Hello everyone. In today’s Mutual Understanding we’re going to be talking about cartoons. Specifically Anime. So strap on your very, very large boots, grab your gigantic sword, open your eyes wide, and hit the jump.
Video: UNFINISHED ‘STAR WARS’ ANIME is space battle glory.
September 17th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered
Animator Paul Michael Johnson is working on an epic space battle Star Wars anime that is guaranteed to make your genitals of possession bulge to the near bursting point. It ain’t anywhere near finished, but what does exist is so titillating that I can only hope the entire thing comes to fruition.
‘MASS EFFECT: PARAGON LOST’ TRAILER: Here’s Hoping ME3′s Prequel Is Better Than its Ending
July 13th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered
Wasn’t really aware of the fact that there was a Mass Effect 3 prequel anime slithering down the pipe, but it seems pretty rocking. The writer of Clone Wars and the studio behind Ghost in the Shell? Hell yeah. Could do without the jab at unprepared soldiers being “ladies” in the trailer, since, you know, my Shepard is all double-x chromosome, but hey man. I’ll still take it.
Video: The ‘AKIRA’ Bike Is Real, Bombing Across Japan For Charity
April 9th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered
Shinji Tejima is a wild dude, dreaming the dreams of rock stars. The good man has spent what would be over $120,00 in American bucks to build a replica of the motorcycle seen in Akira. Now that this monument to a pop cultural icon is done, he’s riding this futuro-steed across Japan in the name of the charity. Dude is ballin’ hard.
Modestep – Show Me a Sign
March 27th, 2012 by Sneaky Pete
What if Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels made sweet love, produced an ADHD offspring addicted to filthy dubstep? The result is these 4 chicas on a mission to destroy the music industry, ala Modestep. Watch the death spawn after the jump…
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Kristen Stewart Offered Role In ‘Akira’, We Can All Move On Now.
November 15th, 2011 by Caffeine Powered
Twilight is a cultural blackhole of vapidity and pseudo female agency, but even with that considered I don’t mind Kristen Stewart. She was cute enough in Adventureland and uh…well, that’s all I’ve seen her in. Good chance I’ll be catching her in Akira.
Live Action ‘Akira’ To Feature Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter? Super Whitewash Continues!
October 24th, 2011 by Caffeine Powered
The live action Akira continues trudging on, after last week’s news that it was indeed alive. And whitewashing more impressively than The Last Airbender. Today some more casting rumors have floated up, and they’re centered around Commissioner Gordon and Marla Singer.
Nirvana for Nerds – Con 101
September 18th, 2011 by Budrickton
[Caffeine Note: Friend of the Brothers Omega Budrickton is a scholar, gentleman, and frequenter of conventions. He wanted a venue to share his thoughts and but of course we obliged. Hug him and give him a mug of your freshest mead.]
The young nerd’s life is often an unforgiving enterprise. Their trading-card-trading, Pokémon-playing, perpetually chunky and uncoordinated elementary years are just the beginning of a number of roads, many of which run off the edge of a cliff, socially speaking.
These rocky starts for my brethren are usually followed up with a high school life of true class; basement-dwelling, Han-shot-first, ‘virgin-forever’ years function as a training ground for learning how to work an innate and exuberant nerdiness into daily life, and possibly, actually interact with ordinary people!
There’s hope in these years; nerds either abandon their ways in pursuit of socializing, underage drinking, and the holy grail: losing your virginity before age 18. Or, they go full throttle, and become what they were always destined to be at the place where all nerds unite:
The Con.
Neon Genesis Evangelion Gets Kentucky Fried!
August 4th, 2011 by Caffeine Powered
Opening To The Wolverine Anime Is Awesome. AWESOME.
January 13th, 2011 by Caffeine Powered
Until today, I had completely forgotten that there was a Wolverine anime in the works. This is nigh heretical, since it was written by my lord and saviour, Warren Ellis. The show debuted in Japan last week, and the first episode was centered around when the “New York-based Wolverine discovers that his missing girlfriend Mariko is being held hostage in Tokyo by her father, who happens to be a nasty old crime lord!”
Outstanding.
What’s even better than that? The fucking opening intro. It has everything a geek like me needs. First: it has Wolverine. Already awesome. Then it has a chick in latex. Double awesome. Finally: it has ridiculously sick power metal riffage and noodling tying the entire intro together. If you don’t feel your glands swell from this, there’s a pretty good chance I hate you.
Hit the jump for the video.
