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There is a time, in the middle of your anime life, when you (supposedly) know and fear the genres you once swore you’d never watch again but still you think to yourself the same thing: “I’m more mature right now, maybe I could give the XXXXX anime a chance, even if it’s categorized in one of the genres I hate. . .Harem Anime”. I pondered this some weeks ago and here I am. Still alive. With some ups but huge downs I review the series that caught me and my fascination for pink and long-haired girls. I swear…someday I’ll resist successfully. 

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Those old school games sure had weird premises, hadn’t you noticed? I mean, Pac-Man, its a game about popping pills and eating ghosts and fruit! What the fuck is up with that? Where did these people came up with such ridiculous plots? Well, lets remember this was back in the late 70’s and mental… enhancement was in vogue. The guys from Cracked and comedy troupe Those aren’t Muskets! teamed up to bring us a look at how these great classics may have been born. Comedy gold ensues. Click above to watch it!

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Good news for all School Rumble fans, the never ending school romantic comedy is bound for a 3rd season with all of the original cast and staff. Bad news is it appears this will be a straight to DVD deal.

Kodansha will bundle the DVDs of School Rumble: 3rd Term with volumes 21st and 22nd of the ongoing manga so don’t expect the same quality of previous seasons. Still it brings nothing but joy to my heart that we’ll be following Harima in his quest for love and the true meaning of manliness in the near future, then again, we’re sure not to get anything resembling closure as the drama still goes on in the manga.

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I come from a place and time where, in my childhood, it was really hard to get anime; even before DVD’s and even before high-speed internet connections, we few anime-loving friends had to do almost impossible tasks, get to know THAT one guy who happened to go God-knows-where to get his anime, and we would follow, to his house, via that OTHER guy who was friends with him. Fantastic tales we soon made, just in order to keep the moe going. Moe. . .a very powerful word, which recently got a whole new meaning, mostly because of the girls of Love Hina.

Yep, Love Hina. That one anime most of you started with because of its male-seducing Harem style, sometimes funny comedy, and overall good animation, and let’s not forget Megumi Hayashibara on those infinite-looping songs.

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Welcome to the world of Pugyuru! We have cute girls, also octopus girls, and even a chibi-robot-blob maid. . .thingie. A normal series with really cool ideas that could be better done if they had enough money; nevertheless this anime makes it clear that if you have a nice idea, a good team and some money, you can make your own anime for the fun of it!

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Finally, a top tier in the Comedy section has ended. Seto no Hanayome brings us the same Boy-Girl formula but with elements that make it trascend and make any of its viewers have a great time, whether you like comedy, romance, or shounen-type separately.

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Ah, chess. THE strategy game of all time. We have our knights, our queen, and our king to protect. There’s something really charming about it that makes us keep staring, a lot of times in awe, at how two people will try to destroy the wits and determination of the other one, with small round pieces, either black or white.

Now, technology has boasted through the door and now we’ve got the same ol’ game, the same ol’ pieces, same ol’ rules, just a different paint coating, and we’re still addicted to this game. Hmm, I’m starting to see a relation to some videogames here. . .

Anyways, If there’s been a chess game that has always given us a good experience in the multimedia scene, it’s Chessmaster, from the very first edition up to the 10th, you can challenge a friend or the comp and have a good match, with some iced tea by your side. Hmm. . .that sounds good.

Here, phiktion shows us how he and a friend duke it out on Chessmaster 10th edition. It has some Papa Roach music to entertain the easily bored, but I assure you, playing chess on a computer really adds up to all that. . .interaction scene.

And as a bonus, user WedgeWorld1701 shows us a video of a parody of the game itself, with some comments that really remind us of witty English humor.

Anime and American animation are completely intertwined these days. American animation gave birth to anime and in turn now America tries to copy (bastardize) anime. Teen Titans, I’m looking at you!

Yet the battle between the two still rages on among a few who cannot fathom both styles existing in the same universe. Indeed the battle spreads into animation itself as we can see in this clip where Popeye finds himself in the midst of… well 7 out of every 10 anime series.

