Anonymous Yoshi News Desk: May 2015

Welcome to the May edition of Anonymous Yoshi News Desk... Oh boy we've got good news, bad news, and just plain WTF news this month. From Power Rangers to Beyblade, here we go, count zero, Kamen Rider Agito.

Beast Wars: A More Mature Take of Transformers

One of the big problems of the transformers movies is that they're pandering, 1 dimensional schlock. Sure the 80s show was just as much so, but it was a product of it's time, and it was decent pulp sci-fi at the time. Still, all boys franchises from the 80s had to evolve to feed a new generation of kids, and not every franchise had a successful transition to the 90s, Thundercats was abandoned only to be remembered by 90s kids as one of the Founding Toonami Shows, He-Man had an unsuccessful sequel leaving the franchise to never to return again until the new millenium, GI Joe (the granddaddy of all action figures) was always on and off as far as popularity since the 1960s, and most boys toylines (old or new) from the 90s were overshadowed thanks to Power Rangers and Pokemon eclipsing their stars. Transformers was not one of those franchises, in fact, it made a CGI TV show that was just as good, if not better than most of the best G1 had to offer...

Kinnikuman Retrospective: The Kaiju Fighting Days

56k Beware and Spoilers Ahead

There isn't that much info on how Kinnikumnan came to be, but I think one day at a Japanese school, school, Yoshinori Nakai showed his best friend a sketch of a goofy looking Ultraseven and Takashi Shiamda was impressed, They were interested in becoming a mangaka duo, they were looking for a name and noticed one of their farts at a picnic smelled like a boiled egg. They decided to call themselves Yudetamago, after the Japanese word for said food. They submitted manga like Gong no Desu, a wrestling manga which would later for shadow what the series would become, and Mammoth to their favorite Magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump. While never being picked up for full series, Kinnikuman was picked up for 2 one shots, and later a full manga. This would later become a goofy Ultraman parody called Kinnikuman.

Anonymous Yoshi News Desk: Random Rubbish Roundup All Grown Up...

ATATATATA!!!!!! 2-HIT COMBO!!!!!!

So I'm trying to make this a monthly thing, or in other words, trying to make R.Cubed a regular thing with a different format. This episode will be on all the geek news that happened between January and April of this year, with updated info for this month, and next episode will be on this month as a whole. This segment will cover all things from Movies, TV, Video Games, Anime, Manga, Tokusatsu, Comic Books maybe, Technology sometimes, and of course, events on the internet. I won't delve into politics or social issues that much, but I may have to... So let's start with...

Gaming Bits: The MSX

In the early 1980s, Microsoft Japan was working on a universal standard for Japanese computers. You see Japan for the longest time had proprietary PC Standards, Like the NEC's PC-88/PC-98 series, Sharp's X68000, and Fujitsu's FM Towns, but that's an post or two on it's own. Kazuhiku Nishi commissioned the MSX standard to Microsoft, But what came of it? What's the rest of it's history? What made it a liable gaming platform? What impact did it have today? Well...

The Most Bishounen Mecha EVER!!!!!! Ambassador Magma 1993 OVA Review

Before we begin, let's start with a Japanese lesson...

• Bishounen: A pretty or ladylike male in an anime.
• Mecha: Giant Robots.
• OVA: Original Video Animation: Essentially a Direct to Video anime.

And we continue with a history lesson:

In the 1980s and a part of the 90s, The anime industry hit a gold mine of cheap, rentable anime known as OVA's. They were for the most part unbelievable pieces of crap. Most of these are nostalgic curiosities at best. However, some of these were in the so bad it's good range, Like my favorite example from that era, The 12 episode Guyver OVA, but this ain't a Guyver blog, this is another example from that same era. Keep in mind, if it was an OVA from the 80s/90s, it was an automatic death sentence, so this is going to be a good one, and it was a series that US Renditions (AKA a purveyor of badly dubbed anime in the 90s along with Manga and Early US Manga Corps) dubbed back the day. Today's subject is Ambassador Magma...

The Age of Shonen Weeklies...

Manga is one of Japan's oldest art forms, it goes back as early as the 18th century, at least... But one genre attracts young boys, teenagers, and salarymen alike. That is the Shonen anime. It has elements like Martial Arts, Mecha, sports, horror, Sci-fi, and epic overly drawn out stories and arcs that go on for years on end. but It's beginnings are interesting, so let's go to the Age of Shonen Weeklies...

Gaming Bits: What is it about Princess Peach? (SERIES PREMIERE)

For almost 45 years, gaming has played a pivotal role in our lives, it helped people, it hurt people, it made people feel all kinds of things, This series will be talking about gaming history, gaming nostalgia, gaming series, gaming systems, Gaming Companies, games in general, and everything in between. I'l be talking about some of the systems of the late 90s/very early 2000s (Windows 9x and it's games, the Dreamcast, The N64 (REVISITED), Playstation 1, and maybe the handhelds of that era (Game Boy Color (REVISITED), Neo Geo Pocket Color, and the Japan only Wonderswan (Color))), I'll be talking some systems not many people know about (PC Engine/TurboGrafx, MSX/MSX2 Computer Systems, and the Japanese computers that birthed many franchises, ports, and little known companies like Nihon Falcom and Game Arts), I'll be talking about games from all eras and systems (like Pokemon for it's 20th anniversary in a year), I'll be talking about Companies that are interesting in one way or another, and most of all I'll be talking about anything and everything gaming.


BUT WHEN DOES IT COME OUT?

I'm looking to a release sometime in May or June, if nothing else september, remember, Summer has lot's of movies coming out and the kinnikuman retrospective. but Look for ward to this series, on my blog, and Screwattack...


RIGHT NOW!!!!!

My quick thoughts on Avengers: Age of Ultron...

The Avengers was probably the best super hero film of the decade so far and also one of the best movies in recent memory. It left some pretty big shoes to fill, the closest any superhero film came, let alone any Marvel movie came for me was Captain America: The Winter Soldier, However does the most recent Avengers movie even come close or even surpass Captain America 2? Short answer, it kind of leaves a big gap in those shoes in the front. You know, where the toes should be...