I remember having a discussion with a friend a few years back about why some older anime stories never seem to go anywhere. We came to the conclusion that creators back then just came up with any random shit to see if anyone would watch it. And if people found it worth watching and wanted to see more from it, then the creators would expand the story a bit more via an animated series.
@@AscendantStoic That's the problem with "will they won't they" plots. Once something actually happens, the point of the story is over. Unles you're actually a good writer who can expand on it of course, but eh, well, that's not usually the case with these sorts of publications. :P
It baffles me this story was ANIMATED of all art forms. Like, seriously? Twenty-four frames per second for this script? This honestly feels more like some art students first few tries with one of those point-&-shoot VHS cameras.
It seems the game was originally a 1997 release for Win95 and it was part visual novel but also dojo simulator? It was ported/remade on the PS1 as Kaitou Ranma Miyabi in 1999. The artstyle of the PC game looks good and what you'd expect from a PC game from that era.
"Media Blasters.... why?!" Funny, the question I've always asked about them is "Media Blasters.... HOW?!" I think they're still around but it has to be one guy and a PC these days.
I'm sure the character designer for Saber Marionette J did a lot of design works in the second half of 90s, as a lot of Anime from that time look like Saber Marionette J.
Looking back, I know I tossed heaping praise at Media Blasters in the 2000s for picking up great titles like Rurouni Kenshin, Moribito, Genshiken, and Berserk. But viewing things now, never realized they got their good share of forgettable and horrible schlock as much as Central Park Media did back in the day.
I think the reason why the bland male protagonist is so forgettable (and doesn't even grace the box art), is because like a lot of harem protagonists, we male anime watchers are supposed to be able to project ourselves onto this blank slate and have the girls (the girls who, don't kid yourselves, are the main draw as depicted by their prominent display on the box art). I feel for those characters that are only there to be the surrogate to the reader/viewer. They don't deserve the cross they bear. Doomed to be hated or forgotten through no fault of their own.
That reminds me of the Higurashi games where Keiichi didn't get any character art until the 5th game and that was only because it was told from someone else's perspective. They even make fun of this during the after-credits party where they say Keiichi can't appear for this reason.
Berserk's non-ending is more abrupt than it is "empty." If you mean the manga. Then again, if you're talking the 90's ending... nothing is more abrupt than that.
When Sage talked about how even the absolute worst harem anime knows that the female characters have to have something to them that make you like them, remember them, want to continue watching them, the first thing I thought was "What? Even Love Hina?" Then I remembered, Love Hina's characters may be aggravating, hateful, annoying urine boilers, but let's face it, you may loathe Naru Narusegawa... but you'll never forget her.
Funny thing about Love Hina....try reading the manga. I distinctly remember the girls being SIGNIFICANTLY less detestable in the manga, even Naru, while Keitaro actually has a spine every now and then. Going from the anime to the manga was an interesting experience. Oh, also the plot actually finishes
Looking up the anime, the Japanese voice actors are almost all prolific and have starred in lots of quality anime. So, I wonder if it just boils down to a paycheck or the Japanese just really don't mind churning out these kinds of productions? Well, it got Bennett to talk about it and we got to watch the episode, so there is a silver lining!
The Church of the Algorithm gives this video its blessing, and must it stay clear of the blasphemers from The First Algorithmic Temple (and the many people impersonating their members).
Were you dared to find the blandest anime to cover this week? This makes A Very Private Lesson sound like a Tarantino flick. Space Travellers looks more engaging. And the sound quality of this dub is awful.
Great video! I think I've seen this before, I've watched so many random films and ova's it's become an acquired taste like Geneis Survivor Gaiearth, Maryu Senki, Wicked City or Blood Reign Curse of the Yoma (although this ova is worse than all mentioned above) . But when are we getting a Armored Trooper Votoms video? Or Legend of the Galactic Heroes video? Either would be great but thats just a suggestion.
Not gonna lie, i do like these more laid back types of episodes. Don't get me wrong, i loved the more skit-based older Anime Abandon episodes as much as the next guy, but this has it's own type of charm too.
God, I remember being 14 or so, and my younger brother (who also liked anime) got my older brother to buy this and "ayane high kick" as birthday gift for me. and I really didn't know how to cope with the fact that both OVA where pretty bad, and traded them in to a used book/dvd store shortly after watching them.
