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"Random Thread: Nongaming Edition VI" , posted Mon 24 Jul 18:23post reply

The summer heatwave.
SO HOT I can't bare be near a PC

https://twitter.com/shiohitoshi/status/887506947431321600

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"Re(1):Random Thread: Nongaming Edition VI" , posted Tue 25 Jul 10:13post reply

During a recent heat wave in this part of the world I found I had to splash water on the steering wheel of my car before driving to keep from burning my hands. Unless they were intentionally trying to make duck soup it looks like someone forgot to hydrate their co-pilot. What a fowl trick.







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"Re(2):Random Thread: Nongaming Edition VI" , posted Tue 25 Jul 11:30post reply

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SO HOT I can't bare be near a PC
Don't worry, Prof, you don't have to bare anything, unless you've lost too many rounds of strip mahjong on the fifth floor of that arcade! Time to flee to Shounan...
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had to splash water on the steering wheel of my car before driving to keep from burning my hands.
What a fowl trick.

Burning steering wheel or not, when it comes to puns and Marx Brothers references like that, Naganuma Hideki wants you to know that you are a winner and got a hot hand, funky dealer that you are.





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"The Greatest Article About the Ducktales Song" , posted Fri 11 Aug 02:42post reply

This is an amazing article!

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"Re(1):The Greatest Article About the Ducktale" , posted Fri 11 Aug 03:21post reply

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This is an amazing article!

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From Vanity Fair no less!

I'm glad this thread is only about ducks.







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"attn: Chaz re: LCD Soundsystem" , posted Thu 17 Aug 01:26post reply

What is your opinion on this, or are they already too demode to be worth being interested in unironically?







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"Re(2):The Greatest Article About the Ducktale" , posted Thu 17 Aug 10:13post reply

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I'm glad this thread is only about ducks.

While Spoon has broken the ducks-only theme (short answer: LCD is...acceptable, but why more?), I am here to bring it back on track: that article is fun, but ye gods, look at how awful that new Duck Tales looks compared to the original.

One of the joys about getting older and complaining about new things is that occasionally you're objectively right. Just like how the lower-budget, featureless faces of the CG/eroge-looking anime junk on TV now just doesn't have the same production values as anime in the 1980s and 1990s, this is demonstrably worse. I realize that Americans don't know how to draw by hand any more, that the brave and traditionally drawn Princess and the Frog didn't make enough, and that portions of the original Ducktales were drawn in Japan, but come on.





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"Re(3):The Greatest Article About the Ducktale" , posted Thu 17 Aug 17:05post reply

quote:

I'm glad this thread is only about ducks.
While Spoon has broken the ducks-only theme (short answer: LCD is...acceptable, but why more?), I am here to bring it back on track: that article is fun, but ye gods, look at how awful that new Duck Tales looks compared to the original.

One of the joys about getting older and complaining about new things is that occasionally you're objectively right. Just like how the lower-budget, featureless faces of the CG/eroge-looking anime junk on TV now just doesn't have the same production values as anime in the 1980s and 1990s, this is demonstrably worse. I realize that Americans don't know how to draw by hand any more, that the brave and traditionally drawn Princess and the Frog didn't make enough, and that portions of the original Ducktales were drawn in Japan, but come on.



I haven't seen yet the new DuckTales episodes, but the art style is really bad.
Somewhere I read an interview where someone said this new design is more in line with current people "tastes", well there are like 2 million american show with the same squared, simple, uninspired, easy to draw, style.
Heck, recently I saw also a fucking Scooby Doo show redesigned to look like one of this new Disney style cartoon. It was horrible style-wise (content-wise I can't speak, I can't stand that series, so didn't see enough to comment on it).







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"Re(4):The Greatest Article About the Ducktale" , posted Fri 18 Aug 02:53post reply

I'm of two minds about the ducks. First, I can understand why the creators of this new show would want to have a different visual style. From what I've read it sounds like they are changing around the formula a bit, such as giving Huey, Dewey and Louie different personalities instead of the three of them having identical outfits and brain patterns. Having a different art style is a visual reminder that this is a new project and shouldn't be constantly compared what came before. While the art style looks like something on a greeting card it doesn't look horrible in motion and appears to be consistently thought through instead of simply being cheap.

The thing is, when Scrooge McDuck and the group were created 70 or so years ago they got it right the first time. These characters and their adventures have stuck around for so long because they're good. Will this new variation feel dated in a few years? Will it be like how the early Lupin episodes feel timeless but the latter entries where the master thief became fascinated with the movie Flashdance feel horribly old?

Ultimately it doesn't matter what I think since I'm not the target audience. But even though I'm closer to the age range of Uncle Scrooge instead of the nephews I'll still be curious to see how this all plays out.





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"Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Fri 18 Aug 10:20:post reply

quote:
This is an amazing article!

Suddenly I had thoughts about talbaineric...



Thanks for the link! It comes right at a time when I was getting the vibes for some nostalgic stuff.

By the way, does anyone remember the 1980's show/comic M.A.S.K.? It was like GIJoe and Transformers stripped of content and mended together with Krazy glue. Never could've I forseen the ressurection of the franchise, but also getting ducktaped with those two series.





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"Re(1):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Fri 18 Aug 11:43post reply

Sure do! Fantastic theme song, love to sing it at karaoke but nobody seems to get the reference. Hasbro has been keen to bring back MASK (as well as a few other franchises) a few times now but it's never seemed to catch on:
- "Specialist Trakker" got a GI Joe toy in 2008
- Unit:E was the first attempt at unifying the Hasbro'verse in 2011
- MASK provided the truck that Optimus based his new vehicle mode on in the latter portion of Transformers Prime (2013)





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"Re(2):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Fri 18 Aug 13:41post reply

quote:
Sure do! Fantastic theme song, love to sing it at karaoke but nobody seems to get the reference. Hasbro has been keen to bring back MASK (as well as a few other franchises) a few times now but it's never seemed to catch on:
- "Specialist Trakker" got a GI Joe toy in 2008
- Unit:E was the first attempt at unifying the Hasbro'verse in 2011



Of course he would get a figure. Trakker's gonna lead the mission....

But why didn't they make a Spectrum toy?
I mean, he's got that
suuuuuuperrrrr visssionnnn.....

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"Re(2):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Fri 18 Aug 17:39post reply

quote:
Hasbro has been keen to bring back MASK (as well as a few other franchises) a few times now but it's never seemed to catch on:
- Unit:E was the first attempt at unifying the Hasbro'verse in 2011



Ok, GIJoe and Transformers crossed lots of time, somewhat make sense to cross them with M.A.S.K., but Jem?!?
Please, leave Jem alone, and give me a worthy reboot/sequel...







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"Re(3):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Fri 18 Aug 18:19post reply

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Ok, GIJoe and Transformers crossed lots of time, somewhat make sense to cross them with M.A.S.K., but Jem?!?
Please, leave Jem alone, and give me a worthy reboot/sequel...



I've read good impressions of the newer Jem standalone comic series.

On the wider Hasbro verse thing, I'm all for interesting crossovers, and the comics medium has delivered many and interesting cases these past few years, but I'm not familiar enough with some of these series to appreciate them, altough they'd have a hard time being worse than a recent Street Fighter/G.I. Joe one where they made Rufus the Psycho-Power-enhanced final boss...





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"Re(2):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Sat 19 Aug 01:08post reply

quote:
- Unit:E was the first attempt at unifying the Hasbro'verse in 2011


They tried to incorporate Candy Land into a shared fictional universe?!?





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"Re(3):Masked crusaders working overtime" , posted Sat 19 Aug 01:42post reply

Well I never said first SUCCESSFUL attempt :)





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"Re(1):attn: Chaz re: LCD Soundsystem" , posted Sat 19 Aug 12:57:post reply

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What is your opinion on this, or are they already too demode to be worth being interested in unironically?



Hi Spoon, sorry I was very busy with work (and Dragon Quest XI) recently so I have missed MMC for a while. I did not remember that I had mentioned / we had discussed LCD Soundsystem here in the past!

The article seems to date from last June, so at the time I think it was understandable to adopt a dubious approach about the merit of their return and their capacity to produce an interesting project in 2017. I think there is always a worry about why would you bring back something which was pretty much the perfect representation of a specific timeframe of pop culture. When their next project is a lesser work, it's also an echo of their fanbase's own fall in relevance in culture, which is never fun to think about. On that point, I am not expecting LCDS to ever produce an album as relevant as Sound of Silver or This is Happening. Hell, I am not even expecting albums to be relevant. Teens are probably as perplexed by the concept of "albums" as I was about "scopitones" when I was their age.

LCD was most interesting and relevant as a band encapsulating the rise of Williamsburg's prominence in American pop culture, and its wide impact on a lot of WASP counter-culture from the G.W.Bush administration: the Portland exodus, the massive improvement of cuisine culture in the US, American Apparel, the rise of Vice as a media empire, the relaxing attitude towards drugs, the de-diabolization of socialist activism in the US etc. Sound of Silver is a cultural peak of that era and I am not surprised it came right about as the USA shifted back to a Democratic administration and the Yes We Can! agitprop.

LCD's work was obviously less relevant under the calm (and let's be honest culturally complacent) Obama era, which saw popular culture more impacted by technological innovation (Netflix, Uber, Youtube, Grinder/Tinder, the rise and fall of successive SNS, Bitcoins etc.) than the cultural contents which they broadcasted. LCD did not have so much to bring to this cultural revolution, in the way that OK Go understood the newfound importance of video performance for example, or in the way young black artists took over the Internet to reach a broader audience cheaper and faster than through the hoops of traditional labels which either imposed commercial or regional barriers in the past. So it made sense that LCD fade away after This is Happening, which always sounds to me like the 65m35s victory lap of that generation.

But recently, social activism in the US has been getting more "interesting", to say the least. Under this new context of social unrest, there is necessarily going to be a explosion of creative output. I would rather hope and expect the output comes from minorities rather than white males rooting for them; in its own way Despacito in an interesting phenomenon counter to the narrative of the recent culture wars and wall-building proposals, and I would bet #BlackLivesMatter will give rise to some interesting artistic endeavours from teenagers who grew up under the stress and energy of these social engagements.

I don't expect (and would not hope for the United States of America) that LCD Soundsystem would be at the forefront of this new cultural dynamic, but their return makes much more sense in the current atmosphere of doubting the government, media, technology, neighbours and oneself. The three tracks we've heard so far go from alright to great in my book.

I actually went to Fuji Rock 2017 in order to see LCD Soundsystem in concert a few weeks ago. I am not a concert buff and had never done so until they broke up. I felt very stupid at the time for missing out on the chance to see them live, so I did not want to miss one more (one last?) chance to see the band perform. The festival was a messy, exhausting experience under an unforgiving thunderstorm. But the two hours long, rainy and sweaty, midnight in the middle of the forest LCD Soundsystem concert was mindblowingly good. They struck all the hits (besides Drunk Girls), the playset's order was on point, Murphy was charming and self-depreciating about playing the new songs, (it was the first time anyone in the crowd heard 'Tonite' which is a bonified dancefloor hit when you are surrounded with people clearly under the influence of MDMA and other toys). I got an innocent, unexpecting friend to join me and he seems to have loved it even though he knew nothing of the band. Probably one of my best concert memories now that the sore muscles have properly rested.





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"Re(2):attn: Chaz re: LCD Eclipsesystem" , posted Tue 22 Aug 09:05post reply

I don't know if you are living in the path or made vacation plans to visit a darkened part of the earth but I hope other Café patrons were able to enjoy the recent solar eclipse.





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"The danmitsu side of the Moon" , posted Tue 22 Aug 10:10post reply

Speaking of darkened parts of the Earth, I am sorry to say Dan Mitsu will vanish from Miyagi's official campaign. Oh well, at least they succeeded tenfold in getting people's attention.





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"Re(1):The danmitsu side of the Moon" , posted Tue 22 Aug 11:04post reply

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I don't know if you are living in the path or made vacation plans to visit a darkened part of the earth but I hope other Café patrons were able to enjoy the recent solar eclipse.
Did any of the Cafe's vampire killers see Dracula's Castle? I hear it's sealed away in there!

It's also fitting that for a phenomenon traditionally assumed to be an ill omen or a sign of the gods' angers, Danmitsu's angelic redemption of forgotten Miyagi should be taken from the world. Like Dracula's human wife who was burned at the stake, "O-mitsu" was too excellent for the idiot populace. Happily, as Chaz (and the governor) noted, she'd already accomplished the goal for Miyagi's ungrateful natives in giving it a modern association beyond "apocalypse."





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"Re(2):The nikudan side of the Mexico" , posted Thu 24 Aug 02:41post reply

Twitch will be broadcasting an event of one of the biggest luche libre promotions in Mexico tomorrow afternoon.

Latin American cafers and/or wrestling fans, could you weigh in on this event?







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"Re(3):The nikudan ONSY of the Mexico" , posted Thu 24 Aug 09:50post reply

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Twitch will be broadcasting an event of one of the biggest luche libre promotions in Mexico tomorrow afternoon.

Latin American cafers and/or wrestling fans, could you weigh in on this event?

BRING BACK ONSY (again)





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Reviews are up.
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The film’s central problem, really, is Light, who is too dull and unthinking to be truly persuasive as either vigilante hero or proper villain. If he’s ambivalent about killing supposedly bad people with impunity, you’d think he’d spend far more time weighing murder against his conscience. If he’s evil, you’d think he’d spend far more screen time celebrating the Death Note’s revolutionary potential. Light Turner, as played by Wolff, does neither. He seems to murder people because, and only because, a script requires him to do so. He’s never characterized as an exceedingly vindictive person. At his high school, he’s enough of an outcast to walk through each hall and classroom without a friend in sight. But later, Light Turner is so seductively witty and arrogant, especially once he’s acquired the Death Note, that he instantly charms the first (and only) girl the camera ever settles on. Light is enough of a sociopath to use the Death Note, without hesitation, to murder random criminal suspects across the world; but then he regularly interrupts Sutton’s passionate embrace to stress, “We don’t kill innocent people.” It’s a vague metaphysics. There’s no rhyme or reason. And since there’s no coherent ideology, however reprehensible or even ridiculous, there’s no exact, captivating character at the heart of Light’s actions.






