Ok well I wrote this when this news was new, so let me explain how I heard about this. Well I usually watch G4 in the morning to kill some time before I have to go to school and as I was watching something caught my eye, the words No More Heroes, Xbox 360, and PS3 were all in the same sentence, it was one of those little news updates on the bottom of like any G4 show and well it said Weekly Famitsu reported that No More Heroes was being remade on the PS3 and 360. It was brief and I only read about half of it because I caught it just before it went off the screen so I just thought it might have been fake or something like that. But sure enough when I got home I checked online and... well, it's true... Apperantly though since the Xbox 360's sales in Japan are worse than the virtual boy (just an estimate, I'm sure their sales aren't THAT bad) Japan will receive the uncensored version of the game, but get this, only on the Xbox 360, it will be rated a very rare Cero Z (Cero is the Japanese rating system and think of Cero Z as the Japanese AO rating) which, of course means that the PS3 version will be censored. That just made me think "What are you doing Suda?" but here is where it gets interesting... you see Suda51 has nothing to do with this port, well to the best of my knowledge it's just Marvelous doing this. There has been no announcement for an American release but on a completely unrelated note there will be a new gameplay mode called "Super Sweet Mode" where all of the female bosses will be wearing really revealing clothing... not sure why I mentioned that but I felt like it just had to be thrown out there.
Anyway here are links to the original scans from Weekly Famitsu:
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Well, I always talked about how if it was put into the right hands a live action Gantz movie would totally kick ass, now that that's acutally happened, I still feel a bit nervous. Allow me to explain, I was browsing around the Young Jump website to see if I could find a pictures of the most current Young Jump (so that my dad's friend in Japan could get me one) but I came across something else... this: http://yj.shueisha.co.jp/gantzspecial/ so I thought "Is this like an ad for Gantz Final Phase?" or "Is this like an announcement for a new season of the Gantz anime?" well no I was wrong and found out I was wrong when I tried to save the ad into my pictures and the file name was "gantz_movie_01" so naturally since the word CG was all over the ad I assumed it was a CGI gantz movie and that sounded awesome, but then I saw the name of the third Death Note movie in the corner and decided to google Gantz Movie and I found an article that said they were making two live action movies. At first when I heard they were going to be made by the same guy who made the Death Note movies I had nothing to fear until I came across one little thing in the article... "The Sponichi Annex reports that the Gantz films will be targeted at mainstream audiences, suggesting that some of the graphic violence of the original manga may be toned down for the movies." seriously read the article for yourself: http://www.animenation.net/blog/2009/10/08/live-action-gantz-movies-announced/ well, after reading that I was dissapointed and honastly if they keep the stupid nudity and sex scenes in I will be so pissed off that they couldn't make room for the violence. Either way I can't judge the movies til they come out in 2011, and I assure you if they by some strange desition either get overdubbed or officially subtitled I will watch them and hope for the best.
For more info on the Gantz live action movies just check out this article at: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-10-07/gantz-manga-being-adapted-into-live-action-film and remember I post every other day and please tell your friends about my blog.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
3 Awesome Ideas for PS3 games (because of Blu-ray)
This is not a "the ps3 pwns everything else" list because I love my Wii and think the Xbox is awesome. This is a "A blu-ray disk can hold 50 freakin GB so can someone please take advantage of that to make an awesome game" I mean, a ps2 disk holds something around 2 or 3 gigs, and we got Tenkaichi 3, just imagine what you could do with 50 gigs. This is not a "top" 3 list technically because this is in no particular order. These games are obviously just ideas and will most likely never be made into a game.
