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7 Dec
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Posted by Musashi
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14 Nov
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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Say you’re a teenage boy and you are swept to another world that you have to save from some sort of menace. Sounds pretty sweet, huh? And then you find out you have to bang 12 cute mystical girls. Awesome! And also you have to get them knocked up so your magic children can help you save the world.
Wait, what?
Most teenagers spend a lot of time (or maybe not enough time, in some cases) trying to have sex without getting pregnant. So I don’t see this game being very popular; it’s too scary.
Conception: Please Have My Baby
The really awful part is that in the gameplay images, the girls look like little kids from a Kingdom Hearts game or something.
My brother is an adult and has 3 baby mamas, can you imagine how much it would suck to have 12? And the child support, Jesus Christ.
Although I bet at the end of the game the teen boy gets to go back to his own world, skipping out on the baby mamas, the little deadbeat.
And is it Japanese? OF COURSE IT’S FUCKING JAPANESE.
| Category: Uncategorized, Video Games | Tag: conception, spike, video game, weird |
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26 Oct
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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Did you ever think Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star was pretty cool, but, you know, just not sparkly enough?
For a couple hundred thousand dollars, you too can have a Kenshiro that glitters like all the stars fell out of the sky and got stuck to his clothes. Maybe a lint roller could help with that.
| Category: Anime, Uncategorized | Tag: charity auction, fist of the north star, statue |
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24 Oct
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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We’ve been blasting our way through Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam like the DVDs are going to disappear at the end of the week. This is pretty unheard of, because Shapiro Keats and I are about the slowest anime-watchers in the entire world. But it’s really good. And since we watched the original MS Gundam, we can do all the elite little, “Look, it’s Bright, it’s Haro, it’s that guy who piloted the GunTank…” (Zeta takes place between the end of the first series and Char’s Counterattack).
Watching this, I’ve found that there are some really weird things that apparently connect all Gundam shows, no matter what chronology it’s in. Here’s the list:
1) Most importantly, people are constantly getting the shit slapped out of them. Bright is still wielding the Hand of Slappage That Turns Whiny Bitches into Awesome Pilots (too bad he hasn’t slapped the whiny bitch main character yet, but I think it’s coming), but others are getting in on it too. The first slap, a well-execute backhanded pimp slap, occurred 7 minutes into the first episode. We’re on episode 15, and I’ve been keeping count: 13 slaps. There’ve been plenty of punches too but I haven’t kept track of those.
2) Main characters who are some kind of Asperger’s case: teen boys who are incapable of understanding social cues or the emotions and thought processes of others. Even though they’re Newtypes and are pretty much psychic. These kids need therapists and coping strategies, not giant killer robots.
3) Very few of the characters are able to have an entire conversation without throwing a tantrum, storming off, or pouting. The exceptions are the ‘old’ characters; i.e. anyone over 25.
A few notes on Zeta:
- Char as a good guy. It takes some getting used to, but it helps that at some point in the 8-10 years between the end of the original and Zeta, he got totally hot. Somehow very few people seem to suspect his true identity, even though he always wears red, starts out with a red mech, and wears giant face-devouring sunglasses.
- The reunion between Amuro and Char isn’t just dramatic, it’s fucking romantic. They’re all murmuring each other’s names and staring into each other’s eyes and shit. And the background music is soft and sweet. Later, Amuro tells someone else that Char is really a ‘gentle person’ inside. I think there is some strongly repressed manlove going on here. It must be really, really deep because the last time they saw each other Char was either trying to gut Amuro with a sword or drop a space colony on his head, I don’t recall which (it’s been a few years since I watched the movies).
- There are no interesting female characters in this show. None. One chick looked like she had the potential to be awesome, but got her ass killed a few episodes in. There was another woman who seemed pretty badass, but turned out to be a whiny bitch with the added bonus of being batshit crazy.
- Haro is still annoying.
- Luckily no one has yet tried to hide their 30-foot, brightly-colored robot in a forest by throwing a few branches over it. I never got that and I never will.
| Category: Anime, Uncategorized | Tag: Anime, japan, mecha, mobile suit zeta gundam |
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17 Oct
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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After that last soul-crushing post, I thought I’d put up something better and slightly anime-related. My favorite movie ever in the entire history of everything is being re-released into theaters in 2012 and 2013 and I AM SO THERE.
I actually saw The Last Unicorn with commentary from Peter S. Beagle at Dragoncon about 3 years ago, but it was on a crappy little projector screen and not a BIG one. I don’t care how far I have to drive. Who’s coming with me?
| Category: Film, News | Tag: awesome, the last unicorn, theatrical release |
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2 Sep
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Posted by Musashi
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Somehow I was expecting September 11th pass without my having to blog anything about it, but I can’t help myself. This is too wonderful a story not to pass along.
A street sign in Manila shows an American businesswoman and Sept. 11 victim smiling down on a community whose transformation would have warmed her heart: Children frolicking on tidy brick alleys near brightly colored houses.
Unlike many victims of the 2001 attacks who are remembered mostly by their family and friends, Marie Rose Abad’s legacy lives on half-way around the world in a once-notorious Manila slum now turned into an orderly village that carries her name.
Her Philippine-born American husband had the community of about 50 one-story houses built in her memory in 2004 as a tribute to their 26 years of marriage and her unfulfilled desire to help the poor in the Philippines.
‘Dreaded area’ transformed in 9/11 victim’s memory
| Category: News | Tag: 9/11, good stuff, Philippines, sad |
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25 Aug
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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OK, so Christian Bale as gross, sadistic incest villain might be OK. Probably the only thing about this movie (is it a remake of the original film or based on the manga? It keeps changing) that will be OK.
| Category: Film, News | Tag: christian bale, korea, oldboy remake |
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12 Aug
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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Naoki Urasawa’s Monster is on the Netflix Instant Stream so get your lazy asses out there and watch all 74 episodes right the hell NOW.
That’s it.
| Category: Anime | Tag: Anime, Monster, netflix instant stream |
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12 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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We sat down with game designer Gareth-Michael Skarka on day one of Gen Con last week – on tap were discussions about the upcoming spaghetti western / wuxia mashup project Far West, the Buckaroo Banzai RPG, trans-media, comic books, and an explanation: just what was that watermelon doing there?
We pack more awesome into 28 minutes than you can imagine!
Show Notes
| Category: News | Tag: buckaroo banzai, far west, gareth-michael skarka, gen con 2011, rpg, watermelons |





