Can someone tell me what exactly is going on here?

Also, D:.(most likely NSFW)

Someone we all know and love is having a BAWW
Now why would the mods remove a journal that contained full nudity where even 13 year olds can see it? She's sickened but it all. *EYEROLL*

It's been a while since any cs-chan news, so...

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, and I can’t be arsed writing this in December.

Kneejerk comments on anime starting in January - Go!

RIDE BACK

Maybe it’ll come out this time. I hope so, it looks like it could be awesome. I wrote about it here.

Kemono no Sōja Erin

What’s that? A 50 episode, Production IG produced fantasy show for NHK? Good, good.

Takayuki Hamana (Library Wars, Chocolate Underground) directs this adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi’s The Beast Player manga. This has the potential to be really high quality.

Genji Monogatari Sennenki

Osamu Dezaki directs a Tezuka Productions/Tokyo Movie adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th century novel, The Tale of Genji.

I think that should tick enough boxes for you to be interested in checking this out.

VIPER’S CREED

Look at that logo! Look at it! Bask in its colour gradients! It’s awesome in its late 80s, early 90s video game cool. And it should not be surprising to learn that a man who is the definition of that era’s cool mecha is the head honcho of this show - Shinji Aramaki.

Of course his directing record isn’t quite as impressive as his design pedigree, but it should be worth checking regardless (and near-veteran animator Hiroyuki Kanbe seems to be the actual director).

By the way, this appears to be the only January show that isn’t an adaptation or a sequel.

Minami-ke: Okaeri

A third season of whatever this is. Something about three sisters if I remember rightly. I’m sure it’s showed up in one of these things I’ve done before, but I can’t muster the energy to check.

Kurokami The Animation

This Korean comic book gets an anime from the director of Emma & Twelve Kingdoms. No idea what the comic is like.

Asu no Yoichi!

Hideyuki Kurata slumming it again with another cute girl manga adaptation, this time from AIC. Debuting (?) Chief Animation Director Yumiko Ishii has done some interesting shows as a KA, so it may well look nice, even if the story is empty calories.

MAJOR 5th season

Perrenial baseball show continues.

WHITE ALBUM

Disappointingly not an anime celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Beatles album or even a misjudged musical ala “Across the Universe”. No. It’s, of course, an adaptation of a moe manga. Directed by Key The Metal Idol director Hiroaki Sato.

Maria Holic

Androphobic girl joins all-girl school. Girl falls in love with classmate. Who turns out to be a cross-dressing boy. From the team who brought you Zoku Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei.

Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season

And the fourth season of the real thing is due too.

Shikabane Hime Kuro

Second season of this adaptation hot on the heels of the GAINAX one. Not sure on the staff of this one as the website appears to just be an image at present.

Slayers Evolution-R

More Slayers.

Birdy The Mighty DECODE: 02

More Birdy. This is a good thing.

Zoku Natsume Yūjin-Chō

More folklore tales in this sequel to this summer’s series.

Shin Hajime no Ippo

More punching.

Hetalia - Axis Powers

The trend for webcomics to be turned into anime continues. This one appears to be about anthropomorphised countries. Specifically the countries involved in World War 2. Anthropomorphised as pretty boys.

Finished rolling your eyes yet?

Akikan!

Ugly looking romance anime from Brain’s Base.

Chrome Shelled Regios

Fantasy novel adaptation directed by journeyman director Itsuro Kawasaki.

Originally published at AWESOME ENGINE. You can comment here or there.

swimfreak82390.deviantart.com/art/Masquerade-103615259

honestly, i wish i could have taken him to my prom

(i was unsure about posting this considering i goaded and aggravated almost all of the arguments to follow, but i got the ok from joanmichele so hope you enjoy this as much as i do!!)

a bit of backstory that has nothing to do with this snark, just so you understand what's going on:
A comment made on OwlGem's page created conflict, mostly with the 13 year olds who still think she is LULZ-WORTHY XD who were like "OMG EPIC PWN". I'm mosty referring to the star of my story, Fenris-of-Bloodmoon. She draws a bunch of wolves and boring assorted shit and acts like a super cool ediot btard anon, so of course she's GOTTA BE FUN.

