So, I never really followed up on this post, but because of it I learned of M.U.G.E.N., a video game engine people use to make their own fighting game characters. Then today a friend linked me to a video on niconico of our favorite mascots, Colonel Sanders and Donald McDonald, duking it out. I couldn’t find a copy on YouTube (curses!), so here is the video if you have a niconico account. (Donald wins, if you care but can’t watch.)
In the meantime, I did find THIS video: clearly the Colonel and Donald put aside their differences and unite to fight evil. And by evil, I mean Dragonball Z, Fist of the North Star, Fate/Stay Night, and a few other series.
Okay, I admit it, I’m mostly posting this for Japanator’s John Martone. See, in the first episode of Macross F (which I know I’ve been remiss in first-dating) we’re treated to a cute little jingle for a Chinese restaurant:
But see, every time I hear this stuff, I’m transported back in time to Ranma 1/2’s Shampoo reciting her restaurant’s menu, a character song from one of the six trillion Ranma CDs that came out during the show’s peak. You can enjoy the iffy amv/slideshow as you choose.
I shit you not. This is possibly the most random OP crossover I’ve seen, but it may also be the most impressively done.
…I mean…damn. (Woulda been better with Yoko as Haruhi, Kamina as Tamaki, and then having young!Simon as Hunny, instead of having two Simons…but still. That’s nitpicking.)
I mentioned in my first date with Vampire Knight that the ED theme, the Mana-produced “still doll,” performed by Kanon Wakeshima, is sexy and awesome. Then I found out that the full version can be heard along with the PV, so I figured I’d share it. The PV also informed me of something awesome: Wakeshima plays her own cello (both in the tune and in general). Sexy!
Well, okay, fine, it just goes TO a trailer, which you can see over at Twitch, or right here!
They all look great; I’m particularly interested in Gankutsuou director Mahiro Maeda’s Gala, Toujin Kit from Tatsuyuki Tanaka (who’s worked on Akira and Fushigi no Umi no Nadia), and Tekkon Kinkreet/The Animatrix animator Koji Morimoto’s Dimension Bomb.
So I came across this video on the Gurren Lagann LJ community; it’s of the various voice actors acting out scenes from the show, except that they shuffle around the characters. So the first scene is the one where Yoko cuts Nia’s hair…except that Simon cuts Kamina’s instead. And they giggle. It’s fantastic. Oh, and Viral’s seiyuu Nobuyuki Hiyama is fantastic as Simon, especial with Nia seiyuu Yukari Fukui’s Guam (the turtle dude).
Japan Probe links us to this video, a clip from a Finnish (…is that even the right word?) show about a couple of female weeaboo in Finland. They also show off a shop in Finland that sells gothic lolita clothes and other anime/manga/Japan-related swag. The two girls they focus on even give a good Japanese farewell at the end.
But man, it makes me kind of sad that Finland gets a shop like that and yet I’ve never seen a brick-and-mortar one in the US. Once again, the curse of being in a physically large nation: we’re too spread out for something like that to make sense, probably.
