Street Fighter - The Later Years part 4

now up! whee! (I've been waiting for ChunLi)



Eps 1 through 3 are here, if you missed them (you bad otaku, you)

X-Men - anime style

Seems they re-did the intro to X-Men for Japanese release. Gotta love the speed lines. We can't have heroes without speed lines! Also, this song has Guilty Gear written all over it.


Much thanks to Brotha Kyo for pointing it out.


Here's a link to the American one, in case you forgot. (I had this music as my ring tone for the longest time)

There was a second Japanese one too.
Care for an IRL version?
Theme on guitar?

Ok, I'm just getting carried away now...

edit: I never thought there would be a punk rock love song to Rogue. I was wrong. 0_0!

Witchblade Takeru Preview

Preview for Witchblade Takeru Manga 8 at ComicBookResources.com
Artist Kazasa Sumita - Keeping the 'eh' in ecchi!

Virtual Console Update...for Japan

Just so you know what you're missing if you're outside of Japan, Cyberfanatix reports that they'll be getting Garou Denestu (Fatal Fury) as well as World Heroes.

Garou can be obtained stateside on Fatal Fury Battle Archive 1 for the PS2 (good luck finding it) but World Heroes isn't available for any of the current gen consoles. You can get it through GameTap if you want to pay the monthly fee or wait for it to go free for a week. (no I don't get a kickback for linking to gametap, I wish I did though)

Does Kaorin Creep You Out?

Best AMV I have seen in a while. Then again, I'm all about the Azumanga Daioh goodness.

Labor Day Weekend Blog Dump!

Hello, good evening, Happy Labor Day weekend and all that.

Cosplay? Why yes, it is.
Cyberfanatix has some awesome KOF 2006 (aka Maximum Impact 2) cosplay pictures. (didn't that B Jenet outfit have black wings painted on the back? I'm just saying, if you go into that much detail, see it through.

Danny Choo has a great Sailor Moon group and one terrifying Sailor Mercury. 0_0!

comics
the good:
First few pages of She Hulk 21 are up at CBR. (it's there, keep scrolling) I want to hug Dan Slott.
Madam Mirage 3 review/preview @ ComicVine.
the bad:
X-Men 203 preview up at ComicVine. Please, make Ramos go away...
Amazons Attack #6 is released. An awful ending to an awful miniseries. To quote the internet(s), it is made of suck and fail. Someone hates Gail Simone.

games
insert credit found Nodame Cantabile DS on sale at play asia for 15 bucks. Do want. I think it shall be mine. Yes.

VS System
Marvel Legends expansion for the VS system is on the way! Yeah!
Shuffle and Cut has a card list with all the text except the costs...so there's no telling which characters are really worth your while yet.
Another Rogue for my collection & She Hulk has some fantastic flavor text. Savage Beatdown is getting reprinted, but it's still a rare. Weak.

wtf?
They're making a live action porn with Lucky Star characters. Wait....I just threw up in my mouth a little. :0~
source: Canned Dogs

Old Grandma Hardcore is playing Overlord. I don't know anything about it as I am a scrub without a 360, but she still makes me laugh. Sound is nsfw. She drops the f bomb about 500 times.

Second Life...in a first life convention center.

The Chicago Tribune has an article about a Second Life users convention, with various panels.

excerpt:
To attend, about 800 Second Lifers dared step out from behind their sleek, perpetually twentysomething avatars, the online proxies through which they navigate the Second Life grid, to show themselves in the sometimes lumpy, asymmetrical, imperfectly groomed forms that First Life saddles us with.

It's true, there are no love handles in SL.
So! If this is relevant to your interests, skip on over to the article.

Petey Piranha's SSBB Debut!

Smash Bros Dojo has revealed Petey Piranha - as a boss character in Super Smash Bros Brawl: Subspace Emissary (side scroller adventure game). He has 2 cages that he attacks with - one has Peach in it, the other, Zelda.

"You can save either Zelda or Peach, depending on which cage you damage more and subsequently break. What will happen to the one you don't save?"

Tough decision...

X-Men 202 - now with 50% more weak sauce!

Sleestak voted X-Men 202 as the worst comic released this week and I completely agree.

I feel as though Mike Carey is emulating poorly plotted anime series in his writing. What I mean by this is that a few years back, it was a trend for anime to start out with a bang and then fizzle with little or no ending. (Niea_7, Lain, hell, even the more recent Nodame Cantabile had a flat ending)

X-Men 200 was fantastic - Double Crossing! Return of the Marauders! Epic Battle! Woo!
but then, the slow painfully dull slide downhill begins in....

X-Men 201 - house fell on our mighty heroes - Bobby & Sam chit chat in the Blackbird, with Emma telepathically attempting to move the plot forward and failing.X-Men 202 - Acolytes! Wait, does anyone care about them anymore? Bobby & Sam now chatting with Shiro. Others still stuck under house. Emma does her 'Bride' impression from Kill Bill (move your big toe, move your big toe...) Rogue still has a hole in her chest and no one seems to care or feel the need to treat her. Riiight.

I am officially irritated by Humberto Ramos' art style. It's googly eyes and slack jaws all around. As someone pointed out to me, it looks like they're all about to sneeze. I suspect Kitty has developed a secondary mutation - of the chameleon variety. She can move her eyes independently. I can understand a stylized/cartoony art style, but when it distracts from the story, then there is a problem.AHRRRR seconded! Painful! Painful I tell you! What a disappointment after the last story arc.

scans snatched from scans_daily

Xenosaga Ep 1 - Streaming!

Anime News Network reports that ADV is streaming the first episode of Xenosaga. Get your streaming goodness here.