Note that everything I say here is based on the obviously low budget of this production. Conceptually it’s interesting. A moviemaker wants to bring a little hope to the violence by making a superhero movie and gets his actress to actually fight crime, then she has to deal with a supervillain. This could work depending on the writing and direction the story takes. The final costume looks decent as does the villain’s (even if you can tell how they made it). This might be worth a look.
Anime, manga, live-action shows and kaiju, and video games. These are how some people believe is typical Japanese life. No, I don’t think they actually believe Godzilla goes stomping around the city (and if you do, please seek help) but when it comes to how Japanese life is depicted when there are no monsters or mecha running loose Japanese media is about as accurate as US media is to life in the United States Of America. If you think Hawaii Five-O or Magnum PI is accurate to Hawaii or any of the thousands of shows set in New York is accurate…note that often these shows don’t get their own geography correct. Like, I live in Connecticut and whomever was working on Gilmore Girls apparently couldn’t even get a proper map. Granted I know this from a video about it because I’ve watched maybe one episode in full if that but it’s still wrong. And that’s just the live action stuff. Thrown in cartoons, especially the more comedic stuff, and you will be clueless about how we live.
I have two videos to showcase this. Both are produced by The Anime Man (who I should warn you does swear in his videos) but the second guest-stars our old favorite, Gaijin Goombah. These videos will show that learning about Japan through their media alone will not really tell you anything about the country, including anime and manga. Especially anime and manga.
“I really had to tow this thing all around space?”
Robotech #1
Antarctic Press (March, 1997)
EDITORS: Ben Dunn & Herb Mallette
“Megastorm” part 1
WRITER: Fred Perry
ARTIST: Ben Dunn
COLORIST: ARNie!
“Prototype 001: Tigercat” part 1
WRITER/ARTIST: Ted Nomura
COLORISTS: Joeming Dunn & Mel Fujitsu (considering that’s the name of a villain from the US parody dub of Dynaman and I couldn’t find any info on him I’m guessing that’s not his or her real name)
If you found this funny check out their YouTube channel and their recent addition TV Sins. If you didn’t check out my old review of the channel or my later defense of the channel. It might not change your opinion but I could use the hits. 😀
I’ve tried to avoid it but it seems like every YouTube channel that discusses video games and/or movies has to put something out about it. I’ve been luckier with blogs but it seems I can’t avoid watching this thing, which means I’m probably not going to avoid talking about it. I considered doing a live reaction but I’m not very interesting on my own without a script (and for all I know even that doesn’t help) and the big studios have been willing to go after negative trailer reactions so I’ll just stick to articles.
Yes, we’re talking about the live-action Sonic The Hedgehog movie, another bit of proof that not everything has to be live-action. Trying telling Hollywood that. They won’t believe you. This is a franchise designed for cartoons right down to the sprites for the original Sega Genesis video game. This should have been an animated movie. At least it wouldn’t have looked like this.
Fighting off the Discovery fans.
Star Trek: Early Voyages #15
Marvel/Paramount Comics (April, 1998)
“Now And Then”
WRITERS: Ian Edginton & Dan Abnett
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Steve Moncuse
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Now there’s a team-up we’ll never get to see.
Game Of Thrones isn’t an historical piece by any stretch, but it does take a lot of cues from the Medieval period. So when Variety contributor Daniel Nissen saw a coffee cup in the fantasy world of Westeros (left behind from the catering table on-set) he thought back to other historical inaccuracies in movies and television. While I’m happy to see someone else notice Radar O’Reilly got his comic books via time travel I would think it would cause an article about real world things showing up in fantasy productions or times the set crew messed up and left something behind on-set that didn’t belong there.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