Idea #1: Battle Stadium B.O.N.D. (Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball)
Ok just hear me out, with 50 gigs you could take the roster of DBZ Tenkaichi 3, add some of the extra characters (like SSJ3 Vegita) from Raging Blast, then the roster from Bleach Heat the Soul 6 with a few more recent characters and releases, then the roster for One Piece Unlimited Cruise 2 with some more recent characters and characters like Pandaman, and then the roster of Naruto Accel 3 add some PTS characters and like I said before, more recent characters. Then have the graphics of your average PS3 game with like 10 stages from each series, some of which could be interactive stages (like in Blade Battlers 2nd). It could also have character customization, an awesome story mode, 4 player vs mode, mini-games, and online. You have to admit, it would be awesome to have Luffy, Naruto (future), Goku, and Ichigo all fight at the same time online would be pretty cool.
Idea #2: Bleach PS3 Game
Well Naruto got a PS3 game and Dragon Ball Z got two PS3 games, I want there to be a Bleach PS3 game. Whether it be Blade Battlers 3rd, or a Heat the Soul game on PS3, it should be made. Honestly the closest thing we have to a Next gen Bleach game is Versus Crusade, well actually... Versus Crusade was amazing so... anyway, back on topic, it would be awesome to have a Bleach PS3 game, and since SEGA doesn't like America getting the Bleach games made by Sony, the PS3 is Region free so people could import it with ease.
Idea #3: Gantz PS3 Game
Ok so after actually playing the Gantz game last year I realized how awesome the idea of a Gantz video game was, and how Konami could pull it off flawlessly. Now when Gantz ends (the manga is in the final phase) just imagine a Gantz game that was Co-op and went from the very beginning to the very end. Now the first time you play through story mode, whoever is supposed to die in the story, will die, but afterwards you could play in free mode, and for a character to die in free mode you actually have to die as them in a mission, however if you get 100 points you could of course bring them back, get a stronger weapon from the weapon room (like an H gun, Enhanced Gantz Suit, and Gantz Bike), or just leave the Gantz room and get the ending.
This list was fun to make so I may come up with more Ideas later. Remember I post every other day. Ahhh back to Akatsuki Rising, Katamari Forever, and Muramasa.
Idea #1: Battle Stadium B.O.N.D. (Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball)
Ok just hear me out, with 50 gigs you could take the roster of DBZ Tenkaichi 3, add some of the extra characters (like SSJ3 Vegita) from Raging Blast, then the roster from Bleach Heat the Soul 6 with a few more recent characters and releases, then the roster for One Piece Unlimited Cruise 2 with some more recent characters and characters like Pandaman, and then the roster of Naruto Accel 3 add some PTS characters and like I said before, more recent characters. Then have the graphics of your average PS3 game with like 10 stages from each series, some of which could be interactive stages (like in Blade Battlers 2nd). It could also have character customization, an awesome story mode, 4 player vs mode, mini-games, and online. You have to admit, it would be awesome to have Luffy, Naruto (future), Goku, and Ichigo all fight at the same time online would be pretty cool.
Idea #2: Bleach PS3 Game
Well Naruto got a PS3 game and Dragon Ball Z got two PS3 games, I want there to be a Bleach PS3 game. Whether it be Blade Battlers 3rd, or a Heat the Soul game on PS3, it should be made. Honestly the closest thing we have to a Next gen Bleach game is Versus Crusade, well actually... Versus Crusade was amazing so... anyway, back on topic, it would be awesome to have a Bleach PS3 game, and since SEGA doesn't like America getting the Bleach games made by Sony, the PS3 is Region free so people could import it with ease.
Idea #3: Gantz PS3 Game
Ok so after actually playing the Gantz game last year I realized how awesome the idea of a Gantz video game was, and how Konami could pull it off flawlessly. Now when Gantz ends (the manga is in the final phase) just imagine a Gantz game that was Co-op and went from the very beginning to the very end. Now the first time you play through story mode, whoever is supposed to die in the story, will die, but afterwards you could play in free mode, and for a character to die in free mode you actually have to die as them in a mission, however if you get 100 points you could of course bring them back, get a stronger weapon from the weapon room (like an H gun, Enhanced Gantz Suit, and Gantz Bike), or just leave the Gantz room and get the ending.
