This year, in the theme of the great tradition of this eerie day, we figured it would be fun to give a list of what we consider to be some of the best parts of the season. That being, The Simpsons’ great specials based on this unique day. I decided to limit my list to one segment per special, and decided to spread it out over the many years of this tradition. Take a look at my list, then go…
Hey there guys, just in time for Halloween, here is part two of the Tiny Toon Adventures specials, this time featuring Night Ghoulery. This special first aired in primetime on Fox on May 25th, 1995, five months before Halloween(why it aired at this time I have no idea). Like Tiny Toons’ Spring Break, this special was only aired once, but unlike Spring Break, it was made available on VHS in 1997. The special starts off with a parody of Disney’s…
Straight from the director and staff behind GITS (as in the show, not the Belgian village, the punk rock band, or the loud-mouthed brats at the subway), Eden of the East is a short, but sweet thriller leaking with cyberpunk and mystery. We start off with a girl named Saki Morimi on the middle of her post-graduation trip. And while at Washington DC, she finds herself face to face with a naked man and his gun. Said naked man, who…
Months after the previous film, with opening dialogue alluding to Luthor being impeached, a ship crashes through Gotham City and is revealed to contain a Kryptonian named Kara Zor-El. Because the bonds of family bind both ways, Superman decides to trust her. Unfortunately, Batman and Wonder Woman don’t. Through a series of scuffles and character exaggerations, Kara gets captured on Darkseid’s orders. With help from Big Barda, the Big Three are off on a rescue mission to face the legion…
In these past few years, we have undoubtedly noticed that anime, aside from some few exceptions, has been lacking. For every Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, there’s at least a dozen K-On! clones. Whenever we see an original, genre-breaking show premiere, it’s always drowned out by the legions of pandering moe shows. But at least there’s something going on for TV when you compare it to how Japanese animation has fared recently at theatres. The tragic passing of Satoshi Kon means we…
I remember a time back when MAD magazine was pretty much everywhere. Back when magazines were hip and new, MAD seemed to be in the forefront of things, giving a less serious opinion on recent pop culture. From the handful of issues I leafed through, its tone alone was very tongue-in-cheek in that it was a compilation of short written works as well as comics and the like all compiled for the sake of mocking what we as a society…
NOTE: This is about the anime adaptation. I like the visual novel – it’s good. Also, I wrote this over three years ago and acknowledge that it is very abrasive and kind of obnoxious. I’m only leaving it up for posterity. Please do not judge the rest of our blog on the merits of this particular piece. After discovering the existence of a PS3 port/remake of the original Umineko visual novel, I remembered that — against my better judgment —…
How does one even start to describe a show like The Brave & The Bold? If you aren’t familiar with the Silver Age of comics, the Superfriends, or the old Adam West Batman show, then I can’t imagine how anyone could explain to you what it’s like. The best way would be that it’s about campy superheroes of all kinds of shapes and sizes cracking one liners and doing battle with the forces of evil. Just imagine those old 80s…
Ah, yes, Hanna-Barbera, the legendary animation studio that was originally spawned from MGM, which brought us some of the most popular cartoons over the last half century, including series that have since been littered into American pop-culture like The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo: Where are you?, Johnny Quest, Top Cat, The Yogi Bear Show, and The Huckleberry Hound Show, just to name a few well-known examples. Of course, when you think of Hanna-Barbera, it would be one of the…
Going in, I expected an awesome action extravaganza about Samuel L. Jackson running around Tokyo with an unrealistically large assortment of firearms and explosives blowing shit up with a soundtrack composed entirely by Motorhead. After all, what else could an hour-long OVA entitled Black Rock Shooter possibly be about? The friendship shared by two middle school girls, apparently. This pretty much sums it up. What we’ve got here is a slice of life school drama masquerading as a trippy fantasy…