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All Points Bulletin: New Chocolate Creamed Filled Cadbury Behelits

January 13, 2013

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Everyone loves cute kissing pictures:

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All Points Bulletin: Alain Mendez – Japanese TV Celebrity

October 21, 2012

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  • Gone in 70 Seconds
    This promotion for the new James Bond movie is way cool. Coke Zero must love the UK more than us. I’d like to see how this would go in a New York City subway, ha!
  • Fat Pony Moves!
    It deserved a little animation love.
  • I Have No Words For How Awesome This Robot Is
    Japan seriously understands how to combine my love of Disney with my love of robots. There is no price yet, but I hope I can afford it whatever it is!
  • A Handy Guide to Marvel NOW!
    I’d basically been avoiding/ignoring what I could of this not-a-reboot reboot, but this guide was very helpful and actually made me decide to keep an eye on a few things afterall.

Such is the power of Jojo’s:

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All Points Bulletin: I Wag My Finger at Deadpool

June 3, 2012

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  • There are no limits on MST3K
    Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett add a little commentary to some choice video game cut scenes and a clip from Mega Man cartoon. It works pretty well all in all. Worth mentioning they look at THE Sonic 06 scene. You know the one. There can only be one I am talking about.
    Also a little MST3K extra for anyone.
  • Food Glorious Food
    Manga Out Loud is a triple threat with a look at what the hosts are reading, a banquet of food manga, and a look at doing Americans doing manga. Actually it is more of an examination of what the heck does it even mean when anyone says they are Americans doing manga and the economic realities of the such.
  • The Figure that Index Fan Really Want
    That is not just more Railgun.
  • Hunger is the Best Sauce
    Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch’s American release has been pushed back to January 22, 2013. But it is worth waiting for a Level-5 game with animation done by Studio Ghibli,
  • Type-Moon News Roundup

Narutaki’s picks:

  • New York Comic-Con Changes
    So they finally decided to do what they should have all along, fold NYAF fully into NYCC and remove the dual names. Starting this year NYAF no longer exists. This seems in line with their hopes to become the SDCC of the East coast. There were also talks about the Javits being demolished in favor of a new convention complex in Queens, but those plans have been put to rest! Personally, I’m much more in favor of continuing construction on Javits and expanding it upwards. 
  • I Think I’ll Start Watching Phineas and Furb Now
    If you are seeking from sci-fi check out . . . Disney Channel? This is a pretty convincing article, not that I really had anything against the series in the first place.
  • Toy Story 2 VS. RM*
    This tale is unbelievable! Told in simple animation is the true story of how Toy Story 2′s final cut was almost deleted.
  • Girls Like Avengers For Story and Hot Guys
    This article is dead on. A lot of women feel like in order to be taken seriously you have to eliminate the idea that attraction is any part of your enjoyment for a comic or movie.
  • Mr. Brothers Goes To Fanime
    I always enjoy hearing about first time con experiences, in this case David is plenty familiar with comic conventions but Fanime is new territory. It is really interesting to hear his take on things that most of us don’t bat our eyes at anymore like fan-subs being shown or people wearing Nazi uniforms.
  • If X-Men Was on Disney XD
    I love these designs, they really look like they’d fit in next to Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. And besides, the X-Men cartoon of the 90′s was a huge influence on a new generation of fans, I’d like to see a new show do that again.

I ship this:

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Misaka Mikoto: Possessing the Spark of a Main Character

May 22, 2012

Not that long ago Narutaki and I were having a discussion about a phenomenon she likes to call side-character-itis.  It is the tendency for fandom to latch on to certain side characters and completely obsesses over them to the point where they almost seem resentful whenever the main characters take the center stage. Hinagiku Katsura from Hayate the Combat Butler is a prime example of this. At times parts of the fans base seem genuinely surprised they are not watching a show called Hinagiku the Combat President. Shonen fighting shows tend to have this phenomenon as well as they often have generic protagonists to keep the story flexible. They offset the bland hero by making the side characters very vibrant.  The problem is while fandom often gets obsessed with these more exciting side characters they are rarely strong enough to carry a show on their own. Often what makes them work as a side character is what keeps they from standing on their own as a main character.

I recently decided to re-watch some episodes of A Certain Magical Index during lunch at work and one of the poster girls for side-character-itis pops up immediately: Misaka Mikoto. Whenever a new episode of the show would come out it seemed the fan base interest was directly tied to the amount of the Railgun in any given episode. In fact she was such a popular character she was spun off into her own series. But interestingly enough she was strong enough to support her own show. So what separates the main characters in waiting from the merely flashy supporting cast? What separates the Fraisers from the Joeys? I won’t say that Misaka Mikoto has all the answers to that question. But she is a good place to start thinking about which characters can cut the mustard.

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