Superbook, an oldtime Christian anime

Postby **GhostontheNet** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:49 pm

uc pseudonym wrote:Well, at the very least you can give thanks that your situation could be far worse.

I agree with GhostontheNet, but I am personally still set on Old Testament stories being brought to an animated form due to generally higher levels of action. Ideologically, I would go with the New Testament.

Thank you, I'm glad to see someone takes my ideas seriously. I also agree that the Old Testament stories would go through a good conversion to an animated format, but I really do think the addition of external sources would not only provide the context, but also would add some of the "action". Take for example, Acts 21:38 which follows Paul's trip to Jerusalem and the ensuing riot, where a tribune saves his life. And lacking the historical context, the tribune drops a curious comment]The Jewish War[/U] 2.13.2-2.13.6. Here, he tells about how when Felix is procurator he manages to very effectively to suppress insurrectionists in Judea. However, another kind pops up called the Sicarii, who manage extremely effective assasinations that are literally cloak and dagger, he goes on to note that they aroused such fear that you had "every man hourly expecting death, as in war." He also went on to note the arisal of militant false messiahs and false prophets, who also are often nailed by Felix's armies. He then discusses a particularly disasterous "Egyptian false prophet", "a fraud who posed as a seer" who collected "30,000 dupes" (not a problem for biblical innerancy because most scholars admit Luke's 4,000 is more likely) who leads them from "the desert" to the Mount of Olives. Unfortunately for him, the procurator Festus meets him with his armies, and in the ensuing clash many people are killed while the Egyptian false prophet ensues a particularly cowardly retreat. Little wonder our tribune thought Paul was the Egyptian, as his resurfacing after this incident would certainly not be well recieved. Not only would this add action and the historical context, but it would also suit Luke's rhetorical purposes quite well when he had previously quoted the testimony of the famed Rabbi Gamaliel that if this movement is not sent by God, it will come to nothing like several previous messianic movements, but if they oppose what is sent by God there will be no destroying it (Acts 5:34-39). That is, all the time now the premise is being proven true that false messiahs and false prophets are coming to naught, but the Christian movement isn't, proving it's divine backing to the previous believer in YHWH. And again, these are only examples of my concept in action.

Postby **The Doctor** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:12 pm

LOL. How odd that THIS is the thread that brought me to CAA. I did a GOOGLE search for anything Flying House or Superbook related, and here I am.

Moving on, those two shows ROCK!!! I have the Christmas Superbook episode (for the first series) and the series premiere of Flying House.

I would like to see these shows on DVD, and in fact see CBN or Focus on the Family do a REDUX of these shows. I mean, if Harmony Gold is making a new Robotech series (first direct to dvd movie of it due out in fall of next year) and Sci Fi channel is redoing Battlestar Galactica (which I don't recommend watching), then why not redo SuperBook and Flying House. The only thing I would insist on is this: MUST be Japanese style animation, and Michael W. Smith must do the theme songs (hey, I want it to sound 80's).

Oh yeah, and for you fans of the shows out there, one of the voice actresses, Billie Watt, died a few days before Sept. 11 2001. :-( Rest in peace.

SuperBook and Flying House were a BIG part of my life, and I hope I never forget them. My love to the directors, writers, producers, and actors in the show (I think it was only Peter Fernandez and Billie Watt who did all the voices. Doesn't help that the videos don't have credits :-( )

Postby **The Doctor** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:24 pm

Wizard!!! Thank You For The Music Man! :-)

Postby **wizard55** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:27 am

no problem

Postby **Godly Paladin** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:01 am

[quote="The Doctor"]LOL. How odd that THIS is the thread that brought me to CAA. I did a GOOGLE search for anything Flying House or Superbook related, and here I am. [quote]

Wow. That's cool!

