Everyone by now knows that Dragonball: Evolution is a steaming pile of Male Bovine Excrement, and frankly, it deserves every ounce of bad press. But let’s rewind to 2008, when Speed Racer came out. Almost every Otaku(myself included, I’m afraid) were bitching and moaning about how Hollywood was gonna screw it up and it was gonna be a mockery of a Classic Anime series, much like we did with A movie called Dragonball this year.

There is just one thing: The Speed Racer Anime wasn’t that good to begin with.

In my opinion, Speed Racer is a Classic in the same vein as Manos: The Hands Of Fate is a Classic: They’re both inferior products that manage to withstand the test of time. The Speed Racer movie though, was actually pretty decent. Unlike the Excrement mentioned earlier, The Wachowski Brothers actually gave a shit about the source material. The race scenes were like F-Zero and Hot Wheels on CRACK. Speed was given a bit of Angst(and unlike Goku, it worked) which rounded out his character a bit more, Trixie wasn’t useless, and since Christina Ricci was playing her, also Hawt. The plot is pretty decent. All in all, I liked it.

“But Cobrafire,” you say, “How can you like this movie when it’s corny as hell?” To which I reply: Have you ever SEEN an episode of Speed Racer?

To be honest, I really should have gave the movie a chance before jumping on the “Hollywood is ruining Anime FOREVER” bandwagon. So when other live action movies based on a well known series, I won’t go all nerd rage and flat out proclaim it to be Garbage without trying to give it a benefit of a doubt.

Yes, even the Cowboy Bebop movie starring Keanu Reeves.

At least till the trailer…..

Nah, I just watched Dragonball – Evolution on Youtube, and it doesn’t disappoint : it is absolutley made of Fail and DESPAIR! But mostly Fail. I could go on  about how besides the obvious(The writer never read a page of Dragonball, for starters) they got it wrong, but a fellow deviant can do it better than I.

And to those complaining about how much of a shit job we Americans did, keep in mind that I apoligised months prior to the movie coming out, though I should rescind it due to the Manga That Must Not Be Named.

BTW, if you’re wondering what the actual Son Goku thinks about the movie, you’ll find out that he really don’t give a shit.

God, I mean two horrible things happing and it’s only Tuesday. I’m expecting Cthulu to rise anytime now…

High School Musical:The Manga

I am not making this up. Here’s proof

Dear Japan:

On a lighter note, this week’s Naruto was awesome….

I totally forgot Street Fighter IV came out last week, so Crimsom Viper pic for the hell of it....

Remember my last post when I said I was taking a week off from watching any Anime? Well, I kinda took longer than I liked to. See, what had happen was I ended up having to move from Detroit back to Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti again. While Little Bastard (The name of mine computer, in case you don’t read my DevART journals. Hell I barely read them either.) made the move without a hitch, his power cord failed to make the journey, only to be reunited with it yesterday. That meant a shiteload of shows on my Fansub.tv scheduler, which thanks to a 24/7 Starbucks and ridiculous amount of refills later, I’m nearly done with. That brings up another issue however. The winter 2009 season has started, and except for Birdy The Mighty Decode 2 and Slayers Revolution-R(Gawd, that’s so frakking corny…) I’m not really feeling any of them. So any suggestions at all will be extremely helpful.

Laters, and give me some shows to watch, Dammit!

You sit down, getting ready to watch the latest episodes of your favorite shows, when all of a sudden……BAM! You find yourself  not really into the show. At first I thought it was just the show being boring, but when I started to finish up DMC and Mnemosyne, I felt the same kind of melancholy. Then it hit me: Maybe I suffering from Total Anime Overload™, the end result of cramming close to a year’s worth of anime shows in two months.

So I decided make this an Anime-free week.

That’s right, starting on Monday, I haven’t seen or downloaded any Anime, even though my latest subscriptions on Fansub.tv has just popped up. So what have I been doing with my time you ask. playing some Legend of Zelda. And some Metroid Fusion. Also I’m currently rewatching season 1 of Torchwood, which is even more  awesome since all the cussing and sexual content is all intact. But do not worry! I should be fully recovered by next week, when I’ll find something that annoys me and complain about it. And now here’s a Strike Witches pic I found on Danbooru to end this post.

See ya next week!

Just when you thought there's no way WWII could be desrecrated further.....

And so as 2008 draws to a close, now would be the time where members of the Anime Blogosphere™ make posts about their favorites and whatnot. This blog is no exception. So without further ado, I present to you the 14^th Annual(Give or take a year) “…And You’re Not!” Awards, which I give you my picks for the best (and worst) anime shows and moments. So to start, we have, in no particular order…

I only have three words to say about this one.

What. The. Fuck!?

No, really. that’s all I gotta say on this matter More details are here.

Me during most of the season........

On December 21, Two Thousand And Eight, The Detroit Lions managed to Fail on scale so epic, it’s mind-boggling, getting their asses handed to them 42-7 and going 0-15. No amount of fail boats could carry that much. Therefore until further notice, I am taking Highlander 2 Level measures and denying the existence of the Detroit Lions. In short, whenever anyone asks about how bad the Lions are, my response will be “Detroit has a pro football team?” I encourage everyone else to do the same.

Awesome Show is Awesome.

Spoiler Warning: If you haven’t watched LotGH to this point or at all(Shame on you!), don’t read this post.

So, I’m At Episode 26(Shoulda been 25, damn cliffhangers) of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and I have to say that I enjoy it so far(which is a good thing, especially since I got 84 episodes to go). In fact, I should be ashamed of myself that it took me this long to watch it in the first place, but there are a lot of shows that are critically acclaimed and Adored by fans everywhere that I still haven’t seen yet, so I’m not really that ashamed.

My opinions so far:

1. There is way too much Man-crushing for my liking. Admiring your opponent is one thing, but damn, at times it feels like I’m watching Kizuna with spaceships.

2. If I became an Admiral in the Navy(Heaven Forbid), I would take the Yang Wenli approach to commanding. Unfortunately, I really don’t like brandy with my tea.

3. Reinhard promoting Kircheis was a mistake. Not that he’s not capable, but that Kircheis serves as Reinhard’s conscience at times and keeps him from doing really stupid stuff like act without thinking, something that I predict will happen a lot from now on.

4. Ya know who Job Trunhilt reminds me of? A competent Dubya. What’s even scarier is that I saw way to many parallels between the Free Planets Alliance and the U.S. circa 2003, only without the armed militia hunting down the dissenters.

5. Why do the characters I like end up dying!? Lap, Jessica, Ovlesser, and Kircheis. Goddammit, why did they have to kill Kircheis!? However, it will be interesting to see Reinhard’s actions now that his conscience is gone.

6. Another thing I think is real cool is that both sides uses axes and swords despite all the PEW-PEW lasers and whatnot. Old School Violence FTW!

All in all, I’m actually enjoying the show, even though it lacks the epic tea making that’s in Tytania. Even though is as old as I am, its one of those shows that manages to withstand the test of time and I can’t wait to see how everything turns out(And if you guys spoil it for me, I will kill you and use you soul as a condom )