Two words that go perfectly together. Yakuza and Girl. You just know there’s going to be a bad ass girl in this. Needless to say, after seeing the title page of a girl wielding a samurai sword, I knew I was going to like this manga.
Yakuza Girl
First of all, here is some background of what the story is. I could write my own thing, but I’m too lazy, so I’ll copy and paste it from somewhere:
Senguu Fumihiro is a young boy that made a promise to his dying grandmother to find a good wife for himself. With this intention he enrolls in a prestigious school but on the first day his world turns upside down when all the students begin to kill each other and one of them even turns into a monster. He is saved by a girl named “Akari”, sent to protect him by one of the factions that rule the school.
Wow, that was much easier than writing it all out. Anyway, here is my review (spoilers, obviously [hence, "review"])
Review
This was a good manga (good enough to write about anyway), but honestly, I was kind of confused by the whole airplane shit. Apparently someone froze the Enola Gay before it dropped the bomb or something, and had to keep it frozen, or else the world would be destroyed. I honestly still am not sure what the fuck it was all about. But the story started out pretty awesome. Bloody, death, some comedy……it was pretty good. Then we get powers, and all sort of Enola Gay shit, and everything got jumbled. But still. I was able to stay with it enough to enjoy it. You wanna know what I didn’t like (but actually kind of did like)? The final frame:
Honestly, how can you end a story like this? Who is this person? Reiko? Just a random slut? WHAT THE HELL!? Did Senguu and Akari go back in time (I still don’t know how they went from modern Japan to WWII Japan)? Could this be Senguu’s grandmother? WHAT……THE…….FUCK!?
FINAL GRADE = 5
With this, I have finally completed 10 manga. Whoopie-dee-doo.
UPDATE: 11 now. Also, XBlade chapter 23 came out….time to read it.
Do you have any idea what I”m talking about when I say, “that”? Of course you don’t, and it pisses me off in anime, when the characters say something like,
With “that”? Oh yeah, that. I’m sure everyone knows exactly what you mean when you say “that“, don’t they?
I can’t believe they know what the fuck each of them is talking about! I mean, okay, obviously the studios/writers use the word that because they want to make something a surprise, but why do they always have to say, that? Why can’t they say something that sounds more realistic, like, “Let’s use out secret weapon?” If I were one of these girls in the picture (or any person in one of a thousand scenarios) and one of my allies said, “Let’s use that.” I would turn to them and ask them what the fuck they were talking about. Yet, in anime, it’s used a lot, and not just in Bleach.
I’ve been meaning to write this post for about a year, and this scenario in Bleach just served as a spark that reminded me of that my desire to write said post. There are several reasons why using “that” is stupid:
It’s annoying to hear a character use that in the ways I am referring. And not annoying as in “Oh why do they have to leave me in suspense!?” I mean it’s annoying in, “Why don’t they just say what it is they’re going to do?”
It’s lazy. Using the word that just means the the writers were too lazy to find a synonym that could replace that, but would still create a sense of mystery surrounding that.
It’s a cheap way to try and add suspense to something.
60% of the time, it doesn’t work, every time. This is the most ineffective literary device ever used. Whenever I see it, I just want to gouge my eyes out, but then I realize that I already gouged them out while watching K-On, Kanamemo, and Chu-Bra. That’s right, I have had three eyes. I’m getting new one’s on Thursday……anyway, it’s also ineffective because usually, I’m not even surprised when the characters finally reveal what that is actually referring to.
I wrote more of this, but then my GOD DAMN COMPUTER CRASHED (blue screen), and I can’t remember my many other valid points, which I assure you, could have won me a Noble Prize of Literature. Instead, I’ll leave you with a thought and a picture:
A THOUGHT:
Using the word that to replace something else in a story is BULLSHIT.
AND A PICTURE:
The above is from Mysterious Girlfriend X, a fantastic manga.
I’ve been coming up with some great ideas lately (well ideas anyway), and I’ve thought of another one which should get a lot of positive feedback (neither of either more likely, although personally, I think this post actually has good substance, but I’m probably just kidding myself). Take InuYasha. As almost any anime fan knows, this show is about a girl who falls into a time traveling well that sends her back to feudal Japan and demons and Naraku and the Shikon Shard and all that good fun stuff. But you know what I feel is under-appreciated about the show? The rare episodes where Kagome goes back to her time, and InuYasha always follows her, which creates a scene. That is the introduction to this post, but please, don’t leave just yet.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the recent season of InuYasha. Every show keeps me riveted, and afterward I’m filled with happy. But as I previously stated, the episodes where Kagome travels back to her time, and InuYasha inevitably shows up to get her, are mainly ignored (because they’re sort of fillers). Personally, I would love to see more of this:
What’s so exciting about this, right? Well, I think that I love these episodes the most (that’s right, I like them more than the regular episodes, even in the manga, always have), is that they’re different. Rumiko changes the entire setting and cast of the show (or manga really), and thus, InuYasha (and even Kagome considering how long she’s been away) have to adapt to the differences between this world and feudal Japan. Here, I’ll jot down just a few of the differences from the main story that these episodes have. And for your pleasure, I’ll use bullets:
Scenery – Instead of forests, there are buildings. Everything goes from organic to industrial. Crazy shit.