This list was fun to make so I may come up with more Ideas later. Remember I post every other day. Ahhh back to Akatsuki Rising, Katamari Forever, and Muramasa.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Top 5 Underrated Anime
Wow, and I mean wow, this list was difficult because these are 5 of my favorite anime underrated or not.
5. Higurashi
Ok this isn't as underrated as everything else on this list because so many people know of it as "that anime with the creepy torture scenes" but believe me that's not all Higurashi is about, if it was then I might as just rewatch the last episode of School Days instead, at least I can find that Legally on Crunchy Roll... anyway, Higurashi starts out with a scene of the main character beating someone to death with a baseball bat, then transitions over to his happy school life =), now just like so many other anime Higurashi likes to show you small bits of stuff happening later on and sometimes doesn't even explain that stuff til you forget all about it 4 arcs later, oh and did I mention *slight spoiler* that the main character DIES in episode 4, only to come back in episode 5 as if nothing happens because different arcs are different scenario's basically, you get used to it after a while but the first time it's just really confusing. All in all if you like slow painful gory torture mixed with happy fun school anime goodness, then try to check out Higurashi, especially since a new series box set comes out next week.
4. .Hack (all series)
Well, I guarantee that most of the people who know what .hack is probably know it because of the games (which by the way are awesome) but there were anime series too, like sign, roots, legend of the twilight, and not to mention some of the manga series like, XXXX (aka X-fourth), G.U. +, and the extra stuff like .hack 4koma and .hack gift. So basically despite how unpopular the series is in america I'm pretty sure it's huge in Japan. Well there is alot to talk about as you could read so much that I could spend hours talking about each series, but sadly I have other things on the list and must end this one with a simple recomendation that you at least check out one series.
3. Desert Punk
Well a friend of mine has Netflix and watched this series from there (yes Netflix users you can check this anime out without having to buy anything) and so because he recommended it I bought the series box set and wow, it was great, it was really funny as a comedy, it always had you wonder what ingenious trick Desert Punk has up his sleeve, but surprisingly it was very good at being serious, the last episode felt entertaining even though there was nothing funny in the entire episode, which is hard to pull of in a comedy anime because usually in a comedy anime, you hate it when it gets serious (like that crappy anime adaptation of Rosario Vampire) but Desert Punk seems to pull it off just fine.
2. Gankutsuou
Ok I'm gonna be honest, I haven't finished this anime yet, but from what I have seen it's kind of like Code Geass and Blood+, there's always a twist at the end of each episode, this is one of the anime Funimation got the rights to from Gonzo, which means that a new box set came out, making this one easier to find, it is also on Netflix like Desert Punk. Now this one is so underrated that I bet most of the people who watch it today only know of it because of TeamDN's (formerly TeamDattebayo) Death Note the Abridged series, infact, that's how I found out about this series. Believe me this is a good anime with alot of funny moments.
1. Gantz
Ok I DO NOT recommend this one for kids, Higurashi's brutal gory violence may scar you but trust me all of the bad words, violence, and sex in this series make it so explicit that the manga volumes have to be covered in plastic. Just like me alot of people found out about Gantz from the hit internet series Gantz Abridged by hbi2k. Even though there are alot of things in the anime that really didn't need to be there (like that old lady from episode 1 coming back over and over and over again) and the anime only made to mission 3 (not including the filler mission) whereas the anime had at least 10 missions, the anime is also very slow paced, something that could have happened in 1 episode usually takes about 4 (not an overegzageration) however if you have the whole series (either the box set or the "perfect score collection" that comes in a little gantz ball) then it's not that big of a problem. So to sum it up I REALLY recomend Gantz and the good thing for americans is that it's not too hard to find the DVDs and the manga is apperantly going strong over here, so if you can I really recomend the manga more than the anime because it goes on for alot longer and isn't even over in japan yet (final chapters begin this October).
So that was my list of good underrated anime, try to check all of these out if you can and remember to support the official release by buying the dvds or manga, and remember I update every other day so check real soon for more.
