Cartoon Sunday: The Powerpuff Girls' Bubblevicious

 

How's it going lurkers? Once again, it's Cartoon Sunday. Remember last week, when I mentioned the promo Adult Swim aired, during their so-called Toonami block?

The network premiered a promo called "The Ladies of Toonami." I wanted to share the promo on here last week, but someone did not upload it to YouTube, until more recently. I re-watched the promo on YouTube.

The Ladies Of Toonami Promo: (2014)

Then, I read both the comments both on YouTube and on Adult Swim's forum. 

What is the verdict for "The Ladies Of Toonami" promo?

Most saw "The Ladies of Toonami" promo as a joke because most of the female characters are from Shounen Anime with damsels in distress and emotionally weak female characters. If you don't know what I mean by "Shounen," in Japanese the word means "boy." Whenever Cartoon Network and Adult Swim both premiere Anime, it's typically for boys and occasionally a series meant for men. 

The Shounen Anime may have physically strong female characters, but they are always emotionally weak and/or they are damsels.

Before last week ended, Adult Swim announced that the Seinen Action Anime, Black Lagoon would premiere in late March on its Swimnami Toonami block. I currently have nothing bad to say about Black Lagoon because I have yet to watch it and would like to keep an open mind.

Every time I was about to watch the series, I always ended up doing or watching something else. On the positive side, Black Lagoon is a Seinen Action Anime series, which is meant for men.

Seinen Anime has more mature content than Shounen Anime. It is only fitting for Adult Swim to premiere actual animation for its ADULT viewers. If only Adult Swim would premiere some Josei Anime (which is meant for women), that would be fantastic.

Black Lagoon Trailer: (2006)

If necessary, Adult Swim could premiere The Powerpuff Girls on its Swimnami Toonami block. After all, Cartoon Network used to air The Powerpuff Girls on their Toonami block.

Original Opening For The Powerpuff Girls: (1998)

Years ago, The Powerpuff Girls appealed to both genders of different age demographics. 

The cartoon is so popular that Christian Bale, who played in American Psycho and the Batman Begins franchise, sang The Powerpuff Girls' ending theme song in an ABC News interview.

Originally, when the cartoon was made, it was a short meant for the adult demographic and was called "Whoopass." Because Cartoon Network liked the show so much, it was aired for the younger female audience.

The content was toned down and the cartoon was re-named "The Powerpuff Girls " by the late '90s. The cartoon was on Cartoon Network for several years and won Emmys.

Last week, Cartoon Network premiered The Powerpuff Girls' reboot.

Opening For The Powerpuff Girls: (2014)

Honestly, I was highly unimpressed. The Powerpuff Girls' illustrations recently changed.

When the original series was created during the '90s, their signature illustrations were meant to resemble 1950's futuristic art quality, as opposed to the more recent CGI appearance. The reboot's animation quality is so bright, that it has a glare; The art quality is so bright and blinding, I could barely focus on The Powerpuff Girls' reboot premiere.

I reiterate, The Powerpuff Girls' reboot is VERY hard on the eyes.

Luckily, the original cartoon still airs on The Boomerang Channel, which is affiliated with Cartoon Network. 

Recently, my grandmother has been bored with what's airing on TV and wants to watch cartoons. This is besides watching her usual national news and televangelist channels. 

Since my grandmother wants to watch more cartoons, I got her into watching The Powerpuff Girls on a nightly basis.

Considering how much I have mentioned them in today's blog, I decided to share a classic episode of The Powerpuff Girls. This episode is "Bubblevicious."

Bubbles is the cute and innocent blonde, who everyone loves to underestimate as a Powerpuff Girl. Blossom is the leader and level-headed redhead out of the 3 sisters. 

Out of the 3 sisters, Buttercup is the mean and feisty brunette, as well as the tomboyish lemming, who loves taunting and bullying Bubbles. 

