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Otaku Evolution Episode 36 – The Vision of Escaflowne

IMMEDIATELY flagged for copyright violations! Thanks, Bandai, you greedy fuckers. Maybe one day Japan will have Fair Use laws, but I wouldn’t count on it, because entertainment execs there are even greedier than human tumors we have over here. The Fair Use law over here means exactly shit these days as it is. But the video is still up, so watch it.

 

Tarot card-reading high school girl Hitomi Kanzaki finds herself in a strange world of beast men, dragons, magic, swordsmen, and miracle machines that run on bullshit in this anime classic. Join me as I briefly examine The Vision of Escaflowne, a show touched by many a great number of talents. read more

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Otaku Evolution – If You Aren’t Watching My Crappy Anime Review Show, I’ll Cut You

 

Just a few episodes of Otaku Evolution I feel you should watch or revisit:

 

[UPDATED 5/29/15]

 

Episode 1 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 1): OFFLINE

Episode 2 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 2): OFFLINE

Episode 3 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 3): OFFLINE

Episode 4 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 4): OFFLINE read more

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Otaku Evolution Episode 33 – Megazone 23 Part I

Maybe the most 80s anime of all time, Megazone 23 has bizarre fashion styles, transforming robot motorcycles, and MTV VJs all in a hodgepodge of 80s sci-fi clusterwonder. So join me, friends, as Vic the Brick and Misato Katsuragi try their best in this world of conflict to have a McNice McDay. Guest cameo by a certain warm water penguin.

 

– Penguin Truth

(2015)

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Otaku Evolution Episode 32 – Cipher

No one is to blame when you shook me all night long, because I was hungry like the wolf, but take me to Dr. Feelgood (it’s urgent) or when all is said and done, I just died in your arms tonight, time after time.

 

So yeah, this episode is about the 1980s.

 

– Penguin Truth

(2015)

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Otaku Evolution Episode 31 – Virus Buster Serge

Otaku Evolution Episode 31 – Virus Buster Serge from mtpenguin on Vimeo.

I only laugh in that title card so I don’t cry, my friends. Virus Buster Serge might just be the worst anime I’ve ever seen, with its pure, unadulterated psychowankery. It’s an action series where the action is choppy and barely animated, a tech series where the tech means random magical logic, and a psychological examination of what turns out to be very simple ideas presented in a pompous, overwrought manner. The show looks and sounds awful, and that terrible English dub isn’t helping. It astounds me that Masami Obari continues to get work even to this day. So join me as a piece of me dies in this, my Virus Buster Serge review. And weep for me. And weep for anime. And weep for humanity. read more