Anyway, I teased the kid a bit, then went on with my business. I checked back at her page the next day to see what was up and she and some other kid had made journal entries calling each other out. (Fenris seems to have deleted her journal).

I like to argue with the stupid, so I heckle them. GOD BLESS THEM, because their friend replies to me to tell me I'm apparently ugly, and also that I draw shitty anime and yaoi. (what?)

That's hardly the issue, while it is pretty funny.

The funny thing is, they decided to troll around on my gallery and leave some very funny remarks:

On a photo I modeled for: Apparently my body is non proportionate, so it must be critiqued like a drawing. Also, the veins on my hands are so unfeminine and manly! ...okay?

Also, apparently people in illustrations can't have purple tinted skin. I wonder if anyone has told the designers at Blizzard this...

There were some other lolworthy comments on some of my pieces, but are probably only funny to me. :)

They also sent me a note apologizing for their actions and that they're trying to broaden their horizons with their artwork, which was cute. Its always nice when they learn a lesson in the end.

(doesn't change the fact that this was all hilarous, though)

Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese
ITV 1
The presenter undertakes a series of holy tasks as a Buddhist nun, and dresses up to take part in a manga convention. She also tries her hand at working in an oxygen bar and embarks on an unusual night out.

...judging by the preview, she goes in cosplay and gets perved on by anime fans, hates it, and then bitches about how horrible it is.

ESSENTIAL VIEWING!

...Borat in his bathing suit or having your head pasted on Borat?

An overdose of steroids UGH! That is too extreme!

Is that allowed on DA? (NSFW) Bawweeted!

I’ve had the Funimation Lupin III boxsets for well over a year now, I figured it’s time to sit down and watch them. Most of the first box I had seen before which is partly why I’d not got arround to it. The first in the set is the 1993’s “Orders to Assassinate Lupin” known as Voyage to Danger in this release.

I first saw this back in 2001 at the Liverpool anime convention whose name I’ve forgotten. It may have just been called Animecon. I enjoyed it back then, but watching it 7 years on, it’s severely lacking. It was supposed to be Masaaki Osumi’s return to the character since the first series, but judging from the garbled English on his wikipedia page, the fact Masaharu Okuwaki is also credited and the final results, all did not go to plan. There’s a few scenes here and there that capture that first series magic, for instance the scene the screen shot above comes from, but overall it’s a disappointing film.

To get throught these reviews I’m going to judge them by arbitary criteria.

How much do the characters look like the animators might have seen a Monkey Punch drawing at some point in their lives?

Here’s the thing about a lot of modern Lupin III anime, it doesn’t look a lot like Lupin III. Or at least the guest characters tend not to. Oh and Fujiko often looks off too as various character designers ideas of sexy don’t coincide with Monkey Punch’s.

So how are things here?

Well, Jigen and Zenigata look good. Lupin looks OK. And despite director Osumi’s limited involvement, there are some very Monkey Punch-like poses here and there. Goemon’s design is a little soft. Fujiko’s figure is correct, but both her face and hair look off. Guest characters veer all over the place, tellingly there’s the rare character that looks like it’s been pulled straight out of the original Lupin III series that Osumi worked on, but in general the non-regulars look like they’ve walked in from a Detective Conan episode.

How ludicrous are the capers?

A Lupin film can have plot holes you can fly a plane through as long as there are capers. Fun capers. Ludicrous capers. Oh and crotch boxing gloves are good too. How caper-friendly am I? Well, I am the man who actually liked Oceans 12.

Well here they steal a submarine at one point. And then a nuclear generator by rolling it down a hill. And they use a giant hoover to steal the villain’s cash. But overall it feels a bit lacklustre compared to some of the stories that involve getting their hands on some specific great treasure. Not enough gallavanting around too.

Hold on. It can have an extra point for Lupin’s escape in the missile and the last 2 minutes of the film. I forgot about them.

How much is Goemon involved in the story, rather than just a third act deus ex machina?

