The Top Ten Gifts on Every Otaku’s List

10. Berserk Second Season/Ending/Two More Arms for Kentaro Miura

Something needs to happen with Berserk or I’ll explode. What I would love more than anything would be a second season to the original anime. Yes, they kind of shot themselves in the foot by emitting things like the Skull Knight, but I’m sure they can sort of write him in and make it work; it can’t be too hard. If we can’t do that, perhaps if we give Kentaro Miura an extra pair of arms he would be able to draw faster, and release more chapters to Berserk, so that we can finally get an ending.

9. Don’t Wait For the Big Three to End, Give Us Another Amazing Shonen Show

I have realized after a while now that Shonen Jump has not put out another amazing long, drawn out Shonen Story that will last until the end of the decade; and it’s not this decade that I’m talking about. Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach have stood alone on their high pedestal for a while now. Just like any super sentai team, there needs to be a new ranger to throw off the balance and make things interesting again.

So what would I like Shonen Jump to do next? Well ninjas, pirates, shinigami, gangsters, and spirit detectives are spoken for, so what else can they do? Knights would be pretty cool, Lumberjacks, or some kind of adult Pokemon type of thing, that would rock!

8. Erase Dragon Ball GT, Make Another Season 

What I believe we would all love more than any present under the Christmas tree would be if Toriyama would just one day get up and erase the presence of GT from cannon by creating another Dragon Ball series. Good bye small Goku, good bye useless trunks, gohan, and goten, and hello Goku super saiyan 8 fighting the Anti-Spiral. The only thing we would miss would be Vegeta with a mustache.
 
 

7. Better Video Games 

Anime is great, no doubt about it. But their video games on the other hand are usually not Game of the Year, or Game of the Month for that matter. Anime can have better video games, that’s the funny part; the only thing that is holding them back is the idea that the video game developers can make a game only just good enough for it to sell, and not make it everything it could be.

Squaresoft, are you afraid that the next Final Fantasy story might not be all that? (Word on the street is that it sucks) Well, just just take Hunter X Hunter’s story, and it will make millions. Seriously, why hasn’t Shonen Jump made some kind of Super Shonen Jump Wars video game yet?

6. No More Filler

In five hundred years when future man looks back at our generation, they will see it was the filler that killed Naruto. “Scholars say Naruto was looking great, until it the never-ending season of filler.” they would say. “It utterly destroyed all momentum the series was building. Some state it was the saddest event to happen within the century.”

Don’t get me wrong, some filler is good, and some of it is actually great! Like the current Bleach filler for example. Now I understand why filler exists, if there were no filler, all anime would have to air after the anime has finished, which would be rage inducing for series that take years to end. Though on the other hand, the end of fillers would be orgasmic.

5. Transform Classic Western Movies into Anime 

Imagine waking up Christmas morning, turning on the computer and finding out that Gainax will be making an anime adaption of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, imagine how amazing that would be, and how hard you would be playing the air guitar. Yes, Japan doesn’t care about us, we all know making things from the west are frowned upon, but still it wouldn’t be the first time. If they can make an anime based off of Witchblade and it does ok, then an anime based off of Blade Runner would sell millions.

4. Giant Robot Statues Everywhere

The life-sized Gundam statue was a step in the right direction, and so was Tetsujin 28-go, but wouldn’t it be awesome if every city in Japan decided that they too had to construct a giant robot? If Japan wants to attract tourists, what better way than to create a super awesome tour consisting of visiting the Gunbuster statue, the Mazinger statue, the Getter Robo statue, the Gurren Lagann statue, the Optimus Prime statue, and the Voltes V statue. A giant robot for every corner, a giant robot for every street--the giant robot project will save Japan!

3. Give Anime it’s Own Sovereign Nation

Having a giant robot on every street is great and everything, but wouldn’t it be cool if anime had it’s own sovereign nation? Build an island, put all the animation companies on it, throw in a bunch of museums, some anime churches, it’s own convention hall and there you go. Think about it, anime is sort of like a religion, and if the vatican can get its own country, then why not anime? A completely self sufficient society that holds its own conventions, its own concerts, has its own merchandise--how can this not work?
 
 
 
 
 

2. Resurrect the Classics 

Some say that remakes are the cancer that is killing anime today, because nothing is original anymore. That may be true, but it would also do the anime world good for them to bring back more Giant Robo, more JoJo anime, remake Legend of the Galactic Heroes; as the saying goes, don’t fix what’s not broken. There are tons of franchises that anime companies can return to, either making a sequel to said franchise, or just remaking it with super snazzy special effects. Nothing says Christmas better than Cowboy Bebop 2.

1. Pay Animators More 


The best Christmas present you can get is the present you give to another. In ten or so years, who knows what the anime industry is going to look like; it might be smaller, it might not even exist at all. Why? Because when it comes down to it, animators in Japan get paid as much as a person who works at McDonalds, it’s pathetic. Would giving each animator a raise, increase the overall quality of anime and raise sales? I don’t know, what I do know is that before we get any of these gifts, I want the animators to get paid more first; they deserve it.