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…

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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…

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  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…

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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…

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Okay, it’s my turn to take a whack at one of these, and for my first one, I chose to do one of my favorite childhood cartoons, Tiny Toon Adventures. Rather than doing an episode that is regularly regarded as great by fans, like Animaniacs! or Sepulveda Boulevard, I decided to do the rarely spoken of specials that aired after the series had ended it’s normal run; Tiny Toon Adventures Spring Break Special and Night Ghoulery. First off, both of…

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If you know me, you know that I love the Looney Tunes. And why not? The cartoons from the late 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, as well as some early 60’s ones, were constantly hilarious and have a lot of replay value., which has helped them survive the test of time for generations. My grandparents liked them, my parents liked them, and while my sister wasn’t as big of a fan, I definitely grew to like them while watching these old…

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First of all, I haven’t read the comic and have absolutely no plans to do so whatsoever. I couldn’t give two shits about Jason Todd. And frankly, I haven’t particularly liked a DC Animated Movie since The New Frontier. So even before I start the film, my expectations for this are pretty much six feet under. A mysterious vigilante by the name of Red Hood goes into the streets of Gotham to stick a middle finger up the ass of…

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