Hey guys. Sorry for the mad long hiatus. Explanations in teh vid. But I’m back with a vengeance, here to talk about stuff for you guys. This is just an update video with where I am in my ongoing series and some of the stuff I’ve seen recently. So…there you go. Enjoy.

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Phil Bohn

Millions of Americans woke up today to devastation. After many years of living a lie, anime dubs as a whole when on record to say that the jelly donuts in anime were actually a Japanese dish known as “onigiri,” or as it is known in English “rice balls.” Dubs when on to say that, for years they have been onigiri and have been telling Americans otherwise as not to make theUSaudience unhappy and break off the relationship. After the new was broken there were a plethora of reactions from dub viewers.

Some viewers were shocked by this news, falling to their knees and yelling that quote, “everything I know is a lie!” Others broke down and were taken to mental institutions to get psychological help for the mind-crush they experienced during the years of this relationship. A small percentage of Americans pretended to know all along that this was the case; all while avoiding eye contact when interviewed and spouting that they were going to dump dubs anyway. Some even denied to talk to reporters, telling them they were lying and that anime would never do this to them.

There have been many cases such affairs where an anime comes over to US with an altered image to entice a USaudience, all the while going on a side relationship with its true audience. Japan. For instance, to preserve the minds of the USwho watch Yugioh! the harpy characters were redrawn with amour to cover up their nudity, while the Japanese got to see the true face of the anime. This sort of conversion of anime is known as “localization” and has played a key roll in making many Americans to enter a relationship with anime. Unfortunately, some Americans cannot deal with the years of lies and messy break-ups ensue.

“It feels like the anime has been lying to us all these years.” Says one fan. “I mean, when I found out that the lollipop that that one guy from one piece has was actually a cigarette inJapan, I was shaken. This new news that the donuts were something so un-American… and that the dubs have lied to me all these years… I need a moment…”

In response Dubs came out ad told us this. When animes come toAmericathe relationship between it and the audience is already at a rocky start. Being from two countries with two totally different cultures, it was necessary for them to pretend to be something they were not. As time went on though, andAmericaand Anime’s relationship grew Dubs could be more honest and open about thing like cigarettes and onigiri and pajamas that are actually kimonos. True, there are still things Dubs have not told in all honesty to The US audience, but Dubs wants to make it clear that they are working hard to re-strengthen the relationship with it theUSso they can fall back in love once again.

How do you feel on this issue? Do you think that we should be happy with how Dubs are today, or should we dump Dubs now? Leave a comment below with your opinion!

Sarcastically,

~~Z-ComiX

So the gang you all know and love are back to discuss a few things with you guys as we go into our second Bloggers Discussion on topic ranging from anime (of course) to politics… in anime. I’ve got Mokuren, Devil Survivor, Z-Comix and me with the mic(s), So lets get ill’in.

Our (Main) Topics include:

-anime video games, the ones that come out here and the ones that don’t.
- discuss how people react when they find out you like anime, being good or bad
- what anime series we are watching at current
-Bandai and the recent news concerning them.
-how the character battle on aaa podcast is rigged (my personal question)
-Funi is wanting to take whatever is left of the organism known formally as ADV for all its worth to court.

Not only that, we dive into the world of My Little Pony, cosplaying, the current presidential election and SOPA, the true ending to Crystal Triangle, Soul Bro Ryu for President, those annoying fanboys of Chiaki and SOOOO Much more!!!!

So once were done, we got straight outta the AAA and we were done for this segment.

Music: Beastie Boys “Time to get Ill” – Opening

N.W.A “Straight outta Compton” – Ending

Download HERE!!!! AAA Podcast Bloggers Discussion #2

So what does this all mean, you might ask. Well according to Kunio Kitamura head of the clinic of the Japanese Family Planning Association says it seems to confirm  the notion that Japanese younger men are becoming ” herbivores” meaning men who do not actively seek out women or sex. What we are seeing here I think is the collision of two social phenomena  at play in Japanese society creating a tsunami of sexual apathy. Women in Japan have been gaining empowerment in society in the past couple decades  making more money and getting higher on the professional ladder, and this has caused Japanese women to raise their expectations of what their potential husband should make at his job. This has in turn caused Japanese men to believe that the expectations of women are too unrealistic and they cannot possible make enough money in their jobs. So more and more men are turning other means of romantic engagement such as dating sims, anime character figures, sex dolls, and other such things.  Add to this the already extremely low birth rate in Japan and the high average age of the population, which is 44.8 years old, and things are not looking good for the future of Japan.

