Actually, that's one of the few anime films that I wasn't talking about. I thought that most anime fans would know which series I'm talking about. Miyazaki's keeping the especially good anime spirit alive in a sea of crap. In fact, Miyazaki films are quite the contrar of what I was hatin' on. Thanks for reminding me for future posts.
Melodrama is terrible art. Anime = Japanese melodrama.
Japan overall has a bizarre, surreal culture that helps make anime even more ridiculous. Its terrible that, because of Japanese culture, a majority of the female characters haev enormous breasts and are none too shy about being so...fucking...annoying about it.
Which brings me to my major ahtred of anime: Childish depictions of sexuality.
With a character like Bayonetta, the sexuality is empowering and very dominatrix-esque in a non-torture porn style where she is a stronger character and has no worries about doing her "stripper moves" as Ryan has called them, making the viewer nonplussed by it. However, anime girls (besides very few exceptions, like Suzuka from Outlaw Star) generally have a very 10-year old Japanese boy characterization of sex and women. So, in accordance, all the females of early anime, and popular modern anime, are always very flagrant about their huge tits but are also very shy in character, and are almost "dominated" by the males of the shows, novels, whatever.
So in a polar opposite of Bayonetta, where we are comfortable with her as a super sexualized character, anime girls are really embarassing in their hyper-stylized sexuality and tension of opposites in the same damn character and I think that's the main turn-off (at least for me) for anime...make strong and less breast-asized female characters, a la Outlaw Star (minus that shitty cat chick, whose name I'm blanking on).
I only use it if I'm replaying a part over and over, and over and over, etc. It's a situational thing, as well. For RPG's and RTSes its always best for Normal play, but for almost everything else, it's Hard (and up) or bust. Mostly because shooters are only fun when three bullets mean death, and Civ is only fun when the four opposing countries strike an alliance, and you have to outwit the computer into submission through embargos.
I haven't watched a single episode of BR yet, but that's because I'm not a fan of Ryan's overall...erm, "demeanor" and I don't want to have to listen to him beyond the podcast.
Does that fit within the boundaries of "not bashing"?
Edit: I should mention, I haven't watched a single full episode of BR.
Despite it being out for the majority of the year so far, Mass Effect 2.
I never got around to the first until recently, and if the second is a much tighter experience then I'm pumped for that. Also, my two favorite characters from the first return, so that's even more exciting. Plus, I don't have to bother with the boondoggle that is organizing the equipment...ugh, so many damn Pheonix suits!
"Jim Sterling's review is redundant, he was just trolling. He gave Heavy Rain a 7, then gave this a 10. "
Well, see Heavy Rain's uncanny valley round trip was backed by a very serious storyline and self-serious dialog lines, whereas Deadly Premonition is a stupid B-movie so the uncanny valley is bizarre enough to work.
Dunno if I circled around your point, but whatever, what I'm saying is that his review was definitely not 'redundant' so to say.
I've always been down with the stupid B-movie cheesiness of the RE movies because...well, I love cheesy B-movies. This seems alright since the dude playing Chris (I think he's some soap star or something) actually looks a little bit like Chris from 5 and the last movie was good for its retarded action movie-ness, and of course Linden Ashby.
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