one critic put it "It's like Peter Jackson before and after LOTR--Give him a real budget, and watch him grow up."

Unfortunately, most of us sensible folk are in the minority--There's the worshiping Auditionites, and then there's the rest of the population that's never heard of him.
Even I haven't found any trace of the Yattaman movie, or even of the cult-anime series he was suppoed to be paying tribute to. Unless it's samurais, yokai, or universally-weird, his new stuff's just a little TOO cultural to export.

I don't see any reason to hate on Audition. Personally, I've seen a great deal of Miike's work and liked most of it, but Audition remains my favorite. I don't see how it's any less mature than his recent projects. The quote about Peter Jackson actually seems to counter your argument if you consider Jackson's career. Both Heavenly Creatures and Dead Alive were made pre-LOTR. Heavenly Creatures is his most thoughtful and mature movie and Dead Alive is the pinnacle of it's subgenre and has top-notch production value for a film of it's kind. LOTR and King Kong, while unarguably laudable for innovation in special effects and for their visual spectacle, are also arguably bloated and shallow escapism. The Lovely Bones was largely panned by critics. (I can also mention his highest rated film on Rotten Tomatoes, Forgotten Silver, was also made before the Tolkien trilogy, but I haven't seen it so I can't vouch for it's quality.)

[Ragged_Clown]

Originally Posted by Cat III

I don't see any reason to hate on Audition. Personally, I've seen a great deal of Miike's work and liked most of it, but Audition remains my favorite. I don't see how it's any less mature than his recent projects.

I agree with you about this, but I think the main point Eric was making is that there are a lot of people that can't move past Audition (or Ichi the Killer) and appreciate the diversity of Miike's work. I love Audition, but it represents a pretty marginal side of Miike's creative personality. But it and Ichi are generally the introductions to his work for most people, and this seems to create a false sense of who he is as a filmmaker for some of them. Audition is a far cry from Zebraman or The Bird People in China, but all of them are wonderful in their own ways. I think Miike's bad boy reputation sometimes gets in the way of a real appreciation of his work.

[Forever Knight]

I haven't watched my copy yet but I do hope Hiroshi Watari makes a cameo again.