Some other findings from the survey that are of note; 40.8 percent of married couples answered that they had not had sex in the last month, up from 36.5 percent in 2008. Almost 50 percent married couples older than 40 also reported that they had not had sex in the last month. Thus confirming the widely held belief that getting married kills an otherwise healthy sexual desire haha.

This is a major social problem for Japan in a number of ways. In terms of the workforce and having a ready a supply of new young workers it would be disastrous as the birth rate is well below replacement. National defense would also be compromised as its hard to maintain an armed forces without young people to fill out the ranks. The population is projected to shrink to about 95 million by 2050 and this would cause the Japanese economy to suffer worse than anything before. Correcting this isn’t easy will probably take a generation or so to see signs of change.

Here’s the original article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/japanese-men-losing-sex-d_n_809271.html

Cheers,

Devil

The following is a PSA from the Z-ComiX Medical Division:

Today we mourn the death of a dear anime character of whom many have known and loved and even cosplayed as. Today we have lost a remarkable swordsman who could take on many foes. Today we mourn the death of one Sagara Sanosuke from the manga and anime Rurouni Kenshi. He has left this world and gone onto the next, having fought a long battle with a disease that has plagued many an anime since long ago. This disease is called BFS, or the medical term Big F**king Sword.

Yes friends, it’s time to have a serious chat about BFS. In animes BFS has led to the death of many a character. In the case of Sanosuke, it hit him later in life; after year of muscle degeneration and back problems from using his sword, a massive blade known as the “Zanza” (his Zanbato), he finally succumb to the sheer weight of the situation and ripped many muscles and tendons all throughout his body. He was immediately taken to a hospital for treatment of his BFS only to die later that day.

Sanosuke had been struggling with BFS for years, but it has finally caught up with him. It’s too late for him, but there are many anime characters who are afflicted with BFS. Cloud from Final Fantasy, Zabuza from Naruto, Ichigo from Bleach, and even Inuyasha from Inuyasha All have some form of BFS. There are many individuals who go through life everyday carrying unreasonably large swords. There is no way that they can carry, let alone swing the swords the way they do. It is our job as anime viewers to bring to light the viewer-made gravity of BFS.

If you or an anime you know as BFS, there are steps you can take to help overcome this disease. First, the best way to counteract BFS is to point at the sword and point out all the obvious flaws with it. Some phrases that may work to alleviate the problem are “that sword is too massive to work in reality,” “the writers should have realized that there is no way someone could swing a blade that big” or my personal favorite “FAKE!” If this doesn’t work to fix the problem immediately, you need straight to go into step two; tell everyone you know about the BFS. Dictate to them how the sword isn’t realistic in unnecessarily detailed arguments. If they tell you that it is an anime and should not be taken so seriously and to just enjoy it, slap them across the face and tell them that they are wrong and that it does matter and that they just don’t care about good animes like D.I.C.E. and Duel Masters.

You are the only one who can fix this problem and change the mind of an entire franchise by airing your grievances. BFS and other unrealistic things in the unrealistic worlds of animes are plaguing the industry. You need to point this out to everyone repeatedly so that they all know how much anime should model real life. After all, animes are made in order to teach people about the real world and to be as accurate as possible in terms of reality.

Sarcastically,

~~Z-ComiX

Last time I discussed how a lot of people on the internet where predicting the doom of Nintendo and the 3DS because of the massive drop in sales about 5 months after the launch which was mishandled(if anyone can point to a really solid launch for a game console please mention it the comments). So time has shown that either is true, of course although I’m aware that the Nintendo prediction is kind of open ended because a company’s future is always up in the air, however the 3DS one has proved to be very wrong. Over the Holiday Season the 3DS sold almost 1.6 million units and the weeks following have been strong as well. Add that to the fact the 3DS sold more units in the first 8 months in the U.S. than the DS. One thing I was wrong about in the last article was my prediction of a possible redesign of the system which didn’t come about(yet) maybe because the sales have rebounded.  I around thing I predicted was if a bunch of quality first party games would come out they the sales would go up; and that’s what has happened with the Mario and Mario Kart games. There are also some great three party stuff like the Monster Hunter game and more coming.

