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Things That Annoy Me To No End ——————————————–

By: Alpha

1) Urinals that people used and too lazy to flush. (The flusher is right there bum!)

2) Speaking about urinals, how about toilets that people just warmed up for you? (Man that is some disgusting shiznit)

3) People that tailgate me when I drive. (Dude I’m going to going slower the closer you get hah!)

4) People that cut in front of me because they wanted to drive that extra 1-2 MPH. (It isn’t like you’re going to get to your destination any faster than I am)

5) People that talk loudly in a quiet area. (Cell phones, music from the computer, which part of quiet don’t they get? ARGH!)

6) People that think I am mean, because I was born with that face. (No comment :p)

7) People that try to act someone they are not. (You’re not gangsta f00!)

8) Females with the potty mouths, males as well. (Can we not use that famous four letter F word and express ourselves intellectually?)

9) People that cannot type with their lives at stake. (ya noz wuts ima sayinz yo?)

10) When the Yankees get clobbered. (The pitching can stink badly sometimes.)
  

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - THINGS THAT ANNOY ME (Yeah all caps annoy me too haha)

  

Closing Statement(s) - Man there are so many more things that annoy me, but I just cannot recall it in my mind right now :(. I will do a part two if they come back to me hehe. Hoped you enjoyed my stupid little article <3.

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Submitting to Fan Service is NOT a Good Thing ——————————-

By: Alpha

Recently I was watching an anime series. It was a shounen / ecchi humor title. The series was good, although I would have liked a little more extension after the climax. Anyways it was an alright show. It was fun to watch. After the final episode was over, I went onto the OAV. This was when the disappointment started to rear its ugly head.

All of a sudden this show went from ecchi humor to hentai. The already established characters are now pornstars. What the hell? Why even bother making the TV series if everything was going to end with a hentai OAV? I mean, the difference between a hentai title and a normal title is that you find a way to connect with the characters of the normal title (although some of you will say otherwise). As for a hentai title, all you do is watch the action. It is 95% action and 5% story most of the time.

So then anyways, I continued watching, and when there is a normal respectable character who all of a sudden turns into Ron Jeremy; the expected reactions of the character are now out of whack. Here is an example: In the TV series the character I am speaking about was a wuss about girls, and doing the dirty with girls was just not in his repertoire. Now in the OAV, he is all macho about it? (O_o?).

Wow. Just freaken’ wow. It has finally come to my attention as to why most anime creators leave series as is, no matter the pressure from the fans. This experience of mine was just a bad case of when anime creators cared too much for the fans. If they wanted to make a sequel, just make it like it was, following the path of the original series. Do not go show a few sex scenes and call it an end. That is just stupid, brainless, crappy, dumb, and whatever synonym you want to throw at it.

Here is an outline as to why a normal series should not go hentai:

1) Established characters in the viewers’ minds, doing something uncharacteristic.

2) As much as you think you would like to see more from an ecchi humor title, believe me, you do not. It is that urge to want to see more that drives your interest!

3) No story, bad story, kills the story.

4) Fun (likable) characters are now crap characters.

5) Leave it to those doujinshi, save yourself (the creator’s) the embarrassment.

6) Closes out the possibility of a ‘real’ sequel. What will the series I am talking about do now? It had a very good chance of a second season with the ending of the first season. But now, the OAV made it a hentai and the characters already, got down and dirty. So I guess second season will have to be hentai as well, if it were to exist.

7) If we want hentai, we will go get a hentai title, no need to make this soft hybrid stuff.

These people have ruined my day. I started to really like the show too. And now I will always have this bad experience on the back of my mind while watching another ecchi humor. What is next? Love Hina, Ai Yori Aoshi, Vandread, Please Teacher or Mahoromatic in a hentai sequel? Oh God, please no.

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - Why anime creators submitting to the fans’ is not always a good thing!

  

Closing Statement(s) - Well there you have it.   We as anime fans should know by now that, all good anime will always have bad endings.   This is not because the ending actually sucked, but because we feel attached to it, and we do not want to let go of the fun times that that particular anime has given us.   Hence, whatever ending we get, we never become satisfied.   Fans have to learn when to let go, and creators really have to know when to let go to avoid this disaster that I have experienced :(.

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Terms Used By Reviewers of Anime ————————————-

By: Alpha

1) Fluff - Another word for a BS time filler in an anime.

2) Wack - A better word to use, than the traditional four letter word that begins with the letter S. Oh, do not forget to add the ‘ty’ at the end.