5. Higurashi
Ok this isn't as underrated as everything else on this list because so many people know of it as "that anime with the creepy torture scenes" but believe me that's not all Higurashi is about, if it was then I might as just rewatch the last episode of School Days instead, at least I can find that Legally on Crunchy Roll... anyway, Higurashi starts out with a scene of the main character beating someone to death with a baseball bat, then transitions over to his happy school life =), now just like so many other anime Higurashi likes to show you small bits of stuff happening later on and sometimes doesn't even explain that stuff til you forget all about it 4 arcs later, oh and did I mention *slight spoiler* that the main character DIES in episode 4, only to come back in episode 5 as if nothing happens because different arcs are different scenario's basically, you get used to it after a while but the first time it's just really confusing. All in all if you like slow painful gory torture mixed with happy fun school anime goodness, then try to check out Higurashi, especially since a new series box set comes out next week.
4. .Hack (all series)
Well, I guarantee that most of the people who know what .hack is probably know it because of the games (which by the way are awesome) but there were anime series too, like sign, roots, legend of the twilight, and not to mention some of the manga series like, XXXX (aka X-fourth), G.U. +, and the extra stuff like .hack 4koma and .hack gift. So basically despite how unpopular the series is in america I'm pretty sure it's huge in Japan. Well there is alot to talk about as you could read so much that I could spend hours talking about each series, but sadly I have other things on the list and must end this one with a simple recomendation that you at least check out one series.
3. Desert Punk
Well a friend of mine has Netflix and watched this series from there (yes Netflix users you can check this anime out without having to buy anything) and so because he recommended it I bought the series box set and wow, it was great, it was really funny as a comedy, it always had you wonder what ingenious trick Desert Punk has up his sleeve, but surprisingly it was very good at being serious, the last episode felt entertaining even though there was nothing funny in the entire episode, which is hard to pull of in a comedy anime because usually in a comedy anime, you hate it when it gets serious (like that crappy anime adaptation of Rosario Vampire) but Desert Punk seems to pull it off just fine.
2. Gankutsuou
Ok I'm gonna be honest, I haven't finished this anime yet, but from what I have seen it's kind of like Code Geass and Blood+, there's always a twist at the end of each episode, this is one of the anime Funimation got the rights to from Gonzo, which means that a new box set came out, making this one easier to find, it is also on Netflix like Desert Punk. Now this one is so underrated that I bet most of the people who watch it today only know of it because of TeamDN's (formerly TeamDattebayo) Death Note the Abridged series, infact, that's how I found out about this series. Believe me this is a good anime with alot of funny moments.
1. Gantz
Ok I DO NOT recommend this one for kids, Higurashi's brutal gory violence may scar you but trust me all of the bad words, violence, and sex in this series make it so explicit that the manga volumes have to be covered in plastic. Just like me alot of people found out about Gantz from the hit internet series Gantz Abridged by hbi2k. Even though there are alot of things in the anime that really didn't need to be there (like that old lady from episode 1 coming back over and over and over again) and the anime only made to mission 3 (not including the filler mission) whereas the anime had at least 10 missions, the anime is also very slow paced, something that could have happened in 1 episode usually takes about 4 (not an overegzageration) however if you have the whole series (either the box set or the "perfect score collection" that comes in a little gantz ball) then it's not that big of a problem. So to sum it up I REALLY recomend Gantz and the good thing for americans is that it's not too hard to find the DVDs and the manga is apperantly going strong over here, so if you can I really recomend the manga more than the anime because it goes on for alot longer and isn't even over in japan yet (final chapters begin this October).
So that was my list of good underrated anime, try to check all of these out if you can and remember to support the official release by buying the dvds or manga, and remember I update every other day so check real soon for more.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Top 5 Totally Insane Anime Characters
This is a list of Anime characters that are quite insane, now of course you know there has got to be at least ONE higurashi character in a list like this, well your right, but is a higurashi character number one?
