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...
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.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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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