3) Interesting - Yeah sure, it caught my attention for 2 seconds only.

4) Amazing - To the point that I was sleeping.

5) Awesome - Another word for cool. Something being awesome means that something else in it is awful.

6) Killer - Double meaning. Could mean good or bad according to the use of it.

7) Good - Below average, had no better word to use, my vocabulary sucks.

8) Bad - Really below average, my vocabulary really sucks.

9) ‘Name a company’ within the review - Free advertising and ‘Wipe that unknown brown substance off your upper lip.’

10) Oppose fansubs within the review - Shut up! You are probably reviewing with some fansubbed material right now.

11) I don’t know… - Why are you even reviewing?   Idiot.

  

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - Fun terms used by all anime reviewers!!!!

  

Closing Statement(s) - Haha, I am just kidding about everything.   The only actual terms and definition are “Fluff” and “Wack.”   As for all the others, I was just trying to have some fun, so take lightly of it.   I am sure that I have probably committed into using some of those terms listed above.   I wrote these terms to make fun of myself and no one else in particular.   ^_^;;.   Do not be offended if you use any of those things heh.

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Random Thoughts Part. 3 ————————————-

By: Alpha

1) Those Dodge commercials on TV that go “Hit it!”   Uhh… I missed something.   What exactly do you hit?

2) The NFL is back, MLB is at its heights and NBA is on the horizon.   Got no time for anything else.   :P.

3) Being selected as the vice-president of your university’s anime club is cool.

4) Nextel text messaging is BS.   I receive messages from my girlfriend who has another provider the next day after I have sent my message.   WTF?   I pay $7.50 per month for unlimited crap like this?

5) If you have not seen Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt, you are not a true fan of his.

6) Samurai Champloo is funny, cool and exciting!

7) Diamond Dust is quite interesting.   And no… I am not referring to any illegal drugs.

8) After watching Excel Saga for a few times, I noticed the comedy is pretty garbage.

9) The Get Backer’s manga distributed by TokyoPOP is a good read.   The anime should be even better ^_^.

10) Anyone care to donate me some DDR RAM, Hard drive, graphics card or any other computer upgrades, email me hehe :).

11) Do people still watch WWE?   The ending to No Mercy was stupid and corny.

12) Ever heard of that song “Goodies”?   The beat sounds like some junk beat that nobody wanted and trashed it, before the singer (do not know her name) picked it up and wrote a crap song with it.   That radio / satellite interference sound is so freakin’ annoying.   Argh!

13) Join me and the rest of the Animesou.com gang at the forums.   I am out.   Ja ne.

  

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - Random thoughts from me!

  

Closing Statement(s) - Look forward to part four.   :)

Quote: ‘OMG! Anime Clubs DO breed F****TS! GOD!!!! THEY’RE ALL FUCKING F****TS! F****TS TO NO END!!!!!!!!!! GOD!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!’

The quote is just too funny for me to pass up. I mean just look at how this person typed out his comment. What is with the caps? It does not take much energy to move your little pinky finger to tap the caps lock off, just so that you do not sound so stupid when you made this statement. I have to agree though. As a member of an anime club, there are quite a few people in which I despise; know-it-alls and Japanese wannabes. There are times where I want to potato sack them, just so they can keep their mouth to themselves (Just kidding).

Anyways, there is no denying that anime clubs are the best ways anime fans can get together and share a common interest. For those who are fortunate to be in a well established anime club is truly a remarkable accomplishment, due to the fact that the United States was and I emphasized on WAS dominated by American animation. Japanese animation is taking over!

One of my online buddies brought up a very controversial topic to the Animesou forums; American animation versus Japanese animation (Anime). He posted a link to another forum where a bunch of Batman or just American animation fans in general lurk. In that particular forum, the topic being discussed was ‘Batman’ the new series. Funny enough, they start comparing another show, ‘Teen Titans’ to this new Batman. Okay, so what if Teen Titans is aimed towards kids? After all it is called “TEEN Titans” and women and children are the number one targets for business right?

Let us start with the anime bashing, first comment up is from an anonymous person, who said, ‘…but let’s face it. The animation (anime) itself is incredibly cheap, unlike any Batman cartoon.’ Take a look at these picture comparisons.

compared to

Look at ‘any Batman cartoon’ and compare it to the any anime. Does not that make whoever said that statement look like a complete idiot? In another comment made by the same person goes like this, ‘… at least most American cartoons feature characters who look like they’re speaking the dialogue rather than just opening and closing their mouths rapidly, or any other of those cheap sequences. I understand really really old animation being like that but for today’s standard, heck, for the 80s’ standards, it’s just pathetic. I’d go bonkers seeing Batman done that way. And I think it’s safe to say he won’t be.’

