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Manga Comics: Adapting manga for the American market
Manga might be mainstream right now but it had to struggle to find a market and so we go down memory lane to remember when Manga came in comic book form. And while some may laugh at the way it came out I’d say for the most part they did a pretty good job despite…
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Localizing Japanese Names
Replacing Japanese names in dubs is something that’s done a lot of times when localizing an anime, especially to the west. It can be because of the pronunciation of the name, the way the mouth moves during scenes or just because it’s more marketable. The fact is that it was done a lot in the…
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WWF Livewire: The recap version
I started watching WWF in 1999 and could not get enough of it, waiting for Raw is War and Smackdown was difficult. Luckily there were other shows to give me more wrestling. One of those was WWF Livewire. Now the show went through many phases but I will mostly focus on the recap version of…
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Avatar: Legend of Aang Movie Review
Paramount announced 3 animated movies set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. People speculated about which Avatars they’d be, but nothing came of those, and the one we did get was for Aang. I would’ve preferred visiting a different part of the lore with such amazing world building the show did, but at…
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WWE x Girls Gone Wild Crossover
https://archive.org/details/girls-gone-wild-live-from-spring-break-wwe-version wwe ggw girls gone wild In the early 2000s there was no bigger thing than Girls Gone Wild, you’d see those commercials all the time starting at certain hours of the night and hear that iconic steel drums Caribbean jingle. At the same time you had the WWE which while not as big as…
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Super Mario Galaxy Movie feels like a sequel
When The Super Mario Bros movie sequel was revealed to be called Super Mario Galaxy movie; It was easy to think that they were moving way too fast. They could really come out with another movie with Yoshi and other game material before going to Galaxy. But the movie in a way already feels like…
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Spring Cleaning Update
We are doing some Spring Cleaning on MiscRave, trying to modernize the site, make it a bit more Web 1.0 / Metro style hybrid as we’ve always tried and see how things go. Excuse the look for the next couple of days as we slowly make changes live.