The Devil is a Part Timer (Episodes 1-5) is More Funny Than This is the End

A shonen like this should not be this entertaining. I would expect something lazy, like very girlish fanservice of shipping in this series.

Well- THERE IS, but it is done so seemlessly with all the interesting plots it seems like a good drama rather than a lackluster cash in attempt.

It sort of reminds me of a mix of silent Hollywood with Jim Jarmusch, how it seems to be told from a foreigner's perspective and ends up being quite comical.

The first episode is a great intro with a great sounding voice providing great quality exposition regarding the Devil and his generals, as well as great visuals to come along with it.
Then when it transitions into the real world, it becomes even better. Wittier dialogue such as being mistaken for a kotaku cosplayer. The use of money in the real world. Achieving more in a corporate society.

The second episode deals with Japanese life:

• work relationships,
• stalkers and
• the dangers such as gang violence.

The third episode deals with how people deal with girl crushes as well as another type of crush, caused by real life disasters, i.e. choosing a fantasy reason for why an Earthquake happened.

The fourth episode deals with Emi Yusa/Emilia Justina's past.

The fifth episode was just fun.

Anime that entertained Generation X

1. Dragon Ball Z
2. Sailor Moon
3. Slam Dunk
4. Transformers
5. Naruto
6. Inu Yasha
7. Ranma 1/2
8. Fruits Basket
9. Oh my goddess
10. Slayers

Samurai Flamenco Episodes 1-5 Kick-Ass

The first episode made the series seem really dark, like a darker version of Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, and James Gunn's Super with Tokusatsu: it incorporates elements of the lackluster untrained with the realistic reasons of why would someone become a superhero in this time. After all, why else do it? No one else has yet?
The main character seems to have split personality disorder and seems to be seeing things, as well as has some sort of ignorance of things, convincing himself of certain things that are untrue that truly make him a deep character.

The second episode is a commentary on crime, Japanese umbrella "lending," the modelling business and Millennials.

The third episode has Samurai Flamenco find his nemesis in a more deadly psychotic Samurai Fakemenco.

The fourth episode essentially introduces the Hit Girl of their team, while displaying Red Axe as an athletic person who is too busy worrying about fame and acting over the safety of Samurai Flamenco. It also begins the arc of how egotistical, divisive and uncaring celebrities have become in this world, if not a commentary of the real world.

The fifth episode introduces the police as PR people, while bringing about the dark side of fighting crime: getting hurt and adjusting with your normal life, especially if it happens to be Tokusatsu!
It rains on a day when all the main characters are sad. Flamenco II lost his parents.
Long distance dating problems.

NYCC 2013: Mazinger Z with Dark Knight/Batman & Robin Batman

Neon Genesis Evangelion Expo: Shanghai 2013

NYCC 2013: Tiger (no Bunny) Cosplay

NYCC 2013: Rei Ayanami Cosplay

NYCC 2013: Attack on Titan Cosplay

Gatchaman movie preview with criticisms

So far:
Pros:

• The opening fight is excellent, just so extreme. Seems like the 199 Super Sentai Senshi battle.
• The actress portraying the nemesis. She seems to mix ham and seriousness like a perfectionist chef's omelet deli sandwich.

Con:

• Marriage scheme to get into the nemesis' palace.

What we have to wait to see:
The technical jargon: It's an anime. They do it in Star Trek and very little criticism is given about it. (I criticize it.) Anime follows the same suit since.
The cast and acting: There have been complaints about hamming it up and not being Oscar worthy. It honestly was not like we were expecting that.
The special effects: This is not a $200 million budget movie. Fans did not expect it to be.

Gatchaman Crowds 1-4: Read if you want to get pissed off- I think it is a very overrated series

The first episode introduced how the characters were contemporized in a post-Berlin Wall era, much like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' "Day of the Dumpster."
The second episode sorta annoys me as it completely took away from the first episode without building up the MESS threat for me to feel pulled away. Albeit, how MESS was portrayed was well... MESSY.
The third episode goes from where the second episode left off trying to figure out what MESS is up to. The Milk: Social Media and Corporations as bad guys controlling people?
I never bought why MESS was supposed to be a bad guy other than that the leader said so. So much for that.
In the fourth episode, Crowds is apparently a multiplying working ability. A little bit like not-so-nanotech. A monster attacks Rui. I wish I knew more about her, other than that she herself is a bit manipulative.

