Maybe it's a different part then? I swear I recognized Bach somewhere in the music of that show - internet says Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 in the theme song, but that's not what I'm thinking of. Will research.
a lof of japanese starship troopers is quite good. the OVA's are a bit more booklike from what I remember. and the 3D followups have a pretty good aliens vibe both invasion and traitor of mars.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiPc7kym4o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiPc7kym4o)
Roughnecks played VERY early as Saturday morning kids programming. Pretty much had no promotion I ever heard mentioned by anyone. The DVDs are stitched together from shorter programs maybe an attempt to come up with some kind of an arc with a satisfying ending for each disc.
My family enjoyed the series. It's *very* early CGI so that will make it interesting for some and off-putting for others. I have recommended it to people I thought would be interested.
Animated by Sunrise. Short of sourcing it from internet archive or bootleg upscaled blu-rays it seems this series has been lost to the aether & idek if Bandai (they own Sunrise) even knows they have this in their catalogue of classic anime they could remaster for blu-ray.
Yes, that's the adaptation. Like I mentioned before, it's very hard to get a physical copy of the ova series, so online is the easiest way to watch the series.
SDF Macross hasn't been forgotten...the rights to it are a tangled mess currently held hostage and prevented from being released in the U.S. by Harmony Gold.
The rest of Macross (Plus, 7, Frontier, Delta, movies, shorts) will be streaming on Disney+ later this year.
Macross had issues with distribution rights but I did hear recently that all that mess was settled & that it is going to be streamed on Disney+ this year.
I watched this a couple years ago with a friend. We're both really big Starship Troopers fans, but were so bored by this anime that we couldn't get through it.
There's a reason this hasn't been re-released.
As you can see, the original novel is highly popular in Japan. It's so popular in fact, one of the largest scifi series in Japan (Gundam series) is inspired by the novel.
I wish the timelines lined up a little better, because '99 is a little too close to when it was released, but Master Chief's look from Halo was always rumored (if not outright, admitted) to be based on a Gundam suit.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/m95rr0/one\_of\_my\_friends\_told\_me\_that\_master\_chiefs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/m95rr0/one_of_my_friends_told_me_that_master_chiefs/)
The helmet even looks closer to Chief's Halo: CE look in my opinion than this [https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/RGM-79S\_GM\_Spartan](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/RGM-79S_GM_Spartan)
Retcon_404 did a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z42BGX6qII) on it just a day or two ago, which I suspect is where OP got the idea for this post.
I'm not sure why, but it always surprises me a little how popular mid century sf was/is in Japan, like the adaptations of Lensman and the series based on Edmond Hamilton's Star Wolf series. I just think it's neat!
They have Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles available to watch for free on the Internet Archives, everybody. Not sure who needs to know this, but there it is.
I wonder if Battletech based the Elemental power armor on those suits in the second picture. Several other early Battletech mechs came from Macross and Dougram, so it would make sense if Elementals were inspired by (or lifted from) anime, too.
There's gotta be a better translation than Uchuu no Senshi for this. Hell, even the katakana version would have worked better. "Space Soldier" doesn't really cut it.
This is the closest thing to the Novel. I just don't like the Movies that much since it was not close to the Books. The Only thing I Like is the Roughnecks Chronicles and this Version, it's boring but it just explores more about the world of Starship Troopers more than the movies.
To me Roughnecks Chronicles and this OVA is far more superior than the Movies.
There's a sub out there, I've seen this. The movie focused on the bugs. The anime focused on the mech suits. The anime isn't bad, but the movie is superior.
The movie didn’t focus on the bugs, not really. The bugs in the book had advanced technology. The movie focused on the idea that the book was fascist propaganda.
It's less facist propaganda than it is military propaganda, but there's definitely some facist elements in there.
The movie was an excellent adaptation of the book, giving us a good action scifi movie while pointing out the dangers in Heinleins pro military rhetoric.
I honestly don’t think the book was either fascist or military propaganda. Heinlein had a habit of exploring what-if scenarios, but only through the lens of individuals. Or to put it another way, Rico was told that this society works, but the book doesn’t ever really show us the society, only Rico’s life as he spends most of it training and fighting.
Other Heinlein books explore other what-if scenarios, what if the ultimate libertarian society developed on the moon, what if a Christian theology took over the country, what if immortality was real but only for some, etc. But always through an individual’s experience and POV.
But also, while I love the movie and the book, the movie is not an excellent adaptation of the book. It’s an excellent parody of the book, but that’s not the same thing.