@@remixchild Either A) They don't know any better. B) They have nudity. C) Fanservice. D) To avoid getting copyright strikes and as a form of pirating.
ok so i found a little info on the visual novel, first and foremost, it was developed by Imagineer Co., Ltd., it was the second to last thing they made before stopping in 97, the scenario staff was Izuheisei 1 Gou, who made one other visual novel, izuheisei 2 gou who made six or so other vn, last one being in 2018, and kagasaki hideki, whom i cannot find any information on, the character designer for the visual novel was Naruse Yuuji who also made, Romance wa Tsurugi no Kagayaki II which had an anime in 2001, and two others, one being a ps2 game, so needless to say their isn't much of anythign behind this anime or visual novel
Every media critic/reviewer seems to have a studio, company or publisher that is forever a bane to their jobs like an arch nemesis. For AVGN it's LJN, for Caddicarus it's Pheonix games, for Nostalgia Critic mostly Happy Madison and anything Michael Bay touches. For the Sage here it's Media Blaster.
This sounds like someone wanted to do their own Tenchi Muyo but didn't want to put in any kind of effort. Milquetoast main character whose fore father is/was the important figure in the past? A bevy of beautiful babes all show up and desire him for seemingly no reason? MC is the undeserved special and is hopelessly awkward around said women (to an insultingly stupid degree)? Yeah, this is Tenchi.
Head canon: this is the bastard sequel of "The Samurai" from the last episode. How the mighty of Media Blasters continues to be grinding on the ground all the way into micro dust particles.
I don’t even remember seeing this crap at any video/DVD store in the anime section(and they had Ninja Resurrection on displays; I wonder why; cough, ADV trying to fool us into thinking it’s a sequel to Ninja Scroll, cough) That should tell you something. Least something like Mad Bull 34 is freakin batshit insane and so bad, it’s good that it deserves a DVD or blu-ray release
I find it quite hilarious that bang zoom dubbed this but none of them wanted to use their real names except for Richard cause he knows nothing could bring him down at this point
I actually like Sabre Marionette, I have almost the entire series and the manga. I know how they portray the main chars nemesis is not the best...but overall its an interesting concept
The art style of this anime still looks better than most modern anime... Hairstyles look awesome, clothes are looking fun, arms and legs are cartoony the way i like it in late 90's and early 00's anime, colors are shiny, and lines are black and angular. Modern anime have colored lines, and they just ruin the contrast for me... Plus modern anime don't have that awesome geometric fluid angularity... Ah, and i am born in 1995. I am supposed to love modern anime in my age group, yet i prefer Anime that are sometimes as old as me, or even older. Look at the face on 10:18 This is the kind of Anime face i want to see in Anime... Why every time people praise old Anime, it's almost always 80's and early to middle 90's Anime? Most of their praise always misses the shows from that era that i personally like... Like Silent Mobius, or Zenki or also KO Century Beast, Saber Marionette J, Cyberteam in Akihabara...
Someone should start a studio called polish the turd, which purchases old animes and cartoons franchises. Then either just re-dub, or rewrite and re- edit, or just do a ghost tales dub, anything to polish that turd.
Was it just me, or was everything about this anime slow, or in some form of delay? Not just in pacing, but in animation and in dialogue. There were uncomfortable seconds-long silences between characters talking and reacting to each other. It was really weird, and I don't know if this was just a dub thing since I didn't care enough to check the original Japanese to make sure.
Another entertaining review. :) I do wish there was no bg music tho, or at least that it was less loud. It's hella distracting and quickly becomes grating. It can also be hard to hear whats being said over it sometimes. Anyway the last lines of this vid made me chuckle. Hope ur doing well Sage. I look forward to the next vid. :)
And here i thought it was gonna be an anime about a sword hunt, that is what it was called when the government tried to disarm the people, which happened a lot in Japan. Maybe we follow an officer getting into all sorts of trouble with folk hellbent on keeping their swords or plainly rebelling at this opportune occasion. But no we get a harem. And one kid, one sword, one battle.
Media Blasters tried to cash in the endless ammount of cheesy ovas produced in Japan, even when they were bad people back then didn't have enough sources to check reviews and went buying them blind
Hey Bennett, can you please link us the music you're using in this video / your other videos? Your playlist over the past couple of videos has been great and I'd like to listen to them over the workdays!
you know, that "grappling with a woman and ending up on top of her with your hand on her boob" is SUCH a massive cliche in anime I can't help but notice it isn't used anymore. It was so common at one point it even got into classic shows like Full Metal Alchemist, but now I don't even see it in shows with intentional fanservice like Black Clover and My Hero Academia...did the trope get SO worn out that it made even the Japanese people cringe?
