So yesterday I was online while watching The Boondocks (Stop playing with the white man's water!) and I decided to do something I had not done in about 4 years: enter a chat room. So I went into the Anime Discussion room and boy was it awkward. Now I consider myself a fan, but for crissake man, let it go! I loves me some anime and am considering doing cosplay (just so I can be Ken from Yakitate! Japan and challenge people to dance offs) but I just realized that anime geeks are SCARY. Imagine Trekkies but younger idiots speaking shitty Japanese with cat ears and fox tails. And BTW, no mingers in cat ears. You don't look cute, you look like a minger in cat ears. I may not be Terrance Howard, but I know where to draw the line.
Anyway, I usually use the name Jenovah_X, based on 'Jenovah' cells from Final Fantasy VII (extra points if you can name Sepiroth's mom!) and the 'X' from j-rock band X Japan that I thought was Japan X (thank you for the correction) and I came up with Jenovah_X. Well, a chatter named angelslayer_X asked who I was. I told him 'I am me, who are you?' Come to find out he has a band in California named
Jenova X that does J-rock covers (Sex Machineguns, X Japan, etc).
Cosmic. I know a lot of you may not care, but that was really cool to me. If he sends me some video of their performances, I will post it for the peeps to check out with their permission. Even weirder: we have been using the name for almost the EXACT same amount of time and he is less than a year younger than me. Talk about surreal. Awesome, but surreal.
So I saw on VGCats that Bleach is getting licensed. It's about damn time, that show kicks the ass. Let's just hope it doesn't end up on Fox Kids butchered and merchandised all to hell. I am all for Kon breakfast cereal, though. Now that would be good eatin.
Speaking of Fox Kids and merchandising hell, its RANT TIME. This rant is a long time coming, too. Okay, I am sure a few of you remember a show called the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Well I do, and I will not lie that show USED to kick ass. Even though Billy was like 40 playing a 17 year old (they were Juniors, right?) I could get past that because it was a happy action Morphin time! That and Kim was
nuclear. At least nuclear to an 11 year old and she had a little bit of boo-tay, you feel me? On another note, you know who was quite alright and never got a lot of play? Scorpina. In the episode where she pretended to be an exchange student, she looked quite alright. Anyway, combine that with battle scenes taken DIRECTLY from the Japanese Digirangers (I think that's the spelling. Little help?) and it was a grand old time. I even had the first set of Megazords! I remember that after the second season/beginning of the third season when their zords got destroyed by Lord Zedd (who turned from badass to joke WAAAAAAY to quick for my tastes) and they got the Thunder Zords (the best looking of the bunch IMHO) and it was on during PRIME TIME. That is how big the Power Rangers were.
I was at Toy's R' Us looking for a copy of Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana when I way the toys for the new Power Rangers Mystic Crap or something. Since when did the Power Rangers need magic?! They have giant robots and bad-ass weapons! My god, Bandai has bastardized that franchise! After the first movie, America should have bowed out of the Power Ranger series. Instead, Fox squeezed every bit of money out of it like....well Hasbro did with Transformers. Machine Wars, anyone? After the Escaflowne incident, I can say fuck Bandai without much remorse. I have counted 12 different
incarnations of the Power Rangers franchise.