That sounds familiar...

So DBZ movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon. Apparently its the story about how Trunks gets his sword. And then it hits me.

I watched it before...and then it hits me again.

I don't remember much of it...personally I prefer Rebirth of Fusion, with Hitler marching down the streets and Goten and Trunks kicking his ass. Oh yes, Hitler and his moustache...

I swear its like Mario and the color red, you just identify it with him! Crazy voice doesn't count since it came in Mario 64, and Mario was already kicking with the other titles.

So TBS has a humor study, and it asks the question: which is funnier, a mime pretending to be trapped in a box or a mime actually trapped in a box?

Obviously the latter is the more humourous. Oh look, Disgaea, Fate/Stay Night, Ergo Proxy and Paradise Kiss are licensed by Geneon. And Japan has probably one of the best commercials I've ever seen. Get this, a guy is sitting in his room watching some samurai movie, and decides to turn it off.

Of course the characters in the tv say no, and then approach the screen and say "NO! Don't do it!" They do crazy stuff to get the viewer to not turn off the tv, like threaten to kill a female character, start a soccer game (because who doesn't like football?), even do a little rap. Of course the viewer decides to turn off the television.

Then the character that did most of the talking slowly "opens" up the black screen like a window, steps out. Cue scene to viewer running down the streets with the samurai guy carrying the tv on his back screaming "just tell us what you want!"

Cue slogan: Customers first.

This is for a television broadcasting company. Great isn't it?

So classes are starting soon, but that's the week after, which means after labor day, which means the week after elementary/middle/high school folk start to go to school, meaning that the rest of the world will be quiet again for a week and that we who are not part of that world are still free.

Meaning if there are any readers out there who are still in said world: HA HA SUCKERS! HA HA HA HA HA! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS! TAKE THAT THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW!

Now in the words of my physics teacher: "I worry that one day you will be driving on the same road as I am." (directed to the whole class).

Amen ma'am, amen...

ARGH!

So it's the Final Phase (or episode) of Gundam SEED, and guess what? The last boss is so cheap it ain't even funny. I mean it has 6 little detachments that can go flying around shooting lasers...so think of "grid attack." Cheap, very cheap.

Oh and it also has a laser sword, a very LARGE laser sword (super range): also cheap.

You know what...I don't think it's 6 detachments...I think it's 8!

Yes...and I am very sad right now. Because I lack money I can not buy recklessly (though I doubt I'd buy recklessly if -)

Oh someone died...cue stereotypical scream.

Yup it's 8 detachments.

Y'know in the right light the Freedom looks like the Tallgeese III.

Y'know to go from screaming to calm is pretty creepy...oh yes remember to cue stereotypical shonen scene.

Oh check this out! It's the list for the new Transformers movie next year!

Autobots

Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Jazz
Ratchet
Ironhide

Decepticons

Megatron
Starscream
Brawl
Bonecruhser
Barricade
Scorponok
Frenzy
Blackout

TRANSFORM! Yay!

So...I'm kind of sad right now, I neglected to buy some manga in a box set (two actually) that had some cool extras (but they CAME IN A BOX) and lo and behold...they're gone forever. CURSES! So here's a lesson to you all: when buying old series be sure to get it fast, OR ELSE. They go out pretty soon after, like the first set was released in October of 2003, and now it's gone. Damn. Yes it's shoujo, so it wouldn't have the same shonen fan group (which is IMO usually larger).

For some interesting trivia, I heard the new Destiny DVD box is like...collapseable! Like it can be folded, and it sticks together with MAGNETS! MAGNETS NEAR DVDs...kind of STRANGE.

Oh well, I was getting sick of the crazy inconsistencies. OMFG TWO OF THE DETACHMENTS GOT SHOT!

And the lesson for today children is that biologically engineered characters will go crazy in the end.

And FMA is a comedy, no matter the language spoken, it's a pure comedy.

(paraphrased) "I can't...I can't use human lives to make a Philosopher's Stone! I can't do it!"

Are...are you sure Ed? I mean all you need to do is do a little clap and push hands down on the ground. Flashy lightning and BAM! Insta-stone! And don't get me started on the Homunculi's mission, I mean COME ON! Do they even CONSIDER that they lose immortality (or sort of immortality) and their POWERS?! Maybe it's the dub that tries too hard, maybe the script is poorly written (which I HIGHLY doubt, Funimation wouldn't risk screwing up the dub too much) but honestly, it just comes off as a comedy.

Apparently the people in SEED haven't heard of "remote self-destruct." Oh yes, and another lesson is that if you get SKEWERED BY A LASER OR CUT IN HALF YOU DIE!...