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The film’s central problem, really, is Light, who is too dull and unthinking to be truly persuasive as either vigilante hero or proper villain. If he’s ambivalent about killing supposedly bad people with impunity, you’d think he’d spend far more time weighing murder against his conscience. If he’s evil, you’d think he’d spend far more screen time celebrating the Death Note’s revolutionary potential. Light Turner, as played by Wolff, does neither. He seems to murder people because, and only because, a script requires him to do so. He’s never characterized as an exceedingly vindictive person. At his high school, he’s enough of an outcast to walk through each hall and classroom without a friend in sight. But later, Light Turner is so seductively witty and arrogant, especially once he’s acquired the Death Note, that he instantly charms the first (and only) girl the camera ever settles on. Light is enough of a sociopath to use the Death Note, without hesitation, to murder random criminal suspects across the world; but then he regularly interrupts Sutton’s passionate embrace to stress, “We don’t kill innocent people.” It’s a vague metaphysics. There’s no rhyme or reason. And since there’s no coherent ideology, however reprehensible or even ridiculous, there’s no exact, captivating character at the heart of Light’s actions.



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"Re(2):attn: Chaz re: LCD Soundsystem" , posted Sat 9 Sep 01:16post reply

Back on the topic of music, I am listening to the new LCD Soundsystem album and actually find this summer's output from The War on Drugs more interesting. Strangest Thing is a truly mesmerizing song.





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"Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Sat 23 Sep 07:19post reply

Bakary Sako from Mali who plays for Crystal Palace in England shows off some various anime football cleats including a pair of Street Fighter ones.

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"Re(1):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Tue 3 Oct 20:19post reply

Looks like Tatsunoko production is doing a new animated CG series that features their classic characters like Gacchaman, Tekkaman and Casshern all in one bowl. Wonder how good it'll actually be.

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"Re(2):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 04:00post reply

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Looks like Tatsunoko production is doing a new animated CG series that features their classic characters like Gacchaman, Tekkaman and Casshern all in one bowl. Wonder how good it'll actually be.

http://www.infini-tforce.com/




.... wait, there's a new central character who's a girl, and she's surrounded by gorgeous men of varying kinds (younger guy, older stubbled guy, macho guy...)....

IS THIS ANIME ACTUALLY GOING AFTER THE OTOME DEMOGRAPHIC?!?!?!





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"Re(3):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 08:43post reply

quote:
Looks like Tatsunoko production is doing a new animated CG series that features their classic characters like Gacchaman, Tekkaman and Casshern all in one bowl. Wonder how good it'll actually be.

http://www.infini-tforce.com/



.... wait, there's a new central character who's a girl, and she's surrounded by gorgeous men of varying kinds (younger guy, older stubbled guy, macho guy...)....

IS THIS ANIME ACTUALLY GOING AFTER THE OTOME DEMOGRAPHIC?!?!?!



Maybe but in the first episode she made a a magical wish and got a BIG THICK PENCIL bestowed from the sky and.. I'm not sure what to make of this show.





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"Re(4):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 11:59post reply

A quick note to those who haven't noticed-- Juan has started posting up artwork on his Twitter beginning with 2B and so far the subjects are quite in common with stuff that's talked about on the BBS. He might be taking on a pic-per-day challenge for at least during October, which sounds tough especially considering it's on conventional paper. Check it out if you haven't yet!

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"Re(5):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 13:14post reply

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A quick note to those who haven't noticed-- Juan has started posting up artwork on his Twitter beginning with 2B and so far the subjects are quite in common with stuff that's talked about on the BBS. He might be taking on a pic-per-day challenge for at least during October, which sounds tough especially considering it's on conventional paper. Check it out if you haven't yet!

https://twitter.com/holajuan

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"Re(6):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 18:55post reply

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A quick note to those who haven't noticed-- Juan has started posting up artwork on his Twitter beginning with 2B and so far the subjects are quite in common with stuff that's talked about on the BBS. He might be taking on a pic-per-day challenge for at least during October, which sounds tough especially considering it's on conventional paper. Check it out if you haven't yet!

https://twitter.com/holajuan

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"Re(7):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Wed 4 Oct 23:00post reply

Amazon has yet to ship my PS4 copy of Dragon's Dogma, meaning that I will have wait until I can replay the game again for the umpty-umph time. This makes me angry.

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A quick note to those who haven't noticed-- Juan has started posting up artwork on his Twitter beginning with 2B and so far the subjects are quite in common with stuff that's talked about on the BBS. He might be taking on a pic-per-day challenge for at least during October, which sounds tough especially considering it's on conventional paper. Check it out if you haven't yet!

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"Re(8): Edano shows off rare twitter feat" , posted Thu 5 Oct 10:51:post reply

In between constant rounds of Gunhouse and Juan's inkfest, all I can see this month are bright pastel colored wonders with bizarre grins. I love it.

Meanwhile, politics may be frowned upon at the Cafe, but politically impactful news makes it through, and since we've had so many bad announcements here in the last year, how about a good/amusing one? In Japanese politics, where bright young people go into the civil service while ancient morons and young right-wing twits go into parliament, it's rare to have good or even interesting news from the political parties. But after a new center-right party threatened to push out the liberals in opposing the ruling right-wing party, an even newer center-left party has managed to get more followers on its charmingly personal twitter account than the staid dregs of the majority, all in about a week! Eat sh-t, 2ch! This is my favorite one:

Original tweet by supporter: "When I saw [Constitutional Democratic Party President] Edano give a press conference, I explained to my 2nd grade daughter what 'constitutional' means, and I almost cried when I told her, 'Your mom is going to vote for this uncool but sincere-looking middle-aged man.' We're pushing for you, Mr. Edano!"

Response by Constitutional Democratic Party: "Thank you for your support! He may look like an uncool middle-aged man, but he's our party's brave and intelligent leader. We'll be working hard for your support!"






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"Re(7):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Thu 5 Oct 11:48post reply

Thank you Professor! Challenges have appeared (out of town) but i will draw with bic pens and coffee if i have to


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Juan- Did you just draw an Iggy today?

[EDIT] OH YES YOU DID

MMCafe waitress appearance yes, but later around 2018...!?
I still need to figure out some colors though

Btw do you prefer conventional paper over digital for drawing, or are you going analog for the fun of using various coloring utensils? --Crayons.--



Maou- I still remember Edano and his constant assurance to the public that "the Raditation levels are not high enough to cause an immediate threat to health" back in the Fukushima meltdown. Which almost sounded like he's saying you won't die immediately if you get hit by Kenshiro's Hokuto Zankaiken (you die after 3 seconds) SCARY





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"Re(8):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Thu 5 Oct 19:12post reply

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This made my cry manly tears.
Also, it's almost my birthday, and it pains me to announce to every one who's going to give me something they have already lost to you. Suckers.







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"Re(9):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Fri 6 Oct 02:10post reply

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This made my cry manly tears.
Also, it's almost my birthday, and it pains me to announce to every one who's going to give me something they have already lost to you. Suckers.



I just want to know if the statement about video games being shit in French is an actual quote from Iggy or is just a perfectly designed quip that I could imagine a caricature of him saying, if not the real him saying.







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"Re(10):Footballer shows off rare anime cleats" , posted Fri 6 Oct 02:46:post reply

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I just want to know if the statement about video games being shit in French is an actual quote from Iggy or is just a perfectly designed quip that I could imagine a caricature of him saying, if not the real him saying.

That's actually a good question to which I'd like to know the answer.
That does sound like something I'd say, to be honest.





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"Re(2):Re(10):Footballer shows off rare anime " , posted Fri 6 Oct 03:56post reply

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I just want to know if the statement about video games being shit in French is an actual quote from Iggy or is just a perfectly designed quip that I could imagine a caricature of him saying, if not the real him saying.

That's actually a good question to which I'd like to know the answer.
That does sound like something I'd say, to be honest.

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"Re(3):Re(10):Footballer shows off rare anime" , posted Fri 6 Oct 05:45post reply

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"Re(1):Beware of Coffeegum dog" , posted Fri 6 Oct 12:26:post reply

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Btw do you prefer conventional paper over digital for drawing, or are you going analog for the fun of using various coloring utensils? --Crayons.--



I usually do inks or a sketch on paper and then do the rest on photoshop. For sure it is a lot more efficient to do everything digital, but paper feels gooood.

By the way, most of Gunhouse was drawn on paper. Brandon has a box full of penguins and skeletons

For the October thing I'm going to use whatever i have on hand. Watercolor is really fun, so will be doing more of it for sure.


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Thanks Maou. There has been a video games are merde note on my fridge for the last couple months. I knew it would come in handy





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"Re(2):Beware of Coffeegum dog" , posted Fri 6 Oct 13:59post reply

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By the way, most of Gunhouse was drawn on paper. Brandon has a box full of penguins and skeletons



Now that's surprising-- I was natually assuming that you did everything for Gunhouse on digital since the art is really smooth. Was it vectored after scanning in?




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"Zippers, Departments, and Food Folks N' Fun" , posted Sun 8 Oct 18:27:post reply

Either I've been living under an anime-blinding rock the past few years-- which seems quite plausible-- or an advertisement wave this year for Japanese companies has been about making short anime flicks. Thus far Mcdonalds Japan, YKK, and the Marui department store chain has been guilty of making millions watch cute girls and boys do things that are utterly... pronless and worksafe, obviously. Which is fascinating since YKK is that world renowned ZIPPER COMPANY and yet there's not a shed of NSWF cutscene. In fact there's not a shed of zippers getting subliminally advertised either, which is even more fascinating.

Meanwhile the Marui anime is like OH YES I WANT TO SEE THE BALDING OFFICE WORKER FILL HIS MOUTH WITH A HOARD OF Strawberry Shortcake and By lord that donut looks like poison in Ep2.

The Marui ad in particular was quite a shocker in terms of quality since they're small potatoes compared to Mcdonalds and yet their ad looks damn better. The Ad's character designer is actually a housewife and works as an illustrator in between chores, which certainly reflects well on how working practice is slowly but finally catching up to the times in Japan. It also suits perfectly with the department store since their main target are the young female work force. On a side note, she was selling her doujins at Summer comiket and cripes the line was huge (one row only line, so makes sense).


Marui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-tf7v1bT8

YKK
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xV4YTcBkQ (EN)

Mcdonalds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woFc0v0h5o0


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Here's a collection of NHK public service announcements done by Shinkai Makoto
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"Re(3):Beware of Coffeegum dog" , posted Tue 10 Oct 00:52post reply

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Now that's surprising-- I was natually assuming that you did everything for Gunhouse on digital since the art is really smooth. Was it vectored after scanning



Nope, no vectors. Just scanned and cleaned up the lines a bit. We had a ton of assets and this was a lot faster at tge time.I did make everything in very large resolution in order to future proof. Hopefullyyyy


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"Re(4):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Tue 10 Oct 09:22post reply

A free lecture course from MIT about the development of cinema

Having previously found myself lacking for ways to describe elements of movie and cinema language, I'm interested in giving this a shot to see if I can expand my knowledge on the subject. Any cinema buffs here have other resources to recommend or insights on things to beware of?







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"Re(5):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Tue 10 Oct 15:13post reply

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A free lecture course from MIT about the development of cinema

Having previously found myself lacking for ways to describe elements of movie and cinema language, I'm interested in giving this a shot to see if I can expand my knowledge on the subject.
Good news: if you conclude--correctly--that the peak of film was achieved in German expressionism and the Weimar period, you can expand your cinematic "vocabulary" (literal and figurative), skip the inferior 80 years that follow, and retire after episode 6!

Ideally, this will mean that you watch every Fritz Lang film ever made, change your MMC handle to "Dr. Mabuse," and spend many hours developing your own theory of film by considering the revolutionary possibilities of new technologies via your new friends Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno at the Frankfurt School, coupled with the deeply counter-revolutionary tendancies of said technologies once co-opted by market forces.

Isn't it time you started having fun contemplating the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility? Don't worry, you can trust me (citation needed), one of the editors was my advisor...

Now, repeat after me: "Semiotics, critical theory, diegesis, mise-en-scene...semiotics, critical theory, diegesis, mise-en-scene..."





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"Re(6):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Tue 10 Oct 19:32post reply

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Wait, am I missing something or is there no part about Ingmar Bergman?
I know it's stupidly pedantic on the verge of self-parody to say you like Bergman, but damn it, Bergman is the most consistently impressive film director on a period that spanned maybe 5 decades, while Godard sunk into self-parody after 2 decades at best. Bergman ended his career with Saraband when he was 80 or something, and that was possibly among his best creations.
There are obviously many less-than-stellar movies out of the forty-ish he's done, and the 7th Seal, though his most famous, is honestly not worth to have had such a lasting legacy. Persona on the other hand is the greatest movie of all times and needs to be re-watched periodically.
Bergman is very much Proust to the art of cinema: deep and moving psychological description of all sorts of people (mostly women in Bergman's case), huge influence of what we call classical music but is really only music, similar astral themes, and both were pretty horrible people in real life, Bergman worse than Proust.





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"Re(6):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 03:23:post reply

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A free lecture course from MIT about the development of cinema

Having previously found myself lacking for ways to describe elements of movie and cinema language, I'm interested in giving this a shot to see if I can expand my knowledge on the subject. Good news: if you conclude--correctly--that the peak of film was achieved in German expressionism and the Weimar period, you can expand your cinematic "vocabulary" (literal and figurative), skip the inferior 80 years that follow, and retire after episode 6!

Ideally, this will mean that you watch every Fritz Lang film ever made

cut...


I recently watched just out of curiosity Metropolis (complete version? it's available on Youtube), being an old film, I found the story a little bit silly in some aspect, but I enjoyed it very much, probably thanks to some sequences more artistic than others, it was a positive experience, I expected far worse.

I would like to continue to exhume some old movies, but I don't have many ideas, some atrocious suggestions?





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"Re(7):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 04:22post reply

That course looks like it would be a fine introduction to cinema but I do wonder if it is going to cover what you are interested in learning. Looking over the assignments it looks like the course could be discussing the themes of the film in much more general, social terms instead of how those ideas are expressed through the language of cinema. If you do sit through the course let us know what you think.

