{"id":415,"date":"2015-01-20T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/01\/20\/behold-the-wonderful-insanity-of-japanese-spider-man\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:49:00","slug":"behold-the-wonderful-insanity-of-japanese-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/01\/20\/behold-the-wonderful-insanity-of-japanese-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold the wonderful insanity of Japanese Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/marvel-now-streaming-2-episodes-70s-japanese-spide-213719\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-EyU-QhL9nUc\/VL5pashb1jI\/AAAAAAAABb8\/YqFWElj2QPE\/s1600\/spidermancrazy.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just for fun, we&#8217;re gonna share something really weird. Marvel Studios has slowly been expanding its line-up television programming, starting with <i>Agents of SHIELD<\/i> and quickly expanding with <i>Agent Carter<\/i> and <i>Daredevil<\/i>. There&#8217;s plenty to discuss about the business of high-budget television and the current wave of genre shows that we&#8217;re experiencing, but we&#8217;re not talking about that today.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we want to share the 1978 Japanese <i>Spider-Man<\/i> show.<\/p>\n<p>The show, often literally translated as &#8220;Supaidaman,&#8221; has previously only been available in the United States as a bootleg VHS or DVD. But to celebrate a recent comic tie-in with the show, <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/news\/comics\/23916\/japanese_spiderman_rocks_spider-verse_returns_to_marvelcom\">Marvel released two episodes via streaming video<\/a>, making it legally watchable for the first time. Apart from the usual costume and wall-climbing antics, it has very little to do with Spider-Man. For one, Spider-Man has a gun and rides around in a giant robot named Leopardon. It&#8217;s highly watchable and extremely bizarre, surely ranking among the least faithful television adaptations ever.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have a good reason to share this other than finding it really funny. We tend to share informative or serious articles, so once in a while, you need some Japanese Spider-Man. If you ever want to watch some normal Spider-Man with fewer giant robots, we have the original film trilogy and the Andrew Garfield reboot in our collection.<\/p>\n<p>Spider-Man \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8125934\">HU DVD 7121<\/a><br \/>Spider-Man 2 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8125933\">HU DVD 7122<\/a><br \/>Spider-Man 3 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8125932\">HU DVD 7123 <\/a><br \/>The Amazing Spider-Man \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12531711\">HU DVD 6493<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun, we&#8217;re gonna share something really weird. Marvel Studios has slowly been expanding its line-up television programming, starting with Agents of SHIELD and quickly expanding with Agent Carter and Daredevil. There&#8217;s plenty to discuss about the business of high-budget television and the current wave of genre shows that we&#8217;re experiencing, but we&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}