Sigh… maybe if you would stop watching crappy dubs from broadcasted television you would see that the lip movement and the dialogue are in sync for anime in Japanese. What the heck is the problem with mouths not syncing anyways? If you want them to sync, go watch a live movie. And what is this about anime being cheap? How is it that when something with as much detail as it does in every cel or scene be cheaper than something that almost has no details in the background whatsoever? Here see for yourself, here are two examples of those ‘any other cheap sequences this person was commenting about.’

Ok, it is not fair to use Macross Zero as “cheap sequence” examples. Here is something that is fairer.

So look at the difference. Jackie Chan Adventures which is created way after Urusei Yatsura and still Urusei Yatsura has better quality than Jackie Chan Adventures. Hmm…

I am not writing this to put down American animation or put up Japanese animation, I am merely defending my hobby from the inane comments from ignorant people. I just want to point out that if a person does not watch something in its pure form, how can they possibly make any intellectual comment on it? In this case, that particular Batman fan.

Enough with my opinion, here is what Stikz had to say about this issue (Note: This was a reply post taken from the Animesou forums), ‘Their remarks had no weight to them. They seem to have only seen anime on broadcast TV and have associated it with cartoons for kids, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Batman is a good cartoon but its cheap dark color scheme and decent animation can’t compare to anime at all. And for them to say that the animation of Jackie Chan adventures beats the heck out of anime is just plain insane. I’d like to know what anime they were referring to. I love Jackie Chan adventures but the backgrounds are basically forgotten and the animation is focused on more because of it, but better than most anime, it is not.’

Are you getting my drift? Show me a modern day American animation that looks better than a modern day Japanese animation, please.

Main Idea of this Rant?! - My two cents about the change in times.

Closing Statement(s) - I know backing up something you love is the point of being a fan, but do not force it into anyone who clearly has a separate view from yours. Do not go bashing anime just because you are in favor of American animation, vice versa. Am I American animation bashing? Nope.

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Random Thoughts Part. 2 ————————————-

By: Alpha

1) For everybody’s information there was Pocky in the United States even before ADV started ‘licensing’ it for distribution.

2) Hey ADV if you are reading this, bring over the Calbee potato chips and Pocari Sweat sports drink and I will be your fan for life.

3) Just like the Oakland A’s have the big three, the anime industry has it too. ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment and Geneon, formerly known as Pioneer Animation.

4) Pioneer Animation sounds way better. Geneon sounds like some new Pokemon. Go Geneon I choose you!

5) I admire ADV Films, they know how to work it. From being a scrappy little distribution company in Texas to a distribution company the size of Texas. I tip my cap to you.

6) Is the rumor about Ayumi Hamasaki not writing her own lyrics still around? Well it is true, because artists always can buy lyrics for a reasonable amount of money. This I got from a friend who has a friend who sold lyrics to a singer in Hong Kong. Maybe that is why he forgot his lyrics when he got an award. Yeah sure Mark Lui I am sure you were so excited about the award that you forgot your ‘OWN’ lyrics.

7) Yeah I am angry these days. Maybe I am another Angry Asian Man.

8) Is anime the most expensive hobby or what? No wonder people download. If they do not, they would not be able to eat, be able to pay rent, nor be able to pay bills. Not that I am one of those people though.

9) Hey J Lo will Marc Anthony be your final pimp… I mean pit stop?

10) What is this pregnant rumor… probably not Marc’s child anyways.

11) Why do people vandalize other people’s property? I mean they would not like it if their property was ruined… would they?

12) Kyou Kara Ore Wa needs to get respect!

13) I guess there is no such thing as hoping a girl would not get it in a hentai, because no matter what, they all get it. I really hate that.

14) I have to thank Robyn Mukai of Urban Vision, Ivette Perez of Central Park Media and Rhona Medina formerly with Urban Vision, now with TokyoPOP, for being so kind to me, by helping out Animesou.com with the reviewing materials.

15) The big three needs to stop being snotty and learn from them. *hint-hint*

16) One Piece got licensed! Wow! I do not know jack about it. Yay.

17) Okay maybe I do, there is a crazy boy with pirates right?