Also, have you looked at something as elementary as DVD commentary tracks? Commentaries by the late Roger Ebert make for fascinating listening/viewing. He only did a few commentary tracks but they were all for masterpieces such as Citizen Kane, Casablanca and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

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I recently watched just out of curiosity Metropolis (complete version? it's available on Youtube), being an old film, I found the story a little bit silly in some aspect, but I enjoyed it very much, probably thanks to some sequences more artistic than others, it was a positive experience, I expected far worse.

I would like to continue to exhume some old movies, but I don't have many ideas, some atrocious suggestions?

I'm not certain what version of Metropolis you watched but as I'm certain you are aware silent movies such as that aren't supposed to be silent; they were supposed to be seen with musical accompaniment. There are groups out there such as Alloy Orchestra that are creating new soundtracks for many old classics. Watching a "silent" film with this sort of music -or, better yet, seeing a live performance- greatly enhances the viewing experience.





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"Re(7):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 05:21post reply

I am not sure until when "old" fits, but if you mean movies from around Lang's era, Murnau's Sunrise is a classic (1928), and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) is considered to have laid down most modern foundations of modern cinema in terms of scope (almost literally speaking), editing and staging. Chaplin's Modern Times (1938) and The Dictator (1940) came later but their heritage is closer to late 20s movies than late 30s productions. Before directing Casablanca during WW2, Michael Curtiz was essential in the foundation of the swashbuckling genre, which has inspired Spielberg, Lucas, comics and tons of video game studios consequently. All the movies above have an unescapable quaintness to them, which might throw you off.

If you want a striking taste of modern cinema and movies that seem ahead of their time, either in terms of pacing, plot or structure, I recommend to dig through the works of Alfred Hitchcock (for suspense), Ernst Lubitsch (for comedy) and Howard Hawkes (for suspense and comedy). Hitchcock's first English period concluded with some of his best work, especially The 39 Steps (1935) which is pretty much as airtight as Andrew Davis' The Fugitive (1993) nearly sixty years later. Lubitsch is a pure, under-appreciated genius. His Trouble in Paradise (1932) is one of the best comedies ever directed; it could be made again almost shot for shot today with modern actors and still find a huge audience. Hawkes unveiled deeper and stronger female characters than most of our current film makers.

Citizen Kane (1941) is kind of a special case because, while it completely changed the scope of how movies could be made and how they could tell their stories, most of what it brought to cinema has been so well assimilated over the decades which followed that, when watching the movie nowadays from the perspective of a modern audience and without the intent of studying the story of film, it might seem a bit boring compared to its (earned) reputation. So it depends why you want to watch those movies. Regarding Welles' works, I personally prefer Touch of Evil (1958) but it's a much later film.

For my soul's worth, the greatest film ever made is Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise (1945), especially the first part Boulevard of Crime; "first part" because the movie ended up so long, partially for intentional sabotage purposes under the Nazi occupation, it got divided in two feature films which both released once France was liberated. I unfortunately cannot vouch for the quality of the subtitles, as it is an especially tricky movie to translate because a lot of its appeal came from the clever script by one of France's greatest poets. The dialogue is phenomenal. The acting and delivery of lines is exceptional, even from guys who appear only one scene in the entire movie. The story is complex, multi-layered and a meta commentary on French History, stage, and therefore cinema. They invented some crazy special effects just for this joint. Also, Children of Paradise literally saved lives by hiding Jews and Resistance fighters on its set. How many other films can claim such feats?

I got to bang a hot girl who had seen Children of Paradise on TV on the same night as I had (at midnight on national TV on a Sunday), simply because we had seen the same movie at the same time and were both mesmerized by its quality and relevance and would not shut up in class about it the next day. That's how good this movie is.





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"Re(8):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 07:02:post reply

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I'm not certain what version of Metropolis you watched but as I'm certain you are aware silent movies such as that aren't supposed to be silent; they were supposed to be seen with musical accompaniment. There are groups out there such as Alloy Orchestra that are creating new soundtracks for many old classics. Watching a "silent" film with this sort of music -or, better yet, seeing a live performance- greatly enhances the viewing experience.


Yeah, I know, thanks, I watched this version.
I heard also good things about the music of the Moroder version, but apparently that version of the movie is shorter.

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Sure a lot of things, I'm more intrigued by Battleship Potemkin in that list, but can search for some other of those (also Chaplin's and Citizen Kane are pretty famous, but I never managed to view them).

Battleship Potemkin become pretty famous in Italy around the end of the '70 onwards thanks to its parody in a famous comic movie by (recently deceased) comic actor Paolo Villaggio in "Il secondo tragico Fantozzi".

More than international movie milestones, I'm looking for some weird watching experience.

Sadly I will not have an hot classmate to watch Children of paradise with.





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"Re(8):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 08:08post reply

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All the movies above have an unescapable quaintness to them, which might throw you off.



Watching Casablanca for the first time is an utterly bizarre experience, coming from the perspective of somebody who had a childhood that was full of Warner Bros. cartoons, comics like Calvin and Hobbes, and so on. To say nothing of the fact that there is an entire Tiny Toons episode modeled after Citizen Kane, Casablanca was like a nonstop parade of cliches and dialogue that seems like every line was written to be a memorable one-liner or memorable exchange of one-liners (which is often how Joss Whedon works tend to be...), except that every one of those reads like an intensely familiar cliche. So part of the fun is seeing just how ingrained in culture Casablanca had become, and it is kind of shocking as well as incredibly amusing. That doesn't mean that its lines aren't delightful, or that Bogart's character isn't iconic, but it's iconic to an almost bizarre degree.

I watched Battleship Potemkin when I was in high school, but I did so under the context of "this is a historically powerful piece of propaganda filmmaking, observe the historical circumstances depicted and how the movie reinforces ideals of the Soviet regime in what it dramatizes/romanticizes", as opposed to "observe the techniques of cinema used here".





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"Re(9):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 11:21post reply

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More than international movie milestones, I'm looking for some weird watching experience.


Gotcha. Then I recommend these 10 movies.

Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

The Hands of Orlac (Wiene, 1924)

Freaks (Browning, 1932)

Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, 1946)

The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1952)

Persona (Bergman, 1966)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1969)

The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)

Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)

The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)

All very unique atmospheres, in their own way.
Also, anything filmed by Sokurov recently.





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"Re(8):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 12:23post reply

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Truly a subject worthy of a chat in a cafe. I'm going to steadfastly push the one true era of film via Weimar, and have Spoon read Tom Gunning's "The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity" as a way to also build up his vocabulary for film theory to boot! Metropolis is visually impressive, and probably the best distillation of expressionism through mise-en-scene and stage design until...frankly, the Nikkatasu pink films of the 1970s, but it's also Lang's dumbest movie. LordSNK, here's what you can try instead:

Der Mude Tod, "The Weary Death," (sometimes known by the dreary English name "Destiny"): Death isn't just for whipping by Belmonts anymore! Here, he's a weary and sorrowful figure in a silent love story of great power where a woman searches across time for a substitute life to provide to Death in exchange for sparing her lover. Comes with wild set pieces expressing the exoticism and orientalism of different eras and nations.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler --> The Testament of Dr. Mabuse --> The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse: Lang's adaptations of the Dr. Mabuse character read like an evil Lupin III combined with (not our) Professor Moriarty, a criminal mastermind who dominates techno-modernity via gadgetry, new-fangled psychology, and modern mechanized timetables to build his "empire of crime." Comes with WILD technical-semiotic stuff like on-screen floating text (as distinguished from inter-titles) representing certain powerful incantations. Mabuse also gets the most clever set of sequels I've ever seen, each totally eschewing the obvious approach to continuing the story, while placing the filmic technological advances (audio, surveillance) in the intervening time between films in the hands of Mabuse within the story.

M: Lang came relatively late to the world of audio, but his use of sound is consequentially far more intelligent and terrifying when he finally does so.
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While coming to Casablanca late deprives you of the freshness, it's sort of a cultural education like Laputa, where you realize that since then, everyone has stolen everything from it.
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Meanwhile, Chaz has blown the cover on the real fun of film studies: enjoying your attractive and bohemian/gothic londonian boyfriend/girlfriend. I had one who kept a meticulous spreadsheet of brief comments on every one of the hundreds of films she'd watched over the years.





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"Re(9):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 13:59post reply

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While coming to Casablanca late deprives you of the freshness, it's sort of a cultural education like Laputa, where you realize that since then, everyone has stolen everything from it.


As much as we say we are old geezers, I don't know if anybody here is old enough to been around back when Casablanca was new (that'd put you squarely above 75 years old!), though it is entirely possible that Iggy has made use of a certain STONE MASK. It's certainly the case that with the internet and digital movie piracy, movie ideas can spread and see re-use or reference in other media much much faster than before, so the period in which a movie can be considered "fresh" is probably much much shorter now than it used to be.





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"Re(7):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Wed 11 Oct 14:33:post reply

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I know it's stupidly pedantic on the verge of self-parody to say you like Bergman, but damn it, Bergman is the most consistently impressive film director on a period that spanned maybe 5 decades, while Godard sunk into self-parody after 2 decades at best. Bergman ended his career with Saraband when he was 80 or something, and that was possibly among his best creations.
There are obviously many less-than-stellar movies out of the forty-ish he's done, and the 7th Seal, though his most famous, is honestly not worth to have had such a lasting legacy. Persona on the other hand is the greatest movie of all times and needs to be re-watched periodically.
Bergman is very much Proust to the art of cinema: deep and moving psychological description of all sorts of people (mostly women in Bergman's case), huge influence of what we call classical music but is really only music, similar astral themes, and both were pretty horrible people in real life, Bergman worse than Proust.



The classics are classic for a reason! As cliche as it is (I like cliches!) Bergman helped me get into classic and artsy films when I was in high school. I absolutely loved The Seventh Seal. It has such a great premise and I think it persists as his most famous film because of it's incredibly iconic imagery which really defined how to convey the feeling of the transcendental and unknowable in film.

I have to admit, my unwitting introduction to Bergman was actually through the (thoroughly underrated!--but don't quote me on that cos I haven't seen it since I was 10) Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, whose entire premise was a parody of The Seventh Seal.

I also have to admit that after watching Seventh Seal I tracked down and essentially forced myself to love Persona even though I did not understand it AT ALL.

I also had a similar experience with Jess Franco's Venus in Furs, a masterpiece of surreal late 60s eurotrash exploitation cinema. It totally flew over my head, but I enjoyed the seemingly profound and adult mood of it (even though it had a a lot less sex than I'd hoped).

Shortly after my awakening to appreciating "old movies" I also picked up Jodorowsky's El Topo on a lark cos the imagery on the VHS box was so striking, not knowing he was an "important" filmmaker and it blew my goddamn mind. Jodorowsky's imagery is so bold that even a precocious 14 year old can grasp it in their gut.

I highly recommend everyone check out El Topo and Holy Mountain if they haven't already! I haven't done much research into it, but I'm certain they must have been huge influences on the Megami Tensei games and a lot of other dark supernatural noir stuff from Japan in the 80s and 90s.

Ah it's such a pleasure to discuss movies!

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Definitely watch Holy Mountain as Chaz has recommended!

You might also enjoy The Night of the Hunter. It's a very dreamy, surreal, iconic as hell film. Once again, this is a movie I saw randomly, this time it just happened to be on TV. I had no idea that it was an "important" film, so without any hype it managed to instantly become one of my favourite films of all time, moving me to tears at very unexpected intervals. Reverend Harry Powell, played by the great Robert Mitchum is one of the great villains in fiction. He is simultaneously terrifying and beguiling. Mitchum plays the character with an INTENSE INSINCERITY that still comes off as charming. It's very difficult to describe. It definitely does not feel like a film from the 50s. It's emotional peaks and performances match any modern movie out there. Mitchum goes full on looney tunes at points and it's amazing! I don't want to spoil too much, but I'll also say that I was very pleased to find out that Night of the Hunter is also the favourite film of Frank Frazetta and many other great artists.

If you want something really weird and out there I highly recommend the films of Seijun Suzuki. He helped shape the modern concept of an art film. His films are suuuuuper experimental and full of really cool imagery. What's more, his films are also FUN. When asked why his films were so weird, he said that he wasn't trying to go out of his way to make art films, he just wanted to make his movies as fun to watch as possible. I think he was very successful in that goal (and come to think of it, I think David Lynch probably has the exact same attitude when it comes to his body of work).

Branded to Kill is an especially fun starting point, because as far as I know, it's the first film to present a romanticized world of languidly beautiful assassins wearing nicely fitted suits and dresses who constantly vie to be the #1 killer under a formal ranking system that everyone adheres to. I'm certain it's influenced countless other movies, manga, anime, etc.

Pretty sure his imagery had a profound impact on a young John Woo too. "Iconic." I use that word a lot, but that's pretty much why the classics are classics. They hit upon these perfect notes where everything just comes together in such a striking fashion that it defines the language of our imaginations for generations to come.

Tying things back to games, if you like the playful surrealism of Grasshopper Manufacture/Goichi Suda games, by all means watch Branded to Kill and if you like it, make your way through the rest of Seijun Suzuki's cinematic catalog.

His work has some of the most striking imagery ever. He's the master of setting up shots that make you go "i don't know what's going on, but I need to find out!"

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"Re(8):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Thu 12 Oct 01:08post reply

Thank you to all for all these suggestions, that's exactly the type of "weird" movie I was searching for.

By the way, Chazumaru you suggested "2001: A Space Odyssey", I'm ashamed to admit I never watched it.

I'll go fill my TO-WATCH-LIST, thanks everyone...
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"Re(9):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Thu 12 Oct 02:31post reply

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By the way, Chazumaru you suggested "2001: A Space Odyssey", I'm ashamed to admit I never watched it.

I'll go fill my TO-WATCH-LIST, thanks everyone...
Too much things to watch, not enough time to do that, so sad




LOVING this thread! Got nothing to add though. Fantastic job everyone!

