Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Anime Caption Contest! -- 6/2/13 -- AV MOD MATERIAL
Welcome back to the Anime Vice Caption Contest! You know the drill; we have three new images that need some funny captions! See who won the previous contest below!
Rules!
- You can caption any or all of the images!
- You can caption the same image more than once, but not in the same post!
Your captions will be judged by the hosts of THE VICE PIT themselves; Tom Pinchuk and Sam Weller! The winners and their winning captions will be featured in the next Caption Contest post!
Winners!
 | "Tree." "Nope." "Track." "Nope." "Trombone." "Do you even know how to play I Spy?" ~ SamJaz |
 | "I just met you, this is crraazzzy, here's a flower I bathed in gravy??" ~ jj_jackson |
 | "Damn it! According to the script, I won't do something relevant until chapter 1000!" ~ Dekken |
How to Participate!
To post the images properly, you should copy them from this post and paste them into the comment box, rather than upload the images again yourself. To do this, highlight some of the text below the images (try starting from "want to recommend") all the way up to some of the text above the images (try highlighting up to "fill in the captions!") and then right-click on that text and select "copy", go to the comment box, right-click inside that and select "paste" - then all you need to do is fill in the captions! Hope that helps, have fun!
New Caption Contest!
So, are you up to the challenge? Just copy the images (READ INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE!) into the comment box below and fill in the captions!
Want to recommend some images for the contest? Go to my profile and send them to me in a PM and I'll check them out. Have fun and good luck!
About the Author
 | Daniel Newton is a senior editor at BagoGames where he writes about anime and manga, comics, video games, and other related shenanigans. He also really likes Wine Gums. If you're into any of that you can follow him on: Twitter /// tumblr /// Google+ |
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Annotated Anime: Is the Order a Rabbit? episode 8
Hey, you know when slice-of-life shows decide not to do a bikini-clad pool or hot springs episode? Well you're in luck because that's exactly what we don't get! Hot tubs, bathing suits, coffee quizzes, and skeet shooting with sniper rifles await! It's just another day in the lives of part-time baristas.
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Catching Up: JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE #17-19
Speaking of tropes…
Considering how often we see shonen heroes inevitably run through various martial arts mentors, it’s a nice novelty to see Jojo have some romantic tension with Lisa Lisa. Or, is it more accurately a love triangle - - or love quadrangle? - - with Caesar and Suzy Q involved? The more complication, the better, in this case. When you watch however many shows run through their heroes through the requisite paces of anti-bad-guy-training, you start to appreciate the slightest amount of added intrigue. Again, even if you took away all the outrageous and parodic elements, JOJO’s would still be a deftly woven pulp adventure.
== TEASER ==
As the show establishes its lore further, I find it interesting that Araki has designed Hamon to be so comprehensively associated with every positive option in life. Jojo and Caesar’s powers come from sunlight, and breathing, and blood flow, and even flowing water (as opposed to frozen ice). Then you have the Pillar Men, and all their minions, who take their power from every negative inverse. From darkness, death and, of course, stagnate water.
That’s the most basic cliché in superheroic fiction - - pitting darkness against light - - but again, I admire this show for taking that concept to heart instead of relying on the surface details. There always seem to be some inherent contradiction in the concept of pacifistic warrior monks preaching peace, even while as they identify with the violent arts they study, day in, and day out. This show finds a more reasonable explanation for that, identifying chi/hammon/breathing as a positive force that is admittedly destructive - - but one that only destroys negative threats.
Well, this is an awful lot of thematic subtext for a show that seems to be a total goof fest at first appearance, isn’t it?
Watch "A Race Towards the Brink" and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the previous episodes.
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Skipping Ahead to NARUTO SHIPPUDEN #363
Last time I checked in with Naruto, he was on a toilet, wrestling with explosive diarrhea. The previous episode, he’d been dodging threats of kancho being… ahem… thrown at him by his instructor and his classmates. That was the sixth episode of ‘Regular’ NARUTO, and it might as well be a show entirely distinct from SHIPPUDEN.
Even if I had that special, time-dilating shield from MADOKA MAGICA, there’s really no way I could ever catch up on the hundreds of episodes between there and here. It’s more fun to do my own little ‘time skip’ and hop to this most recent episode. The differences are, at once, jarring and revealing.
== TEASER ==
Here we’ve got a grown-up Naruto, and an actual legion of comrades-at-arms and shinobi grunts, waging epic battles with giant beasts to prove a deep, thematic point about the nature of hope. The plot is as dour as the color palette. Far, far away from the water colors and gentle, cartoonist strokes of those early episodes, we have muted Earth tones filling almost clinically-rigid animation lines. There may be occasional callbacks to Rock Lee’s goofy schtick, but that’s really more of a continuity reference than a joke. The show’s all business, now. Serious business.
I don’t have a problem with any of that. That’s how all these shows should work, really. I just never cease to be amused by how consistently… scientific the JUMP editorial model of aging a series up gets. I mean, in the broad view, it’s basically like they lure kids in with the fart jokes so they’ll eventually stick around for the philosophical treatises.
And while we’re speaking about the commonalities of super heroes - - on both sides of the Pacific - - I do find it amusing how this show also fits in with “Adjective Rule” for ongoing universes. Basically, if there’s ever a character with an adjective in their name - - Green Lantern, for instance - - you can be rest assured that you’ll eventually see some lore established that introduces characters with every other adjective available. So, just like how you eventually meet Red Lanterns and Yellow Lanterns, if you have a demon god with Nine Tails, you can be sure you’ll eventually see Eight Tails and Ten Tails. Give SHIPPUDEN another 100 episodes, and I’m sure we’ll meet Eleven Tails soon enough, too.
Watch "The Allied Shinobi Forces Jutsu Final Decision" and decide for yourself.
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Annotated Anime: Selector Infected WIXOSS episode 9
You know, despite what fluffy romcom anime would have you believe, incest is a subject that comes with serious concerns. It's bizarre to state the obvious, but it's oddly refreshing when an anime series these days actually address it as taboo instead of with winks and smiles. WIXOSS takes the concept and somehow makes it even more complicated with the extra wrinkle of information we get regarding Selectors and LRIGs.
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