In the end we should focus on our similarities instead of our differences, in these case, it’s all colored in Korea!

As a lot of us Extreme Sports lovers know, Takeru Kobayashi (The internationally renowned Japanese hot-dog eater) sadly didn’t win this year’s hot-dog eating tournament. We all wept as he lost the opportunity of winning for the 7th time in a row. Still, he says he’s coming for more next year and he hasn’t given up his hopes on being the all-time champion.

Now, as weird as it may seem, SNL featured a video about him if he were a super hero. Mixing between Live Action and Anime, this parodies a lot of plots I’ve seen in REAL anime, where you can beat what dire event arises, if you do whatever you do. . .with some bright aura and yellow spiked hair.

[Tokyomango]

And no, I’m not talking about the song by Madonna. Nor the brand of beer. I’m talking about the yonkoma anime. I don’t know what it is about the opening, but I’ve put it on loop for half-hour and have not gotten tired of it. Over. And over. To the point where I had to quite literally hunt down for a torrent for the first episode of the anime. Crossbow and all.

Brought to you by the same Japanese Animation studio that brought you the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (looking at the opening, it shows), it delivers the same kind of anime that you’d expect out of the anime series that’s based off the popular comic strip, Lucky ☆ Star. It intially started off as filler comic strips in Comptiq magazine, based off of the every day lives of Tsukasa, Konata, Kagami, and Miyuki (something like Azumanga Daioh). However, considering it’s growing popular, it has been decided that Lucky ☆ Star would be serialized into manga, audio CDs, and a Nintendo DS game. And now, finally, it’s been made into an anime. Check out the delightful Lucky ☆ Star OP.

Ahhh, the good old British comedy. Monty Python’s movies are famous for their amusing plots, intelligent yet funny arguments, and the Holy Hand Grenade. If by any chance you mix a section of Monty Python’s Meaning of Life and trade humans for video game characters. . .well, check what happens.

And remember. . .Always look at the bright side of life! *whistle*

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As we all know, everyone always tries to do crazy, challenging stuff, trying to break the limits of the human body, and boy, have we achieved it.

This is not the case. In this video some guys from a Japanese show called Haneru no Tobira are trying to get from an icy slope to the goal some meters below. . .on top of a lot of sleds.

This one shows the guy using 20 sleds.

X-treme? Funny? Pointless? a little of all 3.

Click HERE to see all videos, going up to 100 (sleds)!

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Well, hello there! Long time no see, anime review! I plan to get you up to date more often from now on!

*Ahem*…I didn’t think I would almost forget one awesome series that made me have some affection for Mecha series (I watched the first 2 eps of Gundam Wing. . .sorry). Along with pretty catchy electronic music and rememberable characters(well. . . kinda), this anime has a pretty interesting plot. Come and see why you should watch it!
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One of the main reasons I thought making a 20-minute walk daily from my house to a friend’s, who happened to have a Sega Saturn was worth the sweat was Popful Mail: A skinny, red-haired medieval sword fighter with a lot of willpower and a hilarious English Dub.

The game is a standard 2D Action-Rpg sidescroller, where you start with Mail, then along the adventure you meet Tatt and Gaw, who will join your party. Each char has different abilities and 5 different weapons. Along the stuff that make this game part-RPG (besides the cliched scenario, characters, everything. . .) is that you can get different items that affect your status or the health bar. It has pretty funny music, and as always (before the 2000 World Japanimation Project*) if they didn’t see some elements of the original game to meet their expectations, the US branch of the Developer’s people would modify them, starting with the spoken dialogue (and not being able to change it to original Japanese with Subs [as today {e.g. DBZ Tenkaichi 2 for the Wii}]), WORDS from some characters (Tales of Phantasia “…Like a Tiger” issue) and something I most of the time disapprove of*, the music is completely changed in some scenes.

And that’s why I’m posting the same 2 videos from the intro of this awesome game, the first one in the Original Japanese version and the latter in the Polluted US version. Have fun!

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