It would be cool if there was a book trading/dealing aspect to the game
Which is the one labeled "Abbie Normal"?
This reads like an article from the Onion. Satire and reality seem to have gotten too close to each in other in the past decade, methinks.
Grr.
There's entire generations who grew up with those books. I remember my teacher in first grade, back around 1991 or so, reading those books to us.
.....It kinda explains alot.
If you ever get a chance to see the IMAX Hubble movie...highly recommend it, if only for this scene inside Orion's Nebula. If there is a heaven, I hope it looks like this.
if it makes it easier, the fangs are his eyes, and the viper's eyes are the corners of his mouth
it looks more like an extremely pissed off, small eyed daffy than the image shown in that pic
This should've been a unicorn chaser for the tumor article.
*dies of cuteness*
That hair cannot possibly be real. It's as if it was made of plastic.
I was thinking it may just have been shot in the late autumn, when there are no leaves on the trees.
Does Harmony Gold still even exist? (looks it up) Well...I'll be damned. They must be coasting on DVD sales of Robotech, I guess. They haven't even picked up any anime titles since the early 90s. I can't imagine why. They showed sooooo much respect to the Macross series. That was sarcasm, by the way.
That's a big factor. It's been proven that when anime and manga creators go in new directions, the end result can be very very good and can rise above from being "just anime" to something that people can legitimately call great work. Unfortunately, in the past decade, that hasn't sold as well as the more fan-service-oriented titles do.
Heh, from the looks of it, early 90s anime in America wasn't really cream of the crop, but rather schlocky violence and porn, like Ninja Scroll, which were mostly responsible for this bad reputation. The review show "Anime Abandon" on That Guy with The Glasses showcases alot of these. It wasn't really until Ghost in the Shell came out and Gundam Wing was shown (mostly) uncut on Toonami Midnight Run that anime's reputation started to turn around, at least for a few years, until the the previously-mentioned glut of substandard stuff flooded the shelves.
Yeah, it's been hard to cut through the chaff to get to the wheat, especially since, unfortunately, the kind of anime that gets popular nowadays are the, well, I hate to be stereotypical, fangirl fanservicey pretty boy and "ooooh, i want to pair these characters together, they're so kawaiiiiii" types of anime. I feel like an old man. I doubt most anime fans nowadays have even seen Ghost in the Shell, when, back in my day, it was nearly a prerequisite.
Yup, all those were great, and still are.
Some good ones I've recently watched are Last Exile, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (haven't seen much of the first FMA, but apparently Brotherhood is superior and it is very good and has a tight storyline) and Gurren Lagann. Gurren Lagann is alot like if you took FLCL and tried to put a traditional story arc to it.
Exactly, it seemed to me that, 10 years ago, there was more experimentation in story and design. Some favorites of mine are Cowboy Bebop and FLCL. Both are very different from, not only each other, but also from the anime of today. If they continued to explore new genres like that, I don't think the industry would be in the rut it is in right now.
I know that post was mainly about anime, but alot of it can be applied to my thoughts about manga as well.
I like me some anime and manga, though I'm nowhere near as big a fan of it as I was in the late-90s, early 2000s, Toonami Midnight Run-era. I was (and still am) a big fan of anime from that era. Gundam Wing, even though alot of people give it shit, was pretty much my first exposure to more mature, unedited anime, which opened me up to, in my eyes, a whole new world. The unbridled coolness of Cowboy Bebop. The Steampunk Wild-West awesomeness of Trigun. The surreal David Lynch-meets-alt-rock awesomeness of FLCL. Excel Saga, which is still one of the all-time great parody animes. Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. It just felt like exploring a new frontier and finding new delights around every corner.
At some point, it felt like a certain type of fan started moving the industry away from me. Maybe I'm just atypical and I was enjoying these animes for something different than others were. I enjoyed them for their story, characters, and style, while, it seemed to me, other fans seemed to be focusing on how many different relationship combinations they could geek out about. And it felt like they were moving away from the kinds of anime I enjoyed and started to focus on producing more "moe"-styled relationship comedies. Just wasn't for me. And if there was any action animes, most of them were long-running serials like Naruto and Bleach that just felt too imposing to get into. Reminded me of DBZ which I really couldn't get into when I was younger.
I'm not saying there hasn't been any worthy anime to get into lately. I've recently watched Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Gurren Lagann, both of which have elements of the kind of anime that I enjoyed 10 years ago. But it sometimes feels like the fandom just passed me by in a direction that I just didn't care for.
Same thing with me. I'm a graphic designer who sometimes has to send large files to clients and print shops. Megaupload was perfect for that.
When I was 5 years old, I remember getting a personalized book for my birthday. It was basically a predetermined story, with text typed over it. Didn't have my face or anything in it.
I read that statement in the voice of Emperor Palpatine.
