This is pretty cool.

Now that Street Fighter IV has been released for the PC, some PC users have come up with creative ways to deviate its characters.

What they did to Sakura’s face looks terrible,

but Zangief’s winning pose looks even worse!

Character moves + supers switched:

Someone has created this evil-lishly pink, deviant son-of-a-gundam, but not to say that the embellishments on the body weren’t strategically well-placed…..but seriously – WOOF.

In the name of all things wicked and awesome, NO

more disgraceful/artful photos via doobybrain

By Japanese footwear brand UBIQ.

via atmos

Japan has finally did it!

Part of the Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project, this 1:1 scale, 59-foot-tall RX-78 was constructed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mecha anime/manga/toy/video game franchise. Constructed in Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park, the Gundam statue will stay up for two months and be built from fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame.

Let me just quietly state this as calmly as possible:

(we’re doomed!)

*UPDATE – The head is movable, 50 points on its body will emit light and mist will be shot out of 14 (orifices/) points on its body

via kotaku

More ominous-but-wickedly-awesome photos here and here

Personally, I prefer muting the video and playing guile’s stage theme music in the background. Humming it works too. Like Art-Attack states: “Try it yourself!”
(ohhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiit……throwbaaaaack)

(do do-do dodooooooo, do do-do do dodoooooo….)

pretty HARDCORE, but compared to everything else, 0:42-0:43 is anti-cli-meh-tic/funny

***UPDATE 1:06 YOGA FLAME!

To start off, since this blog is new it might not be evident that I’m a big fan of Japanese Animation. In fact I’d say big fan is an understatement, words cannot describe how much I enjoy this medium of story telling. In addition, I detest Hollywood for bastardizing anything they touch, be it the countless remakes or random adaptations.

Ghost in the Shell is akin to William Gibson’s ‘Sprawl Trilogy’ (read Neuromancer people) which makes it a cyberpunk/postcyberpunk anime. Dealing with the ethical consequences of the continuous merging of people and technology, and A.I. development. If you’re at all interested in checking it out, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

So DreamWorks wants to do a 3D live-action adaptation, possibly helmed by Steven Spielberg. My problem with Hollywood when it comes to adaptations is that the end product tends to deviate so far from the source material that what you get is crap that has the audacity to even share the name of its source. Especially when the studios have too much sway over production, so that it appeals to the less-than-average intellectual individual.

Someone out there might think an Anime to Hollywood adaptation is a good thing, well I have three words in response, The Dragonball Movie.