Anyway, "Bubblevicious" is mostly about Bubbles proving that she is "hardcore," when it comes to fighting villains. Click on the following video link:

The Powerpuff Girls Season 1 Episode 9: "Bubblevicious" (1999)

Christian Bale Partially Singing The Powerpuff Girls Ending Theme Song:

Is The Zombie Craze Highly Overrated?

How's it going lurkers? Last night, I was on Stalkbook Facebook and a friend kept posting updates about some Zombie flick she was watching on The Syfylis Channel. According to her, it was bad.

Because most of the shows and movies on that network are so terrible, including their Zombie flicks, why should ANYBODY like yours truly be surprised?

You will either agree, or disagree with what I am about to say. Personally, I feel Zombie flicks are highly overrated and they have become overkill for the Horror genre.

A while ago, another friend suggested that I write a Zombie Story. HA! I was never a huge fan of them. Therefore, it won't be happening anytime soon.

Zombies never resonated with me. They remind me of stupid local drunks with mental AND behavioral problems wreaking havoc by looting, vandalizing other people's property, harassing, and assaulting others.

Within this last decade, hack filmmakers only know how to create movies about vampires, werewolves, and zombies regarding Horror, if not some contrived paranormal flick.

Don't get me wrong. I like the Vampire sub-genre with the exception of the cringeworthy few such as Queen Of The Damned and Twilight. Ugh! All the while, there are other Horror sub-genres, that exist and can be explored.

Until this very day, I never understood "The Zombie Appeal." Recently, I discussed this with some of my other friends. I understand that zombies represent anarchy and the apocalypse.

Meanwhile, brainless, dead people wandering around in a daze and eating someone else's flesh does not evoke horror in some of us Horror fans.

At least vampires can have superhuman strength, hypnotize, lure, and seduce humans. We can encounter zombies in our everyday lives.

Similar to what I already said, imagine watching rioters, militant protestors, stupid drunks, and drug addicts, as they roam around, stealing and vandalizing property, and even meeting them at the most convenient local dive bars and clubs. Add in those pod people from high school to the clusterfuck.

We can also watch these zombies on Reality TV Shows such as Cops, The Bad Girls Club, and The Real World, to only name 3 examples.

I laugh at zombies of said ilk for sheer entertainment. They are mostly brainless or at least share 1 brain out the pack.

I think this is why I like Slasher, Occult, Creatures, Dolls, and Vampire sub-genres a lot better than Zombies. The characters are more entertaining and usually have more depth to them.

With Slashers, we can expect moral villains to serial kill the most sickening characters out of vengeance, if not act as vigilantes. This somewhat applies to witches. Ever watch The Craft?

Creatures and Possesed Dolls are scary because they automatically look physically frightening, especially when they look hideous. 

Most people don't know, that ghosts would use dolls' bodies as their vessels. Chucky from the Child's Play  franchise is a perfect example. The serial killer, Charles Lee Ray was shot in a Good Guys toy factory.

Before dying, Charles ("Chucky") used Voodoo to hide his soul inside a doll's body. It's amazing how a cute doll can turn so ugly, after being possessed by a dead serial killer.

Some in the past have asked me about the types of Horror stories I have written. My protagonists are typically stalkers, serial killers, and scorned men and women seeking revenge.

Think about it for a minute:

Knowing people, who are that depraved and DEADLY can freely walk around and assimilate with other everyday people is more frightening than zombies because serial killers really DO exist.

Simply turn on your local news. You will see and hear more horror on it more than you will in a movie or a book.

Anything involving glorified sex offenders (usually overpaid jocks, teachers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, musicians) bug infestations, killer grandparents, housewives, stay at home dads, terrorists, school massacres, animals, and the list goes on.

In reality, the preceding can all be seriously more terrifying than zombies will ever be. Why? Because they are REAL.

Today's Hollywood filmmakers and writers should start brainstorming ideas, return to their drawing boards, and start writing again about SIMPLE SCARES. 

We can find fear in just about any and everything.

Why limit ourselves to overused and highly overrated cliche themes about ZOMBIES?