Hey Bennet, long time fan here. I’ll admit I haven’t kept of with a lot of people since the whole CA meltdown a few years ago (totally not your fault and I’ve always loved your content. I don’t know if you’ll read this man, but I was curious about whatever happened to the Tool Shed Podcast? You two were always my favorite to listen to, and I was gonna check out some old eps or see if you guys ever came off hiatus? If it’s not something that you want to speak on publicly I understand, I was just curious. You look really well man, glad you see you doing good in the Post Corona world. All the best wishes brother.
RE: how Media Blasters made money, I think what it boils down to is that these licenses were so cheap that, even if the releases sold incredibly badly in objective terms, they'd still make a profit. Like, if you only need to sell maybe 200 copies to break even, releasing something that's a niche within a niche within a niche makes more financial sense.
Media Blasters management deliberately impose a "poverty mentality," attempting to inspire their employees to preform efficiently. Like, blowing the stakes out of proportion as to how much is riding on the next release selling well. The reality though, is that they've done better than many companies in the Anime industry, and were never actually close to being insolvent. I saw an interview where former employees talk a bit about this. Mainly from the stand-point that Media Blasters management, despite the over-the-top doom-and-gloom pressure heaped on the grunts, were never very convincing; the employees always knew it was BS. I'm describing this poorly, I know. But these bizarre/cheesy approaches to management are not unheard of in Japan.
For some reason I'm pondering whether or not this anime would be better if everyone's gender was reversed. At least it would have some novelty then. "Do you like guys with muscly chests?"
Well media blasters biggest license was golden boy and Rurouni Kenshin, Romance of the 12 kingdoms ,Genshiken First generation and second generation, record of lordosis wars Squid girl season one and two and a few other mid thousands anime.
6:15 that’s harem protagonist in a nutshell they put more personality to the girls while leaving the MCs without a interesting personality(because it for the male fan)that why they’re always called out as bland and unable to be in the anime because of it I am glad Sakura Wars didn’t get rid of its protagonist
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@@LimakPan I think this is just what he's doing for now. The days of scripting and struggling to put out a thirty minute video each month that 5000 people watch are gone. He can put out multiple videos with just a written outline every month and get the same audience. For now, it works.
Nakaimo - My Little Sister is Among Them is terrible CRINGE!!! Just go out and watch The World's Finest Assassin, the show is better than Nakaimo, better than Redo of Healer!!!
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I remember having a discussion with a friend a few years back about why some older anime stories never seem to go anywhere. We came to the conclusion that creators back then just came up with any random shit to see if anyone would watch it. And if people found it worth watching and wanted to see more from it, then the creators would expand the story a bit more via an animated series.
That sounds like an expensive pilot.
Yup, that's not a wrong conclusion, I gave up on romance and comedy anime because they never go anywhere, just keep going in circles forever XD
@@AscendantStoic That's the problem with "will they won't they" plots. Once something actually happens, the point of the story is over. Unles you're actually a good writer who can expand on it of course, but eh, well, that's not usually the case with these sorts of publications. :P
sounds like Tenchi Muyo
@@nefariusfriday9518 Exactly.
A main hero so forgettable they forgot to include him on the box.
Sees the title: "ok, cool. Love some cringe"
Sees the opening bit: "...which "sword" are we searching for?"
The one in the rock.
Please help it.
It baffles me this story was ANIMATED of all art forms. Like, seriously? Twenty-four frames per second for this script?
This honestly feels more like some art students first few tries with one of those point-&-shoot VHS cameras.
It seems the game was originally a 1997 release for Win95 and it was part visual novel but also dojo simulator? It was ported/remade on the PS1 as Kaitou Ranma Miyabi in 1999. The artstyle of the PC game looks good and what you'd expect from a PC game from that era.
This is going to be fun. Thank you Sage.
"Media Blasters.... why?!"
Funny, the question I've always asked about them is "Media Blasters.... HOW?!" I think they're still around but it has to be one guy and a PC these days.
I’m honestly surprised they survived the wrath of Toho’s legal department
They own Pink Adult video. The label that owns Kite and Mezzo Forte. The porn keeps the bills paid.
