Method to Madness Podcast – Episode 11
Episode 11: “Here’s My Wallet… It’s Behind Your Ear!”
Run Time: 41min 58sec
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In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Needless
Needless lives up to its name…it’s a terrible, terrible show that you need not ever see. Good god. It’s trying so hard to be a hardcore shonen fighting show, but it’s just insulting to the viewer’s intelligence.
Forgive the slurred speech; this show necessitated some recuperative drinking.
Many people easily mistake this show for parody. They are wrong. This is an example of trying to rip off several established successful shows with production so bad, it’s easy to assume it’s a joke. Joke’s on you–it’s just retarded, formulated garbage.
Then there’s the ending…
We hate you, Japan. Fuck you very much.
Here you go, cosplayers.
Now get to it!
November 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I think it’d be interesting for you guys to make something comparable to a Kinsey scale, instead concerning the badness of an anime. This is, somehow WORSE than Strike Witches. Kevin had be begging to watch more Queen’s Blade instead of this after three episode.
The Grey Ghost Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I dunno… If we develop a way to quantify our reviews of things, that might suggest too much that we’re in any way a credible source of opinion. We’re just two guys with very simple tastes. :p
November 25th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Y’know, this is one of those shows where removal of the dumb fanservice would not result in a good show, like I think it would with Basquash. It would make it better- seriously, Powerpuff death squad would be a fun idea if not for the sexualization of the girls- but not ‘good’, like you said, the problem is the creators not knowing what the hell they were doing, and just trying to do everything at once and trying to ‘one up’ other action shows. Like you said, if they wanted to be serious, be serious. If they wanted to be parody, know what and how to parody. Splitting the difference only hurt their cause.
The Grey Ghost Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I may have said this to you before, but here’s how I respond to people insisting that Needless is satire:
Just because you find humor in something, that doesn’t mean that humor was the creator’s intent. World Heroes is a shitty fighting game rip-off of Street Fighter II. That doesn’t make it a parody of fighting games…it’s just so bad that it’s funny.
November 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Oh, I don’t think they were trying for satire, or that the creators even know what it is, but there’s a lot of failed attempts at humor in the show. They were trying to imitate a lot of other shows, either to be funny- or simply because they are utterly intellectually bankrupt, or both- they just failed completely and utterly. I’m not saying it’s satire, just that even if they were TRYING for it, they failed at that too.