The latest DLC episode for Grand Theft Auto IV features a typically biting satire of the less than healthy state of the current anime market in the form of Princess Robot Bubblegum, astutely lampooning just about every genre and even the woeful dubbing so beloved of US anime fans…
You can see the fittingly oppai laden and tentacle laced video below:
Few could fault its grasp of the current state of anime.
The DLC itself, Episodes From Liberty City – The Ballad of Gay Tony, is bought and paid for by Microsoft, so anyone without the Xbox 360 version can just forget about owning it.
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This is awesome:D
comedy echi my fav!!!!
I still don't understand the connection with whatever this is and GTA.
If you haven't played GTA, then no, you wouldn't understand the connection.
I have played GTA and still don't understand the connection.
I'm assuming you never watched TV in the game itself, right?
Well they do rip on just about everything...why not anime? i guess would be the answer.
there poking fun of how the media veiws anime ,they think its nothing but smut and dirty things.
while the media hates video games as well and the the games there are adds for games that are violent which are advertised for kids.
there poking fun at mainstream media as well as stereotypes. plus its kinda like what midway did with mortal kombat.
I know that you can watch "TV programming" inside the game. So, I take it that this is one of the "commercials".
Poking fun at the mainstream media? Haha, no. This is what the makers of the video actually believe.
They're trying to poke fun of anime, which they know nothing about.
Sorry you don't like the accurate portrayal of anime this parody brings.
The accurate portrayal that is bullshit? Lol. If Rockstar think they are clever for doing this they can think again because if these stereotypes aren't already obvious to you, you fail regardless. It's like poking fun Loony Toons for being random and funny... Or star wars for being a science fiction movie. Somewhat of a captain obvious effect? To me at least.
This is an accurate portrayal of the status of anime.
You sir, are epic fail.
> You are Sir Epic Fail
Fixed that for you.
I second both your motions, You fail in the most epic of ways. that was idiotic: "i didn't order anime whore" WTF?!
Do people still do, I'm 1st!?!?...idiots
off-topic: I think you all are idiots for replying to the idiot.
On-topic: She may be hyper-sexualized, but she's still badass with a sword.
This is it, some new TV spots in the game? Let me guess, they'll charge way too much for it in XBox live.
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Saw it on Joystiq a few days ago, i knew it would appear here soon enough. Sankaku's information web is far and wide.
and noticeably slow. (though acceptable)
Oh well... ^_^
I loved Princess Robot Bubblegum. It's so true...
Really a good parody. Will they animate more episodes?
GTA: Gay Tony which will feature this show goes on sale only tomorrow. You cannot have seen any episodes yet.
"GTA: Gay Tony which will feature this show goes on sale only tomorrow. You cannot have seen any episodes yet."
Incorrect.
Both DLC episodes come out on a stand-alone disk tomorrow as well:
http://i34.tinypic.com/epkgv8.jpg
...that game disk was leaked on the interwebs 2 days ago, so if anyone had a modded 360, they could downloaded and seen whatever you are claiming they couldn't have seen.
All right then, OFFICIALLY cannot have seen any episodes yet. :P Sucks to be a fair customer I guess.
sums up how shit anime is nowadays pretty well
anime used to be gritty and cool back in the 80s and 90s, then the otaku got hold of it and ruined in.
Nothing but moeblob crap now
I never watched anything other than love-love rom-coms I'm afraid... I started out with love hina and more recently is Nyan Koi!
Lol xD I too started with Love Hina Damn that's one of my favorites. Too good love story *gets the urge to watch it* Well before that I watched Witchblade but I can't consider it a starter since it kinda became a shadow after I watched Love Hina. xD
I have this theory that everyone started out with Love Hina.
Not including dubshit on actual TV of course. I'm looking at you Sailor Moon / Dragon Ball.
I started anime with Vampire Hunter D, Lodoss War, and Tenchi.
In my opinion Love Hina sucks. If only because Naru is one of the biggest anime bitches of all time.
I started with Sailor Moon, Original Dirty Pair, Galaxy Express 999 movies, Battle Athletes OVA and Bubblegum Crisis OVA.
I started with Doraemon.
I started with Macross and Star Blazers.
Sorry, started off with Nozzle (it was on a kid's block) when I was 4.
But my more hardcore viewing had to come since Lupin III on Adult Swim. Since then, I wanted to see more. I mean, Lupin was all sorts of awesome, and pretty damn hilarious.
I started with Pokemon.
Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Sailor Moon, and some more 'Mature' stuff thanks to the big brother and his friends.
We used to watch Sci-Fi's anime week when they first started and showed A-ko and some other cool one offs. (I remember Lily C.A.T. really well actually)
I started with Lucky Star.
Way to jump in the deep end.
+1
You Sir are just getting old and bitter.
Funny, since it was pretty representative of anime from the 80's and 90's as well.
True, if she represents the 2000, she would be 5ft tall with non-existent breast.
And no nose.
And no nipples to avoid censorship.
No nipples? I think you're thinking of pre-2000 stuff, with numerous girls who were Barbie-like in their lack of nipples and utterly featureless crotches.
Nowadays they're usually just more careful about positioning so that they could actually conceivably be hidden. Or they could just go ahead and show them, like Kallen's.
Oh but 2000s means 2000-2009, that's 9 years;
surely they now opt to make DVD sales-boosting stuff with all nipples but this stuff was surely still popular in early 2000s.
10 years, sorry.
