Anonymous Yoshi News Desk: June 2015

Welcome to the June edition of Anonymous Yoshi News Desk... For the benefit most of my international readers, in case you weren't aware, we've had a bit of rough time in the good ol' US of A this month. We've had yet another mass shooting, There's plans for another draconian copyright regulation system, The economy still isn't perfect, We're still having racism fueled white cops beating non Caucasian citizens with impunity, We've had a close vote for progressivism for civil rights in terms of gay marriage, yet not everyone's happy with it, we're going through another ellection in just over a year, yet non of the canidates wowed me, and Nintendo had their first real crappy press conference since at least 2008. In light of how heavy current events have become thanks to our country slowly becoming a S**thole, how about we talk about all the other things that happened this month...

Gaming Bits: E3 2015 Special

Well, here it is, the gaming event to end all gaming events. A place where big boobies and even bigger games meet. A place where you could see all the big games before they even get released. Trailers, Gameplay, Celebrities, Booth Babes in Square Enix Crop Tops, and I wasn't there, I'm broke, and not a big name internet personality. I tried as much as I could to follow the big news, but, I got some of it better than others, So in this VERY SPECIAL Gaming Bits Segment, We tackle E3, What I liked, and what I didn't like...

Kinnikuman Retrospective: 20th Chojin Olympics Arc: Part 1

56k Beware and Spoilers Ahead

I think it was safe to say before (and for a lot of) 70s, The tournament arc in shonen fight manga was relatively non existent, but it was extremely prevalent in Sports manga like Hoshi no Kyojin. Sure there was fighting in manga like Ashita no Joe and Tiger Mask, but those were more sports than fighting. You could say the same for Kinnikuman, but as the series goes on, it gets more and more surreal. It becomes less and less about normal Pro Wrestling. But where did the Wrestling angle come from? Short answer the Author's (Yudetamago) passion for Wrestling. Long answer, no one, at least outside of japan, knows for sure... If anyone has any translations of the author's interview pages (you know the ones that come with every manga or even american comic book ever made), please tell me so I can confirm any info. Back to the trournament arc, Shonen fight anime like the obsure but influencial Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho were largely episodic, heck Tiger Mask, despite being about an overarching tournament, was largely a fight of the week series. But things would later change when japan and many other western nations decided to boycott the Moscow Olympics...

Odds, ends, cleanup, and videotape...

I didn't want to have to to this any earlier than I had to, but here's a quick important update...

Gaming Bits: What if Metroid 64 was made?

Metroid, a video game franchise that broke all limits on each Nintendo System it was on, for a while, it was one of Nintendo's Big 3, with Mario and Zelda, however, as the years went on, it slowly became less and less relevant, with Pokemon taking it's spot on the Big 3, and was more known for being a Smash Bros fighter. Heck it even skipped the early 3D days of the N64 for the Gamecube in Prime (which is arguably one of the best Metroid games of all time, if not the best Gamecube game of all time), but in 2010, Yoshio Sakamoto revealed that if he could, he and his team would've developed a game for the N64 with the Metroid name on it... But they didn't have ideas on how it'd work, so today on Gaming Bits, we'll discuss possible ideas for Metroid 64 if it came to be...

Geek Grub #1: Mountain Dew Dewshine

I wasn't planning to make this a series, but I've got 2 geek food related post up this year and am out of ideas for other blogs (not to mention I've got a busy week ahead, so I don't know how closely I'll follow E3), so here's a filler post to keep me and you occupied...

Mighty Morphin' Saint Seiya Turtle Rangers! Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend review

Last week, I talked about Beast Wars, My favorite interpretation of transformers. this week I'll be talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A franchise I never particularly cared for...



Growing up, I was never a big TMNT fan, I watched the show and movies from time to time in my 20 years of existence, but I was never what you'd call a fan. Never watched the show religiously, Never collected the merchandise or toys, I personally feel like the Power Rangers and Pokemon made a bigger to me. There is one legendarily WTF piece of Turtles history that always intrigued me, No not the concert, any of the movies, or even the Next Mutation (which I have to talk about sometime), I'm talking about the Legendary presumed to be lost for years anime, Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend...