One step forward, two miles back

Sep 07, 2009 22:09

How do you do this, Japan? How can you be making a fantastic looking sequel to the "Space Cruiser Yamato" series, whilst and at the same time be making a television show about a 10,000-year-old girl who fights evil with her magical boobs? HOW?!? This kind of thing makes me never want to buy a Japanese-made car, for fear of what I may ( Read more... )

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doctorpinkerton September 8 2009, 16:09:24 UTC
I was hoping you'd see that trailer! I was so fired up when I heard the music from Yamato, or as I remembered it, 'Starblazers' playing in the background... they can't bring this over here fast enough.

As for your question, I believe the answer is, given a sufficiently random selection of increasingly bizarre ideas, you'll find extreme coolness if you cut down the middle, and extreme weirdness on the fringe... (I'd worry if the television show was mass-market, but hey, Iron Chef seemed pretty weird too - a decade ago!!!)

Incidentally, I'm on a crusade to get Melissa's band to cover the j-pop version of the theme from 'Ponyo'... and my plan is CLOSE, very close to succeeding!

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flowing_dancer October 2 2009, 10:03:27 UTC
I looked, it reports an error. Is it gone?

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ct_project October 2 2009, 15:17:55 UTC
Both links work for me now....

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flowing_dancer October 3 2009, 13:21:45 UTC
Yamato - IMPRESSIVE. Beautiful!!

Tits from Hell - Very seriously WTF. Waay too WTF.

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ct_project October 6 2009, 19:22:40 UTC
It's even more WTF when you consider the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogū

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