Technology – Bye bye horses, hello trains and cars. Inuyasha always mistakes bug moving things for demons, kind of like Sallah from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
No clip? Thought we had a clip. Oh well moving on
So after ripping off Family Guy:
Characters – Besides Kagome and Inuyasha, there are no other characters that are in both worlds, unless you count that ghost of the scabbard from the 3rd movie. Added we have Kagome’s family and friends.
I’ll use those three and leave it at that. At this point, the anime changes from and abnormal setting with one normal character (Kagome, except she has powers so she’s not that normal), to a normal setting with one abnormal character (Inuyasha, the only one with demon blood in this time period [to our knowledge]). Holy shit I haven’t even mentioned my idea yet (although you could probably guess what it’s going to be…and no, it’s not going to be something like, “200 more Inuyasha episodes!” Anyway, before I actually mention my idea, I want to elaborate on my last point of difference, and in fact I think I’ll do just that, seeing as this is my ISSS, which isn’t a blog, but actually is (not) a blog. On a side note, I saw that show Archer on FX. It was actually pretty funny. Anyway I saw like 2 episodes I think it got canceled. This also happened like, a month ago, I have no idea why I’m bringing i-
So the characters of Kagome’s world. Specifically, I’m going to ignore the family (because they all already know that Inuyasha is a half demon, and zone in on Kagome’s friends, who are all sluts. By the way, I find it odd that Kagome is trying to get into HIGH SCHOOL. I mean, you’re telling me that a tall, big breasted, able-bodied COOKING ELIGIBLE girl who is FIGHTING DEMONS no big deal and LOOKS like an 18 or 19-year-old is in MIDDLE SCHOOL? None of the middle school students look middle school like. Their bodies are all way too tall and developed. In fact, I don’t think that Japanese people even grow that tall over their entire life span (racial stereotype). My job entails me looking after middle school kids, and they’re all really fucking small. Like, up to my waist. One kid played me one on one in basketball. Big mistake on his part. I felt like a man blocking the shit out of every shot he took. (I let him score and stuff I’m not a douche bag. I actually let him get to game point, but I can’t let him win. I have enough pride to not want to get beaten by a middle schooler [even though I did anyway, later on...to my credit, we were playing one on one in a crowd of people, so he just hid behind people and took shots, the cheap asshole.])
I’m getting WAYYYYYYY fucking off topic, and you might be getting ready to click the “x” in the corner, but not yet. Here’s a picture:
So, Kagome’s friends, why are they so important? Well, I enjoy, more than anything, when a character with special needs….I mean abilities (well actually special needs could work, but it would just be politically incorrect, and we’d all feel like assholes as we laughed….holy shit I just got a funny Trigger Happy idea [see bottom]). Anyway, I love it when characters who have special abilities enter into a setting where no one else has abilities that are special. In this case, Inuyasha is half demon, is super strong, and can practically fly:
Now, what I really like is when the “special” character is supposed to hide his abilities for some reason, but then people find out, and become surprised/overwhelmed. This element of surprise is just AWESOME. I LOVE it.
So you just like surprise? Why are you so keen to InuYasha? Why not watch any show with surprise?
Let me elaborate. There are many types of surprise (which I will use numbers so as to not confuse you with the previous list):
Strategy Surprise – Someone thinks they have the upper hand, when suddenly, BAM, the sides are turned with a superb plan.
Plot Surprise – You think that one thing is happening, when suddenly, B-B…..B-BAM! A character who was dead is actually alive (or vice-versa), or an unexpected twist develops.
Special Character Surprise – Aside from one or two characters, nobody know that this character has any special abilities, when suddenly, BA-BA BA-BA BAM! They realize he is actually a half demon youkai when he does something awesome, or merely shows his ears to people, in a way where they can tell that said ears are, in fact, real.
Why do I like this type of surprise/BAM moment more than say, Light exposing a plot/strategy surprise in Deathnote? Well, why do you like chocolate ice cream more than vanilla (for the record, strawberry is better than both, and chocolate ice cream sucks). Now, I can finally come to my idea and end this surprisingly long post:
I would love to see a short, 6 or so episode OVA of Inuyasha staying in Kagome’s word for an extended stay, dealing with different situations, and finally exposing himself to Kagome’s friends/school, and the related aftermath (how they all react). I mean, I almost feel cheated that no one (Kagome’s friends) ever found out that Inuyasha was a half demon. I probably looked forward to that more than the eventual conclusion of the Shikon jewel plot. And it never happened. Oh shit, did I just spoil that? Yes. Yes I did.