Overall, the show has a lot of ideas, but does not really do anything with them. It's not an action anime, it's not a philosophical anime, it's not a well written anime. I really do not see why there is so much appeal from this series from Kotaku and other anime news sites.
Why is this even an anime? Most of the time, the show is just a bunch of characters talking about nothing interesting and doing stupid things!

Top 10 Anime Video Games Of The Top of My Head

1. Super Robot Wars
2. Dynasty Warriors Gundam
3. Berserk
4. Record of Lodoss War
5. Digimon DS
6. Pokemon
7. Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
8. Naruto
9. Bleach
10. Dragon Ball SNES

Inu Yasha Character Study: Episode 18

The hell-painter obviously is similar to Naraku as both use minions and both were consumed by evil, whether by a more direct form from thoughts or from powers of the Shikon no Tama to give him whatever he wanted. Also, the great evil that consumed the hell-painter is similar to the death of Onigumo into Naraku. An evil so tempting that death would be worth it.

Inu Yasha Character Study: Episode 13

Episode 13: Though it is important that you find out that Inu Yasha is not always half-demon all the time, it has some symbolic meaning as well in my point of view. Osho disguises himself to deceive a girl, whose parents he kills, to bringing Inu Yasha and the Shikon no Tama to him. This is similar to how Naraku deceives Inu Yasha and Kikyo into corrupting the Shikon no Tama for his purposes, which seems obvious, since Naraku's former form, Onigumo means "ogre-spider," like Osho's spider form and his minions. Note that, both use insects around these episodes. Also, Osho is a monk, like Miroku, who doesn't do everything that he should be, like being a lecher, instead of being a fake human; they both also use "sutras" to protect people from harms way... lol. Also it is similar to how Sango was manipulated to believing how evil Inu Yasha/youkai/hanyou are since both manipulated a warrior girl after destroying her village prior to the trap.

Inu Yasha Character Analysis: Episodes 11-12

Episode 11: The Noh Mask/Nou-men shows how Kagome is a part of the feudal era whether she is in on the other side of the well or not as the Noh masks attempts to take away her shards of the Shikon no Tama. It also shows how safe she is on this side of the well anyway and can better benefit against the evil seeking the Shikon No Tama when she's with Inu Yasha. It also hints more and more of Inu Yasha's feelings and real personality- why people like Inu Yasha is in what's every part of this episode- actually the last 5. lol. Reminds me of the soup that formed Kodoku in Episode 32.

Episode 12: The girl who mourns over her own death is similar to how Kikyo is mourning over how Inu Yasha "betrayed" her though it was not in actuality his fault. Her blind rage is uncontrollable and risks the lives of many other people as she attempts to kill others with fires and other unfortunate accidents. However, she can not stop herself by being consumed by hell without the help of Kagome (or in Kikyo's case, her soul), which saves her from hell.

Inu Yasha Character Analysis: Episodes 9-10: The Thunder Brothers

The Thunder Brothers Hiten and Manten are used for analogously with Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha in many ways:

            Manten is ashamed of having no hair, which is similar to how Inu Yasha is ashamed of only being hanyou. Hiten however, also has similarities to Inu Yasha, because though, unlike Inu Yasha, he is more similar to his great father's structure, he is more similar in the fact that he is more human looking and Inu Yasha may also being the stronger of the two brothers due to the fact that he looks and cares for humans. 

The episode has a better emphasis on families as we observe how Shippo mourns over the death for his father and how the Hiten mourns over his younger brother, Manten's death, despite the fact that Hiten considers Manten an idiot and Manten still can not go over the fact that he does not have hair. Much like a Cyrano de Bergerac scenario like in episode 8.

Inu Yasha Character Analysis: Episodes 3-4, 8

Yura, the Hair youkai is about a demon that looks for only materialistic desires, such as pretty hair or just objects of power, such as the Shikon no Tama. Possibly an analogy to why Kagome likes Inu Yasha in the first place.

Amari Nobunaga, the brother of famous Oda Nobunaga is used to represent how somebody like Inu Yasha won't express how he's attracted to humans somebody like how Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru argue between each other. However, he will protect them to the end, no matter how he may die from it. Sort of like a Cyrano de Bergerac thing by submitting to society. However, also notice how people could not figure out that the lord was possessed by a demon, like how Inu Yasha and Kagome and Kikyo do not recognize how Kikyou has changed and been possessed and possibly how Inu Yasha was as well. The Amari-Lord struggle can be seen as similar to the triangle between the Kikyo and Kagome, especially with the concepts of soul stealing.

