Lord Dalek
Uncreative Hack
So once again its time for more wasting time with Kirito doing nothing!
...which means I want to waste time doing something else.
Lately I've found myself stuck in this rut of either listening to opera or playing pinball. You see kids, making videos of riffing on episodes of Your Lie in April (aka noitaminA frog show), Food Wars (aka lamearse shonen jump cooking show), and Seraph of the End (aka find out in five months you poor losers) can really be taxing on me and my associates. Its a sacrifice we have to make to entertain you unwashed masses and its only a relief in that we don't have to do Danmachi or Show By Rock as well (NO REQUESTS!). So, how do I cope with this endless sense of dread and foreboding?
By watching Aoi Honoo instead!
What is Aoi Honoo you may ask? Well its this silly Jdrama about how the creator of Blazing Transfer Student finds himself in a life or death struggle with Hideaki Anno over...honestly I don't know. Like any great battle shonen conflict, it always seems to be just because somebody was a jerk or there really isn't one to begin with and the protagonist just doesn't get it. In this case its the latter, and its great, mainly because the actor playing our hero Honoo has the best face on television.
EXAMPLES FOLLOW:
Yeah this guy is great. Oh and he won best actor at Cannes in 2005 a few before he tried to kill himself in a drug overdose! Ain't that swell???
But its really not all about Honoo. No the Gainax guys are arguably funnier. Hiroyuki Yamaga is presented here as a no-talent yahoo who rides on other people's coattails to get his precious meal ticket. Figures, he did direct Mahoromatic and Abenobashi! (drum swish) Meanwhile, Takami Akai (AKA the one nobody cares about) has built his own miniture Godzilla set in his apartment to trample on and is by and large the meek insecure one. And then there's Anno!
...Anno thinks he's Ultraman. By all accounts this is a historically accurate depiction.
But wait there's more!
In episode 3, Kentaro Yano, later to become the mangaka of dozens of series you've never heard of, comes here to laugh at Honoo!
[video=youtube;foFh8GBwlXM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFh8GBwlXM[/video]
...yeah he's Char, this show's great.
So yeah, I could be doing something better with my life like curing cancer or brokering world peace, but this show is just too much fun. Shame its only 12 episodes, but hey if that godawful tripe Itazura na Kiss can get a second season...
And after that diversion into shows that need more episodes, here's a show that has 50 episodes too many!
LAST TIME ON DESU GAN: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Sinon......
THIS WEEK ON THAT SHOW WITH THE GUY WITH ALL THE CHICKS: Kirito and Sinon hide from Death Gun in a cave!...and then they don't leave for three episodes.
"Sinon is attacked from behind by Death Gun and paralyzed. He's using a Black Star Type-54, ironically the same gun that Sinon used to shoot the robber. Her memories of the incident come flooding back and Sinon loses control, and Death Gun tries to kill her to make Kirito angry. But just before he can kill her Kirito saves her at the last second. Sinon is out of the fight, and Kirito tries to flee with her but is pursued by Death Gun."
...which means I want to waste time doing something else.
Lately I've found myself stuck in this rut of either listening to opera or playing pinball. You see kids, making videos of riffing on episodes of Your Lie in April (aka noitaminA frog show), Food Wars (aka lamearse shonen jump cooking show), and Seraph of the End (aka find out in five months you poor losers) can really be taxing on me and my associates. Its a sacrifice we have to make to entertain you unwashed masses and its only a relief in that we don't have to do Danmachi or Show By Rock as well (NO REQUESTS!). So, how do I cope with this endless sense of dread and foreboding?
By watching Aoi Honoo instead!
What is Aoi Honoo you may ask? Well its this silly Jdrama about how the creator of Blazing Transfer Student finds himself in a life or death struggle with Hideaki Anno over...honestly I don't know. Like any great battle shonen conflict, it always seems to be just because somebody was a jerk or there really isn't one to begin with and the protagonist just doesn't get it. In this case its the latter, and its great, mainly because the actor playing our hero Honoo has the best face on television.
EXAMPLES FOLLOW:
Yeah this guy is great. Oh and he won best actor at Cannes in 2005 a few before he tried to kill himself in a drug overdose! Ain't that swell???
But its really not all about Honoo. No the Gainax guys are arguably funnier. Hiroyuki Yamaga is presented here as a no-talent yahoo who rides on other people's coattails to get his precious meal ticket. Figures, he did direct Mahoromatic and Abenobashi! (drum swish) Meanwhile, Takami Akai (AKA the one nobody cares about) has built his own miniture Godzilla set in his apartment to trample on and is by and large the meek insecure one. And then there's Anno!
...Anno thinks he's Ultraman. By all accounts this is a historically accurate depiction.
But wait there's more!
In episode 3, Kentaro Yano, later to become the mangaka of dozens of series you've never heard of, comes here to laugh at Honoo!
[video=youtube;foFh8GBwlXM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFh8GBwlXM[/video]
...yeah he's Char, this show's great.
So yeah, I could be doing something better with my life like curing cancer or brokering world peace, but this show is just too much fun. Shame its only 12 episodes, but hey if that godawful tripe Itazura na Kiss can get a second season...
And after that diversion into shows that need more episodes, here's a show that has 50 episodes too many!
LAST TIME ON DESU GAN: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Sinon......
THIS WEEK ON THAT SHOW WITH THE GUY WITH ALL THE CHICKS: Kirito and Sinon hide from Death Gun in a cave!...and then they don't leave for three episodes.
"Sinon is attacked from behind by Death Gun and paralyzed. He's using a Black Star Type-54, ironically the same gun that Sinon used to shoot the robber. Her memories of the incident come flooding back and Sinon loses control, and Death Gun tries to kill her to make Kirito angry. But just before he can kill her Kirito saves her at the last second. Sinon is out of the fight, and Kirito tries to flee with her but is pursued by Death Gun."
I'd posted this back in 2016, over ten years ago!