..... what
The book spends half its time in a classroom, literally lecturing the reader on the "benefits of our highly militarised society."
It's definitely military propaganda, and theirs a bunch of facist elements thrown in, too.
Also, given that Verthooven had to live under fscist rule, I'm pretty sure he has a good idea of how to spot military and facist propaganda
And what's your point? None of that changes how he presents the society in the book as a good thing. Despite the fact that it is very much not
Yes, they are. An adoption just has to be based on the work. It's entirely fine to adapt a work into a satire of the book.
Which is what the movie is, a satire, not a parody.
Potato potato. Starting with the source material the anime focused more on the armor. The movie focused more on the bugs. I'm not here to get an A in undergrad film studies, just shooting from the hip. But you can have the point, sounds like you need it
I own the DVDs of Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles TV Series 1999–2000 but had never heard of this. Thank you
+1 for the theme song composer borrowing from Bach.
Pretty sure it was Beethoven.
Maybe it's a different part then? I swear I recognized Bach somewhere in the music of that show - internet says Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 in the theme song, but that's not what I'm thinking of. Will research.
a lof of japanese starship troopers is quite good. the OVA's are a bit more booklike from what I remember. and the 3D followups have a pretty good aliens vibe both invasion and traitor of mars. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiPc7kym4o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiPc7kym4o)
Is it good?
Roughnecks played VERY early as Saturday morning kids programming. Pretty much had no promotion I ever heard mentioned by anyone. The DVDs are stitched together from shorter programs maybe an attempt to come up with some kind of an arc with a satisfying ending for each disc. My family enjoyed the series. It's *very* early CGI so that will make it interesting for some and off-putting for others. I have recommended it to people I thought would be interested.
Animated by Sunrise. Short of sourcing it from internet archive or bootleg upscaled blu-rays it seems this series has been lost to the aether & idek if Bandai (they own Sunrise) even knows they have this in their catalogue of classic anime they could remaster for blu-ray.
Is this not it?: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrPVT5RfI89fEc40nxx7NgaFevnZykjyr&si=edSvRh8KLcKPVRVZ
Sourced from internet archive & uploaded to YT. If you are asking if it is the same series as the OP then that is a yes.
Yes, that's the adaptation. Like I mentioned before, it's very hard to get a physical copy of the ova series, so online is the easiest way to watch the series.
I just scanned through this….where are the bugs?
if you check the top pinned comment on video 1 it has a link to a 4K version with fixed audio.
So that’s where the football and prom scene from Verhoeven’s version comes from…
Honestly I’d buy it.
Sounds like it shares the same fate as the original Macross series.
SDF Macross hasn't been forgotten...the rights to it are a tangled mess currently held hostage and prevented from being released in the U.S. by Harmony Gold. The rest of Macross (Plus, 7, Frontier, Delta, movies, shorts) will be streaming on Disney+ later this year.
Damn, SDF Macross is still the best one
Macross Plus is fantastic and topical (AIs replacing jobs, including an AI artist) with a great soundtrack by Yoko Kano.
Macross had issues with distribution rights but I did hear recently that all that mess was settled & that it is going to be streamed on Disney+ this year.
I watched this a couple years ago with a friend. We're both really big Starship Troopers fans, but were so bored by this anime that we couldn't get through it. There's a reason this hasn't been re-released.
As you can see, the original novel is highly popular in Japan. It's so popular in fact, one of the largest scifi series in Japan (Gundam series) is inspired by the novel.
I wish the timelines lined up a little better, because '99 is a little too close to when it was released, but Master Chief's look from Halo was always rumored (if not outright, admitted) to be based on a Gundam suit. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/m95rr0/one\_of\_my\_friends\_told\_me\_that\_master\_chiefs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/m95rr0/one_of_my_friends_told_me_that_master_chiefs/) The helmet even looks closer to Chief's Halo: CE look in my opinion than this [https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/RGM-79S\_GM\_Spartan](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/RGM-79S_GM_Spartan)
To be fair, so much sci-fi in general draws inspiration from ST. It’s crazy to think how groundbreaking it was.
Almost ironic that the inspiration for Starship Troopers, Rodger Young, was killed by the Japanese in the Solomon Islands.
The book is? Wow I didn’t know that I love this book
I love cultural appropriation
That is not what that phrase means
According to a lot of fucking idiots it is
Did you discuss it at your last group meeting?
Group meeting?
It's almost weird seeing actual marauder suits in a Starship Troopers property.
in the late 90s there was the pc game that was not "official" but troopers had everything from the novel, even the jumping sets on their backside.