I mean, I’m not asking for like, a 26 episode long series or anything revolving around Inuyasha living in Kagome’s time or anything (although I’d love that too). Just a 6 episode OVA or something. Even 3 episodes would be fine.
. . . . . .
~sigh~ I guess InuYasha just always leaves me wanting more. I wish Rumiko would write a new series about Inuyasha.
Other Acceptable OVAs (now that I think about it)
OVA about Sesshomaru and Sesshomaru only. Just him kicking ass. No Rin. No Jaken. Just Sesshomaru.
That’s it. Here’s my Trigger Happy idea: Create politically incorrect ringtones (like, “DURR I”M RETARDED” on repeat. Go into a crowd of people where it’s quiet (a church is best), and have it ring. Everyone will be offended. For the record, I do not condone making fun of the disabled. Unless I were disabled. Then you could make fun of me, I wouldn’t care.
Frankly, I did not discover this at all, but I’m surprised I hadn’t found it already. Instead, my fellow ISSSer who preaches rap and hip hop discovered this and threw it up as his Facebook status.
So everyone knows that Ocarina of Time kicked more ass than Bill the Ass-Kicker. I’ve never met someone who hasn’t loved this game, and if I ever do, I’ll headbutt him/her in the balls/ovaries. What was one awesome thing about Zelda: Ocarina of Time? Well, I’m going to say the music (for the sake of this post….honestly I liked everything from the bosses to the glitches about this game). Well what Team Teamwork did was take some of the tracks of the game, and made them into kick ass hip hop beats. Then they overlapped them with kick ass rhymes, hence creating the best mix tape ever. Let’s take the best one.
We all know that the best song from Zelda: OoT was the Gerudo Valley Mexican style guitar. Take that, add Busta Rhymes, get
Allow yourself to get some tissues to clean the mess you just made in you pants, and while you’re at it, grab a few more…..in fact, just bring the whole box next to you, because this one’s about equal, if not better:
At this point, take an hour break and wait for your body to replenish some of the massive amount of bodily fluids you just lost. By now you might be out of tissues, so grab a towel. A big one. It time for MF DOOM:
Jeez, if I keep going I’m just going to end up linking to every song, so I’m going to stop now. If you want more (which you do, don’t kid yourself), check out the link below where you will find a post that contains the link to a place where you can get the album for free (I refuse to link there directly, because this is more fun). The post in question also includes a much better review……I mean, I wrote my post first, but I waited patiently for him to publish his first, because we ISSSers have a thing called respect, and that’s why I waited for this piece of shit to write his gay little post first. Respect….also, I wanted to do someth i n g e l s e . . .
HAHAHAHAHAHA PUN!…..AWESOME PUN! It almost reminds me of Pigs Before Swine, which is the funniest comic in the Sunday Paper. Okay time to read more Mysterious Girlfriend X, which is the most awesome manga ever.
Aww fuck….I’m all caught up to Mysterious Girlfriend X…..from now on, only COMPLETED works.
I can’t remember the last time I watched anime. I’ve gotten behind on everything (including life in general), and I blame this all on manga. Shit, I even thought about skipping work to read manga (didn’t do it). Lately, I’ve been reading manga non-stop. And I’m not looking at overviews of shows, I’m literally just picking shows at random and reading them. Here’s what I’ve read this week:
Half and Half
I felt like experimenting with a one shot manga, and this is what I picked. Basically, two people (a guy and a girl) die right off the bat, but are given life again. There’s one catch: They can’t be far away from one another, and it lasts only 7 days, then someone dies. Needless to say they somehow fall in complete love after one God damn week, which is impossible unless you’re a complete loser who’s never had a meaningful relationship in your life (I can sometimes fall into this category). It was complete bullshit and utterly retarded. I actually laughed when I finished reading it.
This was kind of dumb, but it was short, so it was fine. I felt it was too short to actually rate…I might give it a 2 or 3 maybe. It didn’t blow me away.
Confidential Confessions
I’m usually a guy who like completely retarded anime and manga. Usually, these manga have no relation to anything serious or realistic. However, that changed when I stumbled upon Confidential Confessions, which was probably the most hard hitting manga that I’ve read ever. Hard hitting meaning, “Holy Shit!”
So what the hell is so mind blowing about this? Well, I decidedly got drunk and then read it, and felt like it was a great manga (honestly, most of it kind of sucked) which seemed like a great idea at the time. I posted it up on twitter, and fangzhao took a shot at it. This is what he had to say:
“Jesus. I’m on the second chapter, and I feel like covering my wrists and neck. It’s really disturbing”
If you’re wondering why he felt like covering his wrists and neck, it’s probably because he didn’t want them to get cut, which, coupled with suicide, is pretty much the main theme of the first story.
