Yaya Han as Sharon Apple (Idol Talk version) from Macross Plus
Yaya Han is one of the very few people to cosplay as Sharon Apple. Macross Plus is the underappreciated cousin in the Macross family and Sharon Apple’s elaborate forms beg to be cosplayed (despite her being a hologram). Yaya Han not only dared, but mastered the incarnation of Sharon Apple, adopting the form she took during the “Idol Talk” performance in the second episode.
I did a fantastic interview with Yaya Han for GotGame and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her. She’s as smart and talented as she is beautiful and very passionate about her craft.
I’d thought that the biggest benefit of digital distribution for consumers was that games could be sold for a lower price, since there’s no cost for a physical product. Yet I keep seeing PSP Legacy games by Capcom posted on PSN for the same price as their physical counterpart.
The latest example is Capcom Classics Collection Remixed, which comes out this week. It’s priced on PSN at $19.99, which is the same price I can buy it new in any store. For instance, here’s the listing for Amazon.
Where’s the incentive, then, to buy the digital version?
Plus, these are older PSP titles whose peak sales were met years ago. It makes sense to put it up for download for gamers that may not have discovered it before. But if they aren’t inclined to buy it in the store for $19.99, why would they be any more motivated to buy the download, also for $19.99?
I’d buy it for $14.99, especially since that also beats the average price of a pre-owned copy. Given the options, I think I’ll buy it used…
Recently, my local anime club began watching a new anime series called Basquash! The premise of this show radiates beauty through its simplicity; that being giant robots playing basketball. Oh, hells yeah!
Even by the opening credits, the show rings of awesome and win. But not so fast! As we watched the first 10 minutes, I was totally drinking the kool-aid for some giant robot basketball action…but then boobs happened.
No, that’s not trick editing; that shot really does last a full 12 seconds. At first, it was cute. A little eye roll here and there in between action scenes. But then boobs kept on happening!
Leave it to Japan to be the ones to come up with such a sweet idea, but also be the ones to thoroughly ruin it. Look, I’m a man who appreciates boobs and boob humor, but I signed on to this show for some giant robot basketball. I can get boobs from 1,000 other shows, but this is the only one that offers the robot/basketball combination. I’d like to have more than 10% of the show actually involve that. I guess the studio wasn’t confident that giant robot basketball wasn’t a strong enough sell for the show, so they padded it up with fanservice.
The guys at Fast Karate for the Gentleman said it best about fanservice: Fanservice is poop. You put poop on cake, you have ruined the cake. No matter how good the cake is, the cake doesn’t improve upon the poop. Poop just makes it into poop cake, which is all bad. Worse than if it were only poop, since we now have to mourn the loss of perfectly good cake.
