r/RetroJapanPopCulture

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This is the Japanese movie poster of The Black Hole. I like the visual style they came up with.

This is the Japanese market arcade flyer of Phoenix. Have you ever played the Phoenix arcade game?

The flyer of the video game Layla. Have you ever played Layla on the Famicom?

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The anime only adopts an abridged version of the first two and a half books (out of seventeen) of the manga, which means that the conclusion is very different. Whereas the manga ends with Serge and Gilbert's attempts to build a new life in Paris gradually sliding into ruin, >!culminating in Gilbert's death!<, the anime ends when their relationship is only beginning to blossom. However, the ending sequence of the anime still does a good job of capturing the emotional impact of the manga's ending by the device of framing the entire story as Serge's own memories of Gilbert, which he reminisces about while visiting Lacombrade Academy a few years after the story's conclusion. Afterwards, walking through the school grounds, he sees an image of Gilbert than flies away and rapidly disappears, which is exactly what Serge sees at the end of Volume 17 of the manga when >!he finally comes to terms with the fact that Gilbert is gone; in both cases this image represents the fact that although Gilbert passed away from Serge's life so quickly, he will always remain in Serge's heart. !<This is not a happy ending, of course, but at least it brings some comfort after the horrible events of the past few volumes and allows the reader to extract some positive feelings from the end of the story.

The classic arcade game Asteroids for the Japanese market.