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"Re(10):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Thu 12 Oct 08:30post reply

If Jodorowsky is coming up in conversation then we are getting into the midnight movie setting rather than just the classics. In the lowbrow world of cult cinema you can find truly striking images in the middle of material that wouldn't make it onto the American Film Institute's periodic top 100 lists. Since those floodgates have been opened I wanted to mention that a number of "pink films" from Japan in the 1970's featured a good deal of stylishly filmed sleaze. The works of Koji Wakamatsu and Teruo Ishii are particularly of note. Again, these aren't the sterling masterworks of the silver screen but they certainly fit the bill for vivid viewing.

Since Chaplin has been mentioned I would be remiss if I didn't mention Harold Lloyd. While Safety Last is probably his most famous film my personal favorite is Speedy if only because the ending is nuts.

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"Re(2):Re(10):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Thu 12 Oct 10:13post reply

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"pink films" from Japan in the 1970's featured a good deal of stylishly filmed sleaze. The works of Koji Wakamatsu and Teruo Ishii are particularly of note. Again, these aren't the sterling masterworks of the silver screen but they certainly fit the bill for vivid viewing.
MY MAN. When I wrote above that the only staging that comes close to the insane expressionist Weimar stuff is in the pink films, I was thinking EXACTLY of Ishii Teruo and Tale of the Wandering Girl Boss: Total Abuse ("Female Yakuza Tale"), his sequel to the first film about female assassin Ochou. I think we were talking about Suzuki Seijun in the Lupin thread, and how the Nikkatsu/pink crowd got the money to do what they wanted as long as they had sex as well, and it results in some of the most vividly interesting stuff you can see on screen. Did you know: Depatures director Takita Youjirou got his start as a pink director?





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"Re(3):Re(10):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Thu 12 Oct 22:54post reply

I find these movies fascinating in their own right but I don't get the impression Pink Eiga really fit the kind of experience Lord SNK was specifically looking for, not that I am discouraging him to watch them. There are some Japanese-made exploitation films that go closer to psychedelic or downright surnatural themes and could eventually bridge the two discussions. I am thinking of stuff like Matango, Tetsuo, etc.

Also this list seems particularly useful for the question that kick-started this conversation.





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"Re(4):Re(10):Beware of Cinema dogma" , posted Fri 13 Oct 01:20:post reply

Probably I derailed the initial discussion, please don't stop it, I like where all of this is going
Edit: I mean, the pink eiga stuff, don't stop for me!





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"Proper viewing order for Jodorowsky's canon" , posted Sat 14 Oct 03:01:post reply

Jodorowsky is fantastic, and I have some opinions on how to best experience his work. Before you watch Holy Mountain, which is considered his masterpiece, I would recommend you watch Santa Sangre. It's a bit less abstract, but still a fantastic film filled with incredible symbolism and sights you will not see in any other movie.

If you If you like that, proceed to El Topo, which is a little more out there but still a bit more accessible than Holy Mountain.

At that point, you may approach the Holy Mountain for a "religious experience".

Then watch Fando y Lis which is not bad (in fact, it is great), just not quite as "big".

Chaz beat me to Tarkovsky's Solaris, but this director is another genius. Stalker is cool, just like the videogame! You should also watch the nearly three-hour Andrei Rublev, which is IMO well worth the time. Ivan's Childhood is the more accessible option of his oeuvre, Mirror is maybe the magnum opus, and the "really weird one" is The Sacrifice. You should probably watch all of them.

But, I can still score originality points by mentioning Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel. If you want weird, surrealism will do the trick. Another good choice from this director is The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

If you are looking for Japanese films, try The Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara) or, for something closer to horror, Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo). If you want something horrifying yet modern, look to Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police for what one may rightly call "some real freaky shit". If you are into that, this director is quite prolific. You can learn more about the individual in this short profile piece.

To briefly address another of Chaz' recommendations, if you seek out Testuo be sure it's the first film, Testuo: The Iron Man. I didn't find the sequels nearly as good. If you then wonder, huh, what if this guy made a movie that was more grounded and reality and dialed up the perversion a bit, watch A Snake of June.

To circle back around, have you seen anything by Cronenberg? Videodrome and Naked Lunch
may fit the bill for starters. If you'd rather try another David, definitely try Eraserhead.

Edit: I feel like I should include a French film. Try La Grande Bouffe, and be sure to watch it after an overindulgent meal.

Edit again: Damnit, what about the Greeks? I can only really think of Dogtooth. Trailer here.

24th Edit: I forgot Jan Svankmajer. Lecke Faust (from the trailer) is my favorite, but you may have an easier time finding Alice (the girl in the wonderland). Unless you really hate stop-motion, you should check this guy out.

33rd edit: Wait a minute, have I made a similar post in the past?





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"Re(1):Proper viewing order for Jodorowsky's c" , posted Sat 14 Oct 04:22:post reply

Speaking of Tetsuo, I just learned that one of the make-up artists who worked on the second episode also worked on Namco's Splatterhouse.

Speaking of Namco, Keita Amemiya directed a few movies co-produced by the company, years before Masaya Nakamura bought the Nikkatsu. He started in 1986 with a short promotional movie for Genpei Tōma Den then directed Mirai Ninja, a movie tied to the arcade game of the same name (for which he also did the flyer illustration). While Mirai Ninja seems pretty cheap, I find it cheerful thanks to all its visual ideas ; some of which seem to have influenced games such as the Gaiden episodes of the Aleste series (especially MUSHA Aleste) as well as the anime series Samurai Pizza Cats.





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"Re(2):Proper respect for Mirai Ninja" , posted Tue 17 Oct 08:08post reply

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Speaking of Tetsuo, I just learned that one of the make-up artists who worked on the second episode also worked on Namco's Splatterhouse.

Speaking of Namco, Keita Amemiya directed a few movies co-produced by the company, years before Masaya Nakamura bought the Nikkatsu. He started in 1986 with a short promotional movie for Genpei Tōma Den then directed Mirai Ninja, a movie tied to the arcade game of the same name (for which he also did the flyer illustration). While Mirai Ninja seems pretty cheap, I find it cheerful thanks to all its visual ideas ; some of which seem to have influenced games such as the Gaiden episodes of the Aleste series (especially MUSHA Aleste) as well as the anime series Samurai Pizza Cats.



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"Re(2):Proper viewing order for Jodorowsky's c" , posted Wed 18 Oct 00:01post reply

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Speaking of Namco, Keita Amemiya directed a few movies co-produced by the company, years before Masaya Nakamura bought the Nikkatsu. He started in 1986 with a short promotional movie for Genpei Tōma Den then directed Mirai Ninja, a movie tied to the arcade game of the same name (for which he also did the flyer illustration). While Mirai Ninja seems pretty cheap, I find it cheerful thanks to all its visual ideas ; some of which seem to have influenced games such as the Gaiden episodes of the Aleste series (especially MUSHA Aleste) as well as the anime series Samurai Pizza Cats.

That Genpei Toma Den video is too ambitious for its own good and totally bonkers, which means it is the perfectly reflects the aesthetic of both Keita Amemiya and the original game.







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"Re(3):Proper viewing order for Jodorowsky's c" , posted Thu 26 Oct 01:14post reply

I thought I would resurrect the non-game random thread because this was too good to not share.





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"Canada Kabaddi Cup 2017 (attn KOFOGUZ)" , posted Mon 30 Oct 11:00post reply

While searching for videos of the Canada Cup 2017 fighting game tournament that is wrapping up right now, I found videos of a certain other "Canada Cup 2017":

The Canada Kabaddi Cup 2017

You might be wondering right now, what is at all interesting about this?
1.) It is a game I first learned about from the dynamite comedy manga Chiyo-chan no Tsuugakuro, that I had to google because I wasn't convinced it was a real thing.

2.) It is playing before a stadium audience that is PACKED, even though it is admittedly the Powerade Center in Brampton which normally seats 5000 people. For a niche sport, that's a solid turnout!

3.) Seeing a video of this made me remember your posts about Hakan, in which you told us about the legitimacy of Turkish oil wrestling. This is a sport in which huge, shirtless dudes with no shoes have to try to tag each other and then flee from other huge dudes that attempt to wrestle them such that they cannot flee. It is like a game of tag/red rover featuring pro-wrestling sized Indian dudes.

From the rich cultural heritage of Turkish oil wrestling, I'm curious about what your opinions are of Kabaddi.







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"Re(1):Canada Kabaddi Cup 2017 (attn KOFOGUZ)" , posted Sun 5 Nov 10:32:post reply

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While searching for videos of the Canada Cup 2017 fighting game tournament that is wrapping up right now, I found videos of a certain other "Canada Cup 2017":

The Canada Kabaddi Cup 2017

You might be wondering right now, what is at all interesting about this?
1.) It is a game I first learned about from the dynamite comedy manga Chiyo-chan no Tsuugakuro, that I had to google because I wasn't convinced it was a real thing.

2.) It is playing before a stadium audience that is PACKED, even though it is admittedly the Powerade Center in Brampton which normally seats 5000 people. For a niche sport, that's a solid turnout!

3.) Seeing a video of this made me remember your posts about Hakan, in which you told us about the legitimacy of Turkish oil wrestling. This is a sport in which huge, shirtless dudes with no shoes have to try to tag each other and then flee from other huge dudes that attempt to wrestle them such that they cannot flee. It is like a game of tag/red rover featuring pro-wrestling sized Indian dudes.

From the rich cultural heritage of Turkish oil wrestling, I'm curious about what your opinions are of Kabaddi.


Sorry for late reply! I wanted to have a little research before this post.

Kabaddi seems like a really interesting sport. Eventhough it seems like a literal child's play turned into a full fledged sports game.

That made me think that the need of these rural sports coming to existence can be boiled down to two main reasons. Practice and time travel of certain part of your lifetime; for teens it is proving that they stepped into adulthood and for adults it is going back to childhood.

To eloborate before talking about child's play angle here are some more examples of the few of the many rural and traditional sports from Anatolia that now in preservation and evolving into commercialized sports. These are mostly wrestling and horse riding varieties, though. Since horse riding was one of the biggest part of Old Turks, it's understandable. Almost all the legends of Old Turks describe the heroes born on the horse back. Back in time when Turks were literally worshipping the nature and the sky god (Picture town life in Breath of the Wild) every kid, regardless of gender and rank, know how to ride because of mobility of lifestyle. So sports like horse ride javelin and archery mostly comes from that practice angle.

On the other hand the child's play angle, maybe effects of Turks being converted into more heavily gender-role restricted religion and switching patriarchy from matriarchy along the way had created this defence mechanisms leaking more and more into these rural sports and games. Since socially these games and rural sports are the rare chance adult males allowed and celebrated acting like children; naive, frail,intimate and immature, very very hazing-like-immature 1, 2, 3, 4...., in the countryside.
These games if they have any athletic aspect they evolve into professional sports.

If we go back to oil wrestling and other games with dueling and atlethic values. There are more traditions surrounding it and Kabaddi made me think about the child angle. For example "Cazgır" is a person (most probably a fan or ex-wrestler) who is promoting the game, explaining the rules in a theatrical way and telling "Mani; a short musical-ish poetry, usualy an uplifting reminder of sportsmanship with some solid life advices.
Even though older versions were much more poetic, these Mani(es) also don't refrain themselves from romanticising masculinity, faith and patriotism.

Also the starting ritual after Mani has this childlike exaggerated movement. So another point for Capcom nailing the design with making Hakan a naive buffon. It would be really sad not to see a well thought design in SFV and possible sequels.

I'm not very well informed about South East Asian culture, I only worked with four people from Bangladesh this summer so my knowledge is limited to that experience.

Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
By the way, I was surprised Dolma a very traditional Turkish dish also has a version there. Well,I was surprised that Sweden had Dolma, too but for a dish originally called Lahana Sarması.

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Anything deeper about Kabaddi needs research for me.

Though it is common to see many similar dishes, traditions and sports among Anatolia, Eastern Europe, Eastern Mediterrennean, Northern Africa, Arabian Peninsula and West Asia. Apparently Kabaddi prove itself as a wrestling by having a lot of fans and competitive value. I can imagine how it evolved to this point.
Does any of our multicultural members have knowledge of unique sports made it into commercial success? I heard that Quidditch made it.





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"WARNING! A GIANT JAZZ FUSION "TOCONOMA"" , posted Mon 6 Nov 08:04post reply

Wow!

One thing about this that really sets is apart from a lot of the music I've heard lately is the almost oddly crisp drum sound! They've got the old, MIDI-sounding synths, and there's definitely some reverb in the mix, and they do occasionally invoke the 80's drum sound, but overall there's this effervescent feeling to their sound that is familiar but fresh and delightful!







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"Re(1):WARNING! A GIANT JAZZ FUSION "TOCONOMA"" , posted Mon 6 Nov 09:43post reply

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Woah! Very solid track, perhaps enough to summon Legendary Ninja even. Even with those fresh drums, for my money, the bass keeps it strongly tied to its jazz fusion heritage. I thought first of the bass in some pieces from the soundtrack from the finest comic-to-animation adaptation of the 80s, and probably ever.





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"Re(2):WARNING! A GIANT JAZZ FUSION" , posted Tue 7 Nov 08:15post reply

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Woah! Very solid track, perhaps enough to summon Legendary Ninja even. Even with those fresh drums, for my money, the bass keeps it strongly tied to its jazz fusion heritage. I thought first of the bass in some pieces from the soundtrack from the finest comic-to-animation adaptation of the 80s, and probably ever.



It occurs to me that the opening bars are oddly reminiscent of Daft Punk's uber-hit "Get Lucky", though the rest is very different.





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"Lolita Kenshin" , posted Tue 21 Nov 17:27:post reply

'Rurouni Kenshin' Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

The article is technically incorrect since he was Filed charges but not arrested since it's a misdemeanor. Still though, he was caught redhanded.

[edit] oh dear it's on TV
[edit2] his new Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido arc series that just started will be placed on halt





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"Re(1):Lolita Kenshin" , posted Tue 21 Nov 23:56post reply

Thanks for ruining Jump50 Vol.2, Watsuki-sensei...





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"Re(1):Lolita Kenshin" , posted Tue 28 Nov 04:23post reply

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'Rurouni Kenshin' Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

The article is technically incorrect since he was Filed charges but not arrested since it's a misdemeanor. Still though, he was caught redhanded.

