Beggars can’t be choosers. It’s cliché, but clichés exist because they are timeless and true. Geeks need to understand this when it comes to bringing their favorite shows and games over from Japan. No one is entitled to their entertainment.
After the recent scandals involving content being pulled from the localizations for Yakuza 3 and Dance in the Vampire Bund, I’m calling for a waaaahmbulance. But first, Kevin reports on his first few hours of Final Fantasy XIII!
And yes, I forgot to add my naming of Dance in the Vampire Bund into the final edit. It’s not Rozen Maiden. Deal. Or make a YouTube rant about the missing content like this jerk:
Hey, douche… Is this about Yakuza, or is it about YOU?
Leatherman + Penis Envy = FFXIII Gun-Blade
FAN ART!
Thanks, M! Better scanned version coming...some day.
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.
Zalora has a modest, but impressive gallery of costumes… The one that catches my eye the most (obviously) is her Delta Red Cammy from Street Fighter. What impresses me the most is that she’s one of the rare few that managed to get Cammy’s wild bang cowlick to look right!
She’s got the face, she’s got the physique, and best of all, she has the costuming talent to bring Cammy to life. Kudos, Zalora!
Call Me Tonight perfectly illustrates that insanity is performing the same action and expecting different results each time. Our cursed hero erupts into a hulking, Lovecraftian abomination at the faintest sexual thought. Rather than consulting a doctor, priest, or shotgun, he calls upon the services of the Telephone Communication Madonna.
His girlfriend/hooker/maybe-dating-coach’s solution is to repeatedly flash her naughty bits his way until the reaction desists. She also has a weight loss program where you burn calories by digesting slice after slice of cheesecake.
Not to be confused with...
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.
I can’t believe I’ve been doing this Cosplay of the Week thing for so long and I haven’t posted any thing by Francesca Dani. That might be because finding full galleries of her costumes is hard to come by, since access to that section of her homepage requires a credit card.
All the same, I managed to snag these shots of Francesca as Princess Zelda from her blog. The level of detail of her costume’s accessories, along with her fair Western features suit her well for the elfish Zelda.
Pumpkin is cinematic cheesecake–little true nutritional value, but tastes soooo goood going down. You see, I like my humor the same way I like my beer and my chocolate: Dark and bitter.Pumpkin suites my tastes perfectly, rich with the blackest of comedy. In fact, don’t bother listening to this podcast; just go watch this movie.
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.
Macross Frontier, while good, is no Macross Plus in my book. Nor can Sheryl Nome, while also good, hold a candle to Sharon Apple.
That said, Zettai Ryoiki does a fantastic portrayal of Sheryl in this week’s featured cosplay gallery. This is one of her concert outfits; possibly the most risque. But you’ll get no opposition to that by me. Though from the looks of the backdrop, I hope Sheryl’s able to book fancier gigs than this dive. Unless it’s just karaoke night..?
Unico in the Island of Magic is a movie that is deeply imprinted into my childhood memory, mostly due to its shuddersome nightmare fuel. And yet, it’s a kids movie created by Osamu Tezuka and released through the Hello Kitty guys.
This movie is why we do this podcast. You need to see this. There may or may not be a legit DVD release out there. So until they put out another run, you may be able to find a torrent or maybe even YouTube.
I'll see you in your nightmares.
Kenshiro wouldn't put up with this bullcrap.
Also… PONYO ON A BOAT!
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.
Mezzo Forte, just like any anime woven by Yasuomi Umetsu, is crap that endeavors with furrowed brow to not be porn…but it is.
Nevertheless, Omi Gibson magically suits Umetsu’s unique art style, again realizing an entity borne of ink and paint. I don’t know how she does it, but I don’t make it a habit of asking uninteresting questions.
There was something I’d meant to mention in the most recent podcast; specifically around the subject of haunted vessels and “Homeboy Gon’ Fuck The Phantom”…
I’m reminded of a scene from a contemptible horror movie from 2002, titled Ghost Ship. The premise of the film is that a salvage crew journey to retrieve the hidden treasures of a sunken cruise ship…but it’s got g-g-g-ghosts!!!
The scene is of one crewman, seduced by a phantom temptress, being lured into dropping trou and positioning himself behind her to tap dat ethereal ass. To his surprise, he instead falls through her intangible form, plummeting to his death at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
Now, his first mistake was impatience. If I’m going to get to work behind a woman, it won’t be in a doorway. I can wait until she reaches a nearby wall or something that will offer some resistance to my efforts.
Not a good plan!
Furthermore, if I do intend on getting in while the getting’s good, even in mid-stride, I’d have to be in pon farr to not recognize an elevator shaft. Should I choose to believe that the woman weren’t already dead, I’d assume that she wouldn’t be far from it after my first thrust in front of an open elevator shaft.
What’s most unnerving is the reaction of his teammates upon discovering his carcass. The camera stays fixed on their reactions, with his fate just out of frame. They’re distressed that their friend has been found dead; gruesomely impaled on protruding rebar…but no one makes comment about his pants being around his ankles.
Seriously. Not one word. Not even a perplexed wince. If anyone jumped to the conclusion that he was taking a leak into the shaft when his assassin shoved him to his doom, they didn’t vocalize it. I suppose everyone just accepted that Greer died as he lived…
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…
Memories
Memories collects three brilliantly animated anime shorts under the production lead of some guy…did some anime stuff…some of it was called Akira.
The first short–though I’m reluctant to use that term for this 45-minute long vignette–is a ghost ship story set in space, à la Event Horizon. The second is probably Japan’s idea of a fart joke. And the third is a phenomenal piece that invites us into another world, filled with blind patriotism and pro-war propaganda.
I got this DVD new at Big Lots for $3. I you do the same!
