Robots and sex. Two great tastes that all of humanity can't wait to taste together. With the end of BGC, the iron was STILL hot so they struck using Leon as their front man in a Megatokyo sans Knight Sabers.
Friends, let's talk about the A.D. Police Files, the OAV series...
As a child of the 80's I was on the receiving end of a deluge of of marketing, one particular niche of this deluge being Japanese animation. This is a niche that haunted the very core of my being and shaped my appreciation of animation as an art form with it's style, stories and distinctive application of drama, action and comedy. Allow me to entertain you as I bloviate, babble, and rant regarding aspects of anime today and titles I would strongly recommend or prescribe caution towards.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Take a bite of AD Police's shiny metal ass... Or not. I wouldn't. Ew.
Normally, I’m wacky for police dramas as they were a huge part of my evening viewing during my formative years and adding in robots gone awry normally makes everything better, but apparently that's not always the case.
I realize that I’ve been tossing up anime that I praise and since I touched on BGC I feel it’s only fair that I explore the dark side of enjoying that particular franchise and the consequences that such folly merits. Let's start with one of its more contemporary snafus...
So sample my venom as we discuss AD Police: To Serve and Protect, the TV Series
I realize that I’ve been tossing up anime that I praise and since I touched on BGC I feel it’s only fair that I explore the dark side of enjoying that particular franchise and the consequences that such folly merits. Let's start with one of its more contemporary snafus...
So sample my venom as we discuss AD Police: To Serve and Protect, the TV Series
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Bubblegum Crisis: Lady Mecha-Mercenaries show us how it's done!
Since I'm going through my list I would be shocked if I didn't mention this one sooner. My #3 frequently vied for my #1 spot, which it would frequently gain along with vast amounts of worship and obsession. SO much obsession that I went on to purchase production cels, multiple versions of the original OAV series, the TV series, the follow-up OAV series everyone else hates, the spin-off AD Police OAV and the manga it was based on, the god-awful AD Police TV series and the recent Parasite Dolls OAV all based... somehow in the same collective Blade Runner/Streets of Fire style universe.
Let's burst into of Bubblegum Crisis...
Let's burst into of Bubblegum Crisis...
Here's Ranma!
Well, here we are at my number two favorite anime.
It's also a romantic comedy like UY, a classic love story of the love of a redhead for a panda. Um, wait, no. That's not it. In fact, considering this IS Japanese after all I can't say as that's a prudent line of humor...
Anyway, So Ranma 1/2, my second favorite anime of all time...
It's also a romantic comedy like UY, a classic love story of the love of a redhead for a panda. Um, wait, no. That's not it. In fact, considering this IS Japanese after all I can't say as that's a prudent line of humor...
Anyway, So Ranma 1/2, my second favorite anime of all time...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Urusei Yatsura: The Alien Delight that conquered a nation
Let's you and me rap for a bit about anime...
Being that I'm a crusty old nerd and we're facing a crisis where breast-feeding in combat is totally okay(Seikon no Qwaser) and there's a Dragonball Z equivalent that the ladies are into (Inuyasha) and the same creative bankruptcy infesting hollywood today has devoured most of Japan, I feel it is only fair to point out to those poor young folks that the GOOD shit is already here.
It's weird, weird, WEIRD, but it is so worth watching for everything from a sudden outbreaks of girly-eyes measles, attacks by birds made of ice cream, zombie-like infectious toothache epidemics, aggravated and drunken space-fish, robot-erasers hellbent on revenge, rampaging tiger-cows, epic culinary disasters, goat-hauntings, parent-forced cross-dressing, willful perverts happily cross dressing (Ataru & Co.), suicide prone goblins, etc.
But this is the distinctive incentive that makes this series legend and keeps people coming back for more. Additionally, this makes it a constant reference in anime like in Project A-ko, Bubblegum Crisis, Otaku no Video, etc.
Friends, I invite you to consider Urusei Yatsura, my favorite anime of all time.
Being that I'm a crusty old nerd and we're facing a crisis where breast-feeding in combat is totally okay(Seikon no Qwaser) and there's a Dragonball Z equivalent that the ladies are into (Inuyasha) and the same creative bankruptcy infesting hollywood today has devoured most of Japan, I feel it is only fair to point out to those poor young folks that the GOOD shit is already here.
It's weird, weird, WEIRD, but it is so worth watching for everything from a sudden outbreaks of girly-eyes measles, attacks by birds made of ice cream, zombie-like infectious toothache epidemics, aggravated and drunken space-fish, robot-erasers hellbent on revenge, rampaging tiger-cows, epic culinary disasters, goat-hauntings, parent-forced cross-dressing, willful perverts happily cross dressing (Ataru & Co.), suicide prone goblins, etc.
But this is the distinctive incentive that makes this series legend and keeps people coming back for more. Additionally, this makes it a constant reference in anime like in Project A-ko, Bubblegum Crisis, Otaku no Video, etc.
Friends, I invite you to consider Urusei Yatsura, my favorite anime of all time.
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