PERMANENTLY!

Damn I really have to get one of those explosion-immune suits...and Kira two-times his new girlfriend...

Has anyone heard of "Dragonball Z: Wrath of the Dragon"? I hear it's the last DBZ film, which is surprising because I thought Rebirth of Fusion was suppose to be the last one (in which, as always all battles are solved using one thing: fighting). And yes DBZ is a comedy too.

Aw damnit...I just full-screened my browser and I don't know how to reverse it! I...I mean I'm such a genius I figured it out! Score.

And mobile suit cockpits fit two, and Birdy can fly in space. Damn I wish I had a mobile suit...just have to initiate some kind of crazy-ass plan to put myself into mortal danger, and have my girlfriend fly up in her mobile suit, initiate self-destruct on my own suit, jump out and float into my girlfriend's suit.

Yes I love it. It'll totally work, completely fool-proof!

Aww....Roy Mustang is going to get some apple pie...okay here's a question: what makes certain alchemy "taboo." It's against the laws of nature to recreate a human being...yes if the laws of nature were indeed so great then shouldn't all of alchemy be taboo?! It's un-natural I tell you!

Hey it's Pride...y'know for a homunculi he doesn't seem "evil." Of course it doesn't look like the Sins are a group at all...a very...

Unorganized Organization? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH! *crickets chirp* It was a Kingdom Hearts 2 reference, Sora made the comment that Organization XIII was pretty unorganized (5 members are dead at the beginning of KH2 and the other members don't give a rat's ass...). Score.

Oh here's another bit of trivia, the law of equivalent exchange...so if we want to MAKE human life what do we need to exchange for it? I'm not sure...what's the equivalent of human life? NOTHING! (But for FMA's sake, it's another human life).

I mean is it that hard to find a bum out in the countryside?! I bet even those two kids could grab a bum and do a little mojo...but instead they exchange two drops of blood...wow, TWO DROPS, THAT'LL SAVE A LIFE!

Now if anyone criticizes that these are children and can't think that hard, consider the fact that they can perform alchemy, that they understand the texts without it flying over their head, and that they aren't idiots.

Nevertheless someone must've tripped into the circle because they did create human life, sorta...I call it "mistake." Now it's actually legible to say "you were a mistake..."

Like it's proper to call a female dog a bitch. HEY IT WAS IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT AND USED CORRECTLY. OKAY MAYBE NOT IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT BUT IT WAS USED CORRECTLY! Least I don't use it excessively like in rap videos, SPEAKING OF WHICH ARE ABSOLUTE TRASH AND A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!

Dare I say it? People who like rap have no tastes. Case in point: Ludacris walking down the road with a person dipped in silver hanging from his neck...also Ludacris's head on a baby dancing, a "baby drop-off" for a club, Ludacris having an insanely large foot stomping the ground to prevent people from standing up, I can go on!

Yes, I think I've proven my point, rap is stupid.

WE...HAVE...NEW...SIN! ENTER: SLOTH!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I...I LIKED HIM! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Damn...doesn't anyone know how to kill a homunculi? (Btw how do you kill a homunculi? I mean besides completely disintegrating their bodies, I suspect that you need to destroy their tattoo).

Damn...oh well. No big deal, pretty typical of any story, a character dies to spice things up. It is also very stupid that Funimation needlessly cuts the ending theme short...very stupid.

Oh and "Sexyback" back Justin Timberlack is probably one of the worst songs I've heard.

Oh and never tell a girl that you videotaped having sex with her without telling her that you are videotaping it. Not that it's ever happened...I'm watching Friends okay?! Damn I wish I had chicken right now...

No matter what anyone says, I think Franz Ferdinand is like...REALLY REALLY GAY. Not their music, their music is fine just their videos. I mean the video for "Do you really want to" or something has them dragging a woman around in PAINT.

This is a rather strange rant about music videos isn't it? In fact, I think I'll go downstairs to get some food.

Oh man the secret is yogurt, just get decent yogurt and I am PUTTY!

Yeah I'm off, to FIND MORE YOGURT!

Asking for decent logic in a shonen...

Is like asking for less violence in a shonen. It just isn't shonen then. Case in point, Gundam Wing and Gundam SEED.

GW: Trowa is supposedly dead after his suit goes boom in space, but lo and behold he's alive. Also, Zechs, stays in the Epyon AT THE BLOODY CORE OF THE SHIP when it goes boom. If he were to get out and crawl he wouldn't make it, he's suppose to be dead!!!

