CHAMILLIONAIRE “INTERNET NERDS REVENGE”

August 29th, 2008 by Brack

YouTube - CHAMILLIONAIRE “INTERNET NERDS REVENGE”.

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Now that’s just showing off.

August 29th, 2008 by Brack

YouTube - 【完成】ジョジョの奇妙な冒険でしょでしょ？【手書きMAD】 - Haruhi OP × JoJo.

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Kanye West - Good Morning

August 28th, 2008 by Brack

So, Murakami making commercial art? Better than Murakami making art that’s a commentary on commercial art?

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Blogging safety net - Go!

August 28th, 2008 by Brack

Back once again with news you can’t use. This is all taken from Manga Mania Issue 10 Cover date April 1994. I would have still been ignoring anime and manga at this time, instead wandering the streets of Grimsby while harbouring a obsession with Chris Morris & Steve Coogan and wearing out audio tapes of On The Hour and Knowing Me, Knowing You.

UK NEWS

  • Manga Video had Battle Angel Alita and the first volume of the Guyver finally coming out.
  • They also had the live action Gunhed at various cinemas up and down the land.
  • Kiseki had plans to get The Gigolo and Urotsukidoji III out in March. Whether this was the month Urotsukidoji III actually got released we’ll have to find out.
  • Porco Rosso was due to be shown at the International Animation Festival at Cardiff.

SPAIN NEWS

  • Manga Films Sociedad Limited released Porco Rosso in the cinema.

JAPAN NEWS

  • The Space Cruiser Yamato OAV came out, complete with the Syd Mead redesign.
  • Other Laser Disc fun included:
  • Fortune Quest
  • The Deep Blue Fleet
  • Dirty Pair Flash
  • No Need For Tenchi! Special - Galaxy Police Mihoshi
  • The last Tenchi project of any worth in my book.
  • The Hakkenden
  • Armoured Trooper Votoms
  • Machine God Corps
  • Tokyo Babylon II
  • Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
  • Protect My Earth!
  • Compiler

US News

  • AnimEigo had an AD Police (the OAVs, not the even crappier TV show) Laserdisc coming, a dubbed Riding Bean, UY: Always My Darling and UY: Lum The Forever.
  • US Manga Corps had Genocyber, The Heroic Legend of Arislan, Project A-Ko 2,
  • AD Vision had Devil Hunter Yohko and The Girl From Phantasia, the latter eliciting the typical barbed comment from Trish Ledoux she tended to give ADV releases. It really seemed like she had it in for ADV. I do think it comes up more explicitly later in the magazine’s run when she has a column proper rather just doing US news.
  • LA Hero/US Renditions had more Orguss
  • CPM had Gigantor
  • Pioneer had No Need For Tenchi LDs
  • Streamline had Lupin III: Tales of the Wolf - a compilation of best episodes from the second series.
  • Viz chugged on with Ranma 1/2.
  • Notable manga releases had Antarctic Press releasing Iczer One, and Viz releasing Street Fighter 2.

Other Notes:

Three articles this issue:

  • A typical Manga Mania article where a theme is picked and a variety of books/shows are listed to try and draw some sort of progression of the theme. This month? SAMURAIS!
  • A translated article on Gon creator Masashi Tanaka taken from the Italian KAPPA magazine.
  • And of historical note, there’s an article on the dub of Crusader’s release of Nuku Nuku.

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INADEQUATE RECORD REVIEWS #2: The Action Packed Mentalist Brings You The Fucking Jams - Kid 606

August 27th, 2008 by Brack

While arguably atypical for Kid 606, this is the best work I’ve heard of his.

Essentially it’s the Kid 606 “mash-up” album. God I hate that term, I prefer the misleading “bootleg” moniker or the “bastard pop” one. Anyway, this is Kid 606 doing them there mash-ups, using various tracks and artists popular in the scene at the time. That time being 2002 and those artists being Eminem, Missy and 80s pop types.

It’s Kid 606’s usual arhythmical (is that a word?) breakbeats applied to the marrying of accapella tracks to a different song’s instrumentals. This is best seen in the tracks “Mp3 Killed the CD Star” & “Never Underestimate the Value of a Holler” which take tracks that had been overused in the bootleg scene at the time and does terrible and interesting things to them.