For Inu Yasha Haters:

Note: That I wrote this a long time ago and still have not watched the new series.
Albeit, I did watch two episodes and got bored very quickly.
That being said, fans don't tune out yet. I have a very good analysis of at least ten episodes in the series that I think are worth mentioning.

After watching the movie, I can not stand Inu Yasha anymore.  After watching 70+ episodes, I figure just to watch the last 10 minutes of episodes. He can do anything now.... He can beat anybody no matter how ridiculously powerful they are despite his horrible attack patterns. Kagome's a sitting duck. Kikyou should run out of soul or something. Naraku can't stop hiding... And after Inu Yasha beat that guy in the movie, he still can't beat Naraku, and Naraku doesn't believe Menomaru was a threat? You're kidding me.. GIVE SHIPPO SOME POWERS. He rarely shows Fox/Illusion magic ever, despite his great power.  Get a new villain/hero. Show us more Sesshomaru & co! What happened to Kagura, etc..?  Sesshomaru & Kikyou were wasted in that movie..  Meanwhile... somewhere in the 70s, there are 3 episodes where the SAME thing happens, except in a cooler way w/ a Sesshomaru-InuYasha-Kouga alliance...  I hate the anime's Kouga, cuz they don't show why they should be allied, but at least his guys can actually fight, unlike the humans who always die every episode.. (esp Sango's village, yet not Kikyuo's..)  Also, they didn't put Rin in the picture, just for the sake of not having a wolf problem vs Kouga... FIX THAT! lol The anime (not the Manga) from wut I hear.. gives NO REASON for us to like Kouga..  (for WWE fans.. TV Kouga=Snitsky, Sesshoumaru=Kane, InuYasha= Matt Hardy/Edge)

Is Cowboy Bebop one of the best anime ever? (Part 1: Stuff off the top of my head)

Writing analysis and reading the new wiki, I realize why Cowboy Bebop is considered to be one of the best anime ever.

Personally, I like Cowboy Bebop. The action is great. The sci fi cowboy setting is done artistically yet originally. English and Japanese dubbing done perfectly with very good performances evolved opposed to just dubbing, ESPECIALLY SPIKE SPIEGEL.

I did not see the problems of the future right away, but they are definitely there:

• The need for bounty hunters to solve crime. 
• Crime Syndicates becoming too powerful.
• The lack of a coherent government because of the large sections of space they'd need to govern.
• Transsexuals fighting in this cowboy setting.

There is also a bit of the lack of that given to the characters when the story needed
A good mix of post modernism with its dystopian future setting mixed with classical tunes. Pierre Le Fou in homage to the great Jean Luc-Goddard.

Spike has this blue jacket white a green-yellowish shirt on him.
The woman of Cowboy Bebop contrast Spike with Faye's purple hair, yellow blouse and red jacket; Edward's orange hair and white shirt.
Jet Black is almost: jet black. So is the dog.

People seem to get a kick out of the episode where Spike is a senpai and teaches his student to become like water in order to defeat his enemy, and to get him out of his large Tai from Digimon hair. It sort of matches his blue jacket to have a water-like and cool personality. The real folk BLUES?

I still have to go back and watch the show though, to determine whether or not it should be #1.

What you choose is entirely up to you. Cannot blame you for choosing it as #1, as I had for a while before a recent showing of the show to me just doing nothing for me.

NYCC 2013: Unsamurai Undeeper Gyo underperforms

The film starts with an interesting premise: Male Protagonist canceled to go to see loved one because of hydrophobia; something that really could have been touched upon in this anime movie. Really starting to build up the intimidating horror look of the film. The exploration of sound could have made this a classic with a decent sound engineer, as Tadashi mentions the sound of cicadas and its dad death, turning it into a horror classic a la Jaws or Psycho.
The film has a seemingly interesting premise seemingly similar to the Thing, where a germish attack on Earth seems to become unstoppable, preying on people's medicinal fears.
An interesting part of the film slightly explored is that people do fear eating fish, because of the smell. Hydrophobes probably dislike oceans and their salty smell associated and learned from their experiences with them.

The film then unorthodoxly goes G rated with a skit with the main female protagonists not seeing the fish walking all over the place. It becomes later dramatic. The original intent of the movie becoming that it forms intent is to be a dark comedy after all, a la Scream. The Natural Born Killers eye censors support this idea after the fish premise.

