The Hilariously Crazy Japanese Retro Futurism of the 60s
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Shigeru Komatsuzaki is responsible for many of these illustrations. He did much of the box art for science fiction-themed plastic models of the 60s and 70s.
That explains it! When I saw the pic of the navy hydrofoil shooting a variety of missiles I thought "That looks like the box art for a model kit."
The one with the guitar catapult and water cannon sax is wild! Also, the colour red seems to be very popular for these illustrations.
I’m reading a Batman manga written in the 1960’s as a companion to the Japanese airing of the 1966 Adam West Batman TV show and that’s seems to be a common thing in 1960’s Japan for what would normally be full color splash pages , no idea why.
I think just adding red was less expensive than using full-color.
@@deadby15 As good an explanation as I have ever heard.
Tradition can also be a factor. If you go back even further to traditional Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, red is the most popular colour. For hundreds of years, red was used to add some intensity and tension to a piece or to emphasize a particular part of the print, so it looks like these modern prints are continuing with this tradition.
@@kutter_ttl6786 That’s interesting and sounds very Japanese.
Thanks, Ultra - This is a really great compilation of retro art.
That was so hilarious and bizarre at the same time. Thanks for posting this fantastic video.
Even more terrifying than the apparent anger of the wall-bots, is the fact that they also seem to be accordions. Frightening.
Very interesting to see the Japanese vision of the future, a lot of crazy ideas. Super cool!
Wow these are wild-and a lot of fun!
The vehicle around 0:50 looks more like a modified Gemini spacecraft, possibly with a version of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory attached, not Apollo - it's just the location and the RCS that look like they came from the Apollo program.
5:30 That's very Thunderbirds...
@5:50
The Arctic vehicle with the biplane on top actually was a thing, sans gun turrets and amphibious capability, as it was used for scientific exploration of the Antarctic.
If you type "Antarctic Snow Cruiser" in the CZcams search engine you will get some videos about it.
IIRC It was developed for a US expedition in 1941 iirc, but ironically funding was cancelled due to the war!
The project resumed post-WW2 and carried a 5-passenger Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing biplane on its roof.
The CZcamsr 'Calum' has done very interesting videos about those vehicles.
In fact he just uploaded one in the last couple of days about huge cross-desert buses that used to travel between Ankara and Tehran (I think).
The art is fantastic in this video, but there is one point that needs correcting. At 5:34 an arctic snow tank is mentioned as a concept vehicle. In fact, the United States did build an Antarctic Snow Cruiser. It was not built for warfare but for exploration of Antarctica. The Snow Cruiser did have a search plane on it's top, but sadly the vehicle went missing.
This sort of makes me want to see a Fallout: Tokyo
5:35 That vehicle did exist and did go to Antarctica. No guns, but did have the plane. Cockpit was different style also, but basically accurate in the rest of the body.
Pretty cool aesthetics.
Deliciously bizarre and innovative
At around 1:11 that's not a modified Apollo capsule but an altered Gemini capsule.
At 0:48, that's a modified *Gemini* capsule, not Apollo. :-) It also looks, rather disturbingly, like the "hands" of the rescue craft are tearing into the surface of the capsule...! The vehicle at 5;25 looks suspiciously similar to Thomas Poulter's "Antarctic Snow Cruiser," an actual behemoth that was built & used for Antarctic exploration 1939-1941... complete with the airplane on its back.
1:32 TITANIC SUB 💀💀💀
》Quite interesting, kind of weird!
@5:50 agreed. ive seen the antarctic snow cruiser in action too. it ended up stranded during its first mission , permamntly and now lost to the ice
Ah. Japanese and something penetrating something. Classic.
not surprising since Japan were big fans of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
There is a company commercially harvesting nodules off the floor of the ocean as we speak.
Not enough tentacles.
aperobot, nice save
The spacecraft on the first illustration is based off a Gemini capsule, not Apollo
the thing at 5:0 looks like the soviet ekranoplan
For your next video, it would be cool to talk about the 2000's/2010's future we never had: Frutiger Aero.
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looks quite creepy 5:12
… it looks a LOT more like the Gemini capsule, not like the Apollo capsule, as you said. Yes, or no?
Do you know of any collected art books for retro futurism? I'm sure we'd all be interested in a good physical copy of illustrations like these.
Fun fact: Japanese futurism was heavily influenced by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's early work.
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Native English speakers do NOT say how something would look like. We just say how something would look or WHAT something would look LIKE.
If we brig alternative visions of future. It is worth to point out that Socrealism and Nazi ideology were other famous cases.
I keep hearing the phrase "how it would look like" used online (admittedly by non native English speakers).
This is Incorrect.
It should be "how it would look" OR "What it would look Like".
To "see How it Looks" is to experience the sensation of seeing it.
To "see What it looks Like" is to speculate what the result might be comparable to.
Jus' sayin' 🤓
Just like the covers of old Popular Mechanics,so what else is new
0:50 That’s a Gemini capsule, not Apollo. Get your facts straight, this is grade school stuff. Pure laziness.
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