*This list contains Spoilers*
5. Sekai - School Days
Ahhh School Days, episodes 1-11 were so boring I actually fell asleep watching them, but episode 13 was awesome if you like higurashi.
What she did that makes her crazy:
Sekai is only number 5 on the list because murdering your "boyfriend" in jealousy with a kitchen knife is nothing compared to the stuff these other people did.
4. Rena - Higurashi
Told you there was a higurashi character here, even though she actually isn't very insane in some arcs, and just mentioning Higurashi I want to say, I HAVE ONLY SEEN HALF OF THE SERIES SO DON'T SPOIL ANYTHING FOR ME IN THE COMMENT BOX.
What she did that makes her crazy:
Well for starters she stalks the main character with a freakin giant cleaver in the first arc of Higurashi and she put a NEEDLE in the main character's Ohagi... If that doesn't sound dangerous imagine if someone stuck a sewing needle in food that you probably don't even need to chew... you would just swallow a freaking needle whole IF YOUR LUCKY AND DON'T CHEW imagine how much that would hurt if you actually chewed a needle without knowing it.
3. Nishi - Gantz
Yeah, most people who watch Gantz probably saw this one coming after seeing the scene where he like ripped a cat apart (or possibly shot it with a freakin x rifle) because he went a few days without shooting something.
What he did that makes him crazy:
Well besides that cat thing, he was a long time gantz survivor and guess what he does when newcomers arrive... give up? He lies to them and says that they get money for killing the poor innocent little Green Onion Alien and then just turns invisible and watches them get killed by the bigger alien. He even goes far enough as blowing up a guys head because he wanted to show everyone what happens if they (direct quote + censorship) "mess with him" (replace mess with f... oh you know what...).
2. Mikami - Death Note
Ok if you have seen the last episode of Death Note or read the last volume then you should have defiantly seen this coming.
*Death Note Spoilers*
What he did that makes him crazy:
Ok, so when Mikami was a kid he would stop kids from being bullied by making the kids beat him up instead, obviously this wouldn't work anymore in middle school and high school so his mom told him that he should stop doing that in order to lead a normal life, wanna know what he does when she worries so much about him? He wishes her dead, and SURPRISE! She like crashes into all the bullies that beat him up in school and they all die... he sees this as a gift from God... seriously... he takes his own mother dieing as a gift... anyway, after that he begins killing criminals for Light and when Light "Loses" Mikami just completely goes insane! Like I mean crying, screaming, and then committing suicide insane.
1. Kotonoha - School Days
Yup, another School Days character, if you have seen the ending of School Days, you DEFIANTLY saw this one coming for sure.
*Spoilers for the School Days ending*
What makes her so insane?
Ok, it's gonna be hard to top Mikami, but basically in school days this chick is just like Higurashi brain washed without the main character and even goes as far as pretending that she is talking to him over the phone when she didn't even call him. When the main character gets his uhh... "girlfriend?" or whatever pregnant and after realizing cheating on every girl he ever meats and sleeping with at least 3 different people a day is a bad thing he goes back to her to find that she is just insane without him, he "snaps her out of it"... kinda... but when Sekai (number 5 on the list) kills the main character guess what she does? She freaking cuts (or maybe folds) the body to fit in a small handbag and then brings a meat cleaver (awww the writer of School Days is a fan of Higurashi... what a surprise) onto the roof and meets Sekai there where she grabs the knife out of Sekai's hand and *holy crap prepare yourself* brutally murders her and cuts open her stomach to see if she was really pregnant... If the blood wasn't censored in School Days it would make it alot creepier... oh did I mention that Kotonoha keeps the body and hugs the disembodied head pretending it's the main character... yeah...
I'm not gonna lie to you, this list was the result of watching too much higurashi, recently seeing the ending of School Days, and spending at least 3 or 4 hours on cracked.com... But that's not a bad thing... r...right? Remember I post almost everyday (I might skip a day here and there) so please visit daily.