SEED: Now for the definitive one, Mu La Flaga supposedly dies by the Dominion. In fact the Strike...

a) melts away.
b) gets disintegrated.
c) we see his damn helmet...

Now how the hell the helmet could possibly have survived is another, but apparently the man lives on in Destiny as the next masked man. Damnit! Is a little logic a bit too hard to ask for?!

And there are many more problems in other anime, I just haven't remembered them all. Though a decent one would be Evangelion, as in...

a) Where the hell do the ANGELs come from? Sure it's nice to know what they are, but where do they come from? Why only appear one by one? If they truly are intelligent (which is questionable, considering that they approach one by one) why not attack all at once? Or at least in packs?

b) Global warming, how the &@($ does Evangelion take place on an Earth with one of the poles FREAKING MELTED?

c) How the &@$# does a soul get into an Eva without 400% sync ratio?

d) So the AT Field...so when Unit 01 literally breaks through an AT Field, is it literally RAPING THE FREAKING ANGEL? Damn that's perverted...

So let's move onto some video games, and their fanservice reincarnations...

FF7: Advent Children.

a) Rufus, president Rufus, takes Diamond WEAPON's attack straight-on and survives. Scoob.

b) I do not want to know how Yazoo, Loz and Kadaj planned on merging into one being again...

c) So...exactly how destroyed does Midgar have to be before the producers stop using it? I mean it survives for 500 years after FF7, but come on! It can only take so much damage!

d) GENESIS! WHERE THE @!%$ HAS GENESIS BEEN FOR THE PAST 9 YEARS? (Project G, can you guess what Project S was?)

e) How far can so much plots be pulled out of the ass? I'm looking at you Dirge of Cerberus!

f) So...Tseng, survived...fine, still a bit unreal though.

g) I think that's it.

Now let's look at one of my personal favorite series, Kingdom Hearts.

a) Why does Sora have no heart floating out of him if he gets game over in KH2? Where's his heart?

b) Secret ending, 'nuff said.

c) WE...WANTED....CHAIN OF MEMORIES REFERENCES! GAWD DAMNIT!

d) Zexion's weapon, 'nuff said. (His weapon panel that shows his weapon is so convienently destroyed...)

e) Letter at the end, why the *$^@ did they include it?

f) All the unanswered questions in Ansem's Reports, all 3 of them.

g) So where did Cloud and Sephiroth go anyway?

h) And why does Aerith not care that Cloud is gone?

i) That's it, all I can think of at the moment.

So yes...all games/anime have such horrible flaws that it makes me wonder why they're so amusing. I think it's because of the piece of paper in front of me, yes that's the reason, the piece of paper makes it that way. Some logic huh?

Scoob people, total scoob.

Something very sad...

Licenses. They expire. This sucks.

Now I'm not talking about driver's licenses, or bar licenses, they can be renewed. I'm talking about anime licenses.

If an anime license expires, the company may or may not choose to renew their license. This costs money. If they want to renew their license, they better be damn sure that some profits can still be made. Unfortunately, money makes the world go 'round, and as anime ages, so do the fans.

Fans age, tastes age, anime ages...gasp! Companies like Geneon or...actually I can only think of Geneon right now...companies like Geneon, when their licenses are nearing their end and they think they won't renew it, will go for a last ditch effort and release box sets or release "signature series" that offer series at much lower prices. This has been seen for such titles as "Serial Experiments Lain," or "CCS" or "Sailormoon."

Now this is my point. I was surfing the net when I found a review of the Sailormoon R movie, and I'm like..."damn, I haven't seen that movie in years!" So I read the review, and I'm like..."Damn, 'Moon Revenge' was suppose to be the ending theme instead of 'Power of Love'? Damn!"

Then I remember that Geneon's license ended a while back...and thus they would no longer produce DVDs for sale.

Now this is sad. I go on sites that sell anime and they no longer have the series available, pic is still there but usually there's a message that "this item is no longer available for order" or something. I mean if you go on Amazon you can still get the Super S saga for like...60 bucks, but you won't find the S saga for regular, and if you do they'll be expensive.

Which is sad. I mean Sailormoon was like...a cult classic and was one of the fore-mothers that led to the anime boom in the West, and now...now it's gone!

GONE!

OH GAWD I CAN'T HELP IT! I MISS SAILORMOON! Though strangely enough I don't miss DBZ, I think that's because a whole episode would comprise two lines...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Quality show, definately.

So next year at AN, if I see Sailormoon for sale (or that LD of Jurassic Park...) I'll buy it, mark my words I'll buy it.

I miss Sailormoon...I never did watch the entire series in full. And I wonder about Stars...hmm...