@@JeffreyPiatt yet I somehow own both Kite and Mezzo Forte with the porn removed 😐 granted I think I’m not missing much
@@JeffreyPiatt Don''t forget the live action stuff like Tokyo Gore Police.
I'm sure the character designer for Saber Marionette J did a lot of design works in the second half of 90s, as a lot of Anime from that time look like Saber Marionette J.
Man this low bar keeps hitting the bottom so hard I’m amazed the earth’s core isn’t reached by now.
Who knows when we'll ever hit the absolute bottom, but by God, we sure are going to try. For science. And the algorithm.
@@BennettTheSage always for the algorithm
@@BennettTheSage Dexter: FOR SCIENCE!!!
@@BennettTheSage eventually we'll find a rock bottom so beyond the others we'll pass through the Earth's core and pop out the other side.
That burp was perfect. This story sounds like a failed Samurai Harem
Wait, you said "failed" as if Samurai Harem was a success.
@@Speculativedude LOL, Samurai Harem was forgettable. They feel the same
Looking back, I know I tossed heaping praise at Media Blasters in the 2000s for picking up great titles like Rurouni Kenshin, Moribito, Genshiken, and Berserk. But viewing things now, never realized they got their good share of forgettable and horrible schlock as much as Central Park Media did back in the day.
I think the reason why the bland male protagonist is so forgettable (and doesn't even grace the box art), is because like a lot of harem protagonists, we male anime watchers are supposed to be able to project ourselves onto this blank slate and have the girls (the girls who, don't kid yourselves, are the main draw as depicted by their prominent display on the box art).
I feel for those characters that are only there to be the surrogate to the reader/viewer. They don't deserve the cross they bear. Doomed to be hated or forgotten through no fault of their own.
That reminds me of the Higurashi games where Keiichi didn't get any character art until the 5th game and that was only because it was told from someone else's perspective.
They even make fun of this during the after-credits party where they say Keiichi can't appear for this reason.
Shit like that is why I'll never like harem anime.
That comment remind me of this line: "I'm forgetting it (The face of a video game character based on a movie) right now while I'm looking at it"
That for some series
Agreed
I love the Saber Marionette J designer. 😂
"He's just important because his dad is important."
Look at that, it's the anime made for American billionaires.
Gottem
"Could an anime end on an emptier note?" He says wearing a Berserk T-shirt :)
Berserk's non-ending is more abrupt than it is "empty." If you mean the manga.
Then again, if you're talking the 90's ending... nothing is more abrupt than that.
Hahaha right
When Sage talked about how even the absolute worst harem anime knows that the female characters have to have something to them that make you like them, remember them, want to continue watching them, the first thing I thought was "What? Even Love Hina?"
Then I remembered, Love Hina's characters may be aggravating, hateful, annoying urine boilers, but let's face it, you may loathe Naru Narusegawa... but you'll never forget her.
That explains Kirie Kojima. That and one of the writers liked pro wrestling.
Even Girls Bravo knows that
I loathed and forgot Love Hina's "characters." Same with Girls Bravo, which is even more cursed. Why is Harem anime a thing, again?
Funny thing about Love Hina....try reading the manga. I distinctly remember the girls being SIGNIFICANTLY less detestable in the manga, even Naru, while Keitaro actually has a spine every now and then. Going from the anime to the manga was an interesting experience. Oh, also the plot actually finishes
The Love Hina Manga was pure slapstick gold and actually really good! Was my first manga
Looking up the anime, the Japanese voice actors are almost all prolific and have starred in lots of quality anime. So, I wonder if it just boils down to a paycheck or the Japanese just really don't mind churning out these kinds of productions? Well, it got Bennett to talk about it and we got to watch the episode, so there is a silver lining!
The Church of the Algorithm gives this video its blessing, and must it stay clear of the blasphemers from The First Algorithmic Temple (and the many people impersonating their members).
BTW, love the Berserk t-shirt.
Aye Grand Archpriest, the heevens will get their due.
Hey, didn't I see you under under a Yhara Zayd video?
@@casperchristiansen2458She been chosen.
This show couldn't be more generic and bland if it was created by a bot generator.
Were you dared to find the blandest anime to cover this week? This makes A Very Private Lesson sound like a Tarantino flick. Space Travellers looks more engaging. And the sound quality of this dub is awful.
