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DIY Appleseed Ex Machina Trailer Remixing
Posted on 12.22.07 by Dindrane @ 2:29 am
Appleseed Ex Machina

Oh dear God, my afternoon productivity was ruined, and I am therefore destroying your productivity, too.

You know you are beside yourself with excitement about the upcoming Appleseed Ex Machina, as produced by John Woo. Well, now you can absolutely revel in wicked, gleeful creativity as you create your own trailer for this sure-to-be-magical film!

Hie thee over to the Appleseed Trailer Remix site and make your own trailer! It's like DIY anime, two of our favorite things! How could it go wrong? (Don't answer that, ScottC...) Post your efforts in the Gabfest, if you like! Or link them up in the comments here!

There's even a contest involved for making a trailer, but really... isn't making anime people do what you want about the best reward already?

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Top 10 (or Bottom 10, Depending How You Look at It) Anime Villains
Posted on 12.04.07 by Dindrane @ 8:21 pm

Criteria include true creepiness, effectiveness, complexity, and capacity for destruction or at least ability to ruin The Protagonist's life. Some effort has also been made to represent a number of different types of villains commonly found in anime. Given that the real evil is in the thousands of rapists in hentai, here's Needcoffee's official list--the best of the worst--the Top 10 Anime Villains:

10. Vicious—Cowboy Bebop.

Vicious from Cowboy Bebop

Very well known for a reason, Vicious was once Spike's partner, and it is because of him that Spike's life was shattered. A would-be leader of their crime syndicate, Vicious is smarter and more directly violent himself than a lot of the villains in anime. Old-fashioned destructiveness--plus a soupcon of maliciousness--par excellence. (Click here to Cowboy Bebop stuff from Amazon...)

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Ranma's Fu is Great
Posted on 11.30.07 by Dindrane @ 5:48 am

If you know Ranma 1/2, then you need to see this very cool, funny, and well-edited AMV. Or if you don't know Ranma 1/2, you need to go get familiar, then come back and watch it. We'll all wait here for you. No pressure.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

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Top 10 Horror Anime Titles
Posted on 11.25.07 by Dindrane @ 11:06 pm

As we all know, anime is legion and contains multitudes. One of the things it does very, very well is scare the pants off you. But when you want something scary (or at least bloody) and don't know where to start, what should you watch? Here is Needcoffee.com's list of Top 10 Horror Anime. Left off the list are things like Uzumaki that were manga and maybe even live-action, but never animated; I've also avoided things that are "horror" only because of where tentacles are put or what sadists will do to children (see the Director's Cut of Kite for what I mean here, or rather don't see it). Those aren't fun, and anime should be fun.

And so it begins….

10. Mermaid Forest.

You wouldn't think a mermaid tale would be horror, but in the hands of an anime master, it is. Rumiko Takahashi's moody and affecting series is based upon a Japanese folktale that suggests that those who eat mermaid flesh will gain eternal life. However, it seems that sometimes, the diners will instead become monsters. The main characters, Yuta and Mana, didn't intend to become immortal, and now wander the world trying to find mermaids who they think can make them normal again. The world, however, is full of nasty people and monsters, and the quest is never easy. The video excerpt we picked provides a nice sample of the show's animation and style, as well as lost souls, murder, and human sacrifice. For my reviews of the title--check those out here. (Find Mermaid Forest titles at Amazon.)

Direct link for the feedreaders.

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Top 10 Couples in Anime and Manga
Posted on 10.03.07 by Dindrane @ 9:38 pm

Ah, love, sweet love. Anime has science-fiction, action, fantasy, horror, and realistic drama, and it often, in the midst of any genre, also has love. Here is our unscientific and wholly subjective list of the top 10 anime couples of anime and manga.

Sorata and Arashi from X

10. Sorata and Arashi, from X: the TV series. These two may be the "darkest" couple on the list, but only because X is such a heady blend of supernatural, good vs. evil, and universal stakes. It takes an Ice Queen like Arashi to sort out the womanizing Sorata, and you're rooting for them from the first moment. If only they stay alive long enough to enjoy it... (Buy X on DVD from Amazon...)

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