Again, there's a lot of exposition in what should have been a standard horror B-movie. Not a lot of scary imagery or direction, which the horror genre is known for. I guess it is more of a Z-movie comedy. What they went for. Polarized what I enjoyed from the manga at least.

The details:
Lesbian jokes are a little distasteful,  But again this is not a classic. Aki's actresses performance is really good, but the disdain for Eriko just seems to come out of nowhere. Eriko's turning into a fat ugly character, is in poor taste again.
There is also an awesome poorly animated crash

Apple mouth pic

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan: Beautiful Food Hunter Noriko 3D

I am currently in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.
There I went to the Village and watched Beautiful Food Hunter 3D.
I was intrigued by the prospect of watching a Goku homage and impressed that it was a Fist of the North Star one as well.
The story was not really great nor realistic: it is a friggin action anime inspired by Goku and Fist of the North Star! The child ally seemed to be an homage to Rock Lee with his cries and haircut.
The concept art was probably inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender displaying combinations of animals. The fights are awesome.
There is something about a Giant Bunny and the kid's father I did not really get.
The actions and visuals were great though probably repetitive and unsurprisingly after a while.
The good guys win and the 3d does not last

Top 10 Directors for an Neon Genesis Evangelion reboot

With the recent release of Evangelion 3.0/3.33 at New York Comic Con and the backlash fans from Japan AND the US are having now, I have a list of ten directors that could make a reboot of the franchise work.
(Boo! Reboots! Consider it though with this list...)

10. David Fincher He can get the emotions right between the underage characters having sex. He can make that controversy and fan service raciness work, while hopefully making a masterpiece on terms of Fight Club. Makes you wonder how 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be.

9. John Hughes Breaking the fourth wall, Shinji or a narrator can bring a real dynamic to the storyline.

8. Alfred Hitchcock
It can be a psychoanalytic film of course. It can be a silent film. It can be black and white. It can be color. Rei will have dopplegangers. It will be a technical achievement and masterpiece.

7 &6. F.W. Munrau and Fritz Lang
Imagine what they did back then and what they can do now.

5. Carl Theodor Dreyer
No one can do religious imagery and relevance like Carl Theodor Dreyer except maybe..

4. Ingmar Bergman
Imagine Ingmar Bergman's direction of Death as a being in the Seventh Seal with his ability to work with actors in Scenes From a Marriage. The dynamic he can bring to the characters and see as their characters in Evangelion.

3. David Lynch Some have compared End of Evangelion with a David Lynch film. Imagine if he actually directing it. Rei Ayanami probably inspired the blonde wig used in Mulholland Drive.

2. Paul Thomas Anderson A film about religion starring Paul Dano with Daniel Day-Lewis playing his father with the psychadelicness of Punch-Drunk Love.

1. Stanley Kubrick It would be interesting to see Evangelion have a double narrative to the point of a Stanley Kubrick narrative. He directed Space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Anno was obviously inspired by the Shining and 2001's Blue Danube sequence creating the twins. The pyramid is an illuminati image.

Let's Debate! The Best Anime Ever! Let's start with 45!

I currently have a list of anime of the top of my head that is really good. It includes films and List is pending please debate.

1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Ghost in the Shell 2.0
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Paprika
5. Serial Experiments Lain
6. Perfect Blue
7. Z Gundam
8. Yakitate Japan!!
9. The End of Evangelion
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion 
11. Monster
12. Samurai Champloo
13. 5 Centimeters Per Second
14. Mushishi
15. Wolf's Rain
16. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
17. Tekken: Blood Vengeance (So Bad, It's Good. SOOO BAD!)
18. The Wind Rises 
19. Yu Yu Hakusho
20. Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind 
21. Cowboy Bebop
22. Combattler V
23. Getter Robo
24. Sadamitsu the Destroyer
25. Rurouni Kenshin
26. Transformers
27. Shin Getter Robo: Armaggeddon
28. Speed Racer
29. Astro Boy
30. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
31. Street Fighter: Alpha
32. Beast Wars
33. Sgt. Frog
34. Code Geass
35. Last Exile
36. Samurai X: Betrayal and Trust
37. FLCL
38. Voice of a Distant Star 
39. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
40. Berserk
41. Fist of the North Star
42. Dragon Ball
43. Digimon
44. Sengoku Basara
45. Lupin III