Oof, this was a rough one for sure. 😱
Thanks for keeping these videos coming.
I feel like Richard Epcar just knows how iconic his voice is, so he just went “fuck it, coming up with a stage name is too much effort for this”.
Young Richard's voice is barely recognisable, I didn't even realise he voiced Gladiator in the old X-men cartoon
Historic Weeb Shi+ that not just any weeb would know.
Great video! I think I've seen this before, I've watched so many random films and ova's it's become an acquired taste like Geneis Survivor Gaiearth, Maryu Senki, Wicked City or Blood Reign Curse of the Yoma (although this ova is worse than all mentioned above) . But when are we getting a Armored Trooper Votoms video? Or Legend of the Galactic Heroes video? Either would be great but thats just a suggestion.
Not gonna lie, i do like these more laid back types of episodes. Don't get me wrong, i loved the more skit-based older Anime Abandon episodes as much as the next guy, but this has it's own type of charm too.
God, I remember being 14 or so, and my younger brother (who also liked anime) got my older brother to buy this and "ayane high kick" as birthday gift for me. and I really didn't know how to cope with the fact that both OVA where pretty bad, and traded them in to a used book/dvd store shortly after watching them.
Afternoon Sage! Hope everything is going well!
Sage: "Why?"
Media Blasters: "Money."
So why is majority of their anime on tubi and some porn sites
@@remixchild Either A) They don't know any better. B) They have nudity. C) Fanservice. D) To avoid getting copyright strikes and as a form of pirating.
ok so i found a little info on the visual novel, first and foremost, it was developed by Imagineer Co., Ltd., it was the second to last thing they made before stopping in 97, the scenario staff was Izuheisei 1 Gou, who made one other visual novel, izuheisei 2 gou who made six or so other vn, last one being in 2018, and kagasaki hideki, whom i cannot find any information on, the character designer for the visual novel was Naruse Yuuji who also made, Romance wa Tsurugi no Kagayaki II which had an anime in 2001, and two others, one being a ps2 game, so needless to say their isn't much of anythign behind this anime or visual novel
Oh Media Blasters stop, you shouldn't have.
No literally. You shouldn't have...
I'm still waiting for the day Sage will review legend of the crystals Final Fantasy
God is that a 4 episode Brain F••k.
Ok, maybe I jumped the gun a little calling the last OVA “diet Ranma”
Every media critic/reviewer seems to have a studio, company or publisher that is forever a bane to their jobs like an arch nemesis. For AVGN it's LJN, for Caddicarus it's Pheonix games, for Nostalgia Critic mostly Happy Madison and anything Michael Bay touches. For the Sage here it's Media Blaster.
This sounds like someone wanted to do their own Tenchi Muyo but didn't want to put in any kind of effort. Milquetoast main character whose fore father is/was the important figure in the past? A bevy of beautiful babes all show up and desire him for seemingly no reason? MC is the undeserved special and is hopelessly awkward around said women (to an insultingly stupid degree)? Yeah, this is Tenchi.
Also the lightsaber duel at the end.
I remember even a young anime-starved kid version of me had this for a brief time, and I still couldn't really get into it...
I've always liked the harem anime of Rosario Vampire. The panty shot drinking game.
Which is Ironic because the original Manga it was based on doesn't have as many as the anime does, like they really upped it for the anime.
Do Kiddy Grade, I think it's underrated, but I like it.
Head canon: this is the bastard sequel of "The Samurai" from the last episode. How the mighty of Media Blasters continues to be grinding on the ground all the way into micro dust particles.
I am enjoying this dive into things Ive never heard of, and will never hear of again.
Sage and ANOTHER BEER??? This gunna be gud!! Also F Media Blasters.
Media Blasters is the current Central Park Media.
Everyone asks Why Samurai: Hunt for the Sword, but when did anyone last ask How is Samura: Hunt for the Sword?
To many thought How to Samurai: Hunt for the Sword. No one thought Should Samurai: Hunt for the Sword.
I'm starting to get used to these bottle opening ouvertures!
I don’t even remember seeing this crap at any video/DVD store in the anime section(and they had Ninja Resurrection on displays; I wonder why; cough, ADV trying to fool us into thinking it’s a sequel to Ninja Scroll, cough) That should tell you something. Least something like Mad Bull 34 is freakin batshit insane and so bad, it’s good that it deserves a DVD or blu-ray release
A spooky anime for Halloween, or something!