That sounds quite depressing.
Oh it was for a time. But it ends on a lighter note (at least compared to the rest of it).
The rest of this manga was kind of dumb. There was a story about a boxer, a story about a high school prostitute, one about sexual harrasment….pretty much all serious issues. It wasn’t bad, but I’d probably give the whole thing a 3 as a whole, except the first story, which I really enjoyed for some reason, probably because I’ve always been kind of intrigued by death, mainly due to the mystery of it all, not because I’m some emo kid who’s weird…..I mean granted I’m kind of weird but I’d like to think in a good way…..most of the time in a good way…….like maybe half…..half the time good way…..anyway.
Baka and Boing
Replace the pictures of the girl with Red Sox posters and you'll have an idea of what my room used to look like.
So I was busy avoiding doing my work that’s due tomorrow by reading some Mahou Sensei Negima, when I decided to click on Baka and Boing, which seemed like it might be interesting. (my work includes coloring with crayons, writing an essay, and filling out a worksheet….[before you think my college courses are jokes, let me tell you that I'm going to have to do about 50 hours of out of class observational studies, and that's just for 2 classes]) .
After 2 chapters 19 of the available 20+ chapters, my first impressions would be as follows:
It’s a lot like Half and Half, in that two people get get connected by a life force and have to live together, but are going to die in 6 months. Slightly different. In general, a lot better, and here’s why.
One, unlike Half and Half, where both people die, in this one, a kid named Taichi is a complete weirdo when it comes to his favorite idol, Kokoro (like his walls are covered with her pictures and he is obsessed….one of those weird ones….like an stalker almost, except he doesn’t stalk). Anyway, she falls off a building and lands on his head. She dies, he doesn’t. There souls get fused by a shinigami. Shit happens.
Honestly, it’s not really that good. I mean, I enjoyed it, but I can see myself getting bored of this real fast.
Akane-chan Overdrive
Again, more death. I think all of these manga have something to do with death (I love stuff where people die and then come back to life…kind like Yu Yu Hakusho). Anyway, this alternates between 2 stories, the first of which is about a dude named Amamiya who falls over and somehow half dies. Basically his soul somehow leaves him and gets pulled into the body of a hot girl in a coma. Misconceptions and more soul-switching ensues as he tries to get back to his original body. I found this one funny, although the ending (or complete lack there of) kind of made me grimace.
The second story includes a father who hypnotizes a kid to protect his daughter, but when he tries to touch her or get close to her, he experiences pain. I found this one moderately amusing as well, and it actually had an end kind of I think. I’d give the whole thing a 4.
Choku!
This is the funniest manga ever. Too bad chapters come out at a pace slower than a constipated sloth.
Mahou Sensei Negima! & Ai Kora
I was on chapter……idk 60? Anyway, now I’m on 100. As for Ai Kora, I’m pretty much caught up.
A Cat is Fine Too
Curious of what the fuck people were talking about whenever they mention this, I read the manga, which is apparently hentai despite having no nudity or anything remotely ecchi besides the implied ending, which I found quite funny. I’d say it’s more strictly comedy (unless I read the wrong one or something). As I literally just stated, I found it funny, albeit slightly confusing (I feel like there might be a prequel or background story, but I don’t care enough to find out.
Mysterious Girlfriend
I literally just picked this up now. I didn’t start reading it. I chose it by complete random, read the summary, and decided I will probably like it.
I thought I read one or two more titles, but they were probably short ones and I forgot to write them down/forgot them completely, so whatever. If you’ve read these tell me what you think. If you haven’t write a completely random comment that has to do with boobs. Or don’t I don’t care.
An a side note, I have finally actually started Aria. The first episode was boring as fuck, but then I found the second episode to be much more enjoyable. My guess is that once more characters are introduced, this will become better and better.
I can’t hold back any longer. I just watched the latest episode of InuYasha: The Final Act (it was awesome, and reminded me why I love InuYasha), and immediately, I went to myspace video to check out these parodies, which everyone must surly know of by now.
Before I get into these, I must tell you. I use almost half the lines in these parodies in daily life. From classics such as “See ya later Larry!” to simpler ones like, “surprised expression?”. I either say or think these lines on an almost daily basis, and have been doing so since……errr…..2006? Without further adu, here are….you know, I have actually mentioned these once or twice on this ISSS, but never in this kind of detail….anyway, for real this time:
InuYasha Parodies
As made by some dude named Chris
InuYasha Parodies, as made by this guy, are funny as fuck, even though they make no sense (for the most part) and are generally centered around randomness. The voices are dead on (especially the old dude). Okay, some of it might be kind of dumb. but I’ve watched these things so many times that….well……I know them all. Because they’re myspace video, I can’t actually embed them (I mean, I tried, and these are what I got) just click on them. Below I listed my favorite quote from each. I really took this way too far.
