The fourth volume of Hen-Zemi will come coupled with an OVA. That is, unless Kodansha is lying to me again. Regardless of the circumstances, I’ve already pre-ordered it.
Granted, this news is old. Old as the stars. I did a google bing search on my “discovery” and found an anime news network article already announcing what I thought to be my little secret. I’ve ordered the third volume of Hen-Zemi, but it’s been nearly three months now and I still haven’t received it, thanks to my brilliant stupidity and the extremely cheap SEA shipping option offered at bk1. So I never had the chance to see this little announcement in the back that would have made clear this information.
But I’m not blaming anyone in particular here… The only thing we can really blame is my lack of enthusiasm in perusing the internet for the metaphorical scraps of smut from the tabletop. In any case, Hen-Zemi’s OVA will be amazing. I’m sure of this for several reasons:
Kana Hanazawa will voice the female lead, Nanako Matsutaka. Kana has several merits going for her, the least of which is that she’s younger and prettier than me. Her most notable role, faithfully represented with great enthusiasm I might add, happens to be Potemayo from the anime of the same name. I believe her lesser roles include Kobato (Kobato.), Zange (Kannagi), Suou (Darker Than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini), and stuff.
XEBEC will handle the animation. Throughout history, XEBEC has managed to make even the greatest concepts into a neat mediocre anime series.
The script is written by someone who has yet to write anything amazing, and the director has hardly any repertoire. When you dig a hole as deep as this, then you’re bound to strike oil.
Did you know that Gregory, our token furry-eared foreigner swallows goldfishes?
There is an animated condom on their front page.There is an ANIMATED CONDOM on their front page!
Heroman is a show even more patriotic than Fox News. If the red, white and blue wasn’t a dead giveaway, the alien bad guys always have red energy floating around their every being. This is a clear message that Heroman is in fact an ally of justice and aliens are communist pigs trying to destroy capitalism and the spirit of freedom, as displayed by the master-and-slave relationship between robot and outcast boy. Heroman stops the spread of their ethnocentric socialist beliefs across the heart of America (the west coast) and the free worlds of Earth (all five of them).
The actual show is about some boy whose robot toy gets struck by a magical lightning from one of the alien’s weapon of mass destruction. And like straight out of the textbook of superhero 101 turns into a nigh-indestructible robot bigger than Yao Ming and his commie friends.
I guess the main reason I like it so much is my friends and I decided to play a drinking game where we take shots every time an American Flag pops up on screen. Five minutes into the first episode, my friend was nearly wasted and I was puking in the closet. Let’s hope this successful first episode spawns many more to follow.
I don’t really know if there is a story to this show… but when you have America at every corner, who really needs one? Did I mention Stan Lee came up with the original concept? That crazy kook is up to something again!
With five $5 you can get someone to tell you something that you can easily find on Google.
“I will give your the URL to the best “Hentai” Site for $5”
You can pay someone to do something that can be easily done on an anime forum.
“I will talk anime, manga, comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) with you for $5”
Make yourself ugly with…
“I will turn you into an Anime character for $5”
Force an innocent person to watch Boku no Pico and have them tell you about their thoughts on the anime.
“I will watch an amime series of your choice for $5”
…oh my, why would anyone normally care?
“I will say anything you want in an angry voice in Japanese (in an anime way) for $5”
The site is called Fiverr and it basically is a site where you can do things for other people for the fixed price of $5 USD. Payments are done both via credit card or Paypal. Each offer has an image and a description of what you’ll be getting. After you get your product or service, you may leave a review. Perhaps this is your chance to make money on something you can do well.
You can also find people to translate manga, teach you Japanese, review your fan art, and people who will put advertisements up of your site or blog. Those aren’t fun, though.
A Democratic American State Representative on the social networking site Facebook stated “anime is a prime example why two nukes was not enough” during World War II. These comments from Nick Levasseur are very recent, as the footage above aired on March 25th and 26th of 2010.
I start to question my impeccable taste in anime/manga when crap like this is listed on anyone’s top 10 anime… So of course, being the cautious idiot, I had to go and download this series to see if I had indeed missed out on anything great. To my surprise, and to none of yours, I realized I had not.
There is no reason as to why I should be surprised, because I read a few chapters of the comic that goes along with this marketing gimmick over a year ago and I did not like what I read. So now a few questions come to mind:
Why did you watch all twelve episodes?
Because I’m an idiot.
What made you think this was going to be any good?
I really don’t know. Just shoot me, please…
It’s because you whacked off to those doujins, right? You thought it’d be more arousing if you knew the backstory to those shitty comics that you’ve been getting a stiffy over?
What the hell? Are you an esper!?
You make me sick.
I can’t help it!
And so, I leave you with today’s Japanese lesson: Tajuujinkaku – Split Personality
You is a very short chapter sized shotacon manga with Kazuma and Kenji of the Summer Wars anime. Kenji is the aggressor and also seems a bit more developed than poor little Kazuma. The character designs are great for being what it is, but the tan line of Kazuma was a bit too strong when in black ‘n white. Pages become wonderfully noisy as sounds begin and the ending is sweet. It’s untranslated by the dojinshi circle Ego Dance with the author Nanamatsu Kenji. Worth checking out if you just watched the movie. Hopefully the anime will be licenced.
There is an ANIMATED CONDOM on their front page!