OK this is a weird one. Goemon in the hands of bad writers is often like Superman in Justice League stories. His swordsmanship is established as so powerful he could effectively derail poorly written plots. Add his more moral nature compared to the other three leads and you can see why some writers don’t want to deal with him and find ways to sideline him. Or just have him absent until he saves the gang in the third act.

Here he’s pretty much involved from the get go, but then gets left babysitting Zenigata and the nuclear scientist for the second act. But that does involve some excitement and plot with evil Zenigata replacement, Keith. For a story that doesn’t focus solely on Goemon, he fairs well here. He doesn’t even have to be the deus ex machina, someone else gets that job.

Originally published at AWESOME ENGINE. You can comment here or there.

Look, it's Link!... sort of.

ಠ_ಠ

How ... generic.
Oh well, at least she's doing something other than stealing images :B

I thought my gallery was repetitive.

Bonus: LOL

Sometimes they make it really easy to find underage users.

btw many Deviants have been banned for being an under age users which is really unfair cuz other deviants are underage users and havent been banned through out the whole year.
And dA wants this deviant to be 13 and 13 this 13 that and they were like "oh hoho lets banned this dood cuz he/she aint 13!!!!":pissed: That's just plain mean :pissedoff:
So fave this stamp if you support UnderAge Users.

Because the law has nothing to do with it. dA just likes to ban people under the age of 13 for no reason.

JONNY FIVE vs TERMINATOR

I wish I was so clever with my motives...

http://rightfield.deviantart.com/art/Ghost-in-the-Groove-CD-74114251

If ever I need a ref for a shower-component!

http://rightfield.deviantart.com/art/Shower-Component-1-80988980
http://rightfield.deviantart.com/art/Shower-Component-2-80989170
http://rightfield.deviantart.com/art/Shower-Component-3-80989455

Print available!

This is not how to use smudge tool.

what.
_{(These may seem decent manips, but on closer inspection some clear evidence of the smudge tool happies emerge.)}

( And more? Yes. )
edit: html fixed.
edit 2: If you don't understand why the tags say DO NOT TROLL, this comment explains it VERY CLEARLY.

:|

Ankles- Do you have any?

Like, dang, my HTML freaked out on me for some reason.

View this lovely with a barf bag right next to you.

http://kyonkitchi761.deviantart.com/gallery/

With lovelies such as...

TEH KYOUTNAS

Remember! Not only EDWARD 'sparkles'...

And this is the best picture in the gallery... TEH SQUIRREL

No seriously, aside from the red eyes - this ain't so bad.

Man, this Inu-Yasha fantard hated Kagome so much that she did MS Paint pictures of hate art; awfully drawn of course.

As quoted in the description don't delete this it is not stolen and I do not own inuyasha!

what else is there to say? she sucks! Another MS Painted anime screenshot.

It's an ugly shame that she is hotter than Kagome.

There's actually plenty more of those in her gallery.

For what I think it is, Astro Fighter Sunred is pretty good. That being a late night comedy Flash (or equivalent) cartoon. It’s certainly stronger than the terrible Flash version of Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar that is somehow getting a motion picture. But it’s nowhere near the genius that is Gag Manga Biyori.

The central joke is that it’s a sentai show, where the hero and all his enemies are deadbeats living a pitiful existance. The supposed hero Sunred is a jerk who sponges of his girlfriend and wastes his days playing pachinko. General Vamp, leader of the Florsheim armies, tries to live out his side of he war between good and evil, but is thwarted by both Sunred’s reluctance to fight them and his own forces’ patheticness.

It’s fairly amusing. I didn’t find it rip roaringly funny, but it was a pleasant enough way to while away 15 minutes. It’s perhaps not quite madcap or crazed enough for my tastes, but it has promise.

A couple of notes:

In a bit of celebrity casting, Vamp and No.1 (the main one of the two generic soldiers in Florsheim’s armies) are played by Louis Yamada the 53rd and Tobiguchi-kun of the comedy duo “Renaissance”.

Secondly, the show has been available on niconico. From what I’ve seen, it appears to be following the BBC model of being available for 7 days after broadcast.

Originally published at AWESOME ENGINE. You can comment here or there.