Legend of the dragon kings! I was watching this anime yesterday and it just reminded me of how funny 80's cartoon were! and also from a technical point of view I noticed alot more in terms of how things were done, there was so much cheating on movement! cut outs of characters moving on the screen, panning and scanning across stills, plain backgrounds and there was this fight scene which was so funny you didn't get to see what happened, you just saw one guy as a still image fly across the screen, (moving background of stripes and stuff) with his mouth open and the voice over yelling something along the lines of: "yarrrr! I'm going to cut you.....with my sword!" and the other guy is there as another still grinning, (the bad guys looked really evil and disgusting in 80's cartoons, nothing like the glammed up baddies now!) he's like half dragon so looks hideous, and he says: "no-one can beat me, because I have just injected myself with dragons blood! hahahahaha!" unnecessary pause... then: "into my bod---eeee...hahahaha" LOL as if he'd need to add that! then they fly at each other, you hear a punch sound, and before you know it the other guy is on the ground! needless to say I found it quite hilarious and thought it interesting to see how much animation has changed since then! although I still think the 80's cartoons are funny to watch now, for the outfits especially, but the underlying themes involved seem to be alot better than todays stuff, which is rather random and doesn't have any kind of moral tale to tell as most of the toons back then did! ie: Captain planet, care bears etc!
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