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:59 pm

GhostontheNet wrote:I also agree that the Old Testament stories would go through a good conversion to an animated format, but I really do think the addition of external sources would not only provide the context, but also would add some of the "action". Take for example, Acts 21:38 which follows Paul's trip to Jerusalem and the ensuing riot, where a tribune saves his life. And lacking the historical context, the tribune drops a curious comment]The Jewish War[/U] 2.13.2-2.13.6. Here, he tells about how when Felix is procurator he manages to very effectively to suppress insurrectionists in Judea. However, another kind pops up called the Sicarii, who manage extremely effective assasinations that are literally cloak and dagger, he goes on to note that they aroused such fear that you had "every man hourly expecting death, as in war." He also went on to note the arisal of militant false messiahs and false prophets, who also are often nailed by Felix's armies. He then discusses a particularly disasterous "Egyptian false prophet", "a fraud who posed as a seer" who collected "30,000 dupes" (not a problem for biblical innerancy because most scholars admit Luke's 4,000 is more likely) who leads them from "the desert" to the Mount of Olives. Unfortunately for him, the procurator Festus meets him with his armies, and in the ensuing clash many people are killed while the Egyptian false prophet ensues a particularly cowardly retreat. Little wonder our tribune thought Paul was the Egyptian, as his resurfacing after this incident would certainly not be well recieved. Not only would this add action and the historical context, but it would also suit Luke's rhetorical purposes quite well when he had previously quoted the testimony of the famed Rabbi Gamaliel that if this movement is not sent by God, it will come to nothing like several previous messianic movements, but if they oppose what is sent by God there will be no destroying it (Acts 5:34-39). That is, all the time now the premise is being proven true that false messiahs and false prophets are coming to naught, but the Christian movement isn't, proving it's divine backing to the previous believer in YHWH. And again, these are only examples of my concept in action.

Interesting. Perhaps a majority of that was new information to me, and generally good to know. With extensively scholarship, it would be interesting to see what many biblical stories could become.

GhostontheNet wrote:Thank you, I'm glad to see someone takes my ideas seriously.

I am glad to do so. But, as a side note, please use more paragraph breaks for general readability.

Postby **Falco53** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:58 pm

I've thought myself about the making of an Old Testament anime. A friend of mine and I are trying to break into the animation industry with a little project called Nerdular Nerdence. If we ever make it big, we want to make this. (Of course, if we, being Americans made it; it wouldn't be actual anime unless we got Japanese artists.)

Of course, I was thinking of making the action more over the top kind of stuff that you might find in Rurouni Kenshin.

In regards to Superbook: it is awesome. It was my first anime, but at the time I did not realize it was anime or what anime even was.

I did like Flying House better for the most part though...

Postby **GhostontheNet** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:48 pm

uc pseudonym wrote:Interesting. Perhaps a majority of that was new information to me, and generally good to know. With extensively scholarship, it would be interesting to see what many biblical stories could become.

Very true. One reason I've been pretty much addicted to reading Biblical scholarship, is that although the Bible is quite potent within our culture and our context, in its original context many texts end up having a three-fold or more amplification in potency.

uc pseudonym wrote:I am glad to do so. But, as a side note, please use more paragraph breaks for general readability.

Oh yeah, I guess I sometimes forget that although tab doesn't work on the net, enter does.

Postby **The Doctor** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:30 am

O.o

If I'm not the only one writing anime stories and planning on trying to make it big, I better get MOVING before others steal my thunder. XD.

I can see why Flying House would be seen as better, but frankly after seeing both, I'd have to say they're both equally great. (But right now, I think SuperBook has a slightly better theme song) :-)

Postby **Street** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:51 pm

As I've said before, thoughs interested in seeing them put out on DVD, probably should go sign this petition. http://www.breakthroughgaming.com/anime.shtml Petitions don't really work, But I got a good feeling about this one.

With the growing interest in Anime in america, and more christian parents trying to find stuff to interest there kids....

Postby **wizard55** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:59 pm

I'm sure lots of you guys have seen this but these two pages are great sites for superbook and flying house info. i have submitted most of this info myself.

