Archive for May, 2008

Why Manga is fucking up everything

May 25, 2008

As exaggerated as the title may sound, I honestly believe that manga/anime will fuck up the world in every possible way.  Now I assume there was a period when anime/manga was good; a period when it was, most likely, all mecha-related;  but something terrible happened: It spread like a goddamned virus.

The problem with Manga/Anime(now just referred to as manga to save time) becoming popular is it began to prosper, and like a shark with it’s first taste of blood, manga began to such up as much blood as possible by any means necessary.  To appeal to a larger market the average idea of an anime became more and more stupid:  Teenage Ninjas(NOT mutant turtle ones) wearing flamboyant clothing or being emo? can you say MILLIONS!?!  Two vampire twins hell-bent on destroying each other while their victims are turned into loyal  servants and one of them is an opera singer ? they are clearly on to something there.
Even when mangas have good stories they usually end up fucking it up.  Death Note, for instance, was new and original, it was entertaining and clever, and fucked it all up by the end.  A mastermind killer’s masterpiece plan was subpar for a fifth grader and he was reduced to begging a death god to help him like a crack addict reduced to sucking his dealer’s cock.  Not only that but they managed to fuck up the mech genre aswell, specifically in Eureka 7.  The story is about a boy and girl in love, girl is actually an alien type thing and has adopted the most annoying children in the planet. Oh and there are robots that sky surf.  Yes you heard that correct, WIND SURFING ROBOTS.  The dialogue is just plain terrible and the coming of age stories featured in just about every episode was terrible.

While some instances of manga are good like shin-chan(on occasion), Akira, and FLCL, The entire medium is in general just awful.
Though The comic industry is doing fine, its no secret that manga is far more prevalent read for (pre)teens.  They(by which I mean goddamned weeaboos!) have also started to invade on Comic territory which is just angering for your average /co/mrade.  In Comic-Con there are booths for such weeaboo distributors a Tokyo-Pop which may seem logical but I assure you it isnt.  Comic-Con is a convention for comics, things like Anime Expo is for things like anime/manga.  Having the tokyo pop booth at comic-con would be like a mac booth at a pc convention.   I saw more goddamn Naruto Fags at Comic-con then I did any comic star which is angering because A: Naruto is one of the shittiest mangas around and B: like I said its not their goddamn CON.

Hughes Net

May 10, 2008

The ISP Hughes Net is possibly the most soulless and evil company in a evil and soulless business.  Their only claim to excellence is that they are available everywhere and for those of us in the middle of fucking no-where, its either them or Dial-Up, so Hughes Net is basically our only internet option.  I live in an area where the phone polls are underground and the internet suffers because so; guess which ISP i have.  The internet is terrible ofcourse, Playing online games or downloading anything larger than songs are nearly impossible.  The internet gets slightly better after 9PM, meaning I can actually watch videos off of youtube WOW TECHNOLOGY HAS ADVANCED SO FAR!  The worst part of it is is the plan I have costs, If i remember correctly, 100 bucks a month! my god that costs more than ACTUAL high-speed internet.  The plan, off of their website, boasts 1 MBPS download speed while ive never reached higher than 100kbps; on average it is below 15 kbps!  There is even a download limit, a paltry 375 megs!!!!

They also blatently hide the truth in their commercials ” HELOOOOOOOOO HIGHSPEED” “Im never going back to dial-up” there are numerous more comparisons to it and highspeed, why? BECAUSE ITS A SHITLOAD SLOWER THEN HIGH-SPEED INTERNET

FUCK CRITICS

May 10, 2008

I probably have no right to say that most critics are retarded, but damn it, its probably true!  I shall list 2 recent examples, GTA IV, and speedracer.  One dreadfully over-rated, one woefully under-rated.

Speedracer: The average reviewer of this film apparently has no clue what the fuck the anime Speed racer was like, which might be valuable information to know BEFORE your review the live-action version!.  I entered the theater to watch Speed racer opening night, surprised to see about 15-20 people in the theater.  The cause of this was probably because of the scathing reviews it has recieved. Take, for example, this review from The New Yorker “of no conceivable interest to anyone over the age of ten.” “by the name of Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch). Does that not suggest a preëmptive strike by his parents,” “The film revolves around cars, yet there are practically no cars. Almost all the vehicles you see are digital creations, as is the track itself, and they cannon and collide with the harmless mayhem that anyone versed in Hot Wheels will recall with pride. The entire movie, indeed, is what Tom Wolfe would call a Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, complete with achingly blue skies, customized deserts, fantastical mountains, and everything from Goodman’s shirt to Ricci’s fingernails daubed in lollipop hues; it makes the world of Pee-wee Herman look like Anselm Kiefer.” “they want everything both ways, stuffing the cast with multinational actors (“Speed Racer” is based on a Japanese comic book and TV show from the nineteen-sixties) yet still supplying the hero with a pancake-flipping mother, a father who builds a winning car in his own garage, and a glass of cold milk on the victor’s podium.”

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?  The world was created FROM the anime, the odd environments, odd clothing, the “harmless mayhem” if this twat actually bothered to do any research then this person might have made a valid review, but no, this douche cant be bothered with that.  Not only that but I add :”Though the film is not as criminally poor as “V for Vendetta,””  clearly this person has no right to be reviewing for something as prestigious as The New Yorker.

The Movie’s cheesy dialogue, cuts, effects, environments, costumes, ect ect, is based/taken from the goddamn anime, but while paying tribute to the “quality” of the series, the movie also pokes fun at old anime. The Wachowskis also made it very enjoyable, a task nearly impossible when stuck with content like speed racer.

GTA IV

On the other end of the spectrum GTA IV has been getting more praise then a fatty scarfing down a salad.  The lowest score from a critic on metacritic is a 91! I have played the game and I give it a 70, 75 tops, this creats a 16 point gap between me and the harshest reviewer, which is, frankely, absurd.  The game is fun, entertaining, violent, and basically like every other GTA, just with the Euphoria Engine.  The driving system is sort of annoying, the combat system is extremely unhelpful, and the voice actors are very annoying.  That said it does have the un-deniable fun factor included with the GTA series.  Long story short, the game is good, certainly an improvement since the previous entries in the series, but far from perfect.

What does this show you? Critics in todays society go, for the most part, with the flow.  Whether its the universal jerk off of GTA IV or the screwing over Speed Racer is facing, Critics are affected by other critics.