Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

There's a Chinese legend as to why the cat never made it to the zodiac. In Eto Ranger , it was slightly changed when (spoilers) that Chocolat, a once innocent cat became the instrument of Bagi who only appeared as a pair of disembodied red eyes (and seldom showed a sinister smile). Apparently, Bagi is female though the character is Evil God Bagi or Jyarei Shin Bagi. I'll just assume Bagi is female due to the voice being by actress Ikuko Tani. Now, moving on... The plot of Chocolat was of betrayal. A fake Princess Aura showed up and told Chocolat that she could leave five minutes early. This, however, caused Chocolat to be disqualified from joining the fabled 12 animals. The next part was that Bagi offered Chocolat a chance for revenge. Bagi turns Chocolat into Nyanma (Mostar in the dub). Later, Chocolat (as Nyanma) joins the 12 others to finally defeat Bagi who uses Dark Kirinda as her body. Why Bagi was never given a human form (if ever) was just stupid. Also, Dark Kirinda...

The upcoming Chinese New Year is the YEAR OF THE RABBIT, right? I remembered in 1998 when CARTOON NETWORK had a gag that Daffy Duck wants to make it the year of the duck. My little sister hated Cream  (known to her as Kelly due to the Tagalog dub). She even wrote a parody (as a child) that both Cream (as Kelly) and Bugs Bunny kept saying, "I HATE YOU!" to each other when it became the Year of the Duck. Well, it was still the Year of the Rabbit in real life.  For some reason, Cream was presented as a weak character. It seemed that she was damsel-in-distress to her official inter-species pairing with Bakumaru. Oh boy, I wonder which is funnier between Kermit and Piggy or Cream and Bakumaru. It seems that if Cream and Bakumaru ever breed - they'll have rat sons and rabbit daughters like how Kermit and Piggy had children in A Muppet Christmas Carol . Now, being Bakumaru's official girlfriend doesn't automatically grant her the main heroine status. Sometimes, the hero...

  I guess some shows will NEVER get vindicated by history, right? I think the same can go for Vehicle Voltron . I remembered how I had my biases towards Vehicle Voltron . However, that didn't stop me from watching Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV which means Armored Squadron Dairugger XV . There are 15 members of this space exploration team. It's really hard to follow if you ask me. Dairugger XV has three separate teams namely Air, Land, and Sea. If they can't handle the enemy - they combine into Dairugger XV to handle the Galveston combat machines. I think the show was too difficult to follow. However, I still think Dairugger XV deserves to be vindicated by history as well.  The setting differs from Golion . Yes, that means that there was NO GALAXY ALLIANCE in Golion . Instead, we have the Galaxy Garrison only in Dairugger XV . The Galaxy Garrison is a planetary union of Earth, Sala, and Mira. The aim was to create a map of the Universe. At first, they simply want to foster goodw...

Long ago, there was this popular show from World Event Productions known as Voltron. Voltron was composed of two types - Lion Voltron and Vehicle Voltron . What I never knew (back then) was that it was a combination of two shows namely Hyajakuu Golion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV . Well, it's NOT all too surprising to learn that it came from Japan. The animation style is Japanese. I read Questor issue which revealed that the two Voltrons weren't connected to each other. In fact, both Golion and Dairugger XV were pretty much as self-contained as Combattler V was to Voltes V .  I think Golion's lack of popularity may be because other stuff was getting more popular. Toei long canceled the Super Robot anime franchise which I think was due to Super Sentai becoming more popular. It was 1981 when Super Sentai was starting to introduce more new stuff. Though, I think Golion in itself was trying to be Chodenshi Machine Voltes V (as obviously referenced by how the five-man team went...

I remembered some time ago when I actually wrote about why Motaro was reduced to just a cameo in Mortal Kombat (2011) . Mortal Kombat 11 would probably explain why Motaro was reduced to The Unfought. This is interesting detail regarding the Kollector character : Mortal Kombat 11's beautiful graphics can be attributed to the hard work stuntmen put into them behind the scenes through motion capture technology. Since most of the roster's body types are similar (using scales like medium male, large male, medium female, large female), it's easy for one acrobat to capture multiple characters. However, since the Kollector has four arms, they needed two acrobats standing in close proximity to one another to pull off correctly. Ed Boon recounted the headache and hilarity which ensued in the studio, contemplating whether or not the inconvenience justifies the character's ultimately negligible role in the story. With this in mind, it would really show how motion capture was used a...