Superbook(Anime Oyako Gekijo)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1111

The Flying House(Tondera House No Daiboken)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3650

and me and my friend are currently searching for more information on this to add to the section on the site

Superbook 2nd season (Pastcon Travel Tanteidan)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4731

Postby **IfIWereAnAsian** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:39 pm

lol.. some of the things in the apocrypha are so controversial that it could end up being an anime with multiple possible endings like a choose your own adventure or Clue* movie~~

Postby **Souba** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:10 pm

I grew up watching both shows, I think I thought animation looked weird at the time, but recently I though hey weren't those cartoons anime too? Lol, so guess they would be the first anime I saw.

God Bless,
Souba

Postby **mssthang_1** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:14 pm

ahh yes superbook, i remember that show, it came on really early on saturdays. i liked it alot. flying house not so much, i felt they should have just kept the same characters since they were pretty much the same any way.

Postby **Jingo Jaden** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:24 pm

I got a few hits on youtube. Don't seem like full episodes though. Hope they give you back some of the memories ^^

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=superbook&search_type=search_videos

Man, I would love to see more of that.

Postby **Jingo Jaden** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:25 pm

Sorry, became a doubble hit here ^^

Postby **dyzzispell** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:26 pm

I'm really surprised no one has posted these:

Official Superbook Fan Site

Superbook Vols. 1, 2 & 3 on Amazon.com

The Flying House Vol. 1 on Amazon.com

Enjoy! :lol:

Postby **wizard55** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:42 pm

dyzzispell wrote:I'm really surprised no one has posted these:

Official Superbook Fan Site

Superbook Vols. 1, 2 & 3 on Amazon.com

The Flying House Vol. 1 on Amazon.com

Enjoy!

I posted this somewhere else on this forum I believe but after the DVD's are out, there are talks about boxsets filled with extras and original japanese episodes that will be released of both series.

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:45 pm

wizard55 wrote:I posted this somewhere else on this forum I believe but after the DVD's are out, there are talks about boxsets filled with extras and original japanese episodes that will be released of both series.

Do you have an official source to back that up? I've been waiting to see if a boxset of some sort would come out before I officially add it to my collection, and the original Japanese episodes would be a nice bonus.

Postby **wizard55** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:48 pm

Azier the Swordsman wrote:Do you have an official source to back that up? I've been waiting to see if a boxset of some sort would come out before I officially add it to my collection, and the original Japanese episodes would be a nice bonus.

Yup, John J. Schafer has been posting messages on the Yahoo Superbook/Flying house group.

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/sbfh/

Here are some things he has posted:

"Currently there are 3 DVDs available with 3 episodes per DVD.
This is a license distribution with another company and is not the
CBN exclusive DVD Box Set for series 1. The box set is in the works.
We will include a couple of the original Japanese episodes which we
recently found deep in our archive library.

Keep checking back to Superbookkids.com where an official
announcement will be made about the DVD box set and the upcoming ALL
NEW Superbook series. Thanks for checking out the site."

also................

All of the videos currently on the site will be available on a bonus
DVD in the box set. We still have more videos to post, including
behind the scenes for the new Superbook series currently in pre-
production.

We have so much resources being used on the Superbook Series I DVD
box set, Superbook Series II DVD box set and the new animation
series, Flying House will have to take a back seat for the time
being. We are gathering all of the Flying House episodes to prep for
a DVD release that will be much later in 06 or early 07.

He posted many more times answering little questions we had so feel free to check them out if interested.

Postby **dyzzispell** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:31 pm

wizard55 wrote:"Currently there are 3 DVDs available with 3 episodes per DVD.
This is a license distribution with another company and is not the
CBN exclusive DVD Box Set for series 1. The box set is in the works.
We will include a couple of the original Japanese episodes which we
recently found deep in our archive library.

Strange, according to Netflix and Amazon, each DVD is 120 minutes. That's 4 episodes each. Wikipedia also says 4 episodes each... so why would he say 3? :eyeroll:

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