Toon Zone Talkback - "The Irresponsible Captain Tylor" TV & OVA Reviewed!

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This is the talkback thread for "The Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV": Successful Science-Fiction Silliness. Also don't miss the review of the sequel OVA: "The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA": Tylor Grows Up!




Damn, now I really want to see this. I'm pretty much in the same boat as Jon was going in, so this review is really encouraging. It'll be interesting to compare this against Martian Successor Nadesico.

Very good of Rightstuf to remaster this thing too.
 
I'm half/half on this series. One hand just wants to buy it just because I can tell how interesting and fun it is....but I heard the ending sucks. What do I do????!
 
I never got to read the liner notes that explain what happens after the rather sudden ending to the OVA series, but on the whole I'd say the TV show is definitely worth watching, being pretty much self-contained, while everything else is nice as an optional treat.

My suggestion would be to buy the TV series first and only get the OVA set if you like what you see and really want more.

Regarding any parallels between Tylor and Nadesico...both of them are good lighthearted parodies of their respective genres with a bit of drama sprinkled throughout, though I'd say Akito had a more interesting and relevant background than Tylor in my opinion.

Tylor is just...Tylor, whether you think he's really a genius pretending to be a fool or a lucky fool that pretenRAB to be a genius. Or both.

Anyway, in the end I'm just glad that this franchise must have been profitable enough to justify another re-release.
 
The TV series ending is fine. The problem is that the big climax and finale is actually two episodes prior to the actual final episode. Much of the last two episodes are kind of filler-ish.

It's a great show, but not at all like Nadesico IMO. It's comedic, but for the most part isn't a parody. So nothing truly outlandish or randomly comedic happens. A lot of funny coincidences, but it remains firmly in the realm of possibility. The story itself is fairly straight, it's just that the characters involved are really eccentric. It's very much a "funny misfits in a serious situation" type of show. In many ways it's more reminiscent of a pre-Monty Python british comedy than a japanese parody series. It's absurd at times, but not to the point where you expect everyone to suddenly break into some random non-sequiter sketch during a tense scene. That happened a lot in Nadesico.

The OAVs are redundant IMO.
 
That might well be true, but even without resorting to random sketches there are quite a few sequences that do parody or subvert the conventions of traditional military establishments (including those of space operas) in extremely unlikely and implausible ways.

Nadesico also does this in its own way, so from my POV I'd say there is still some common ground between the two series.
 
I'd say it's satirical, but not parodic. This isn't Monty Python, after all--Nadesico is much closer to that style of comedy. The closest Tylor comes to parody is probably the Ghost Ship episode.
 
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