Cartoon Sunday: Noein Outtakes

How's it going lurkers? Last night, I watched Bleach and Naruto Shippuden on Swimnami Toonami. As I watched Bleach, I noticed that Swimnami Toonami showed the entire season opening like they normally did for these last 8 years.

After it became 2014, Swimnami Toonami chose to remove the opening and go straight to the episodes. 

Throughout most of this month, Adult Swim did this to every show on their block EXCEPT  for that God-awful flop, Space Dandy. If Space Dandy wasn't world premiering every weekend and had Adult Swim NOT  invested in airing that Seinen Action Anime, I highly doubt they would've removed every show's opening. The block may have aired Bleach's opening, but it still did not air Naruto Shippuden's.

Although, Shippuden's ending was surprisingly aired. Adult Swim's viewers, including yours truly complained to them about removing every show's opening except Space Dandy's. This may seem trivial to most people, but Adult Swim has no respect for their viewers.

If Jason DeMarco and his loyal band of sycophants expect for Space Dandy to be their next cash cow like Bleach and Naruto, they are delusional.

Japan does not care for Space Dandy's Manga in particular. That is why its Anime contains ONLY  13 episodes compared to the typical 20 + episodes, if not perennial episodes like other Anime genres and sub-genres.

Just like the American audience dictates American shows and their seasons, the same applies to Japan and their audience.

Also, I noticed that Swimanmi created a new promo for their block. The latest promo is about the female characters on Swimnami, which is once again, more bullshit. The promo is a facade about "women's empowerment" by promoting physically strong yet emotionally weak female characters from Shonen Jump Action Anime on their block.

Last weekend, I e-mailed both Cartoon Network and Adult Swim my previously published Cartoon Sunday blog about them being sexist networks. Over the last few years, I've said this MANY times both on and offline, as well as famous filmmakers/screenwriters such as Kevin Smith.

Anytime Cartoon Network and Adult Swim will cancel any animation because they don't want to acknowledge their female demographic, that speaks volumes. We are only calling spades, "spades."

On a much lighter note for today, I stumbled upon 4 outtake videos from the SciFi Romance Adventure Anime, Noein. It used to air on The SciFi Channel's Ani-Monday block in 2007.

Noein is a very complex series to watch, which can be very confusing to casual viewers. It has themes consisting of time travel, quantum physics, and parallel universes. Only Haruka Kaminogi can control every parallel universe.

As you watch this dubbed trailer in English for a better understanding of Noein, please bear with me.

Noein Trailer (2015)

 

 

Listening to this English Dub promo makes me cringe. I say this because of the announcer's pronunciation of the words "Manga" and "Noein." 

After studying Japanese and listening to other people mispronounce Japanese words, you will understand what I mean.

Even though I have not bought the DVD's for Noein (I only watched it on The Sci Fi Channel's Ani-Monday block, years ago), 4 disks consist of English dubbed bloopers by the voice acting cast are featured on the DVD's. I watched Noein's bloopers years ago and thought they were hilarious. 

With that being said, here are Noein's outtakes for today's Cartoon Sunday.

1) Noein Outtakes Volume 1 (2006)

2) Noein Outtakes Volume 2 (2006)

3) Noein Outtakes Volume 3 (2006)

4) Noein Outtakes Volume 5 (2006)

0_0 Devil Baby Attack! WTF Is That? 0_0

How's it going lurkers? Since this is my 100th blog, I have decided to share the Devil Baby Attack.

The Devil Baby has gone viral on YouTube. It has an animatronic baby in a stroller, that strolls around town scaring people and animals shitless as a prank. 

The prank is to promote the Psychological Supernatural Horror film, Devil's Due. I don't think the movie will be worth the hype. However, watching this devil baby in the stroller is too hilarious. 

I laughed so hard, I cried tears!

Anyway, if you never had the chance to watch this Horror Prank on your local news or YouTube, here ya go!

Devil Baby Attack (2014)