EDIT: I found 5 of the parodies on youtube so those you can just watch.
That’s the best I can do for you. But yea, this is kind of a filler post. I don’t really need a filler post, since I post way too much as it is, but there you go.
Once in a while, an idea comes along that is so perfect, so genius, so incredibly superior to all other ideas, that you have no choice but to somehow intact that idea, or at least make a post about it on your blog or ISSS. Well ladies and gentleman, I have realized that idea. And it’s actually silly…..it’s been right in front of me the whole time, just sitting there, waiting for me to notice it, kinda like that girl in class who you don’t really notice, but then you see her 2 years later and she’s hot as fuck. That’s right, an analogy such as that must surly have let you know that I’m serious, and so now, here is my idea for a show:
My Anime!
By Glo the Legend
The Premise
Uhhh…………well, the premise doesn’t really matter much, so I’m going to skip it……meh, I’ll make something up really quick, (I’m a genius so it will probably be great anyway)……and at some point, you might think that this is a “troll post” (I hate that word), but it’s not……well it kind of is, but I’m letting you know now to expect something dumb, so it’s not. There’s also going to be a plethora of spelling and grammar mistakes, please ignore the shittiness.
Let’s see, uhhh……okay.
Studio – Hmmm, I feel like it’s a show with randomness, so SHAFT might be good, but I don’t really want that kind of animation. I like what Silver Lining did with Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, so I’ll pick them.
Genres: comedy, school, maybe throw some romance in there or something. There will be fanservice, but not much, and it will all only be for the sake of comedy. No panty shots or still frames of girls covering themselves up while going, “Nyaa~!” or any bullshit like that.
In a school in Japan, there is a girl named, oh hell, Aiko. There’s also another girl named……let’s sayyyyy Rin. Aiko and Rin are rivals, and the school happens to be split down the middle with fanclubs. Half of the school loves Aiko, and the other half loves Rin. In the school, they’re almost like political parties….this is also an all girl’s school, by the way. This is a co-ed school, by the way, although both Aiko and Rin are quite obviously girls. So anyway, the school has two fanclubs, and the fanclubs are obsessed with their idols (this includes teachers, who display their bias in many many ways). It’s kind of like a school filled with only Red Sox and Yankees fans, so basically everyone gets on everyone’s nerves and argues over which is better.
However, Aiko and Rin are both completely oblivious to this. They don’t even know that they have fanclubs.
One day, a boy named Yoichi (I love that name it sounds sick) transfers to school. Yoichi is a typical piece of shit. He’s bounced around from school to school, and, although he is actually very smart, he never does well in school, because he has OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). However, his OCD only relates to people’s clothes being either too tidy or too messy. So anyway, on the first day he notices Aiko, who is really hot, but also really laid back (and sort of a slob actually…yet she still has a fan club). Needless to say he goes crazy at how she’s dressed and immediatly rushes over to fix her clothes. Aiko and he immediately hate each other, therefore, Aiko’s fanclub hates him as well (I don’t think I need to explain the fanclub shit anymore, right?).
Next, he meets Rin. As you may have guessed, she dresses way to neat, and is probably rich. Yeah, she’s really rich, and has like…..bodygaurds and shit. She’s very conceited. Her and Aiko hate each other, because they have clashing personalities (slob vs neat freak). So Yoichi sees her and fixes her to be less neat. And so she hates him now too. This basically makes the entire school hate him right off the bat, and he is thrust into a group of the only kids who aren’t fans of either Aiko or Rin which include:
Yuki – She is the most perverted girl ever, and sometimes will be seen randomly tied up in bondage ropes.
Saito – This dude is normal, and becomes good friends with Yoichi. He just doesn’t feed into the whole fanclub deal.
Katsu – He loves to set traps. He sets them all over the place. Sometimes they can’t be explained (like a piano falling out of a cupboard) but his traps will go off, someone will get hit with something, and the show just goes on, ignoring what happened.
Anyway, the rest is kind of cliche, Aiko falls for Yoichi, and so does Rin, and all the while the fanclubs are going at it, and the outcasts get brought into the mix, and everything gets crazy. I just made that up as I went. Personally, I like it.
On to the cast, which is the real meat and potatoes.
She is a lazy sloth, but is really hot, and her fanclub loves her slobbiness, which they mistake for a laid back attitude (she’s really just a complete slob). She keeps to herself mostly, and gets annoyed easily. The only thing that she gets really serious for is….uhhh…….hmmm…………..you know what, you guys suggest something in the form of a comment. What is it that Aiko gets serious about?
