![]() ![]() Sage (vo): I like what I like, and you like what you like, and we shouldn't feel bad about that. I mean sure I like Star Trek just fine, but I would never call myself or identify myself as a Trekkie. Sage: That's pretty much why I don't agree with this mindset. As if liking our hobby somehow makes us lesser in their eyes. (Picture of cosplayers dressed as Lightning, Noel, Serah and Mog) And, as such, whenever our hobby or passion is talked bad about, we feel, vicarious as it is, insulted by it. ![]() We're Whovians, Browncoats, Trekkies, Bronies, Potterites, Sherlockians, Tolkienites and any other derivation of fandoms. ![]() (Picture of cosplayers dressed as Sailor Scouts) Ours is a culture that tends to identify themselves by what they like. I completely understand why people would be genuinely upset with me, or anyone else for that matter, speaking badly about films they like. Sage (vo): And you know what? I understand it. Sage: Though I have said plenty of nice things about classic anime like with, uh, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll, I still get angry e-mails and comments about these particular episodes. (Clip of Grave of the Fireflies) Grave of the Fireflies is still more interested in telling a sad story rather than a good story, (clip of Perfect Blue) and Perfect Blue's handling of dissociative identity disorder is.suspect at best. Sage (vo): Yes, Akira was a groundbreaking, technical achievement, but it's also a sloppy adaptation of a narrative mess. Sage: Whenever I've reviewed old-school classics here on this show, it always seems like I've fallen on the negative side rather than the positive, and though I have been chastised for holding such opinions, I still stand by by what I said. (We start off with the opening to Anime Abandon, then come to Sage in his room) Likely the progenitor of all other mainstream ultra-violent anime, Fist of the North Star is given the Sage treatment, both the good and bad. More specifically, the 1986 movie (not the live-action one, JesuOtaku already covered that travesty). In this episode, Sage reviews a staple of 1980's anime: Fist of the North Star. The episode was originally posted to That Guy With the Glasses on November 14th, 2013. Fist of the North Star is the subject of the 68th episode of Anime Abandon, hosted by Bennett the Sage. ![]()
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