[edit] oh dear it's on TV
[edit2] his new Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido arc series that just started will be placed on halt



Maybe this is a good time to mention that I tried to read kenshin - I gave it 15 volumes - and I just didn't think it was very good. that ororo stuff was obnoxious, all the characters suck... did it just become popular because it was an accessible samurai manga? I found it extreeeeemely lame.







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"Re(2):Lolita Kenshin" , posted Tue 28 Nov 05:13:post reply

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Maybe this is a good time to mention that I tried to read kenshin - I gave it 15 volumes - and I just didn't think it was very good. that ororo stuff was obnoxious, all the characters suck... did it just become popular because it was an accessible samurai manga? I found it extreeeeemely lame.


While I have known about it forever, I finally sat down and read through Kenshin just a few years ago. While it had its good points you're right in it also felt like it was the right manga at the right time. Being a samurai manga during the 1990's international anime boom undoubtedly helped it secure a larger audience than if it had come out a few years earlier or later.

The part of the manga I found ridiculous was Watsuki's bald-faced borrowing of character designs. Anime, X-Men comics, video games... there was nothing that wouldn't eventually be repacked for the Meiji era. It was like watching a little kid who wanted to play at knights jousting but the "knights" just happened to look like Iron Man and Darth Vader because those were the only two toys he had that wore armor.

EDIT: Oh, one thing I truly did like about the manga was that Kenshin was quite old for that sort of manga. Most stories of this type would star a high school student who discovers they are the child of destiny or whatever. Kenshin, however, was already world-weary and dragging around a lot of emotional baggage. Whether that's a selling point or not is up to you but that's not something you see everyday in a shonen manga hero.





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"Re(2):Lolita Kenshin" , posted Tue 28 Nov 20:32:post reply

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Maybe this is a good time to mention that I tried to read kenshin - I gave it 15 volumes - and I just didn't think it was very good. that ororo stuff was obnoxious, all the characters suck... did it just become popular because it was an accessible samurai manga? I found it extreeeeemely lame.



For the west, Rurouni Kenshin's popularity--as you guys said--was probably because of good timing. And also because it was simply one of the few Samurai mangas. I still recall how Blade of the Immortal was better known in the west than it was in Japan. While at it though, I can give three basic insights into why Kenshin was a hit in Japan.


1/The Meiji era and meiji restoration period is always a good time plot for stories, just that it's usually not meant for younger kids. It's a sepia-toned period where traditional values and new values collided, where the days of the sword was taken over by guns, and Japanese culture mixed with westernization... which sounds cool but you don't really get to appreciate it until you learn about it in history class. There's never been anyone who took the theme and turned it into an action-packed shonen manga... which was quite an idea but also certainly a challenge since up until then, shonen mangas usually targeted the younger age audience. The protagonist being near his 30s' was another major difference from usual shonen mangas, but the risks paid off for Watsuki since there were plenty enough readers in their late-teens and 20's that grew up reading the Shonen jump--and hadn't grown out of it. For them, the protagonist being an older character and having a past was an acceptable change from the usual heroes in the Shonen Jump (note: they were already used to characters that started out super-strong rather than to level up during the storyline, thanks in part to Jojo Pt.3). The gags like "Ororo" were probably thrown in to give it an atmosphere that wouldn't alienate the more younger readers.

2/ There were elements that attracted both the male and female readers. For male audiences, the manga came right after when the Dragonball and Yuyu Hakusho series ended on Shonen Jump, so there was a thirst for a new hardcore battle manga. For the female audiences, the manga had plenty enough bishonens, and they all had their own stories, carrying burdens from their past. The Shonen Jump has always had a few mangas in their lineup with a good female following let it be Captain Tsubasa or Yuyu Hakusho, but by lord, the doujin scene for Kenshin was pretty big. (Although of course it's probably even bigger for the modern day Touken Ranbu, but that's a whole different subject of its own. Thank you Cygames for giving us an SSR Mikazuki.)

3/ It adapted things that were popular at the time.
Keep in mind that we're talking about the mid 90's when KOF and fighting games were huge, and when the Final Fantasy series went from classic pixel-n'-tiles graphic to the wacky world of polygons and fmvs with lots of bishounens, and J-pop together with visual-kei bands were big.

... it didn't work out as well when Watsuki tried to fit in Magneto into his next manga series, Gun Blaze West.





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"Re(1):Random Thread: Nongaming Edition VI" , posted Fri 15 Dec 11:14post reply

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On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to repeal net neutrality, meaning private companies like Comcast and Time Warner will have the ability to determine how users consume internet content. The policy had stipulated that internet service providers were offering a utility, and thus they couldn’t restrict content or alter internet speeds. After the repeal, ISPs will be able to do both of these, with the potential to fundamentally change how digital content is delivered.


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"They stole something precious...." , posted Fri 5 Jan 10:55post reply

ITALIAN POLICE ARE BAFFLED!

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"Gossip zone: Haitani's wedding" , posted Wed 10 Jan 02:08post reply

Daigo was invited to the after party of Haitani's wedding, and has been told the dressing code would be "casual".

https://twitter.com/daigothebeastJP/status/950222466219065345/photo/1

Fortunately, a friend appeared!
https://twitter.com/daigothebeastJP/status/950228068710273025/photo/1
(Tokido's expression just behind is priceless)

During the party, Haitani battled with his friends on Savior, 3S and
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https://youtu.be/iwgmkrXBTDw

https://youtu.be/prVQfCOGe2Q

It looks like a very nice party! I guess that's what people feel when they look at the pictures of famous people's wedding in gossip magazines?







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Wait a minute, Fist of the Blue Sky -the goofball and insane prequel to HnK- is coming back? That's great news, especially for those who enjoy seeing gigantic men fighting it out in a retro Shanghai setting. A nice touch in the character portraits is that Kasumi Kenshiro's neck is bigger than his head.





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"Re(1):Souten no Ken" , posted Thu 25 Jan 05:32post reply

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Wait a minute, Fist of the Blue Sky -the goofball and insane prequel to HnK- is coming back? That's great news, especially for those who enjoy seeing gigantic men fighting it out in a retro Shanghai setting. A nice touch in the character portraits is that Kasumi Kenshiro's neck is bigger than his head.



Hah Kenshiro is being done by Koichi Yamadera. I always find it spectacular that this same guy who did Spike in Cowboy Bebop and currently Zenigata in the Lupin the 3rd series also did SFA3 Cody.







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And everyone else with a liking for Akiman.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=RxIXilYv0kM



Hum, that was really interesting, thanks for sharing! I especially enjoyed seeing his original graph paper drawings!

I was also surprised to see an image of his of the SFII cast that I had never seen before-- I'm assuming it's newer?





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Did the little girl exist before 3rd Strike?





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It was made sometimes around 2003 for Street Fighter Saga Kakutō Bushinden





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"Re(4):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Fri 2 Feb 11:18post reply

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It was made sometimes around 2003 for Street Fighter Saga Kakutō Bushinden
Youloute, you're great.
I mean, generally.



What a cool image. I don't think Guile usually looks that cool.

Hmm, what if they put the little sonic halos from his VT2 around his ankles?





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"Re(4):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Fri 2 Feb 20:25post reply

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It was made sometimes around 2003 for Street Fighter Saga Kakutō Bushinden
Youloute, you're great.
I mean, generally.


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"Re(4):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 00:59post reply

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Youloute, you're great.
I mean, generally.


I absolutely agree (and thank you Youloute for so quickly explaining the image's origin)!

PS everyone here should go see VGDensetsu on Twitter. It's one of the great joys of an otherwise bleak and dismal site.





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"Re(5):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 01:34post reply

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Youloute, you're great.
I mean, generally.

I absolutely agree (and thank you Youloute for so quickly explaining the image's origin)!

PS everyone here should go see VGDensetsu on Twitter. It's one of the great joys of an otherwise bleak and dismal site.



Ahhhhhh! You all rock! That video was so amazing! What a time to be alive!

It's so nice to see that Akiman is in good health. And wow, SO MUCH BURIED ART TREASURES are in there!
Seeing Akiman's pencil drawings for sprite art up close was a revelation. I had no idea the source art was so detailed. It all makes so much sense now. By drawing on the custom made graph paper (HOW COOL IS THAT??) from the very start, they were optimizing for sprite art while also maintaining all the benefits and appeal of traditional animation. I know this sounds very obvious when plainly stated, but just SEEING it was really PROFOUND.

I went ahead and edited some gifs out of the parts where Akiman was flipping through his old pencil animations. I hope you all enjoy:

https://twitter.com/Richmond_Lee/status/959155410157514752

Akiman's pencil animations are so beautiful. They are so perfect in their complex simplifications of the human form. His draftsmanship is at least on par with the old Disney masters. I wish I could just spend all day (all year!) perusing his old animations. It occurs to me that if he actually held on to all the old pencils, you could make a really really really goshdang INCREDIBLE HD remaster of all those old titles if you used the actual source art. IT WOULD BE SO AMAZING IM TEARING UP JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.

Seriously, look at how beautiful this drawing is! Now imagine it moving with the silky smoothness of Third Strike! Ah! Ah my heart!

Now to bring myself back to reality, I'm guessing probably not every single frame was drawn with that level of fidelity. I imagine Akiman provided that as a guide for other animators to follow when animating on the game. Someone else mentioned that that's what he did for Felicia on Darkstalkers as well.

Anyway, it's so great to be able to peek into Akiman's life like that. And so great to see so many people excited over it too!

I wonder if Blizzard will send some work his way after all this. That would be pretty rad if he worked on Overwatch. I'd love it if someday Akiman took the lead on a new fighting game. Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream ...






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"Re(6):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 01:47post reply

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Ahhhhhh! You all rock! That video was so amazing! What a time to be alive!

It's so nice to see that Akiman is in good health. And wow, SO MUCH BURIED ART TREASURES are in there!


It makes me wonder if I've ever walked past him while walking around in Shinjuku. Probably not, but who knows?

I wanted to comment on how 'Pants Chun Li' compares favorably with Ton Pooh from Strider. Too bad we'll never get a SFV costume for Chun Li based on this design!





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"Re(6):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 01:50post reply

Unsurprisingly, the one art I loved the most was the Felicia one. How many of those did he do? Did he keep all of them? For how many characters? Did they keep the art for the other characters?
I would buy a book of all of these reproduced 1:1.

The Wolverine ones looks amazing too. I never was a fan of the in-game animation for tornado claw (?) to be honest, but the artwork, my god... This is a thing of beauty.







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"Re(7):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 02:54post reply

The only thing better than that video was Nobi's reaction.

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I wanted to comment on how 'Pants Chun Li' compares favorably with Ton Pooh from Strider. Too bad we'll never get a SFV costume for Chun Li based on this design!


Don't give them ideas!





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"Re(5):Paging doctor Nobi" , posted Sat 3 Feb 02:55post reply

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Youloute, you're great.
I mean, generally.

I absolutely agree (and thank you Youloute for so quickly explaining the image's origin)!

PS everyone here should go see VGDensetsu on Twitter. It's one of the great joys of an otherwise bleak and dismal site.


*blush*
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"Another age of Nico comes to an end" , posted Sun 4 Mar 19:39:post reply

Billy Herrington, the gay pornography video star who gained tremendous popularity in the Japanese NicoNico video service, has passed away this weekend from a car accident. May he rest in peace.

His death almost coincides with the recent movement by NicoNico to allow non-membership users to view videos without an account (finally). This ends the age of "Agh damn, it's on Nico?" and lets the MMCafe Nicovideo Redirector come to a rest. It's not going anywhere, but it's done its job.



As a little side note, the top 5 uses by visitors for the Nicovideo Redirector in no particular order were--

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"Poptepipic translated in Sodom-go" , posted Wed 14 Mar 04:02post reply

This interview of the guy who makes the pixel art in this season's 伝説のくそアニメ(誉め言葉) is staying a bit too close to the source material in its second half.







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"Re(1):Unikitty: Fun beyond the bricks" , posted Mon 19 Mar 22:26post reply

I don't see nearly enough comments online about the Unikitty cartoon, a spin-off from the Lego Movie that stands remarkably well on its own - maybe some folks here would enjoy its brand of light-hearted fun.

There's a whole playlist of episode clips in the Cartoon Networks channel, and curiously, even a whole episode (which takes cartoon expressiveness and treats it like physics/chemistry).

For a smaller samples, I liked these episodes:
* Kitty Robot - ever seen a drug addition episode where the addition is to piloting a giant robot to the extent you spend months inside it?
* Film Fest - silly short movies that still say a lot about the characters making them, with the added bonus of low-budget live action tech in animated form; one of the films sets out to be super efficient by making the characters smart instead of dumb, being 90% special effects and a musical to boot





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"Hi Score Girl" , posted Sun 25 Mar 17:23post reply

Hi Score Girl will get an anime adaptation this summer.







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"Re(1):Hi Score Girl" , posted Tue 27 Mar 20:31post reply

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and apparently they're leaving out all the SNK references on account of The Incident...





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"Re(2):Hi Score Girl" , posted Tue 27 Mar 21:12post reply

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Hi Score Girl will get an anime adaptation this summer.


and apparently they're leaving out all the SNK references on account of The Incident...



King of Monsters is in the trailer.







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"Re(3):Hi Score Girl" , posted Tue 27 Mar 22:54post reply

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Hi Score Girl will get an anime adaptation this summer.


and apparently they're leaving out all the SNK references on account of The Incident...


King of Monsters is in the trailer.



Thanks, I missed that since it was so out of focus, but SNK is actually mentioned in the video description. I'm curious to see how it'll actually manifest in the show itself, given that mess from a few years back...





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"Re(4):Hi Score Girl" , posted Wed 28 Mar 00:56post reply

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Hi Score Girl will get an anime adaptation this summer.


Is this series any good? Outside of the copyright carryings-on I know nothing of this franchise outside of this trailer. After watching it I am reminded of the previews for that dreadful looking movie Ready Player One, the trailers for which wallow in meaningless nostalgia and references without context. Are the Japanese kids of today interested in old arcade culture? Do the people who are old enough to remember arcades care about the antics of cartoon high school students? Is that the way Tokyo girls dressed in the 90's?