18) Sony PSP, Nintendo DS. What next? Microsoft XL? (eXtra Large)

19) ADV trying to be RIAA? What are they trying to prove? If nobody can find a way to stop email spam, then nobody can find a way to stop file sharers. Cannot anybody comprehend that simple concept?

20) The NBA should have a new award. It shall be called the Floppy Award. Derek Fisher and Vlade Divac are the top two contenders.

21) Congratulations to Bernie Williams of the New York Yankees. He has hit his 2000th hit as a Yankee on June 10, 2004, joining a group of elite players of the franchise with names, such as, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, and Yogi Berra.

22) It is prom month, I hope everyone will have a blast at their prom and get home safe.

23) Hey fans, it is the final stretch from school. Give it your all and do not give up until you get that report card!
  

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - Random thoughts from me!

  

Closing Statement(s) - Look forward to part three.   :)

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Random Thoughts Part. 1 ————————————-

By: Alpha

1) Old anime is better than new anime.

2) Smarty Jones lost the Belmont not because of his ability, but the jockey’s.

3) It is good that Manga was bought up. I have no idea what direction the previous minds of the company were heading.

4) This craze for Naruto has got to stop; it is getting annoying how everyone is recommending it when I cannot even buy it on DVD in the United States.

5) Hey did Inuyasha end yet? Last time I checked it was around eighty.

6) If only Saki was my personal Steel Angel *drools*.

7) Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life sucks. What happened to the festivals?

8) The whole Anime industry needs some shocking news; nothing reported lately has gotten my attention.

9) Cartoon enthusiasts who hate on Anime… **** you.

10) If ADV Films can pick up the rights to publish Newtype, why has not anyone pick up the rights to publish Animage?

11) Oh wow, Bible Black actually has an interesting story.

12) But the She-males has got to go.

13) Note to who ever is responsible for this. Just do not waste my time and show a hentai if the good stuff will be boxed up. It kills my eyes.

14) I love Chiyo-chan from Azumanga Daioh, one of the best comedies of this year.

15) I need to get some sun light, instead of staying in and watching anime all day.

16) Little twelve year olds are lethal these days, just the other day one of them wrote a hate mail to Max Kellerman and told him that he hoped that he caught SARS… And this was broadcasted over the country in his show I, Max.

17) Sigh… the car shop still has not finished fixing my car after three freaken weeks.   Now I have to get the other side fixed too.   I think I am going bankrupt soon.   Let us see, $600 for the F-150 the person was driving, $425 for fixing my car’s driver’s side and the bumper, with sand polishing and compounding.   And now $225 to fix the whole passenger side.   Yeah… I will never be able to get my performance modifications now.

18) Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien is predictable, but at the same time interesting, as the ending of episode one, latches on to you and will not let go.

19) Did you know that there is a fourth stage for Initial D?   It is about the team Redsuns leader created in the Third Stage and they go around racing other people.   Sounds cool.

20) A good ecchi humor to check out is none other than Steel Angel Kurumi!
  

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - Random thoughts from me!

  

Closing Statement(s) - This well be a continuing feature, so look forward to part two.   :)

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The Hardships of  a Reviewer ———————————–

By: Alpha

      I recently heard a conversation on a radio sports talk show (the name of the show is not important heh) while I was driving home after taking my finals. Anyways as I was at fifty percent tuning into the show and fifty percent driving and spacing out at the same time, the dude on the show mentioned a great idea for me to write about. He said something about reviewers like myself, get to see everything before everyone. The great, good, bad and the ugly, of course, the great and the good are pleasant things, but when reviewers are put through the bad… not to mention the ugly. Now Houston… we have a problem.

      You will say that I am lying if I told you that every screener I received was ‘the best damn thing ever!’ Of course, I would not oppose you as it is the truth. Indeed I have seen the most atrocious works of anime ever to come around, but can I ask you one question? How in the hell do you review them? I know I asked you about one question, but have you ever seen something so horrible that you do not have any intellectual thoughts about it other than it is a piece of ’stuffing’ that you have just wasted an hour or so on?

      You get the idea, being a reviewer is not as easy as it seems. You try to be too perfect in your writings; people will kill you for it. You try to use too difficult of a vocabulary, people think you are being a little wise ass, and lord do not let your haters spot a mistake in your reviews, because if they do, they are going to try and make you out to be a fool, even though they are the real donkeys for scanning every single word you write just to try and act a bit smarter than they really are.