Woah, woah, woah…….both lead females are played by the same seiyu! If you think that that’s bias and retarded, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Anyway, Rin is pretty much a complete stuck up bitch, and does the thing where she laughs into the back of her hand…..can we get a clip?
Perfect. That’s pretty much who she’s going to be.
Rie can play a guy, don’t think she can’t. You can probably see where this is going, and if you want to stop reading this post now I don’t blame you, that would just mean that you’re a person who can never finish what you start. Now Yoichi is your typical guy. Smart, not too bad looking. Pretty athletic. But he has OCD, where he need people to be dressed in a way that isn’t too tidy, but isn’t too sloppy. Shirts tucked in, but ruffled. High socks not too low, but not pulled up all the way. He feels the same way about bedrooms (only bedrooms).
This girl is perverted beyond your imaginations. She relates everything to sex, and loves to be abused, or to abuse. If you’ve ever seen Puni Puni Poemi, she’s kind of a slightly less random (or some of you might call it, “annoying”) version of…..well, pretty much that whole show.
He loves to set traps. He sets them all over the place. Sometimes they can’t be explained (like a piano falling out of a cupboard) but his traps will go off, someone will get hit with something, and the show just goes on, ignoring what happened. Yes, I copied and pasted this from above.
All of the People/Extras/Dogs, that don’t have any actual lines (or do) but might still make sounds like the dog/cat/thing in Aria (Pyuu) – Rie Kugimiya
This can include the leaders of the fanclubs, teachers (who would play a part but I never named) and everything in between.
OP/ED – Original, Anime Related Tracks by Chatmonchy
I’ve been obsessed with Chatmonchy lately.
Conclusion
Chances are, you aren’t even reading this anymore. But if you are then let me know if you got this far I’ll tell you this:
The whole point of this post was to produce a show where Rie Kugimiya plays every part, although if you want, I guess you can substitute your favorite seiyu in there, although everyone’s favorite should be Rie Kugimiya. You might think that Rie Kugimiya playing every character would be stupid, because you wouldn’t be able to tell who is who and who is talking. Well you can go to hell, this is my ISSS and I can dream can’t I? CAN’T I!?
With this post, all credibility of Eye Sedso has now turned into dog shit has remained the same.
Thank God this bullshhh (new favorite word) is over and done with. By episode 6 I had had enough of it. By episode 8 I was struggling. Episode 10 just pissed me off.
Umi Monogatari
Holy pufferfish! This anime was more up and down than waves as depicted by a kindergarten student using Paint:
Why is that exactly? Well let me tell you all a tale. A tale of tales that has been told since the telling of tales was first told during a telling in the form of a told tale that was tol-
We get it. Move on.
Err…right. so I don’t actually have a tale to tell, I just wanted to use the words tell, telling, tale, and told a bunch of times.
You should be banned from the internet. Idiots like you shouldn’t be able to have blogs.
It’s not a blog, it’s an ISSS.
You’re fucking retarded aren’t you?
I’ll ignore that for now, but I’m still going to continue talking. I’m going to tell you a story based off of Hobokon New Jersey. There’s going to be porn involved. Oh, whoops, I completely ripped off a parody.
You still haven’t said a thing about Umi Monogatari.
Yeah, I’m pretty much just having a retarded conversation with myself, which I not so cleverly disguised with the name Voice of Reason. So on to Umi Monogatari.
Umi Monogatari
For real this time
Obviously, the name is perfect for this anime, because it includes the 4 letter word, “mono”. Have you ever had Mono? It’s pretty shitty, and you’re always fucking tired, lethargic, slow…….all words that can describe this anime, which is very slow paced. The thing is, it started off pretty interesting, and I think it was due to these facts:
They had in-show fanservice. In otherwords, other characters noticed the fanservice (which, these days, can’t really be called fanservice at all, in fact, no one else probably even noticed it).
It had comedy.
Then the comedy and fanservice left (they kind of went hand in hand with each other), and we achieved what every bad anime achieves: Repetitive Bullshit.
Yes, Repetitive Bullshit, the cornerstone of suckage. I will now dutifully reveal the RB in UM.
Everyone: Oh no! We have to save Piss! I mean Urin! We have to save Urin! (snicker)
Karin: I’m depressed about my boyfriend. Or ex-boyfriend. Or boyfriend. Oh, now I’m fine. Oh now I’m depressed.
Turtle: You girls need to use the light.
