Lovers of retro science fiction have lately been delighted by Japanese visions of the future dating from the middle of the twentieth century.
The images, mostly from 1940s and 50s scifi rags:
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut “Dragons & Mechs?”
Monster Hunter X Megaman Event Profusely Blue
Love Live! Sunshine!! MV “Will Brighten Up Your Day!”
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Hai to Gensou no Grimgar “Has Oppai!”
Picking Up Japan Express Vol. 36 Worth a Pickup
Dimension W Out Of This World
Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir PV Certainly Nostalgic
One-Punch Man Soundtrack PV Packs A Wallop
XmasTrickStar “A White Christmas Indeed…”
Wo-Class Carrier Ero-MMD In Dire Straights
Voice Translation Tool Promotional Video “Inexcusable!”
Luck & Logic Far From Lucky
Yandere Simulator Possibly Headed to Kickstarter
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Hyrule Warriors Legends PV Clashes Interminably
Akagami no Shirayukihime English Dub Surfaces
Koukaku no Pandora Really Opens That Box
Gate Season 2 Darker Than Ever
Super Sweet Sonico Bikini Figure
Delectable Dizzy Cosplay by Lechat
Dark Elf Cosplay by Non Very Dark Indeed
Titillating Tamako Cosplay Perfectly Pink
Goddess of 2ch: “Full of Lust & Urges (& Also Videos)!”
Raunchy Reisen Inaba Cosplay by Tsuyato
Haruhi Bunny Girl Cosplay Rocks Out
Youmu Ero-Cosplay by Madoka Adachi Deadly Sexy
Comiket 89 Cosplay Sickeningly Sweet
Comiket 89 Cosplay A Guilty Pleasure
Comiket 89 Cosplay Ceaselessly Sexy
where are my pewpew laserguns?
Missiles must have been all the craze back then. Every other pic has some.
I was thinking the same. Was thinking maybe it's something phallic in origin then I thought of that song, Detachable Penis...
Especially in private transportation. For what war were they planning?
Japanese penis envy!
If it doesn't have missiles, it ain't cool!
DRILLS are cooler!
#17 is from the show Lost in Space, an American show. The designer, Robert Kinoshita, was born in America.
Same here.
Now I'm going to troll my xenophobic/racist dad by mentioning that the model designer from Lost in Space (on of his favorite shows) was part Japanese. :3
In that last pic: the male version of that helmet has a giant wang so, you know, they can "space" do it.
your report please
No coincidence in that years following the Great War, American culture and technology were heavily looked up to. Without that love of American machines, Disney and Star Trek (Several shows like Star Trek invented the idea of pantyshots as fanservice on a TV show), anime/manga as we know today simply wouldn't have evolved to that form.
2D erotic stuff is more acceptable in japan
I was just gonna say that :)
Wow, that's pretty fascinating. I never knew that such an old school American show had an Asian-American contribution. It does seem out of place though since its only relevance is its designer being "Japanese"-american. Even the texts say it's from the tv show Lost in Space.
Its ALL from America.
Or at least in spirit - These are all typical examples of American retro-futuristic designs of the time. The drawing style, colours, design style, everything is the same.
Edit: Oh, except for that mecha-suit thing. Its the only thing I haven't really seen before.
oh yeah, but will it BLEND?
See, this is what the present would be like if we did it right.
Do it right, and you get spaceships and robots.
Do it wrong, and you get eaten by giant snakes with legs.
"...you get eaten by giant snakes with legs."
a lizard?
So the Geico gecko lives on the moon?
Actually that one has nothing to do with the future but is a scene from Dante's Inferno. Retro and classical collide.
We could have colonized the moon already if we did things right and still could in the next 20 years if we stop fucking around.
no, you can't colonize the moon withouth knowing moonspeack
ok colonize the moon.... then what? bllions of dollars... then what? it reminds me of that futurama episode where there really wasn't any point in it.
If you're talking about Fusion (something not even usable yet), then you don't use helium, you use hydrogen as fuel and produce helium as a by-product.
Note that currently fusion means KABOOM. Not an energy source.
One of the primary motivators is a reliable source of helium. Earth has depressingly little, and it's a vital material for fusion research. So there's that. If fusion reactors develop fast enough, we'll need fuel and the moon has a supply several times larger than that of the Earth.
XD I approve of this statement, even though many of those designs were wildly impractical. Tatsunoko apparently had a heavy influence on a lot of these vehicles.
So to summarise, the future would be full of guns, missiles, huge drills, flying vehicles and people wearing diving suits everywhere... It's like a Rapture on Earth, someone sign me up.
The future is scary.
Until World War 3 happens and then suddenly everything is like Fallout...
"Hellooooo, children!!! Welcome to Post-Apocalyptia!!!"
yes we had beautiful landscapes with no signs of chaos brought by global warming.
Even back then they knew that drills made everything cooler.
http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/japanese-retro-futurism-008.jpg so china got the idea from this one?
http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/sinking-ceremony-3.jpg
except that it goes to river
Thunderbirds are go.
When my grandfather still teenage...japanese already dreamed to make Gundam.
Even in the 1940's-50's the Japanese were attempting to pierce the heavens with their drill! @ v @
Looks like:
Strikers 1945
Metal Slug
MIR Space Station
Ekranoplan
Battleship Yamato (Anime)
Modern Military Hover Craft
That Train Express Anime in Space
Beta versions of Robot Anime
Soviet Era Missile Launchers
Speed Racer
Also if you notice the super bus (pic 21), it's the same transport system China is planning to build in the mainland.
http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/japanese-retro-futurism-021.jpg
I knew they had copied the idea from somewhere!!!
It's like looking into the mind of Leiji Matsumoto.
I'm seeing a lot of blatant plagiarism here including hunderbirds and Lost in Space.
We're still waiting for flying cars...
Give Japan 5 years and all that is made.
#10-The Titantic...of the future?
Pretty cool stuff. :3
Personally, I got shades of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds and Joe 90 from those illustrations...
Think Ive seen most of these in Godzilla movies.
the ufo one remind me of Gradzinger
You can find similar illustrations and ideas by hitting up google books, and looking for back issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science from the early 20'th century.