Shin Mazinger Z ain’t a mecha anime. It’s pure mythology. And that awesomely oppressive and depressing ending seals it.
Jan 272012
Y’know what’s scarier than dial-up connections? A dial-up connection hooked up to a Super Nintendo.
Let’s talk about a little thing called the XBAND.
Jan 232012
That “iyashikei” stuff. According to that bastion of abomination, TV Tropes, iyashikei is all about “soothing” or “healing ” the audience.
You know what does that for me? The Dirty Pair.
Yeah. Let’s run with this.
Alright, let me start with this: Calling unsubbed anime “raw” is silly. It implies that there’s something wrong with watching it without someone only translating half of the spoken words and then slapping those words on the bottom of the screen using some gaudy, barely legible text. Not “wrong” as in “you’re breaking the 10 Commandments and gonna get sodomized for 10,000 years by Satan when you die” or anything like that, but “wrong” in the way that it’s wrong to eat a slab of raw meat or drink uncooked eggs. That shit’ll make you sick. And at best it sounds like you’re eating raw cookie dough. Yeah, that shit’s tasty, but it isn’t as good as the actual cooked cookies by most people’s standards and you’re always gonna get some FDA guy giving you a weird look because there’s a 0.001% chance that raw dough has salmonella in it. Even in the best of scenarios, “raw” is bad juju.
So just call it what it is: unsubbed, untranslated, “pure and untouched by filthy American pig-dogs,” whatever. Yeah, I know, those words have more syllables and take longer to type. Not every word can be grunted out with the least amount of effort possible. Get over your fear of intermediate vocabulary skills.
Jan 182012
Let’s celebrate the end of the internet by talking about some shitty Go Nagai OVA.