      I have been there, done that. Guy pounds on me for something I wrote while I was half awake, 5′O Clock in the morning. Just ignore or pound back if you got the ill skills like me ^_^;;. But back to what I was saying. How do you review something that sucks so badly? Better yet, if it was hentai, how do you review that? ‘Oh yeah, this scene and that scene were arousing…’ man that is what hentai is supposed to do most of the time, what the hell is wrong with you! It is truly a difficult task to review a hentai title, because when you are tuned in to the story, a sex scene happens and right after it you just forgot what happened before they went through their business, either that or there was no story to beginning with, only the action.

      So there you have it, the hardships of a reviewer. If you are the person that likes to give reviewers a hard time, can you do it better? Well why do not you write it? I would like to see you try, because then you do not have to read what we have to say. And if you are a reviewer who gives other reviewers a hard time… man… get a life, go write more of your own reviews and stop stealing the review ideas from other reviewers. PUNK!

    

Main Idea of this Rant?! - I have no idea.

  

Closing Statement(s) - I hate haters, did you just noticed?  

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The Difference Between OVA And OAV ———————————–

By: Alpha

      Upon reading this article I bet you have asked or have heard that OAV has a similar meaning to OVA. Now what if I told you that this belief is completely wrong? Will you buy it? Of course at the end of the day… or article, you will be convinced that OAV means Original Animation Video, whereas OVA does not mean Original Video Animation. So Alpha, if OVA does not mean the same thing as OAV then what does it mean? From my research and I am here to prove people wrong… but first are you guys ready for the truth? Get ready, OVA stands for Over View (overview) Animation, it is just a bunch of important stuff from the series jumbled up together to create either a summary of the story for those who have no time to sit through the entire series in a normal run or it could be created because the crew had a few extra dollars in their bank accounts to waste. Check it out, does not it make sense? I know I would not abbreviate one thing with two kinds of abbreviations, and I am sure people are intelligent enough to not do that also. As for OAV or Original Animation Video, it provides the fans with most of the time a sequel, but sometimes a prequel to the certain series. The story is different, the animation quality is usually juiced up and the production staff usually puts more effort in it, because they have time when it comes to OAV compared to a TV series where they have to meet deadlines.

So you have all these opinions, Alpha, where are the facts? Facts I have indeed. For the Gundam fans out there, does Gundam 08th Mobile Suit Team ring a bell? Or how about Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories? Both of these series had an OVA created after they were completed. The OVA for Gundam 08th Mobile Suit Team was called, Miller’s Report, whereas the OVA for Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories was simply called Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories the Movie (yeah sure, the movie heh heh). Anyways, I believe the Stardust Memories OVA is, much more difficult to find than Miller’s Report. If you have seen any of these, what did you see other than a recap of the whole series. Sure a few new scenes might arise but does it change anything? The only new scenes I can remember from Miller’s Report are the scenes with Miller (Miller is female for those who are pondering by the way) and from Stardust Memories the Movie, everything was basically just a compilation of the series itself in other words, an overview of the series.

Now that I have provided two examples can you name a few OVAs that you have watched? I still have two: Vandread: Taidouhen, and The Candidate For Goddess (Pilot Candidate) OVA, both had my hopes up as I assumed they were sequels to the series, but both were big disappointments and a complete waste of good money. Why did I buy them? Well I believed the same thing as everyone did until now. I thought OVA was the same as OAV and hence making the big mistake. You may say, ‘Dude that’s it? You’ve only got four examples to prove your statement?’ Please keep in mind that I am writing this article up at 5:00 in the morning so I cannot remember every OVA that I have came in contact with over the years, but if I see a title’s name I could tell you if there was an OVA for it.

Before I go, there is also another misconception about the regional use of OAV and OVA. Some claim that OAV is the abbreviation used by the Japanese, whereas OVA is the abbreviation used by Americans. As I have stated above, they do not mean the same thing, and hence when you are using OVA you are talking about an Over View Animation and not an OAV; an Original Animation Video, such as, Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen (Reflection), Tenchi Muyo OAV series, or Macross Zero.  

    

Main Idea of this Rant?! - There really is a difference between OVA and OAV.   Finally I am here to solve this long existing misconception.  

  

Closing Statement(s) - After reading this article do you still think OVA means the same thing as OAV?   Think about it.   Would not it be easier if there was just OAV?   What is the need for OVA if OAV meant the same thing.   There would be less confusion if only one existed, but there is not one, there are two abbreviations with the same letters, just the last two letters switched around.   Because of that fact and how they are both used to address Anime, some people came to a conclusion that they both meant the same thing.   Could not OAV stand alone?   What was the need to create another abbreviation for the same thing?   If it meant the same then there’s no logical reason to have two different abbreviations. So before you go saying the two mean the same, think about what I have written here.  Heed my words or else feel my wrath hahahaha!   (>’;')>+====> (x_x) Umm… just kidding.      