*Marin: Cries
Repeat in no specific order. If I could watch this again, I would stop where Urin get’s captured, and skip to the last episode, because everything else is just retarded. In fact, the end turns out to be a stupid piece of shit as well, and I’m going to tell you right now what it was. Sedna (the main bad person) was “the accumulation of darkness in everybody’s hearts”……..what the fuck is that bullshit? That’s the laziest way to end a show. Basically, there was no antagonist. Basically, the antagonist was a naturally occurring phenomenon. That’s incredibly cliche and stupid. What a piece of shit. “People threw away their darkness” please. Bullshit. That’s what it was. And then the even more ending was even more bullshit.. And I will tell you that ending now as well. Urin manages to now disappear because of bullshit. Marin hugs her and the darkness and the light “understand each other”. This was so stupid I feel like shitting on something important…..like a statue.
At the very end of the episode, I started enjoying it a bit more, because they brought the comedy back. (I’m talking about like….the last 30 seconds). This anime was good in terms of the following:
Art – Superbly done
Story – lol yea right the story sucked…I mean it started out pretty good, then it got dumb.
Comedy/Fanservice – They were doing this awesomely at first, then they stopped.
*I put an asterisk next to crying. There is a lot of fucking crying, almost as much as Aoi Hana. Now, in my review for Aoi Hana (I think, it might have been something else) I stated that whenever girls use “crying attack” against me, it’s super effective, ie, I’m a sucker for girls crying (I stole this pretty much word for word from blur….I see you blur). Anyway, in Aoi Hana, the crying girls appealed to my nature. In Umi Monogatari, I wanted to punch every single girl in the ovary and throw them off a cliff into a pit of lava. The crying was more annoying that Maria’s howl from Umineko no Naku Koro ni. God damn fucking crying girls.
I actually enjoyed the first 5 or so episodes. I liked them a good deal, but after that, this anime shit the bed, HARD. And the good things about Umi Monogatari aren’t good enough to make me give this anime any higher than a
FINAL GRADE = 2
Bill filled Umi Monogatari with so much darkness that it killed itself.
Well, I was over at a site that’s miles better than this piece of crap (which could be any site really), and I was reading an interesting post. Then I clicked a link. The link went here. That made me go here, which in turn made me go here. Now…..well now we’re here.
Ai Kora
Ai Kora is your typical “Glo the Legend will love this shit” manga. It’s about a kid who loves specific parts of a girl, in other words, he is a “parts fetishist”. If a manga or anime has the word “fetish” involved somewhere, there’s a big chance that I’m going to love it. Let me break down the specific parts he is looking for:
Specific Eyes
Specific Legs
Specific Voice
Specific Breasts (duh, this is obviously important….although not really to me, as much as I lead on)
Awesomeness ensues. He goes to a high school in Tokyo just so he could have a better chance to meet a girl that has these parts, and wouldn’t you know it, he meets 4 girls, all of which each have one part that he desires, right off the bat. All of them are incredibly cliche, which is completely fine with me. In fact, I might say that this is an incredibly cliche manga. Here are the main girls:
A tsundere (eyes)
A hot sensei (the older woman, legs)
A shy girl with glasses (and huge cans)
A small ninja girl (she has the voice)
These are all very cliche characters, I haven’t seen anything to confirm my beliefs yet (I only read one chapter), but I have a hunch that the sensei is going to like to drink (because that would be cliche). Anyway, the situation is that somehow, Hachibe, (main character) has moved in with all of these girls (well, in a shed on their property, which is the girl’s dorm). You can probably see where it’s going.
Is this another cliche harem? I don’t like those.
Yes you do, you just don’t want to admit it. Everyone likes cliche harem. Although, I wouldn’t consider this a harem at all. Why? Well, I don’t know, it’s not like every girl wants to go…..hmm….it probably is a harem. And yes, it is horribly amazingly cliche, but cliche never bothers me, as long as it’s done correctly, which, in this case, it seems to be.
EDIT/UPDATE: WOW, I CALLED IT, THE SENSEI GOT DRUNK IN THE SECOND CHAPTER!!! I know all!
ANOTHER EDIT/UPDATE: Well, now I’m on chapter 22, and this manga is just fucking awesome.
TRIPLE FUCKING UPDATE!:
Milk Grappling! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
ANOTHER FUCKING EDIT: Chapter 35 might be one of the funniest manga chapters I’ve ever read in my life ever.
GYAD DAYUM CLASSES STARTED! WHEN WILL I BE DONE WITH COLLEGE AND BE ABLE TO GET AN ACTUAL JOB!?
In a year.
Oh…. Well okay then.
Here’s what happened lately:
I have been obsessed with this OP:
The song is Shojo S and the group is Sandal. It is an awesome song. I love this song. I want the song. I will thusly get the song. 0:35 seconds when the beat drops it’s awesome. The background music is done well. Look at the fucking actual video for the actual song:
I love the video. It’s great. Moving on.
Anyway, what else happened….Oh, I watched episode 3 of
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 3
Here is my episode review:
Anybody notice the fountain in this scene? I pointed it out in the above screen shot in case you didn’t. Youve seen, I’m sure, statues where a boy is “pissing” water (aka the water is coming out of his dickhole) well this statue is shitting water, and that’s ten times better than pissing it. And throughout this scene, the amount of water it shits out constantly changes. I thought this was very funny.