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"Re(5):Hi Score Girl" , posted Wed 28 Mar 03:14post reply

I didn't noticed the King of the Monsters too!

About Ishmael question, I have heard of the manga only here and somewhere else in the news when happened that incident.
I did not read it, but probably I would follow the anime, undoubtly easier to get here.





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"Re(5):Hi Score Girl" , posted Fri 30 Mar 04:02:post reply

quote:
Hi Score Girl will get an anime adaptation this summer.

Is this series any good? Outside of the copyright carryings-on I know nothing of this franchise outside of this trailer. After watching it I am reminded of the previews for that dreadful looking movie Ready Player One, the trailers for which wallow in meaningless nostalgia and references without context. Are the Japanese kids of today interested in old arcade culture? Do the people who are old enough to remember arcades care about the antics of cartoon high school students? Is that the way Tokyo girls dressed in the 90's?



From what I understand it's one of those mangas aimed at the 30-something crowd that makes them say "ahh the good ol' days". It does a fairly good job at showing the games and talking about them in detail, and mixes it with some love-romance story with the characters that are playing them.

If that sounds kind of cool but also a tad superficial, that's because it probably is. The manga's been criticized that while it depicts the games, it doesn't depict the era too well. It seems like the author isn't too keen about the golden years of fighting games and "trys to redramatize those days" from whatever references that's available, let it be magazines and whatnot. As a result the manga doesn't feel natural to people that knew the era. The author apparently didn't really get into the games until the 2000s when the boom had died off, which kind of explains things.

The thing about the fighting game golden era was that it wasn't just about the games themselves-- it was a living experience quite like no other. I'd love to write down about it some day if I could.

And no, that's not the kind of fashion that kids wore back then, the artist just isn't that good at drawing, albeit he does have a very distinct art style that stands out.





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"You Don't Know Maou Yet (re: Gunma)" , posted Sun 8 Apr 16:40post reply

Evidently there is an anime, a live action series and more to come from this manga about how Gunma really isn't all that bad?

Given that the greatest exponent of Gunma I know of is literally named "maou", what is your opinion of this?







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"Re(1):You Don't Know Maou Yet (re: Gunma)" , posted Mon 9 Apr 01:14:post reply

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Evidently there is an anime, a live action series and more to come from this manga about how Gunma really isn't all that bad?
Ha! I have chuckled over this before with Gunma people but actually haven't read this (or really, any) comic in a long time! Apparently they do a pretty good job of representing things that you actually experience there, starting with the intense "karakkaze" dry wind that makes it really hard to bike to/from school, though people don't actually refer to themselves as "Gunmers," nor is there a particular rivalry with Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures.

Since the author moved to Gunma in middle school, he's not really making fun as an outsider. I figure any exposure is good, since Gunma is criminally underrated, despite being a really pleasant place filled with nice people, boasting truly excellent hot springs and hiking, serving as the setting for Initial D, producing four prime ministers, and having what is actually the best local sweet, yaki manjuu (that last link actually does reveal a local-local rivalry--yaki manjuu are made with both bean paste and non-bean-paste versions, but it's a point of contention which is best).

...I'm pretty sure that the Cafe now leads all gaming message boards in references to Gunma, Proust, Tale of Genji, auteur theory, cheese, and "wearing an umbrella."
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The thing about the fighting game golden era was that it wasn't just about the games themselves-- it was a living experience quite like no other. I'd love to write down about it some day if I could.
Hey Prof, that'd be really interesting to see. Maybe we could all "interview" you in a thread and compile it?





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"Re(2):You Don't Know Maou Yet (re: Gunma)" , posted Wed 11 Apr 04:10post reply

...I don't know if this should be posted here or in the SFV thread.

I also have no idea what I think about this... uh... crossover?





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"Re(3):You Don't Know Maou Yet (re: Gunma)" , posted Thu 12 Apr 00:04post reply

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...I don't know if this should be posted here or in the SFV thread.

I also have no idea what I think about this... uh... crossover?


It's odd to think about how ingrained a niche character like Chun-Li is in popular culture. She can even randomly show up on a movie poster, which suggests that her and the car from Back to the Future are a bigger draw than the human actors who star in the film.







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"Re(4):You Don't Know Castlevania" , posted Tue 17 Apr 18:48post reply

Oh hey look a Castlevania game and it's fucking beautiful

Yes, this is the random non-gaming thread. I know what I'm doing here.





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"City Pop" , posted Mon 23 Apr 11:17post reply

Not sure if anyone has stumbled to this but for those who want to travel back in time to the 80s japan music scene, Welcome to city pop radio.





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"Re(1):City Pop" , posted Mon 23 Apr 12:14post reply

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Not sure if anyone has stumbled to this but for those who want to travel back in time to the 80s japan music scene, Welcome to city pop radio.

POST OF THE MONTH

Holy mackerel, it's like being in my house 100% of the time, except I don't need to bother making my own playlists. Excellent. For deluded souls who think anything can compare to the 80s, J-1 is another fine source of 80s-now and can be navigated in multiple languages.





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Not sure if anyone has stumbled to this but for those who want to travel back in time to the 80s japan music scene, Welcome to city pop radio.


My time at work is now going to be spent in a breezy cloud of retro Japanese pop music.





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"Re(5):You Don't Know Castlevania" , posted Tue 24 Apr 01:46:post reply

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Oh hey look a Castlevania game and it's fucking beautiful

Yes, this is the random non-gaming thread. I know what I'm doing here.



You do, indeed.

This... actually looks good. Hopefully this can be the Castlevania crossover that the fighting game for Wii failed hard to be (even if it's limited to iOS... what's the logic behind this decision???).

And it would be cool if Bloodlines' John and Eric both made into it, finally allowing them to be on-screen together (Portrait of Ruin should have definitely had an alternate mode for them, especially considering they had one for Richter and Maria and they weren't even involved with that story...).

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"Re(6):I Didn't Know Batman" , posted Thu 26 Apr 16:28:post reply

Batman Ninja is the dumbest Batman movie I've ever seen and I have never been more tilted and entertained by a Batman thing in years.

I'm sure tons of people hate it because the Batman characters are really over-simplified and some are completely wasted but this ridiculous thing was absolutely made for me.





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"Re(7):I Didn't Know Batman" , posted Thu 26 Apr 22:04post reply

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Batman Ninja is the dumbest Batman movie I've ever seen and I have never been more tilted and entertained by a Batman thing in years.

I'm sure tons of people hate it because the Batman characters are really over-simplified and some are completely wasted but this ridiculous thing was absolutely made for me.


Batman works tirelessly to achieve two goals in life:

1. Fight crime

2. Star in dumb movies

I have no idea what is going on in those screen captures. However, it looks nuts in a good way and not in a Joel Schumacher way so I'll have to check it out.





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"Re(7):I Didn't Know Batman" , posted Fri 27 Apr 03:51post reply

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Batman Ninja is the dumbest Batman movie I've ever seen and I have never been more tilted and entertained by a Batman thing in years.

I'm sure tons of people hate it because the Batman characters are really over-simplified and some are completely wasted but this ridiculous thing was absolutely made for me.



Wow, are there on the right side the Penguin and Poison Ivy?
Who are the other 2 guys on the left?
(my Batman knowledge stops at the '60 series and The Animated Series, and also the movies up to Nolan's)







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"Re(8):I Didn't Know Batman" , posted Fri 27 Apr 08:34:post reply

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Wow, are there on the right side the Penguin and Poison Ivy?
Who are the other 2 guys on the left?
(my Batman knowledge stops at the '60 series and The Animated Series, and also the movies up to Nolan's)



That would be Deathstroke and Two-Face. Not sure why Deathstroke was included since he's not a Batman villain, but a question like that is pretty much lost in the sea of greater nonsense.





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"Re(9):I Didn't Know Batman" , posted Fri 27 Apr 11:17post reply

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That would be Deathstroke and Two-Face. Not sure why Deathstroke was included since he's not a Batman villain, but a question like that is pretty much lost in the sea of greater nonsense.



Deathstroke is a main antagonist for Teen Titans, which connects him to Robin. He was also part of the after-credits teaser at the end of Justice League, implying DC had plans for him in their cinematic universe. (Though the state of DC's cinematic universe is potentially in question these days.)







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"Re(10):I Didn't Know 1980s anime fandom" , posted Mon 30 Apr 07:36:post reply

I may not know anything about Batman, but I do know that if there were anyone even remotely interesting working in the Anthropology and East Asian Studies departments of major American universities, they would be very actively chronicling and studying these fascinating accounts of histories and artifacts of the fandom and self-organizing communities of anime clubs and traders in the pre-internet days which led directly to the creation of a market for anime in the United States and perhaps elsewhere. Why, this even connects to the Lupin thread: I (re-)learned in a separate essay how one of these early clubs created the non-spoiler-y English title Mystery of Mamo for the first Lupin III film, which was then used for commercial releases thereafter!

I mean, going to an Otakon will always be fascinating culturally for both inspiring and embarrassing reasons, but the pre-internet drive of the zine culture and the underground aspect to pieces of anime culture are absolutely interesting, very likely experienced by many people on this board in various ways (either during or after the internet aspect was added), and as worthy of study as the hundreth book on the beats or the hippies or the punks.





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"Chun-Li Minaj" , posted Sat 5 May 01:52:post reply

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Indeed.

Oh, by the way, Nicki Minaj released the official music video for this song (apparently her Chun-Li fights Nazi soldiers and MK ninjas with Raiden's hat).

I wonder when Capcom will strike a deal with her to sell these costumes for Chun-Li in SFV. That is, if Team Ninja doesn't contact Minaj first to have these costumes in DOA5LR (they would fit perfectly there).





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"Cobra Kai" , posted Thu 10 May 22:12post reply

Has anyone here watched Cobra Kai?

This must be one of the biggest surprises in my life, the first trailer made me think that YouTube was producing a CollegeHumor tier sequel of the first movie, but in the end I got an incredible well written movie, with lots of deep characters, and a story that goes beyond "good vs evil" also the jokes were CollegeHumor tier which is great to be honest, since they made fun of lots of tropes from the original movie







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Has anyone here watched Cobra Kai?

This must be one of the biggest surprises in my life, the first trailer made me think that YouTube was producing a CollegeHumor tier sequel of the first movie, but in the end I got an incredible well written movie, with lots of deep characters, and a story that goes beyond "good vs evil" also the jokes were CollegeHumor tier which is great to be honest, since they made fun of lots of tropes from the original movie


Even if it wasn't a YouTube exclusive I would have initially dismissed Cobra Kai. I honestly don't remember much about the Karate Kid movie and there are too many things out there that are trying to cash in on questionable nostalgia (apparently Jean Claude Van Damme is still making Kickboxer movies!) However, there has been a lot of positive buzz about this series. Curiosity may get the better of me and make me find out what's been going on at the bad guy dojo for all these years.





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"Re(1):Cobra Kai" , posted Fri 11 May 00:17:post reply

quote:
Has anyone here watched Cobra Kai?


! ?


Holy moles, so Youtube is going premium and they're making shows out of our childhood nostalgia.
I guess Cobra Kai never dies! Also makes me wonder if Martin Kove is going to make a comeback.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check out ep.1 on the weekend.

For some reason, this nostalgia has suddenly made me want to play old Lucasarts games again.





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"Re(2):Cobra Kai" , posted Fri 11 May 01:25post reply

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Has anyone here watched Cobra Kai?

! ?


Holy moles, so Youtube is going premium and they're making shows out of our childhood nostalgia.
I guess Cobra Kai never dies! Also makes me wonder if Martin Kove is going to make a comeback.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check out ep.1 on the weekend.

For some reason, this nostalgia has suddenly made me want to play old Lucasarts games again.



There is a big chance that you will binge watch the whole series in the weekend, which by the way, has a confirmed season 2 on the road.

Also, I was freaked out when someone pointed out that Ralph Macchio is 1 year older than Pat Morita was when the original movie aired. The worst thing is, Daniel looks younger than his wife that is portrayed by an actress 20 years younger than him





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"Legend of the Galatic Heroes" , posted Sat 26 May 01:36post reply

All the talk about the Legend of the Condor topic in the other thread always reminded me about Legend of the Galatic Heroes since I was currently watching that anime. And I must say, this is one of the greatest anime's I have ever witnessed. I am glad I have watch it at this age and not when I was younger because I would have not completly understand the concept behind the story. As I was watching LOTGH, it seems the studios is airing a updated version of the original into 12 episodes and three movies that is considered to have four episodes in each.

Anyways, the question I have is does anyone know where I can purchase or view the OVA, Movies, and side stories of the original? I cant seem to find it anywhere.





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"Re(1):Legend of the Galatic Heroes" , posted Mon 28 May 23:36post reply

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All the talk about the Legend of the Condor topic in the other thread always reminded me about Legend of the Galatic Heroes since I was currently watching that anime. And I must say, this is one of the greatest anime's I have ever witnessed. I am glad I have watch it at this age and not when I was younger because I would have not completly understand the concept behind the story. As I was watching LOTGH, it seems the studios is airing a updated version of the original into 12 episodes and three movies that is considered to have four episodes in each.

Anyways, the question I have is does anyone know where I can purchase or view the OVA, Movies, and side stories of the original? I cant seem to find it anywhere.



HIDIVE has the series up for streaming, although I'm not sure if that's available for all regions:
https://www.hidive.com/tv/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes

Been watching the new series, and I like how they're handling it so far - in the classic series the actual space battles were the weakest parts, and the CG allows their full scope to be better represented. Also, MVP Oberstein actually smiled more in his first appearance that he has during the entirety of the classic series, so that's a nice touch that helps humanize him. The extra glimpse at some characters' history is another nice plus.

I am, however, still disappointed with the absence of Hortense, Cazerne's wife that's quietly pulled major strings in the story with the occasional pertinent suggestions from the safe appearance of an uninvolved housewife with no official political or military role - it is not too late for them to correct this, but I wonder if they'll bother. No Dusty Attenborough so far either, which is a shame since he tended to have some of the best lines.