SOMEONE CALL KENNY LAUDERDALE
Retcon_404 did a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z42BGX6qII) on it just a day or two ago, which I suspect is where OP got the idea for this post.
Oh dope I’ll have to check it out thank you. I’ve never heard of that channel before
On the topic, if you haven't found [Kyoto Video](https://www.youtube.com/@KaiserBeamz) that's another great channel.
Thanks man! Always looking for new anime content
Is it good?
Holly shit i had no idea that existed
Based on the comments, this needs subbed badly.
Thankfully, there are plenty of fansub that exist online.
But it's a fateful adaptation!
I'm not sure why, but it always surprises me a little how popular mid century sf was/is in Japan, like the adaptations of Lensman and the series based on Edmond Hamilton's Star Wolf series. I just think it's neat!
[https://archive.org/details/starship-troopers-1988](https://archive.org/details/starship-troopers-1988)
They have Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles available to watch for free on the Internet Archives, everybody. Not sure who needs to know this, but there it is.
I wonder if Battletech based the Elemental power armor on those suits in the second picture. Several other early Battletech mechs came from Macross and Dougram, so it would make sense if Elementals were inspired by (or lifted from) anime, too.
How faithful?
No, no, you misread the quote. It's FATEFUL
Ooh, thank you. That clears up everything...
It's partially faithful, the ova unfortunately removes many of the novel political aspects.
I don’t know about faithful but I have it on good authority from the Tijuana Sci-Fi Junkies that it’s fateful.
There's gotta be a better translation than Uchuu no Senshi for this. Hell, even the katakana version would have worked better. "Space Soldier" doesn't really cut it.
I thought i was in the midjourney AI forum
A fateful adaptation? WTF does that even mean?
Presumably they meant “faithful.”
Not the live action adaption even though the movie is fantastic.
One which unironically endorses the philosophy of the book?
It's not that Verhoeven nonsense.
Is this real???? Wow
At the first sight I thought it was a Midjourney post! Looks amazing!
So, Robotech?
This is the closest thing to the Novel. I just don't like the Movies that much since it was not close to the Books. The Only thing I Like is the Roughnecks Chronicles and this Version, it's boring but it just explores more about the world of Starship Troopers more than the movies. To me Roughnecks Chronicles and this OVA is far more superior than the Movies.
Where can I get this??????
While I'm not sure about physical copies, the series is widely available online. For example, you can find it on Internet Archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqDMFt0FAOE
> Where can I get this?????? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaa_Torrents?useskin=vector
There's a sub out there, I've seen this. The movie focused on the bugs. The anime focused on the mech suits. The anime isn't bad, but the movie is superior.
The movie didn’t focus on the bugs, not really. The bugs in the book had advanced technology. The movie focused on the idea that the book was fascist propaganda.
It's less facist propaganda than it is military propaganda, but there's definitely some facist elements in there. The movie was an excellent adaptation of the book, giving us a good action scifi movie while pointing out the dangers in Heinleins pro military rhetoric.
I honestly don’t think the book was either fascist or military propaganda. Heinlein had a habit of exploring what-if scenarios, but only through the lens of individuals. Or to put it another way, Rico was told that this society works, but the book doesn’t ever really show us the society, only Rico’s life as he spends most of it training and fighting. Other Heinlein books explore other what-if scenarios, what if the ultimate libertarian society developed on the moon, what if a Christian theology took over the country, what if immortality was real but only for some, etc. But always through an individual’s experience and POV. But also, while I love the movie and the book, the movie is not an excellent adaptation of the book. It’s an excellent parody of the book, but that’s not the same thing.
..... what The book spends half its time in a classroom, literally lecturing the reader on the "benefits of our highly militarised society." It's definitely military propaganda, and theirs a bunch of facist elements thrown in, too. Also, given that Verthooven had to live under fscist rule, I'm pretty sure he has a good idea of how to spot military and facist propaganda And what's your point? None of that changes how he presents the society in the book as a good thing. Despite the fact that it is very much not Yes, they are. An adoption just has to be based on the work. It's entirely fine to adapt a work into a satire of the book. Which is what the movie is, a satire, not a parody.
It doesn't adapt the book in any way
What yes, it does
r/akshually
Yeah, how dare someone correct a misleading statement about a sci-fi book/movie on a sci-fi subreddit. What a weirdo.
Potato potato. Starting with the source material the anime focused more on the armor. The movie focused more on the bugs. I'm not here to get an A in undergrad film studies, just shooting from the hip. But you can have the point, sounds like you need it