Recent content by Arxane

Oh, most certainly. In Ranma 1/2, many songs were blatant promotions for DoCo, the female singing group that made up five of the voice actresses on the show. The English dub used professional singers to sing most of the DoCo songs...I say most, because the first attempt at using the English...

I hope it's "After Last Season".

Trust me, of all the Jared commercials, that one is by far the least offensive one. All of the other commercials repeat that insipid phrase "He went to Jared" over and over and OVER. The worst one is a wedding announcement at a restaurant where all the guests repeat "He went to Jared" to each...

There's a new Pizza Hut commercial that irritates me not because it's annoying, but because what someone says in it grates me. It basically boils down to Pizza Hut saying they've lowered the prices on their pizza so that people don't have to use esoteric coupons to buy pizza cheaply. This is...

After putting it off for a few months, I'm finally on my way to finishing The Arabian Nights (or at least a condensed version of it with a selection of the more famous tales). After that, I get to settle down with Sun Tzu's The Art of War before tackling my more formidable challenge: Leo...

I dunno, my first choice would still be Jean Reno, who was awesome as Porco Rosso in the French dub.

Here are a couple animated films that have been mostly forgotten: Marco Polo Jr. vs The Red Dragon - This film was actually Australia's first animated film ever. It was released in the states simple as "Marco Polo Jr." and tells the story of how one of Marco Polo's descendants has to return...

The big downside to the Big 10 picking up Kansas and Kansas State would be one thing: academics. Every school in the Big 10 is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, which is a collection of the most respected research universities in the country (from Ohio State to...

Actually, the complete opposite is true: If the conferences expand as speculated, then the odds of getting a playoff in FBS football is even less likely. The creation of 16-team conferences (or close to it) ensures that the most powerful football programs are accounted for in the larger...

The closest I can find on this subject can be found here. Whether Walt himself held anti-Semitic views is debatable, but it's undeniable that anti-Semitic views did creep into Disney animation, all of which was approved by Walt. Disney also seems prolific in the number of urban legends it...

Majestic Films International, actually. A group called the Completion Bond Company seized control of the film when Warner Bros lost faith in the project and threw Williams off (Warner was initially interested in it because Williams was an animator on the award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit and...

I believe you're thinking of The Thief and the Cobbler. This movie was a notorious vanity project for animator Richard Williams, who worked on it for 26 years and often worked on other animated projects solely to finance this specific pet one. Unfortunately the people who invested finally pulled...

From what I understand about the sharks, the harbor of Zanzibar had managed to grow enough such that cranes and docks were built such that any future shark threats were not possible. As for the kids at the end...well, this is a video where Hugo is attacked by an army of fruits and vegetables, so...

A lot of animated films come and go through over the years, and many of them don't get seen by many people and slowly disappear into obscurity. Occasionally these films will resurface on dusty VHS tapes or local cable reruns, only to disappear back into the void from which they came. I'm curious...

As an avid reader, I've decided to make things a bit interesting with my reading list and I'm planning a little experiment I like to call my World Literature Tour. Basically, I'm reading a classic or beloved book from as many countries as I can, with the only requirement being that the book's...