Why, because you love shit?
No, because I love when there’s a scene with both a fecal…I mean focal point, (which in this case would be the conversation and the people involved) and something else retarded happening in the background. In this scene, most people will be looking at the characters, not at the shitting fountain. I myself didn’t notice the shitting fountain until the end of the scene (I obviously replayed the scene to see the shitting fountain). But Baka to Test does a lot of this. They have very small details that are funny if you pay attention enough to notice them. Like in one scene, part of Yoshii’s head falls off (like a broken piece of ceramic). Now, I’m not going to die laughing my ass off at this, but it’s pretty cool and I like that short of random ass shit. That’s it. That’s my review of the whole episode.
Back to
Bleach
So I’ve watched abot 50 episodes in the past 2 days (literally, I’ll be caught up probably by Tuesday…..in fact, I’ve been watching so much anime lately it’s almost ridiculous. I think I’ve been averaging about 15 shows per day for the past 5 days). So I have a new favorite character. It’s a girl (strangly, most of my favorites are girls). My past favorite character was probably Kenpachi, who is bad ass and awesome. He might actually still be my favorite, who knows, but I just watched episode 223, and it just amplified the awesomeness of a character whom I already thought was one of the best. I am talking of course, about Soifon (Soi Fon?), the captain of division 2.
Awesome silhouette picture, isn’t it? Soifon is a cocky bitch, but not the kind of cocky that is out there. Instead, she just has a cockyness that is almost……..covert? (get it because her division is the covert…..never mind). It’s almost a hidden cockyness, but she deserves to be cocky, because she knows what’s going on. Her entire fight with that guy (I don’t know who he was), she literally just observing him to get ready for an Espada, and then she’s like “Okay, so now I’m going to kill you, and you won’t even be able to tell.” And then she did it. BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM. She BAMs. Here’s another cool picture:
Wow, she’s like the James Cameron of “to be continued” screens (she has the top two, and James Cameron has the top two grossing movies worldwide of all time).
Let’s move on to
Berserk
Per Baka-Raptor’s request, I started watching Berserk. Now I’ve only seen one episode, as it’s very hard to watch multiple episodes in a row.
So I sat down and got to watching the first episode, which featured guy’s getting shot in the head with arrows, sliced in half……the usual (although less blood than I thought there’d be, which is where the manga comes into play after). Now, I like watching shows where people get sliced in half and shot in the head with an arrow or two. In fact, I’d say that Berserk has a lot of things in it that I like to see in an anime:
Huge bad-ass dude slicing people/demons in half with a giant sword, but not in a fake Bleach sort of way, but instead in a realistic kind of way (I’m not hating on Bleach, I love that show when it isn’t fillers). In other words, when you see someone like Ichigo slice a hollow in half, it’s not surprising, nor does it seem like a great feat. But when Guts from Berserk does it, it’s just bad ass and a show of toughness.
Huge bad ass dude.
Hints at a pretty good plot. Ex: the mark on Berserk’s neck. Questions have already been raised this early in the show. I like where this is going.
So why did I only watch one episode? Well, after watching an episode, I felt like I really, really had to hit the gym hard. I mean, watching Guts kill guys and shit makes me want to just bulk up. I realize I might sound like a huge fag, or a “bro” (they’re synonyms), but it’s kind of cold to go out in the woods and throw boulders like I usually do to work out (I don’t really do that at all), so I went to the gym, and hit it hard. By the end of this series, I might be able to lift a building (this is actually true). My triceps are sore just from typing this, I love it.
So what does this do to me? Well, this changes everything. I might have to revoke some laws that I made, because if anime can make me huge, then I would surly pull down [more] pussy. Holy shit, Berserk is so bad ass that it goes against anime.
One more thing.
Pani Poni Dash
See? I gave artist info.
I was watching this for some reason, and have decided that the character who I assumed was my favorite (Himeko) is actually not, and that Ichijou is actually my favorite. There’s really no contest here, and I don’t know what I was thinking with Himeko. I mean, Ichijou is so odd that it’s awesome, not to mention her eyes are always as depicted. If I ever met a girl with eyes like that, I would date her (yea right). I now must update the character page. By the way, it’s nearly impossible to find this anime subbed anywhere. I can find random parts on youtube (the parts not taken down) but not full subbed episodes. I can find the dubbed, and they aren’t really that bad, but the subbed are better. Pani Poni Dash is still awesome.
I guess I’ll leave it at that. I really just wanted to talk about the OP. The rest is kind of just bullshit. With school starting, expect the same amount of posts from me, because I have no priorities.
What did you just say!?