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"Re(2):Legend of the Galatic Heroes" , posted Mon 28 May 23:59post reply

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All the talk about the Legend of the Condor topic in the other thread always reminded me about Legend of the Galatic Heroes since I was currently watching that anime. And I must say, this is one of the greatest anime's I have ever witnessed. I am glad I have watch it at this age and not when I was younger because I would have not completly understand the concept behind the story. As I was watching LOTGH, it seems the studios is airing a updated version of the original into 12 episodes and three movies that is considered to have four episodes in each.

Anyways, the question I have is does anyone know where I can purchase or view the OVA, Movies, and side stories of the original? I cant seem to find it anywhere.


HIDIVE has the series up for streaming, although I'm not sure if that's available for all regions:
https://www.hidive.com/tv/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes

Been watching the new series, and I like how they're handling it so far - in the classic series the actual space battles were the weakest parts, and the CG allows their full scope to be better represented. Also, MVP Oberstein actually smiled more in his first appearance that he has during the entirety of the classic series, so that's a nice touch that helps humanize him. The extra glimpse at some characters' history is another nice plus.

I am, however, still disappointed with the absence of Hortense, Cazerne's wife that's quiet

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Oh wow thanks a bunch. They have LOTGH Gaiden both parts combined. I think that is the most important part outside of the Original anime. Just have to find the three other movies and should be good to go.

Hopefully I will watch the new series sometime soon. I will wait to see how it plays out. Oberstein smiling? Does that mean the universe is ending?

Attenborough is indeed a memorable character as is Poplan. But if no Attenborough, Poplan would be insignificant. Thanks again Loona.





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"Re(3):Legend of the Galatic Heroes" , posted Tue 29 May 21:05post reply

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Hopefully I will watch the new series sometime soon. I will wait to see how it plays out. Oberstein smiling? Does that mean the universe is ending?

Attenborough is indeed a memorable character as is Poplan. But if no Attenborough, Poplan would be insignificant. Thanks again Loona.


That scene with Oberstein was his meeting with Kirchieis, sometime before meeting Reinhardt (which IIRC was when he was introduced in the OVAs) - the way I see it, Obersteins was probably pleased and/or relieved to see a glimpse of meritocracy, after getting used to the exasperation from dealing with guys that basically inherited their positions - I haven't really seen him smile in the show since, but it was still a nice touch.

As for Attenborough, I heard that he as introduced earlier in the OVAs than in the books, as a way to replace moments of internal monologue Yang apparently has in the books, since he's kind of the other major "ideas guy" on their side.
Poplan is mostly used as, not quite comic relief, but as a way to lighten the atmosphere with his near constant talk of getting it on with the ladies - which gets one worried when in a later part of the story he's shown to know quite a bit about psychoactive drugs... and that portrait of his on the new ED doesn't help...





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"Re(4):Legend of the Galatic Heroes" , posted Sat 9 Jun 01:16:post reply

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Hopefully I will watch the new series sometime soon. I will wait to see how it plays out. Oberstein smiling? Does that mean the universe is ending?

Attenborough is indeed a memorable character as is Poplan. But if no Attenborough, Poplan would be insignificant. Thanks again Loona.

That scene with Oberstein was his meeting with Kirchieis, sometime before meeting Reinhardt (which IIRC was when he was introduced in the OVAs) - the way I see it, Obersteins was probably pleased and/or relieved to see a glimpse of meritocracy, after getting used to the exasperation from dealing with guys that basically inherited their positions - I haven't really seen him smile in the show since, but it was still a nice touch.

As for Attenborough, I heard that he as introduced earlier in the OVAs than in the books, as a way to replace moments of internal monologue Yang apparently has in the books, since he's kind of the other major "ideas guy" on their side.
Poplan is mostly used as, not quite comic relief, but as a way to lighten the atmosphere with his near constant talk of getting it on with the ladies - which gets one worried when in a later part of the story he's shown to know quite a bit about psychoactive drugs... and that portrait of his on the new ED doesn't help...


Oh wow so lots of differences. Well let me know how it goes for this season. I will try to wait and watch untill everything is complete before diving in.

Thank for letting me know own about Hidive. Watching Gaiden and story is very good and entertaining. I tell you the writing in this series is fantastic. So much applies to today society and definetly in the future.





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"Giorno Giovanna coming in October" , posted Thu 21 Jun 19:03:post reply






https://twitter.com/anime_jojo/status/1009692466344222721

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"Re(1):Giorno Giovanna coming in October" , posted Thu 21 Jun 23:40post reply

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https://twitter.com/anime_jojo/status/1009692466344222721

The official anime series Twitter account is GOLDEN!
Jojo Pt.5 has been announced for broadcast this fall.






Amazing news!! I was already convinced Diamond is Unbreakable would be the last part to be adapted considering the lack of an announcement for several months, so it's great to know there is still more JoJo coming up!





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"Giorno the Third" , posted Thu 5 Jul 21:55post reply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a8eLTGfz00

Still WIP, but looks very good already!
The casting has been announced, and they are all new (except Abbacchio who was also.... Terrence D'Arby? Most people on this board would know him as GG's Venom, SF's Claw and Tekken's Lars). The other VA seem to be BL people which.... honestly, is fitting.





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"The Kinu Nishimura anime- Sirius the Jaeger" , posted Sun 29 Jul 12:44post reply

There's a new original anime this season named "Sirius the Jaeger" that's been on air for the past 3 or so weeks. The characters had a familiar vibe to them and as it turns out, they're designed by Kinu Nishimura. For anyone interested, here's the official site and trailer.

http://sirius-the-jaeger.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s1CHeK-m04


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"Re(1):The Kinu Nishimura anime- Sirius the Ja" , posted Sun 29 Jul 20:56post reply

I know nothing about the show but I like those character designs.

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Speaking of game connections, it appears the person who used to translate SNK games from Japanese to Engrish is handling the international outreach for Sirius.





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"Lupin the Restroom" , posted Wed 8 Aug 03:52post reply

If you've ever thought to see the day when there's a full episode just about a restroom, check out this week's Lupin.

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Last week was a murder mystery. This fifth series is really random.

But is it good, Prof? I haven't watched since the Part III homage, despite Part IV having held me at rapt attention.

MEANWHILE: as Nobi rightly pointed out on inferior communication platforms that are not the BBS, you can watch Grave of the Fireflies near to the date of the end of the war, hopefully at a theater near you!





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"Re(2):Lupin the Grave of Fireflies" , posted Fri 10 Aug 17:48:post reply

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If you've ever thought to see the day when there's a full episode just about a restroom, check out this week's Lupin.

Last week was a murder mystery. This fifth series is really random.
But is it good, Prof? I haven't watched since the Part III homage, despite Part IV having held me at rapt attention.

MEANWHILE: as Nobi rightly pointed out on inferior communication platforms that are not the BBS, you can watch Grave of the Fireflies near to the date of the end of the war, hopefully at a theater near you!



That's right! I should also mention in this most superior of internet hubs that the latest Yuasa film is coming to select theaters in the US!

https://gkidstickets.com/us/nightisshort//?utm_source=gkidssite

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"Re(3):Lupin the Grave of Fireflies" , posted Fri 10 Aug 23:24post reply

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That's right! I should also mention in this most superior of internet hubs that the latest Yuasa film is coming to select theaters in the US!

https://gkidstickets.com/us/nightisshort//?utm_source=gkidssite

It's my favourite new film I've seen in a long while. I can't recommend it enough. It was such a DELIGHT. I'm certain for many of Cafe members this is a new favorite movie in waiting.


Is Richard Linklater directing anime films now? Looks like fun!

I also see that Perfect Blue is going to receive a screening from the inappropriately named GKIDS as well. Between that and Grave of the Fireflies you can have an absolutely miserable time at the cinema. Good times!





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"La Li Lu Le Lo" , posted Thu 16 Aug 04:12:post reply

A new Vtuber debuts and his belly is so big boss



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"Re(1):La Li Lu Le Lo" , posted Thu 16 Aug 05:29post reply

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Just in case anyone doesn't get who the VA is



He has such a great voice!

It's interesting to see the progression of virtual idols from ageless moe blogs with synthetic voices to ageless moe blobs voiced by middle aged men with voice altering software to moe blogs voiced by NEETS with no pretense to full on virtual Oyaji voiced by legendary VAs!

I for one welcome the oncoming virtual Oyaji revolution as I find their voices, textured by years of untold tobacco and alcohol abuse ASMR-tastic!






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"Re(1):La Li Lu Le Lo" , posted Thu 16 Aug 15:45post reply

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Vtuber has evolved into BBtuber! I wonder what this could be promoting.

Not exactly related but seeing this randomly reminded me of Hentai Snake playing Operator's Side





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"OH NO! (RIP)" , posted Fri 17 Aug 16:17post reply

Speaking of voice actors...

Professor Oak, Old Joseph, Jet Black, among notable roles, RIP.

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"IGN Editor Playgarising Gate" , posted Sun 19 Aug 23:45post reply

I know most of you have seen this news all over the Internet, but what do you guys think about this story? Sure enough he did not have the balls to grab content from our lovely MMcafe here.





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"Re(1):IGN Editor Playgarising Gate" , posted Mon 20 Aug 02:06post reply

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Years ago when SNK vs Capcom Chaos was first announced (or maybe it was another game) Professor put up some scans and had a small MMCafe watermark. IGN put up the same scans with the watermark, but never credited the cafe.







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"Re(1):IGN Editor Playgarising Gate" , posted Mon 20 Aug 04:57post reply

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I know most of you have seen this news all over the Internet, but what do you guys think about this story? Sure enough he did not have the balls to grab content from our lovely MMcafe here.



It was eventually found that Muicin swiped content from pretty much everywhere. Game sites, wikipedia, forums, etc. He even plagiarized other IGN writers. Even part of his resume was found to have been plagiarized. So many of his IGN articles had been reported that IGN just took down everything he'd ever done for them.

So, who knows... Maybe he swiped stuff from the Cafe. And of course not all his plagiarized content was to be found on IGN. Reviews he posted to his YouTube channel even before he was hired by IGN were called out for plagiarism.







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"Re(2):IGN Editor Play-gerising" , posted Mon 20 Aug 05:51post reply

Actually, given how much of games "journalism" consists of repackaging PR handed out from companies as if it were an actual news scoop, I'm surprised this isn't a constant problem. As has been the case since the early internet, IGN appears to be the lowest common denominator---I'd be more surprised if something like this happened with some of the much better, newer English-language sites like US Gamer or Polygon. ("What's a Kotaku? Can you eat it?")





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"Re(3):IGN Editor Play-gerising" , posted Mon 20 Aug 07:34post reply

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As has been the case since the early internet, IGN appears to be the lowest common denominator---I'd be more surprised if something like this happened with some of the much better, newer English-language sites like US Gamer or Polygon. ("What's a Kotaku? Can you eat it?")



I've honestly been a bit impressed by IGN in this situation. Even at the beginning, when it looked like it might have been a one-off issue, they didn't try to hide it. They didn't throw Muicin under the bus, but they also didn't circle the wagons. They didn't try to downplay the severity of the charges. They didn't try to deflect the whole matter.

Contrast that to gaming site scandals of the past, where the common response was often obfuscation, denials, hair-trigger reactions, recriminations, hypocrisy, attempts to shift or derail discussion...

IGN just took down the reviews, put up notes explaining exactly why they took them down, started investigating, fired Muicin after it was clear that it was plagiarism and not just coincidence, talked to the guy who's copied review set this whole thing off (and who himself had been pretty reasonable throughout), and ultimately took down all of Muicin's work when they found that so much of his work had at least in part been taken uncredited from other sources.

IGN reacted up front and honest, and calmly and rationally, even while I have no doubt that various employees were rather upset.





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"Re(2):IGN Editor Playgarising Gate" , posted Mon 20 Aug 17:32post reply

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I know most of you have seen this news all over the Internet, but what do you guys think about this story? Sure enough he did not have the balls to grab content from our lovely MMcafe here.


Years ago when SNK vs Capcom Chaos was first announced (or maybe it was another game) Professor put up some scans and had a small MMCafe watermark. IGN put up the same scans with the watermark, but never credited the cafe.



Haha, those were the days. Interesting how at this age, there's not much reason to even watermark images.

IGN certainly moved the right direction when the plagarisms were discovered, and they did so quite quickly which is a good thing.

I really wonder how game news sites even manage to survive nowadays without bending down to game publishers for ad revenue from them.. people rarely go to web sites nowadays nor do they browse the site when they do-- they just click on a link on a social media and then close the article after reading it.







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"Re(3):IGN Editor Playgarising Gate" , posted Mon 20 Aug 22:11post reply

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Years ago when SNK vs Capcom Chaos was first announced (or maybe it was another game) Professor put up some scans and had a small MMCafe watermark. IGN put up the same scans with the watermark, but never credited the cafe.



My favorite such story was many years ago when GameSpot decided to run and editorial condemning other sites for reusing images GameSpot posted without permission or credit, even going as far as to slap their own watermark over GameSpot's. It was met by a flood of commenters posting that GameSpot had for years done exactly the same thing to various Japanese gaming news sites.

Oh, the fun of the days when you'd see game sites proudly posting images with three or four (or more) different watermarks. And some sites seemed to design their watermarks to be large not just to be harder for other sites to cover them, but also to better cover the marks of other sites.

quote:

I really wonder how game news sites even manage to survive nowadays without bending down to game publishers for ad revenue from them..



They get swallowed up by larger competing organizations, which get swallowed by even larger organizations, which in turn get bought by larger general entertainment news companies. Eventually you get to a parent that theoretically the game publishers can't push around, at least if you parent company thinks you are worth assisting.

Earlier this year, ReedPop (which handles conventions like New York ComicCon and PAX) bought Gamer Network. Gamer Network itself owned around ten different videogame released sites (Eurogamer, VG247, GameIndustry.biz, ModDB, RPS, Nintendo Life (through Nlife Media), etc), which it either launched directly or bought out over the years.

Ziff Davis, owner of IGN, is a large multimedia corporation. Over the years, it bought up IGN competitors/compatriots like 1Up. 1Up itself had itself previously been acquired by UGO, which itself had been acquired by the Hearst multimedia empire.

Enthusiast Gaming is a Canadian gaming media company. It bought Destructoid in 2017 and bought The Escapist earlier this year.







