Female Wrestling in Manga

A place to talk about our love for the art and artists of Japan, as per their depictions of women's professional wrestling.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Wrestle Angels - Original Story

Anonymous said...
Hey d2b1000 i needs to ask you if wrestle angel original story is a anime or OST. Cos i want to buy it fi it is a anime. All info online is jap and i dont reaally understand :(
10:50 AM
.....................................................................................

OST ... Wrestle Angels' never has had an anime tie-in. Manga, both wrestling and/or fan-service related, have popped-up, the OST's now and then, but no 'toons. The closest thing that I think we ever got, and somebody speak-up if I'm wrong, was a piece started by Kenichi Sonada, called "Wrestloid Baby", an Angelic Layer-type show about female-robot wrestling. To my knowledge, however, this never made it past pre-production phase and onto the airwaves. To bad ... Gun Smith Cats; Bubblegum Crisis; The Wanna-be's ... he would have done a great job, I should have thought. Maybe it was just too close to Clamp's "Angelic Layer", "Plawres Sanshiro", or the already done "Metal Fighters Miku" to get fully funded by a network ... below is the only design pic I've ever found of the show.

posted by d2b @ 1:35 PM  

6 Comments:

  • At 3:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My guess would be that the pitch of the show wasn't falling into one of the current fads that are sort of dominating the animated stuff these days.

    Though personally the mecha suit concept always tests my suspension of disbelief a bit too much, especially since pro wrestling itself is already an exercise in that. It's sort of a stretch to think that a boston crab somehow drains the "power level" of metal armor. Look, it's either broken or it isn't. ;)

     

  • At 5:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    But Plawres Sanshiro have not female wrestling, is only boy with his robot.

     

  • At 10:42 PM, Blogger d2b said…

    True about "Plawres", but the simple act of combining the wrestling-robots from that show, with the female-gender of the fighting dolls in "Angelic Layer", may just have not been "fresh" enough to get "Wrestloid Baby" on the air.

    And yes, power-suits ... someday, maybe they'll get a real WA anime going. I know it was an idea in the early hopes of the gang at "Success" as they were ramping up the PS2 "WA - Survivor", but now, a year and a half later, no follow-up has been mentioned ... I thought maybe Konami might try it (they've got money to spend) for "Rumble Roses", but ...

     

  • At 5:37 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Angelic layer, of the clam
    I view it anime have poor action
    and bored fight.
    Only 1 or 2 fights are goods
    But metal fighter miku has excellent fights but is very very hard found some of it and has mangas metal fighter miku?.

     

  • At 10:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    kimagure orange wrestling clip.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1YKNWW4jxs

     

  • At 11:41 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    This is like the Original Angelic Layer!
    And Plawres Sanshiro is the Original Gotcha Force.
    Yes there a game called Gotcha Force and it seem like a remake of Plawres Sanshiro (and Medabots) but it is by Capcom.
    It would be awesome If the olds come back to make new episodes or a movie.

     

Post a Comment

<< Home