Huffy Flounce

I finished the third title in my Monthly Dragon Age magazine, which was chapter 20 of the manga adaptation of Amagi Brilliant Park. This arrogant but smart high school student is helping a theme park reach 250,000 guests within 90 days (if they don't the park will be forced to close - which will mean the death of the magical inhabitants that make up the staff).

In this chapter, one of the magical staff members (who looks like a little triceratops with glasses) is tasked with making a promotional video for the park. His first attempt, while nice and accurate, is very boring, so he is supposed to go around and ask other people what sorts of things they would like to see in a promotional video. Naturally, he receives all sorts of bad advice and tries to incorporate these things into his video. The park mascot asks for action, so they put in car chases and explosions. Another cast member wants sexy things, so random bikini shots go in, etc.

A part-time human worker tells him that the video needs more emotion, and proceeds to tell him about how sweet it was seeing the birth of a baby foal at her riding school and how it made her cry lots of happy tears. So naturally, he literally puts a scene like that into the commercial:
I can (as can you) add "stretched-out horse vagina" to the list of things I never thought I would see illustrated but now have.

I have started watching the anime; here's the episode covered in this manga chapter -

Well of course, why not!!

The live-action Fallout 4 ad made me look for other live-action video game ads, and I remembered this one TV commercial for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from my childhood.

Turns out there was a long version of it in Japan that was cut down to 30 seconds for German TV:



I have no idea what the guy is saying, but "Famicom" is definitely in there, as well as "action."

Here is the German version, by the way:

Yeah, I know. It's not quite the same thing.

I remembered Phil Hartman shilling for one of the blink-and-you'll-miss-'em consoles in the nineties, but I couldn't remember the console. Turns out it was the CD-i:

The Phillips CD-I. Good times man.

...said very few of the people who paid for it.

I was more of an Amiga CD-32 man myself.

Nice to see the unintelligible English on a t-shirt continues to amuse down here in Asia. Alongside the all time classic of "Let It Go, Fuck Down" last year in Singapore comes this beauty today at Saigon airport this morning - "Massive Dutch Cameltoe"

Waddaya mean "down here"? Are you on vacation?

Kinda!

YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

Family celebration of the young lady I have been seeing, back in her hometown. So we jumped on a plane.

Dalty wrote:Nice to see the unintelligible English on a t-shirt continues to amuse down here in Asia ... "Massive Dutch Cameltoe"

Nothing unintelligible about that. I know exactly what they mean.

I know exactly what they mean!

Mal Shot First wrote:

Dalty wrote:I know exactly what they mean.

I know exactly what they mean!

It took me a while to remember what inspired us to start saying this, but it eventually came to me:



04:17 is the hot spot.

Dalty wrote:Nice to see the unintelligible English on a t-shirt continues to amuse down here in Asia ... "Massive Dutch Cameltoe"

This is actually a greate segue into the title I'm currently working through in my magazine, Maken-Ki!, which I am pretty sure should just be subtitled Super Magical Fighting High School of Panty Shots and Giant Boobies!

The manga started in 2007, so naturally I had zero idea what was going on, so I decided to watch some of the first anime season. This pretty much sums up what the comic and show are focused on:


It's very enjoyable. I think I'm on the sixth or seventh episode of the show now. The basic premise is that this guy who went to an all-boys middle school decides to go to high school with his childhood friend (a girl) since her high school just became co-ed. He doesn't realize until he gets there that it is a magical high school and all of the students learn to control these magical weapons (called Maken). All arguments are settled by magical duels watched over by the Maken-Ki, which is like the school's security club. And there are lots of panty and boob shots.

All manga magazines come with little gifts attached, which are supposed to encourage people to buy their own copies rather than just share with friends. The bonus gift that came with this particular issue of Dragon Age Monthly is tied to Maken-Ki! - it's a "Boob Measurer." It's basically a tape measure with instructions on how to calculate cup size and illustrated with a smallest-to-largest (size A up through K) gallery of the girls in the comic/show with their respective cup sizes.
Naturally, the school nurse has the largest.



I just got my first issue of the manga magazine I picked out meant for a female audience in the mail yesterday, so my next title I share will probably come from there, to balance things out a bit. The little gifts that came with that magazine are stationery products made to look like cosmetics. There is a little ball-point pen that looks like lipstick, a highlighter that looks like nail polish, etc. I have a feeling these magazines are going to be very very different

That tape measure would so not fly in the U.S. I wonder if the Japanese discourse on body image issues is just vastly different from that in the West.

In Japan, they would probably fat shame themselves. Then commit ritual suicide.

Happy Dancing, Dancing Halloween!

That wasn't fun. That was sinister.

This is the first thing I saw when switching on my TV stream this evening.

Also, Hello Kitty.

I like when the one guy in the first video goes full-on E. Honda.

A related video, which compiles all of the "Moon Ribar" commercials (including the one above), which adds Sailor Moon and SoftBank's shiba ibu mascot.