Ok on to Vita, and with its recent release in Japan on Dec.17th out of the way it looked pretty impressive with first weekend sales of 320,000. However, after that the sales have dropped off a lot and have been below the PSP. So now people predicting the end of Vita already. I really wish people would not make such wild and unfounded predictions about the future of a product that just came out. I think I Vita will pick up in the coming months, it might take a price cut, but I’m sure it will in the end. The launch library was kinda underwhelming even though there was an Uncharted game, but I think was better then the 3DS’s launch line up. Just give Vita some time.

Cheers,

Devil

I am actually going to do this review a bit different. So, instead of me explaining half the story and saying “hey, screw you and go out there and find it yourself” (like I enjoy doing), I will do a brief review this time to make it easy on you guys, and on myself also. So, let’s dive into this world of robot loving women, 80′s mecha designs, and all around short (and enjoyable) OVA of Dragon’s Heaven.

The OVA starts out with a brief history lesson of a war long forgotten, back in the (or should I say way ahead in the future) year of 3195, where we got robots fighting other robots on the planet Earth (there is a Brazil in this anime, so I will have to use my gut instinct and say Earth). We then hear of the robot back story of Shaian, who cannot return to his home world due to his pilot dying on him in battle and decides to go into robot sleep till whenever. We cut to the current (WAY FUTURE) time and see a rider on some weird looking ostrich animal going through the barren desert, when they go to a wreckage site and see a relic of the past that catches the riders attention. Soon after checking out the wreckage, we see a computer screen appear on screen with the text “Life Form” written, and we see our robot protagonist appear, Shaian. Shaian states that he has been in “robot sleep” for around a millennium when he awakens, and we find out who our mysterious rider is, our human female protagonist Ikaru. From then on, the story takes them into Shaian past and to fight his old robot rival, El Madine.

This is a very short OVA, so your looking at 30 minutes of the actual show, then credits, then about 10 minutes of a documentary at the end. How the actual OVA starts out is there is a 5 minute live action scene at the beginning between animatronic robots that are featured in the anime itself, who look like they are about to throw down right when the anime starts. I have to give the people behind the live action opening some credit, seeing how this was 1988, and if not most of the money went to the animation production than making the animatronic robots, they used what they had to make garage kits of the mechs themselves to try something different. In its own way, it does look really cool. And we get to see the title of the anime that seemed to be made out of a block of steel, rather cool looking. Then ending is just more of a “behind the scenes” look at what they did to make the robots move in the opening, which was recorded at a garage somewhere in Japan. I would have to say the opening sequence and the robots themselves were probably done by the director of this anime, Makoto Kobayashi.

This anime also has its amuzing moments where Shaian is embaressed by Ikaru being nude, and where Ikaru has the hots for Shaian rival when Shaian shows her the picture of the robot. Its like there is this underline theme of “chicks dig robots” in a minor way, for a comical effect that is amusing. The animation and mechanical designs are very unique for its time, which gives this OVA that genuine feel of 80′s nostalgia when you see this. Also to add is Ikaru body armor design when she goes against El Madine with its crazy design of clay looking spike high top boots, spiky knee guards and circular shoulders makes it more unique when it comes to the design work of this anime. There is much more to say when it comes to locations and what not, so keep your eyes peeled. The soundtrack has that 80′s synth pop to it also that kinda stays with you when you watch this.

I would say if you care to check this out, I will be worth your time. Its short, sweet and very too the point. It is available over at Anime Classic Reviews if you care to check it out. Well, I told you this would be shorter, so hope you enjoyed it.

If you enjoyed this, check out my personal blog at Anime of Yesteryear.

Hello there everyone. I’m back again with more stuff. This one is more of a roundup of some of the stuff that I’ve watched as far as the new season is concerned. Look forward to more concrete reviews and maybe a top 5 list after this weekend. Until then, thanks for watching.

Best,

Phil Bohn

Hey again everyone. I’m keeping up with my New Years Resolution! Look at me go. Anyway, I had a request from YouTube watcher dephlection for Air Gear, which I had reviewed in the past. I decided that my original 1/5 score may have been a little harsh. Will I go back on my original score or will I remain steadfast? Tune in to find out!!

Best,

Phil Bohn

Hey everyone. It’s a new anime season, so I talk a little bit about the ones that have piqued my interest, and also give excuses as to why I haven’t finished Cowboy Bebop yet. WOOHOO!

Best,

Phil Bohn