A warning...to the people...the good and...the evil. This. Is. War.

You know, for a song that embodies the warning we should have had during the series and movie this article tends to cover, it has a really nihilistic ending. I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, however.

On August 8th or 9th of 1986, depending on where you lived in the world, there came a movie to the theatres that etched it's mark upon the soul of the men and women of my generation and is the subject of much discussion even today. That movie was Transformers: The Movie, one of the many film entries into the toy/cartoon marketing craze that was all the rage in those days. Back then the whole toy/cartoon tie in was beginning due the relaxing of certain laws which limited such practices, so we wound up with all sorts of new and exciting shows aimed at little girls and boys as retailers and marketers experimented to see what worked. You won't find too much in the way of such variety now, and often what variety you do find has been imported and localized from our esteemed neighbors in Japan…though they too are falling into this trap. Back then was a golden time for such local entertainment, and never shall we see its like again.

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Anime Expo. Fuck, what a year this was. I mean, of all the strange, outright and utterly weird ass shit that went down; things that happened that didn't need to happen; things that didn't happen that probably should have; and the painfully obvious fact that this year AX was strapped for cash. Hell, I could go on, and I will momentarily, but the overall theme of this year was me leaving the place with a "What the fuck was that?!" attitude.

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I think for my next two reports, I'm going to take a different philosophy with them. Rather than a day by day report, which admittedly gets a little bit exhaustive...not to mention by this point my habits are known, I believe I shall simply talk in impressions of the convention overall.

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Folks, I have a confession to make. I grew up on Nintendo. The first gaming system I owned was an NES. I spent many, many hours with Rad Racer. I could play all eight dungeons of Zelda with my eyes closed. Knew the precise spot to stand in to be safe from the rings in Mother Brain’s room. My next game system was n Super Nintendo, and then I finally got around to picking up a Game Boy when they came out with the black Pocket sized one. I loved the Dolphin, erm, Ultra 64, err, Nintendo 64, enjoyed the GameCube for what it was, and I think the Wii is a remarkably creative concept. I’ve owned every single system Nintendo has ever marketed, save the Virtual Boy – and that only because they were gone practically before I knew they existed. This is my gaming pedigree: Nintendo all the way back to the video gaming prehistoria.

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Since I had such a great time at ACEN last year, I decided to go ahead and attend this year. Like last year, I attended as a member of the Press, which enabled me to film and photograph events in ways I otherwise would not have been able to as a regular attendee. This is important when one considers how many events I've actually started filming on a regular basis at the various conventions I attend; almost all of which I've made available via bittorrent. It's irked me considerably that most of the video taken at these cons seems to disappear down a dark hole into shear nothingness, despite the number of people I see taking video…especially at the larger conventions like Anime Expo. Thankfully with the advent of Youtube and various other online video services, people are beginning to transcode and upload their videos; most famous of which is American Cosplay Paradise who has actually gone back and begun making available video from about '99 on.

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Screw you, Masaki Kajishima! Like I wanted to watch the culmination of your years of repressed libido, manifesting in an anime where you are God, and created a universe of women to FUCK! Every guy does it, but I'll be damned if want to watch another guy doing it! And if that wasn't bad enough, you...YOU PERSONALLY...are responsible for finding this chink of pure fail in the lonely beta and omega's armor, parading it around like one would the kill from a grand hunt, which it WAS, and spawning an entire industry of imitators who distilled down your preachings to its purest form like some unholy bible at the Council of Nicaea! Okay, sure Hayashi takes half the blame for the original concept, but at least he grew the fuck out of it! Seriously dude, as if Ranma wasn't bad enough, I....

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