Tag: dbz
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First AMV in 12 Years: “Flashback” (Various Dragon Ball Footage)
Forgive me Dende, for I have sinned: it has been twelve years since my last anime music video.* Presenting: “Flashback” The Background The last video I worked on was 2010’s “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked“, a multi-source video that ended up winning “Best Drama/Serious” at Otakon 2010 (after about a decade of entering, our…
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Some Extra Funny Images
So late last month I wrote something called “The Great Canonical Debate” (it was pretty good; you should go read it). I wanted to include some type of moderately-snarky image of some type of god handing down a daizenshuu to go along with the section about how there is no officially-declared canon to the franchise,…
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The Great Canonical Debate
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post was written in late 2011, about a year before Battle of Gods and about three years before Dragon Ball Super. It’s a little rough around the edges in terms of writing, but in particular I’m rather proud of how SPOT-ON PROPHETIC it is… not in terms of calling us getting…
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Otakon 2011 In Review
My first Otakon was back in 1999. I went for just one day, but for little 17-year-old Mike, it was quite an eye-opening experience. Bootleg CDs were obtained (how was I supposed to know what SonMay was?!), anime was watched (Hiko Seijuro walking on-screen during the Rurouni Kenshin OVA received the loudest applause I’ve ever…
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Why “Episode Of Bardock” Makes So Much Sense
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post was written in 2011, two years before Battle of Gods and four years before Dragon Ball Super. It’s a little rough around the edges in terms of writing, but I’m still happy with the overall approach and general points being made here! You heard the hesitancy as we started discussing…
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Mike’s Spring/Summer 2011 Gaming
People seem to want to hear my thoughts on video games, or at least my experiences with what I have been playing… so hey, let’s just dive right in and pretend it has not been a little over three months since my last contribution. I think what I will cover here actually brings you completely…
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Daizenshuu EX Plagiarism Redux
(I initially wrote much of this article back in March 2010, but held off on publishing it due to never receiving permission to re-publish an e-mail. I have decided to just go ahead with it. It helps set things in context, and is a great lead-in to some extra commentary based on some recent forum…
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Say It This Way ‘Cuz I Said So
I won’t lie. I sometimes lurk around other forums. There are only a couple I regularly keep up with (my own, the FUNimation DB forum section)… but there are a couple others I have bookmarked that I check in on every couple of weeks. I feel somewhat of a responsibility to keep up with what…
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Prized Possessions: Nakao’s Autograph
We somehow lost our digital camera’s battery charger a while back. Since we buckled down and purchased a replacement one, I have been looking around for random things to take photos of. It is one of those cases where you do not know what you have until you have lost it… then you get it…
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Behind The Joke: Appule
Regular fans of Daizenshuu EX no doubt have heard us drop Appule’s name in semi-sarcastic and humorous ways. It has grown into something of an “in-joke” over the years — it is funny enough on its own (“lolz random character”), but the way in which the joke continued to build upon itself adds a little…