When Anime Past Meets Present

No, it’s not dealing with a crotch stomping loli.  Let’s have a looksee at what else it could be. Continue reading ‘What Torture Is Kaioshin Inflicting Upon Himself?’

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I guess when Kadokawa’s revenue is about to run out on Lucky Star DVD’s and Code Geass isn’t enough for this corporation, plus when they are in the red , they come to one and only one desperate conclusion.  MORE LUCKY STAR!  No word on whether they are getting their favourite creatively challenged pet studio, the one with the popular reputation as opposed to their’s to do it. Continue reading ‘Lucky Staruhi OVA Announced By Kadokawa Shoten’

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In Kaio’s Corner THIS WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY ONLY

There’s more than a few things to be said when I am finding low budget Japanese Eroge Games more interesting than blockbuster titles such as Final Fantasy, but it certainly has been the case.  Recently I’ve been playing a lot of Rance VI ~ The Fall of Zeth and tonight I went to play a couple of hours of Final Fantasy and found to my astonishment that I was having less fun while playing it and feeling a sudden glazing over of the eyes and a desire to be playing Rance.  How does this happen, that I’d rather play an H-RPG game in a different language than a state of the art console RPG in one of my native languages.  It’s a sad reality that I think I want to rationalize, so inside I’m going to be talking about a number of categories including Visuals, Audio, Characterization and Gameplay (Combat mechanics) to try to get to the bottom of this once and for all.  I’m not just going into this cold either as I think I have a pretty good reason what it is I wish I were seeing in Final Fantasy that I am somehow finding in Rance VI.  So without further ado, let’s start the comparing. Continue reading ‘Why I Find Rance VI More Enjoyable Than FFXII’

No this doesn’t have anything to do with anime, but hear me out folks.  Often I talk about what I really think of when I hear the term “Slice of Life” and often find that few films, anime or other media really live up to my criteria, but as I sit here tonight having just gotten a chance to see the movie Rocky Balboa, I can’t help but have a smile on my face while I think to myself, “This is some good character drama”. Continue reading ‘Rocky Balboa (VI) = Good Slice Of Life’

Remember how I said a little while back in one of my Code Geass posts that Code Geass had my second favourite opening of the season and invited people to guess what my favourite one was?  Well now is the time to find out.  See if you were right. Continue reading ‘So Just What Was My Favourite Opening Of This Season?’

Now Canada has had it’s questionable political campaign TV spots.  I think everyone remembers the old Progressive Conservative Parties shot at Jean Chretien for what they saw as broken campaign promises that was called “Jean Chretien’s Red Book Boogie” and was played up like a corny CD Album advertisement.  How about Stockwell Day’s old spots that tried desperately to play him up as some sort of down home family values sort of guy and featured him ice skating on a lake with his wife and kids when to our horror the camera zoomed in right under his legs.  Well step aside Canada because once again the U.S has beaten you in showmanship.  Why do I say this….well let’s just say I’ve just witnessed what may be the corniest, cheesiest most desperate plea for votes in the history of modern national level politics.  And here it is: Continue reading ‘Barack, Hillary, John….What The Hell Are You Guys Doing?’

Meh….if it airs it airs, if it doesn’t it doesn’t.  If it’s changed it’s changed if it isn’t it isn’t.  Whatever comes we’ll find out then.  Until that point I trust official information over John Q. Spammer on 2ch.  Sunrise isn’t the one creating the drama though, it’s 2ch and commentators on the whole series of events.  As far as I know they haven’t even said boo yet, but then again I bet they take a lot of crap for it anyway because of one disgruntled employee since this is just the kind of thing some people will take to bash the hell out of them.  Sucks to be Sunrise these days, you just can’t catch a break.

That’s pretty much all I have to say about this right now.

As I said I would, here are some of my thoughts on Smash Bros Brawl now that I’ve had some serious experience with the game. Continue reading ‘Smash Bros. Brawl Thoughts’

April Fools, by the way. Yeah I started a bit early (I actually planned this out almost a week before the whole ABC thing started), but no earlier than anyone else set there’s up I imagine. I wanted the date of April 1st to be the time it came out. I’m not cutting ties with animeblogger or quitting blogging because that would be super emo over just a few people that frankly can’t do much of anything to harm me and are just a bunch of windbags. I’m sorry if I personally offended anyone in all this.  Except Jason….you…..yeah, I meant what I said. Manatees! Continue reading ‘April Fools (The Quitter Is A Quitter At Quitting?)’

Okay, since some people think that my talk about disillusionment with anime blogging is directly related to the whole ABC thing, I just want to take a moment to say that isn’t the case, but that I more or less saw this type of incident coming in that I had noticed over the past couple months how negative and spiteful the community was getting.  My intent to declare my independence from any formal ties to the blogging community was to avoid the type of things that are happening right now, not a result of it.  It was a premonition (complete with a Newtype Flash if you want to be imaginative) based off of my own personal experiences that really didn’t have a whole lot to do with what has gone on in the past couple of days.  

That isn’t to say I have any real opinion on the matter that is almost literally ripping the blogging community apart as I stand off to the side now thanking my Newtype-like abilities since I’m running an indie blog here now, but since I know people have linked to me now I feel I still need to make things clear.  That’s all I really wanted to say.