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"Re(4):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Fri 24 Aug 14:14:post reply

English-speaking DVD regions have some pretty exciting classics reappearing via the small but bafflingly prolific translation house Discotek. I knew these guys were classy before when they started releasing some of Japan's earliest long-form animated movies from Touei Douga (before it was Touei Animation), including seminal works in the history of the medium like Horus, Prince of the Sun, and Puss in Boots. And because it's the Cafe, I'll even make this new list of magnificent releases ON TOPIC via game references:

Kimagure Orange Road: The best TV adaptation of a comic I've ever seen, and the original English release was by the venerable AnimEigo (president: Robert Woodhead, co-creator of WIZARDY).

Galaxy Express 999 TV: I don't think this has been out in English before. Obviously, the partial inspiration for the ghost train sequence in Final Fantasy VI, together with Miyazawa's original Night of the Galaxy Railroad.

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"Re(5):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Fri 24 Aug 22:10post reply

quote:
English-speaking DVD regions have some pretty exciting classics reappearing via the small but bafflingly prolific translation house Discotek. I knew these guys were classy before when they started releasing some of Japan's earliest long-form animated movies from Touei Douga (before it was Touei Animation), including seminal works in the history of the medium like Horus, Prince of the Sun, and Puss in Boots. And because it's the Cafe, I'll even make this new list of magnificent releases ON TOPIC via game references:

Kimagure Orange Road: The best TV adaptation of a comic I've ever seen, and the original English release was by the venerable AnimEigo (president: Robert Woodhead, co-creator of WIZARDY).

Galaxy Express 999 TV: I don't think this has been out in English before. Obviously, the partial inspiration for the ghost train sequence in Final Fantasy VI, together with Miyazawa's original Night of the Galaxy Railroad.

Giant Robo: STILL ON TOPIC, with character designs by Kubooka of the Lunar and Idolmaster series.



Oohh, nice for Kimegure Orange Road. Really great anime and wish I would have seen it when it originally came out. I haven't seen the OVA yet nor the movie so will wait for it once they release.





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"Re(6):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Fri 24 Aug 22:51post reply

I love that Discotek is mildly crazy in their efforts to release old Japanese pop culture in physical form. Honestly, I'm surprised they aren't releasing anime soundtracks on vinyl. Now if they would get off their asses and release Bablyon I could endorse them whole-heartedly.

Geez Lousie, I forgot how small the faces on Izumi Matsumoto's characters could be. From some angles it looks like their entire face has been squished down onto their chin.







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I love that Discotek is mildly crazy in their efforts to release old Japanese pop culture in physical form. Honestly, I'm surprised they aren't releasing anime soundtracks on vinyl. Now if they would get off their asses and release Bablyon I could endorse them whole-heartedly.
I admire their dedication. I'm also REALLY curious about the economy of the thing--how are they acquiring such major series (classic or not) and releasing huge box sets for so little? The early days of anime distribution in the US were a much better mirror for prices in Japan (30 bucks for two episodes or so), and I have no idea how they get by.

Perhaps it's their advertising strategy: the delays on the semi-ironic release of Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon may actually have done the impossible in building up enthusiasm for this truly terrible/wonderful film!
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Geez Lousie, I forgot how small the faces on Izumi Matsumoto's characters could be. From some angles it looks like their entire face has been squished down onto their chin.

True, though these also reflect character designer Takada Akemi's (really excellent) take on them (she did the same for Urusei Yatsura TV!). Matsumoto's originals started out as really basic before moving in that direction for the bulk of its run. (Fun fact: did you know that Bastard!! author Hagiwara Kazushi was an assistant for at least some of the time? There's a few staggeringly beautiful shots, including the start of the "time travel to meet young Ayukawa next to the tree" story near the end, that people are sure must be his.)





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"Re(8):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Sun 26 Aug 11:18post reply

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I admire their dedication. I'm also REALLY curious about the economy of the thing--how are they acquiring such major series (classic or not) and releasing huge box sets for so little? The early days of anime distribution in the US were a much better mirror for prices in Japan (30 bucks for two episodes or so), and I have no idea how they get by.

While I don't know the history of Discotek the company always struck me as a fannish enterprise that was one step away from mail-order bootleg VHS cassettes. There simply can't be much money in what they are doing. That also cuts both ways, since I can't imagine the rights to some of these shows are going for all that much anymore. Sad to ask, but is there much interest in Japan right now for Kimagure Orange Road? Some of these releases -such as Lupin- have a small but consistent fan base and others are classics that more discriminating animation fans will want to check out just to say they have seen it. But with things like the television spin-off of Message From Space I imagine that Discotek is spending more to press the discs than they did for the license.

Wait, there was a Message From Space television show? What the hell?







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"Re(9):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Tue 28 Aug 10:38:post reply

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Sad to ask, but is there much interest in Japan right now for Kimagure Orange Road? Some of these releases -such as Lupin- have a small but consistent fan base and others are classics that more discriminating animation fans will want to check out just to say they have seen it.
This is the interesting part that I just don't know much about. I've never noticed differentiated pricing based on the popularity of a given series in Japan, though maybe Prof has seen otherwise? At any rate, how does this translate into the licensing fees abroad? If there's a different international licensing price for a show deemed more or less popular in Japan (even if prices there are fixed), how is the difference determined? I ask because while KOR is still one of the 140 or so top-selling comics of all time in Japan at about 20 million copies, it can't be as famous a property elsewhere. Do the owners know this and charge less? Is there a standard rate? What about Lupin? Which Lupin? Surely Part III comes more cheaply than Cagliostro? And how does a charmingly small outfit like Discotek gain the clout to license so many famous shows anyway?





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"Re(10):Discotek animation-fest" , posted Wed 29 Aug 00:09post reply

I'm not quite sure about International licensing, It's most likely different per publisher so with Discotek you might find more content from certain publishers than others. I wouldn't be surprised if the prices dropped in the last 2 or so years due to publishers changing their fees-- VOD services like Netflix and dAnimeStore have suddenly become rampant even in Japan and it's changing the way that publishers are facing their licenses.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there were semi-bundle agreements for licensing of older IPs.







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Batman Ninja is the dumbest Batman movie I've ever seen and I have never been more tilted and entertained by a Batman thing in years.

I'm sure tons of people hate it because the Batman characters are really over-simplified and some are completely wasted but this ridiculous thing was absolutely made for me.



I finally got around to watching this and found it to be marvelously nuts. I'm so glad Batman has gotten away from being just a teeth-gnashing, overly grim character. The Batman in this was steeped in the feel of Silver Age lunacy... or that Brave and the Bold cartoon, which is pretty much the same thing. Before I watched the movie I thought it was going to be a re-imagining of Batman in an feudal Japanese setting but, nope, it's regular old Batman and his hangers-on getting tossed back through time. Since crazy shit happens to these people all the time they act like this is just another day at the office. Then again, why should they be surprised since everyone and everything around them is constantly contorting with energy or transforming into new and even more absurd forms. It was a wild, ridiculous movie and I found it to be a hoot.







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"Fight against the despotic cheese magnate" , posted Wed 3 Oct 04:03:post reply

Brought to you by the producer of Iron Sky.

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"Re(1):Fight against the despotic cheese magna" , posted Wed 3 Oct 17:04post reply

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Brought to you by the producer of Iron Sky.

Oui oui oui. <=NSFW.


At first I thought it was a 18+ parody of the movie 'The sound of music', then I wondered if Christopher Plummer would make an appearance.







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Speaking of radical masters, this is to remind you on humble Juan's behalf that it is now Inktober and as a result some CRITICALLY IMPORTANT WORKS are surfacing

PS "I hate video games"





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"Re(1):Iggy-tober" , posted Wed 10 Oct 20:11post reply

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Speaking of radical masters, this is to remind you on humble Juan's behalf that it is now Inktober and as a result some CRITICALLY IMPORTANT WORKS are surfacing

BRB I need to redo my entire Internet profile identity to replace all my avatars with that work of art.







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"Re(2):Iggy-tober" , posted Thu 11 Oct 00:37post reply

Dogs and two Fletcher Hanks characters? Inktober is off to a rollicking start!





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"Re(3):Iggy-tober" , posted Sat 13 Oct 10:35post reply

Thanks Maou! Iggy, glad you liked the 2nd annual video games are merde! I'll get you a cleaner scan later. My phone is a potato and the light here is awful.


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"Re(4):Iggy-tober" , posted Tue 16 Oct 15:01post reply

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My phone is a potato and the light here is awful


https://sciencing.com/make-potato-powered-light-bulb-5071857.html
> Peeling the potato or soaking it in Gatorade sometimes helps conduct the electricity



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"Re(5):Iggy-tato" , posted Wed 17 Oct 03:25post reply

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> Peeling the potato or soaking it in Gatorade sometimes helps conduct the electricity




So this actually has a real good reason:
Pure distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. Electricity flows better across substances which have free electrons (ok that's a radical oversimplification but BEAR WITH ME), which is why salt water is a good conductor of electricity. Gatorade straight up says "look at all these electrolytes in our drink" which really means "we have dissolve a bunch of salts in our drink". Those dissolved salts are ionic compounds which will dissociate in water and provide the free charges that will allow for the flow of electrical current. Also, if the potato is a little dry inside, that will also impede the flow of current.

Now, if you soaked the potato in salt water, you might well get the same result, though if you soaked it in brine for too long, the inside of the potato may become desiccated as a result of too much water exiting the potato and going into the brine and become worse at conducting electricity.

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"Re(6):Iggy-tato" , posted Wed 17 Oct 04:59post reply

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Gatorade straight up says "look at all these electrolytes in our drink" which really means "we have dissolve a bunch of salts in our drink" 


Ah that's interesting, thank you for the trivia! (And all this time I thought its lighting logo was just an aesthetic). It's very similar then to Pokari Sweat which in Japan is advertised as an "Ion Supply" water.

Now I feel like a child back in the 80's. Tonight I will sleep listening to either this or this.







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"Re(7):Iggy-tato" , posted Wed 17 Oct 13:15post reply

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Gatorade straight up says "look at all these electrolytes in our drink" which really means "we have dissolve a bunch of salts in our drink" 

Ah that's interesting, thank you for the trivia! (And all this time I thought its lighting logo was just an aesthetic). It's very similar then to Pokari Sweat which in Japan is advertised as an "Ion Supply" water.

Now I feel like a child back in the 80's. Tonight I will sleep listening to either this or this.



The human body has a number of functions which are dependent on a few very particular ions! For instance, one of the things you will learn about when it comes to nerves is that a nerve firing a signal works via the sodium-potassium pump, and blood plasma has a sodium concentration of 0.1%. When the salt (not merely sodium salt!) balance in your body is badly upset, you are prone to having muscle cramps as well as all kinds of other badness. In fact, if you drink enough water and your body is not able to eliminate it from the system fast enough you could even kill yourself, as one person did trying to win a Wii or something like that... in that case, it wasn't a matter of having so much water that the nerves didn't fire right so much as having so much water that some of the mechanisms of osmosis that are important to regular cell function just started failing.

How much you need these infusions of ions or their efficacy in sports drinks, well, that's another question. It probably doesn't hurt, and all the sugar in them certainly helps when you've been vigorously exercising!

However, when you are profusely sweating for long periods of time, you can certainly lose an amount of salt that is significant. One of the actually quite common situations where this can happen is when you are sick and run a fever for a sustained period of time! Similarly, if you drink lots of alcohol and become dehydrated, you will easily get a hangover headache. Having a tin of sports drink powder in your house so you can mix up some at a moment's notice and not really have to worry about it going bad until 199X is actually pretty useful!

I often think that if high school biology connected all the zany things it teaches about the human body to real life mishaps and misery and sometimes how those can be treated, people would take to it a lot better and in turn could make their own lives better.





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"Re(8):Iggy-tato" , posted Thu 18 Oct 04:44post reply

As Kikkoken, I can confirm Spoon's statements that "[t]he human body has a number of functions", that some of which take some "vigorous[] exercising", leading, possibly, to "profusely sweating". Some day, I promise, I will be on-topic... or at least, a bit more straight-friendly!







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As Kikkoken, I can confirm Spoon's statements that "[t]he human body has a number of functions", that some of which take some "vigorous[] exercising", leading, possibly, to "profusely sweating". Some day, I promise, I will be on-topic... or at least, a bit more straight-friendly!



I can't believe how hard it is... to not make jokes about this stuff! It's probably a stiffer challenge than Dracula XX!





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I can't believe how hard it is... to not make jokes about this stuff! It's probably a stiffer challenge than Dracula XX!


Haha, yes indeed! But bufooning doesn't cost me a bit! Unlike Haunted Castle, which cost me a few quarters !







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"Re(10):Iggy-tato" , posted Thu 18 Oct 11:25post reply

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"[t]he human body has a number of functions",
"vigorous[] exercising"
"profusely sweating"
I can't believe how hard it is
a stiffer challenge than Dracula XX!

I will be on-topic... or at least, a bit more straight-friendly!

What are you talking about? The Madman's Cafe clientele is merely committed to deep, penetrating analysis of all of gaming's hardest issues.

Failing that, I have expressed enough concern about Capcom's SFV underwear choices to at least balance it out!





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"Golgo Sardine" , posted Tue 23 Oct 05:11post reply

Perfect Machine of Snipe Oiled Sardines ...WHAT? 

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"Stan Lee, Rest in peace." , posted Wed 14 Nov 19:55post reply

It's been in the news headlines so I'm sure everyone knows about it, but Stan Lee has passed away at age 95 yesterday.

People are reacting or paying tribute to him in ways that are certainly Excelsior!, ranging from retweeting old Twitter posts that otherwise could've gone ignored (note: rare interview story between Stand Lee and Tezuka Osamu), some photos I've never seen before, and even a weird report of a Japanese religious cult trying to summon his stand guardian spirit just before his death. May he rest in peace and if you have something to share, Excelsior!







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"Re(1):Stan Lee, Rest in peace." , posted Thu 15 Nov 03:32post reply

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"Re(2):Stan Lee, Rest in peace." , posted Thu 15 Nov 05:26post reply

I love that Stan Lee's public persona had become so well recognized that not only did it warrant a toy but Hideo Kojima just happened to have one within easy reach in order to convey his condolences.





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