InuYasha News

Who here love Darker Than Black? Me? Yes. I friggen loved it! The ending was perfect the way it was! Then they go along and make a sequel to a perfectly fine anime. At first I think: Hmm, maybe this wont be so bad... Boy was I wrong! I cried my self to sleep! (Kidding!) They  SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.and add an aggravating pubescent girl who makes me die inside when ever I think of her. I thought, whatever, just another spoiled series. Nothing new right? But these occurrences have been increasing! It's spreading like Swine Flu. 
 
It started not so long ago... 
 
First  there was Mai-Hime's spin off: Mai-Otome. Mai-Hime was so emotional and the plot was fully developed. I thought it was great. They go and make Mai-Otome and the plot is almost non-existent and the characters... don't get me started! 
 
Then came the dreaded Naruto. They left us with a cliff hanger... as expected of an anime. They make Shippuden. In my opinion Shippuden is much better than the first season, but I mean come on! Naruto was long enough as it was, now there is another never ending season! Please end Naruto! The plot is dead! you can no longer resuscitate the series... finish it... there is no more hope. 
 
Then comes Dragon Ball. I don't think I can count all the seasons, spin-offs and sequels there are. I don't even know what it's about anymore. Why must animators do this? You are going to loose viewers, not gain them, if you drag along a series like that. It's like dragging a dead cow through the streets... nobody wants it. 
 
Inuyasha... No explanation is needed. I don't even know what it's about. 
  
Darker Than Black, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, est., est. 

Mind you there are some damn good sequels around. Code Geass R2 was amazing! And they needed it to end the series. Gundam SEED DESTINY was OK and was not unnecessary... the ending sucked but other than that it was good! Hetalia Axis Powers' second season is better than the first and is necessary to complete the series. Gundam 00 season 2, also good and wasn't dragging on a dead plot. The list goes on... But you get my point. 
 
A lot of unnecessary sequels are being made, please, please... if your going to make a sequel make it A) Good B) Worthwhile.  
 
~Superevil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yeah, I stole that image, but it pretty much sums up what I feel for the upcoming season except for maybe Winter Sonata which i'm looking foward to.

Last week I went to a 99 cents store and found this for 99 cents:  

 
Head over to your 99 cents store and see if there are any more left..... 
I bought it because it was so cheap... now that I've seen it! well this is awesome!!!!

Cosplayers came out in droves to this, my first convention. It was a one-size-fits-all-geeks sort of event, with seemingly no theme. There were anime booths, comic kiosks, action figures, actors, and a cosplay contest. I thoroughly enjoyed it, mostly because of the cosplay. Here are a few of the better cosplayers I saw there today. 

The girl in the purple is my new idea of what the girl of my dreams looks like. I discovered, today, how much I actually love cosplay.

I recently did a video for Youtube that features 10 anime titles I think are receiving more hype and praise that they truly deserve. I mix around serious commentary and humor when offering my take on overrated titles. Because the video was over 10 minutes, I winded up having to divide the video into two parts. Numbers 10 to 6 for my list are discussed in Part 1 of the video while numbers 5 to 1 are discussed in the video's second part. Check them out:

Part I

Part II

Before I begin, I just want to say "MY OPINIONS ARE SRS BIZNESS! SRSLY!" Okay, now that we've gotten that little outburst out of the way...

You've probably heard of this complaint in some form, where my first memory of it was Dragonball Z. A lot of the "plot" seemed to be summed up thusly:

Goku: Ha! I will vanquish you with my ultimate attack!

Villain Du Jour: Well guess what? I have an attack that's even bigger!

Goku: Really? Damn, I guess I should use this unknown superweapon that was never hinted at until now!

VDJ: Well, your attack is strong, but I have this other powerful attack!

Goku: Ow! That hurt! Give me more episodes to charge up my even bigger attack!

VDJ: Oh no! I am defeated!

Goku: Well, it's a good thing that he...

Other Villain: Surprise! I'm even stronger than the last guy, and everything you learned to defeat him is completely useless against me! Looks like you'll have to pull even more superpowers out of your ass!

Goku: Fuck!

After that implied "Fuck!" moment, the aforementioned summary would pretty much be recycled ad infinitum, though with different characters and attack names. At first, I thought this was exclusive to DBZ, but then I saw other franchises fall into this trap: Bleach seems to have turned into a contest over whose sword/ban-kai/whatever is bigger. Naruto started out interestingly, but then turned into who can summon bigger monsters, making one wonder if they even cared about the actual "stealth" aspects of ninjitsu in the first place (as an aside, the only character I can think of who actually used stealth in his attacks carried a gigantic steel paddle on his back). Inuyasha seemed kinda cool when I was younger, but looking back I can now see how Naraku's spirit would conveniently escape every time the protagonists supposedly killed him, and how each time he would send demons that required ever stronger attacks and training montages in order to defeat until I just stopped caring.

One common thing I find in each of the above animes is that there never seems to be an actual ceiling on the power one can have. It seems to be a purposeful choice from my point of view: by removing the maximum limits to the power of the characters that are in the story, or that will appear later in the story, you have an excuse to keep writing new plotlines. As long as you can keep selling these books, you can keep grabbing a paycheck, even if you've practically run out of ideas on where to take the story. There doesn't have to be forward progression, just upward progression. Kagome can spend God-knows-how-many years never actually finishing off that Shikon Jewel as long as Inuyasha has new villains to slaughter with his gigantic sword, where the only change appears to be how often he screams between each strike. If people keep buying the books, then the writers can keep bringing home the paychecks.

Maybe I'm being an elitist curmudgeon here, but I like the shows where there is a sort of ceiling to how powerful the characters can be, where the enemies aren't simply defeated by pulling new superpowers out of nowhere, but by using different strategies. For example, you can argue how Lelouch's Geass power was a sort of "deus ex machina", but at least that power had a ceiling, and at least that could be countered by villains who didn't resort to screaming even louder than him. In Cowboy Bebop, there wasn't a super-starship that could only be shot down by a ten-year-old piloting a super-mega-ultra-starship. Hell, the crew of the Bebop actually screwed up some of their missions, and couldn't fight the same adversary in a larger form either. Even the climactic battle scene was somewhat down to earth, with Spike holding a simple gun vs. Vicious with a sword.

I could list tons more examples for either side, but I think you all can see what I'm getting at. Why is it that some series just continue long past their shelf life, when it just seems the writers are recycling different plots with ever-expanding powers that were never hinted at before and will possibly be useless later on? Isn't it better to have a sort of power ceiling?

this is just a thing i put for fun nothing personal or to make fun

Inuyasha: me as desisashi
Kagome: sonata
Miroku: rain man
sango: lady nightmare
Shippo: light
kilala: ???
Jakken: wanderer
Sesshomaru: me as Desilation who i give street crid as the coolest character i ever made :D
Hosinki: resonate
Naraku: Drifter