Also of note is final track “This Is Not My Statement”, a lengthy (13+ minutes!) destruction of Radiohead’s “Creep”. Which this clip isn’t. This is “Smack My Glitch Up”:

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INADEQUATE RECORD REVIEWS #1: Accelerator - Royal Trux

August 26th, 2008 by Brack

And now a new series of posts that continue until I lose interest. Going through my albums one by one.

This is the only Royal Trux album I own. I did have Veterans of Disorder, but I somehow managed to lose it somewhere between Hinckley and Spalding.

Anyway, this was their blistering first album after the genius shafting of Virgin Records they performed. They had released the terrible Sweet Sixteen to escape their record deal, all the while getting Virgin to pay for the building of a studio in their home. Once dropped they then put out this awesome rock and roll record on Drag City.

Opening track “I’m Ready” sounds like doors being kicked in. As do tracks “The Banana Question”, “Juicy Juicy Juice”, “Liar” and “Follow The Winner”. If it wasn’t for the bluesy “Yellow Kid”, the psychedelic “Another Year” and “New Bones” it would be an exhausting experience. And it all rounds off with the soft rock West-Coast ballad “Stevie (for Steven S.)”, one of the few songs written in celebration of Steven Seagal.

Here’s an inexplicably short video for Liar.

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MAD MONDAYS - More~! More~! Mori~!

August 25th, 2008 by Brack

Hey it’s another Hisashi Mori compilation!

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HATE FUN? Autumn Anime Prejudged~! Part 4~!

August 20th, 2008 by Brack

The hate took a few days off, but now it’s back. The Hate is Back, baby!

Tales Of The Abyss
WHAT IS IT? A Videogame Adaptation!

NAMCO’s electronic game gets an anime. OH JOY.

Director Kenji Kodama’s done a lot of decent manga adaptations, but manga are more viable than electronic games as sources for anime. Or indeed any adaptation into moving pictures. Videogames just don’t adapt well. Can’t see this breaking that trend.

Gundam 00
WHAT IS IT? A sequel to a re-imagining of an original series!

Second season of Gundam 00

I’ve nothing against 00, but the first episode didn’t grab enough to make me want more. Obviously it grabbed enough people that we now have even more. Same staff as before, so no surprises on that front either.

Battle Spirits - Shounen Toppa Bashin
WHAT IS IT? A Trading Card Game adaptation!

You know what? Trading card games adapt better than videogames.

The problem with most videogame adaptations is that they get ideas above their station and forget that people tend to like them for the game rather than the game’s story.

That’s probably why Pokemon is the exception, it retains so much of its game mechanics within the actual anime and they are quite visible. This means there’s a lot more viewer identification with the show’s leads for anyone who has played the game - Ash is effectively playing the game on screen.

Trading card game anime are one step further and far more explicitly adverts for their games. This will probably be utter rubbish, and still be better than Tales Of The Abyss in terms of an adaptation.

Linebarrels of Iron
WHAT IS IT? A manga adaptation!

Linebarrels of Iron? Linebarrels of Shit more like!

Oh my where to begin. Directed by Pokemon’s Masamitsu Hidaka. Character Designs/Animation Direction by the master of ONE face, Hisashi Hirai (Gundam SEED), “creative producer” (whatever that might be) is Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass), it’s adapted from an ongoing manga and it’s a GONZO show.

This all adds up to the most avoidable show of the year!

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19

August 19th, 2008 by Brack

  • dealing with landlord idiocy #
  • but at least my book order is here. Comedy By Numbers, the Chris Jericho bio and the latest Monster volume. Yay. #
  • First Danielson. Now Morishima’s put over clean in a WWE dark match. Curious. #
  • POP Brook! out December it seems. http://tinyurl.com/5ueg8d #
  • Rob Lucci too! http://tinyurl.com/599yak #

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MAD MONDAYS - TADASHI HIRAMATSU

August 18th, 2008 by Brack

It’s MAD Monday time again~!

Tadashi Hiramtsu is primarily know for his GAINAX work, but he’s worked a whole of heap of other A+ neato shows like Denno Coil, the OP for BECK, Gad Guard (I need to get that at some point as it seems to have had so many good animators pop in on it), Paranoia Agent, and The Cat Returns.

He’s had a movie adaptation of Ghost Rhapsody on the boil for years, but nothing seems to have come to light yet.

AniPages Daily has a translated interview with him here.

And here’s the MAD. Music is “HIT IN AMERICA” by BEAT CRUSADERS. Be warned the sound mix on this is a out of whack at points.

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