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Dragon Ball, An Epic? ——————————————-

By: Piro^kun

      The Odyssey, The Iliad, Paradise Lost, Gulliver’s Travels…Dragon Ball Z?!? Yes folks, that’s right. I’m here today to talk about epic literature. After reading that first sentence you may be saying to yourself, ‘What the hell does this guy think he’s saying? Dragon Ball Z can’t compare to those pillars of literature’. You may then feel a sharp prick in the back of your neck as my stealth ninjas shoot you with a drug to make you follow my every command. At least I hope you do…those ninjas are expensive and I don’t pay them to slack off. Anyhoo, back to Dragon Ball Z as a figure in epic literature. Now I can already see the emails coming. They will have subjects like ‘DBZ SUX!!!!111′, ‘YOU ARE STUPID’ or other such lovely, touching sentiments about me. The body of these kind emails will be filled with threats, exclamation points, misspellings (i.e. sux, stoopid, f-*ahem* ediot), comments about the size or beauty of my mother (or other members of my family), and anatomical impossibilities concerning a DBZ DVD and my posterior. Oh how I love the Internet. However one must consider that Dragon Ball Z was one of the first anime (animes? animii?) I have ever watched, and although I know that is truly awful, I have a special attachment to it. I show my affection for this series the same way I show affection for my women, by taunting them mercilessly until they collapse into a crying and screaming mess (Note: Don’t try this on a significant other…you will spend a cold, lonely night in your bed).  

Back to how such literature as Dragon Ball is epic. Tell me, what is more epic than a man with spiked hair that is named after a food, rides a cloud around (when he isn’t flying), attacks people with a pole that can grow to any length (who hasn’t gotten sexual innuendo from that?), and shoots laser beams from his hands? Not much. Unless you consider the green alien that grew from an egg, split into two parts (a yin and yang, of course), regenerates limbs and somehow speaks Japanese even though he came from a planet so very far away. Only one thing can compare to this. That is the purple-haired boy from the future who comes to warn our aforementioned hero that he will die of a fatal heart disease and also to tell him to destroy killer robots that will end all good life on the planet…when he could have just killed the creator of the robots before he made them.  

So much for the characters.

Now…about the worlds in which these characters live. In DBZ the Earth is not exactly how we know it now. In this Earth, people live side by side with green aliens. Aliens who, although they are green, have antennae, claws, and (as I said before) regenerate their limbs, have no clue at all that they are aliens. Amazing. Of course one can’t fault these aliens. It is hard to see yourself as odd when the world in which you live is also inhabited by people who turn into giant monkeys during a full moon, and even simple things like the fact that the chief of police and also many airline pilots are dogs. Another interesting thing about this world is that everything can be (and is) stored in little, pill-like capsules. Now that is a convenience not found in The Odyssey! Boo-ya to you Homer!  

But a requirement for a story to be considered an epic is a decent into the underworld. This is actually accomplished many times, considering our hero is often killed by laser beams shot from people’s hands (Don’t you just hate it when that happens?). He then sees that the fate of the universe’s population when they die is in the fate of one very overworked bureaucrat. He also sees that hell (HFIL?) is nothing but a giant amusement park. If that’s not epic…then I am going to fail my literature class. ^_^

I hope that this little trip through my thoughts has enlightened you to the shining example for today’s aspiring authors, cartoonists, scriptwriters, and idiotic fanboys that is called Dragon Ball Z. I also hope that you can find it in your hearts to not automatically flame someone who likes DBZ, but pause for a minute and think about where they are coming from and how they feel about the series…then flame them (but with a smile).

Signing off…
Piro ‘Not the guy from Megatokyo‘ kun
    

  

Main Idea of this Rant?! - DBZ an epic?   You decide.  

  

Closing Statement(s) - Alpha - I realize this article of Rant-ON was not written by me, it was written by Piro^kun who contributed this rant to me somewhere during his first two weeks when he joined the Sou.   I did not take much of a look at it (mainly because it was about DBZ ^_^;;), and has since then put it aside, up until now, I think this article is pretty funny and since Piro is currently wandering around the world beyond the Sou, I feel this article would bring a sort of existence of him in the site during his absence.   God bless, where ever you are.