What happens when an anime studio, desperate to cash in on its properties, creates a so-called movie that’s about the length of a single TV episode? What happens when an anime licensor snags a 20-something minute “movie” in a franchise completely alien to the North American public, dubs it, and that becomes the first and only representation of the whole thing? Well, you get Ninku: The Movie, a completely superfluous and brainlessly silly feature for a show based on a really, really poorly drawn manga. I mean, really. Just go look it up.
Shonen Jump
Otaku Evolution Episode 52 – Death Note (Part 2)
Ladies, even if Light was right, the end is Near.
My Dailymotion (more episodes of OE there that can’t be hosted on my YT page)
– Penguin Truth
(2015)
Otaku Evolution Episode 51 – Death Note (Part 1)
Seriously, how do these notebooks never run out of pages? I’d think at some point, Light would be writing in the margins.
My Dailymotion (more episodes of OE there that can’t be hosted on my YT page)
– Penguin Truth
(2015)
The Debate That Got Me Ejected From Kanzenshuu Forums: Is Gohan Out Of Character In The Cell Games?
"I don’t need this shit."
PART I: The Preamble
I’ve been a fan of the Dragon Ball franchise off and on since about the time Dragon Ball Z first broadcast in syndication in September of 1996. I didn’t immediately latch onto the show. It took a while. A friend of mine, Jon Oakes, who I used to play SNES with at his house (I had a Sega Genesis, and we alternated homes for playing), introduced me to the series, and I didn’t quite latch onto it until I started watching it on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. When I started branching out into different types and titles of anime, I kept pushing the DB franchise back, exploring the more complex and compelling narratives of shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, and Cowboy Bebop. And after all, I would argue, the English version of Dragon Ball Z was so poorly done it was impossible to stomach the show except with subtitles, and I didn’t even have a DVD player until around 2001. By then, I looked at my DB fandom as an object of nostalgia at best and embarrassingly poor childhood taste at worst.