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Street Fighter Alpha / Generations Anime were not the prequels we wanted
The Street Fighter II Animated Movie is one of the greatest anime movies ever, not just based on a video game, it inspired the Street Fighter II V anime series as well as the Street Fighter Zero / Alpha spin-off series which sort of become mainline entries to the franchise. Eventually that new spin-off that…
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Adventures of Gamba no Bouken a sad chirpy anime
As a kid I remember watching this anime about some rats and no, I’m not talking about Hamtaro, it was an older anime and I remember it felt like a show that never ended despite it only being 26 episodes. I also remember being a bit traumatized by these poor little rats and all the…
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Captain Planet Merchandise: Ecological or Pollution?
Captain Planet in the 90s was meant to educate kids about the ecology and it did a great job at it but with a cartoon with a lot of marketing also came another thing; Merchandise. Executive producer co-creator and ecologist Barbara Pyle mentioned in an interview that they knew this would happen and that the…
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The Pikmin animated movies Nintendo tried to pilot as a show
In 2001 we got a new Nintendo mascot with the game of Pikmin by Shigeru Miyamoto and it was clearly a pet project of his. It was a very original concept and game but difficult to market and despite trying it just wasn’t able to do very well. It wasn’t without trying since it did…
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Tarzan and Jane 2017 is a weird Netflix reimagening.
Tarzan is like the ecological Batman that was created long before caped heroes but has pretty much the same essence. Tarzan was able to survive for many decades until the last few decades where outside of Disney’s version of Tarzan, the hero just hasn’t been able to resonate with him. I think we all know…
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Kamen Rider Amazons the adult remake for the world
Making a Kamen Rider Amazon remake for Amazon Prime Video seems appropriate and that’s how Amazon Riders or Kamen Rider Amazons came to be touting a Kamen Rider The First and Next style reboot but it really is nothing like it but it does try to be a more mature adult Kamen Rider show. Just…
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5 WWF vs WCW: Dream Matches that never happened
Being a kid wrestling fan in the late 90s you lived in a world similar to the console war with Sega vs Nintendo or Playstation vs N64 or even Coke vs Pepsi but here you had to choose between WCW or WWF. I think the Sega connection is a better one as the company ha…