*_OOOOUUUGGHHHH_*
Maybe it’s just the overused art style but I swear I saw that cover years ago on a SunCoast shelf
I find it quite hilarious that bang zoom dubbed this but none of them wanted to use their real names except for Richard cause he knows nothing could bring him down at this point
I actually like Sabre Marionette, I have almost the entire series and the manga.
I know how they portray the main chars nemesis is not the best...but overall its an interesting concept
The art style of this anime still looks better than most modern anime...
Hairstyles look awesome, clothes are looking fun, arms and legs are cartoony the way i like it in late 90's and early 00's anime, colors are shiny, and lines are black and angular.
Modern anime have colored lines, and they just ruin the contrast for me... Plus modern anime don't have that awesome geometric fluid angularity...
Ah, and i am born in 1995. I am supposed to love modern anime in my age group, yet i prefer Anime that are sometimes as old as me, or even older. Look at the face on 10:18 This is the kind of Anime face i want to see in Anime...
Why every time people praise old Anime, it's almost always 80's and early to middle 90's Anime? Most of their praise always misses the shows from that era that i personally like...
Like Silent Mobius, or Zenki or also KO Century Beast, Saber Marionette J, Cyberteam in Akihabara...
A new Anime Abandon episode? Its really a Happy Halloween :D
Let’s go! New Anime Abandon for Halloween is my favorite!
It’s one of those anime that’s so boring I can’t come up with anything to comment about except “yep, it sure does exist”.
Someone should start a studio called polish the turd, which purchases old animes and cartoons franchises. Then either just re-dub, or rewrite and re- edit, or just do a ghost tales dub, anything to polish that turd.
Happy Halloween Sage
Ah, some good old Media Blasters trash. Its been a while, old friend.
Was it just me, or was everything about this anime slow, or in some form of delay? Not just in pacing, but in animation and in dialogue. There were uncomfortable seconds-long silences between characters talking and reacting to each other. It was really weird, and I don't know if this was just a dub thing since I didn't care enough to check the original Japanese to make sure.
The voice cast sounds like they're different degrees of bored. Even when they're "yelling"
Another entertaining review. :) I do wish there was no bg music tho, or at least that it was less loud. It's hella distracting and quickly becomes grating. It can also be hard to hear whats being said over it sometimes.
Anyway the last lines of this vid made me chuckle.
Hope ur doing well Sage. I look forward to the next vid. :)
I think this was the first anime Jaltoid did a watch through of…and that’s its list of accomplishments, goodnight!
Wondering if you might review Black Cat (no not *Dark Cat*, the one by Kentaro Yabuki). It's pretty good, but to my knowledge no one has heard of it.
One of many shows where you feel very, very sorry for the voice actors
I am glad you are having fun with these again.
And here i thought it was gonna be an anime about a sword hunt, that is what it was called when the government tried to disarm the people, which happened a lot in Japan. Maybe we follow an officer getting into all sorts of trouble with folk hellbent on keeping their swords or plainly rebelling at this opportune occasion. But no we get a harem. And one kid, one sword, one battle.
A sword hunt anime sounds actually interesting. 😎
i didnt read the title and i saw the shirt and remembered it was halloween. i thought you were gonna talk about the horror of berserk 2016
Is there a way to suggest anime to review because I haven’t seen you do one for labyrinth of flames and it seems like one you might review
Media Blasters tried to cash in the endless ammount of cheesy ovas produced in Japan, even when they were bad people back then didn't have enough sources to check reviews and went buying them blind
Hey Bennett, can you please link us the music you're using in this video / your other videos? Your playlist over the past couple of videos has been great and I'd like to listen to them over the workdays!
What's even more amazing is that Media Blasters is still around. They are still releasing anime, movies, and hentai. On Blu-ray and DVD.
I don't want to watch Eiken I want to watch your review of Eiken... Does anybody know what I mean?
you know, that "grappling with a woman and ending up on top of her with your hand on her boob" is SUCH a massive cliche in anime I can't help but notice it isn't used anymore. It was so common at one point it even got into classic shows like Full Metal Alchemist, but now I don't even see it in shows with intentional fanservice like Black Clover and My Hero Academia...did the trope get SO worn out that it made even the Japanese people cringe?