*This list contains Spoilers*
5. Sekai - School Days
Ahhh School Days, episodes 1-11 were so boring I actually fell asleep watching them, but episode 13 was awesome if you like higurashi.
What she did that makes her crazy:
Sekai is only number 5 on the list because murdering your "boyfriend" in jealousy with a kitchen knife is nothing compared to the stuff these other people did.
4. Rena - Higurashi
Told you there was a higurashi character here, even though she actually isn't very insane in some arcs, and just mentioning Higurashi I want to say, I HAVE ONLY SEEN HALF OF THE SERIES SO DON'T SPOIL ANYTHING FOR ME IN THE COMMENT BOX.
What she did that makes her crazy:
Well for starters she stalks the main character with a freakin giant cleaver in the first arc of Higurashi and she put a NEEDLE in the main character's Ohagi... If that doesn't sound dangerous imagine if someone stuck a sewing needle in food that you probably don't even need to chew... you would just swallow a freaking needle whole IF YOUR LUCKY AND DON'T CHEW imagine how much that would hurt if you actually chewed a needle without knowing it.
3. Nishi - Gantz
Yeah, most people who watch Gantz probably saw this one coming after seeing the scene where he like ripped a cat apart (or possibly shot it with a freakin x rifle) because he went a few days without shooting something.
What he did that makes him crazy:
Well besides that cat thing, he was a long time gantz survivor and guess what he does when newcomers arrive... give up? He lies to them and says that they get money for killing the poor innocent little Green Onion Alien and then just turns invisible and watches them get killed by the bigger alien. He even goes far enough as blowing up a guys head because he wanted to show everyone what happens if they (direct quote + censorship) "mess with him" (replace mess with f... oh you know what...).
2. Mikami - Death Note
Ok if you have seen the last episode of Death Note or read the last volume then you should have defiantly seen this coming.
*Death Note Spoilers*
What he did that makes him crazy:
Ok, so when Mikami was a kid he would stop kids from being bullied by making the kids beat him up instead, obviously this wouldn't work anymore in middle school and high school so his mom told him that he should stop doing that in order to lead a normal life, wanna know what he does when she worries so much about him? He wishes her dead, and SURPRISE! She like crashes into all the bullies that beat him up in school and they all die... he sees this as a gift from God... seriously... he takes his own mother dieing as a gift... anyway, after that he begins killing criminals for Light and when Light "Loses" Mikami just completely goes insane! Like I mean crying, screaming, and then committing suicide insane.
1. Kotonoha - School Days
Yup, another School Days character, if you have seen the ending of School Days, you DEFIANTLY saw this one coming for sure.
*Spoilers for the School Days ending*
What makes her so insane?
Ok, it's gonna be hard to top Mikami, but basically in school days this chick is just like Higurashi brain washed without the main character and even goes as far as pretending that she is talking to him over the phone when she didn't even call him. When the main character gets his uhh... "girlfriend?" or whatever pregnant and after realizing cheating on every girl he ever meats and sleeping with at least 3 different people a day is a bad thing he goes back to her to find that she is just insane without him, he "snaps her out of it"... kinda... but when Sekai (number 5 on the list) kills the main character guess what she does? She freaking cuts (or maybe folds) the body to fit in a small handbag and then brings a meat cleaver (awww the writer of School Days is a fan of Higurashi... what a surprise) onto the roof and meets Sekai there where she grabs the knife out of Sekai's hand and *holy crap prepare yourself* brutally murders her and cuts open her stomach to see if she was really pregnant... If the blood wasn't censored in School Days it would make it alot creepier... oh did I mention that Kotonoha keeps the body and hugs the disembodied head pretending it's the main character... yeah...
I'm not gonna lie to you, this list was the result of watching too much higurashi, recently seeing the ending of School Days, and spending at least 3 or 4 hours on cracked.com... But that's not a bad thing... r...right? Remember I post almost everyday (I might skip a day here and there) so please visit daily.
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