Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

G.I.Joe is one cartoon adaptation from the comics that really deviates from the comics. A good example is how G.I. Joe The Movie itself gave a very different origin of Cobra Commander that made him inhuman - something that the comics NEVER intended to do. Sunbow produced two seasons and practically jumped the shark by introducing Serpentor (who was also in the comics) who was even stupider than Cobra Commander in the cartoon version. The movie came and it seemed to end everything until DIC (for some reason) got the rights to produce the third and fourth season. Hasbro dropped off Sunbow in favor of DIC. DIC also partnered with Saban and Nintendo to produce The Super Mario Bros. Super Show . The DIC series continued straight after the movie. I'd say the movie was a mess that just added more random elements like Cobra-La and Cobra Commander's origins. Rewatching it and I'm reminded of how messed up the movie was. How can the episode "Twenty Questions" now fit i...

While I don't find myself really rewatching Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z (except for selected arcs) - I wanted to make a bit of plot recycling. Gohan was actually supposed to be the "new Goku" but may have been in his father's shadow. Gohan did beat the much stronger Cell but I guess the popularity of Goku and Frieza is hard to match, right? Gohan would later get weakened in the now non-canon Dragon Ball GT. Now, one plot that was actually reused would be the two heroes marrying the ugly guy's hot daughter. Should we really Ox King as ugly? Maybe, maybe not. All that's known is that he has a beautiful wife and sired a beautiful daughter whose a xerox copy of her mother. We need to consider that most children are a combination of both parents for better or for worse. Even some ugly people are born from attractive parents and vice-versa. Brigitte Lin's children are half of her and half of her ex-husband which means they're neither as pretty nor as...

I don't deny that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 version) is part of my childhood. However, not every kiddie show that I enjoyed as a child is worth rewatching as an adult... at least for me! Like Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - I think the 1987 version of TMNT hasn't been really worth rewatching IMHO. The 1987 version of TMNT was considerably lighter than the comics where most villains tend to be rather stupid. Then I remembered college came and the TMNT (2003) which proved that nostalgia wasn't always the best thing. It's just like how I ended up disliking Power Rangers in favor of Super Sentai. The 1987 Cartoon The first one in my memory is the 1987 version. Yup, this is the one I watched as a child while I watched the 2003 version as an 18-year-old college student. I could remember the whole show being funny and child-friendly. Perhaps the most hilarious stupidity with the uneasy alliance between Shredder and Krang. I had an obsession with TMNT to t...

We have to consider the first Mortal Kombat game was not that popular. It's rightly underappreciated by today's standards such as only seven fighters, no combos, one fatality per character, not much diversion, and a greater lack of balance than the second game. In my case, I don't even play the classic MK games anymore except the reboot entry. Ironically, Goro still remains more popular than Kintaro for a reason even if the second game was more popular than the first. Now, it's time to revisit some stuff that could've been carried over during the reboot.  Here are scans that you might notice in the comics. You may notice some characters referred to as relatives to some of the characters. Kano did get the interesting retcon treatment because of the late Trevor Goddard. Though I think some concepts here were interesting but were easily forgotten. I think nobody's interested in Johnny Cage's ex-wife in the original timeline since he did get together with ...