The only way to annihilate the problem is at its source, aka, to not adapt visual novels
Legendary intro till the moment the actual intro hits ;)
Yeah it's inaccurate, but not completely infuriating.
*cough* Ninja Resurrection *cough*
Yeah, that one was Incomplete as hell!
Not sure how I missed it the first time, but now I realize the main dude is played by Tony Oliver.
Hey Bennet, long time fan here. I’ll admit I haven’t kept of with a lot of people since the whole CA meltdown a few years ago (totally not your fault and I’ve always loved your content. I don’t know if you’ll read this man, but I was curious about whatever happened to the Tool Shed Podcast? You two were always my favorite to listen to, and I was gonna check out some old eps or see if you guys ever came off hiatus? If it’s not something that you want to speak on publicly I understand, I was just curious. You look really well man, glad you see you doing good in the Post Corona world. All the best wishes brother.
I hope you do the new Cowboy Bebop adaptation
I know it isn't technically anime but still
I owned this once upon a time..... Sage is gonna rip this apart !! Kinda hope he gives a nod too the dub outakes reel at the end of this !!!
When Sage cracks a drink at the very beginning, I know I may have too as well.
So what’s your opinion on that new Crunchy Roll original show? Like most of the Internet, I found it about as appealing as a battery acid enema.
RE: how Media Blasters made money, I think what it boils down to is that these licenses were so cheap that, even if the releases sold incredibly badly in objective terms, they'd still make a profit. Like, if you only need to sell maybe 200 copies to break even, releasing something that's a niche within a niche within a niche makes more financial sense.
Women falling in love with someone with not that much interesting qualities is quite common in anime.
Media Blasters management deliberately impose a "poverty mentality," attempting to inspire their employees to preform efficiently. Like, blowing the stakes out of proportion as to how much is riding on the next release selling well. The reality though, is that they've done better than many companies in the Anime industry, and were never actually close to being insolvent. I saw an interview where former employees talk a bit about this. Mainly from the stand-point that Media Blasters management, despite the over-the-top doom-and-gloom pressure heaped on the grunts, were never very convincing; the employees always knew it was BS. I'm describing this poorly, I know. But these bizarre/cheesy approaches to management are not unheard of in Japan.
Why? That question was answered the moment he said Mediablasters
Yaaaay! Loved the episode. You're the coolest, Sage, The Engineer and Friends! 😎😆🤘
You should check out Gokudo anime.
You should review saber marionette j. I've seen it on your shelf in the past
At first I thought the title was The Sword OF Terrible Cringe, and thought to myself "that's my weapon of choice."
For some reason I'm pondering whether or not this anime would be better if everyone's gender was reversed. At least it would have some novelty then. "Do you like guys with muscly chests?"
You finally posted something I had since I started buying anime on DVD 😄
Happy Holloween! 🎃🎃
Well media blasters biggest license was golden boy and Rurouni Kenshin, Romance of the 12 kingdoms ,Genshiken First generation and second generation, record of lordosis wars Squid girl season one and two and a few other mid thousands anime.
Aw crap I remember this bore fest. I thought it was a bland rip off of Tenchi.
for whatever reason the character designs here look tame compared to Saber Marionette J which were more exaggerated in facial proportions.
6:15 that’s harem protagonist in a nutshell they put more personality to the girls while leaving the MCs without a interesting personality(because it for the male fan)that why they’re always called out as bland and unable to be in the anime because of it I am glad Sakura Wars didn’t get rid of its protagonist
Anyone else think the background music is a bit loud?
When are we gonna see an anime abandon episode of Here is Greenwood?
Nothing is more horrifying to Sage on Halloween than a bad harem anime!
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How did the roast turn out?
Could you put a different thumbnail on the beer episodes to distinguish them from the main series?
@@LimakPan I think this is just what he's doing for now. The days of scripting and struggling to put out a thirty minute video each month that 5000 people watch are gone. He can put out multiple videos with just a written outline every month and get the same audience. For now, it works.
Nakaimo - My Little Sister is Among Them is terrible CRINGE!!! Just go out and watch The World's Finest Assassin, the show is better than Nakaimo, better than Redo of Healer!!!
I come back to the channel after not watching for a while and you're looking fantastic fuck yeah dude
I've been away for a min, is he back in the U.S. now?
"I have a friend in the anime industry who's been in there a long time..."
It's Steve Bennet, isn't it?
Bennet: "Why?" Me: "Better question, 'Why not?'"