Non-existent nipples being pre-2000?!
I disagree:
Rumiko Takahashi's
Fire Tripper OVA (1985)
Ranma 1/2 (1989-2002)
Urusei Yatsura (Lum) (1981-1986)
and probably in her other works too.
Bubblegum Crisis OVA (1987-1991)
Tenchi Muyo! series (1992,1995 & 1997)
Just to name a few.
There's more out there from the 80's and 90's than you might think. I agree though, it's not like today where any female in almost ALL Anime no matter how young or old shows nipples. Sometimes that's not a good thing! ^_^'
pre-2000 means "before 2000"....
I don't know, it's arguably more of parody of the 80s and 90s stuff, if it was moeblob it would be about kawaii schoolgirls.
What a lot of fans don't realize is there has always been moeblob stuff, but far less shows made it over to the west.
Now we have instant fansubs, almost every show coming out is subbed and ready for you. so obviously we get a lot more of the crap.
Lol, that's what will happen when you're too ignorant to think that the 90's only have stuffs like NGE and the 2000's ONLY have stuffs like K-on.
Stop using the word "all" when you only know >10% of it.
It's true that not all of it has that style, but there are patterns and trendy styles that are used more than othersevery generation. It's just the way the industry evolves over time. I can guess an anime's release date within a couple of years just by seeing the art because of it, and I'm pretty artistically challenged so I guarantee someone with more talent for this sort of thing can point out things in better detail.
True words indeed. All things go in trends and the current scaling trend happens to be moe type anime. So? There are plenty of non moe anime, which I wont need to name, starting from 2000 and onward. Art, such as paintings and painting style went through phases as well.
80s, 90s were heavily focused on mecha anime yet has it stayed that way? No. Things change as the times change and moe is the 'in' thing. So if you dont like it, sit it out, or ride the wave if you do.
Sure, there are a lot of moe moe anime these days and its much more commonly publicized. Most people look to anime for its entertainment purposes, thus moe and slice of life sells the most, generating profits. Companies go where there are profits. Easy connection. But its not only moe anime, and never has been nor will probably never will be. There are action/philosophic/horror/romance etc. etc. genres of anime out there, but the more complicated they get, the smaller the audience target.
Simply view animation industry as a pyriamid in mind, with moe on the bottom with its largest variety and more complicated philosophic/political anime at the top, such as Ghost in the Shell (of which type, there are few).
People can bitch and always will, but to state that the industry is now totally moe, is a overgeneralization but one that you could obviously debate to be true or false. I would argue false as I have stated before.
I agree, I much prefer the anime from the 80s and especially 90s, today's stuff is largely blargh!
Bring back Rurouni Kenshin please!!!
I love Rurouni Kenshin but.. maybe no thanks. I think I had enough watching two fighters paused in the middle of their fight to talk about their past and agenda for 20 minutes only to finish it with a single quick flash slash. (And there we have ppl bitching about Bleach season 2 had too much dialogue instead of fighting)
I'll say bring back Samurai Champloo and Basilisk (with new characters maybe).
Sorry but you apparently have only looked for the bad stuff. It's like some other country making a parody of our daytime soap operas and everyone thinks that all US TV is like that. This parody probably sums up everything in BAD anime and it stops there.
Anime has always had and will have its selection of shit and gold.
What in the world doesnt have both?
I would be really glad if someone named some gold in the current anime scene...
Because Naruto, Bleach, K-ON, Strike Witches, Queen's Blade and these other current famous anime are definitely not gold...
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i started with ninja scroll, dominion tank police, cyber city oedo, fist of the north star, urotsukidoji, guyver, vampire hunter d and monster city to name a few.
its hard to find anime like those today.
Gritty and cool? Maybe. But anime's always been perverted and over the top. Futuristic anime isn't nearly as common as it was. This looks to me like it's more inspired by Armatage III, Dirty Pair... stuff like that. I wouldn't really call this a satirical representation of the "current" market. The only current anime this reminds me of is Queen's Blade. Then again, we're talking about the US market, aren't we?
Besides, nobody likes huge racks anymore. Petanko is IN.
80-90´s!!?? Pffff... you liked that crap? The 60s and 70s, thats good anime. After all, all is crap.
I'm speechless. That's so bad.
So will her nemesis be King Droid Taffy Pull?
This = awesome
unfortunately this is pretty depressing... anime has just become that pretty much.
It may well accurately lampoon the current state of anime, but was anime ever all that different?
Anime is anime, it takes a while to make anime, so the production companies can only really make money from adhering to the public demands for things...
We aren't Japanese nor do we live there, so our opinion doesn't count, but the opinions of all those Japanese otaku, do count, so long as they have money.
It's voting with your wallet.
Yep, they at last had a good storyline that makes somehow sense and not just random fanservice thrown together.
There are anime with good storylines now. There were random fanservice anime then. (Whenever "then" was.)
People just put on their nostalgia goggles, especially when a batch of younger fans comes along and is interested in newer, slightly different shows.
Plenty of the anime that are now elevated to the level of classics, that bemoaning fans speak of in terms of longing for the day, still drip with fanservice. In fact, accounting for "inflation" of the subgenre, many of them would have been counted as fanservice series... they just came before blatant fanservice anime became its own sort of sub-genre.
Similarly, many modern series that are brushed off as "moeblob fanservice" actually have greater depth to the characters and more emotional development among them than many of the said classics. Basically, things just happen in slightly different ways.
Teal dear version: New anime, same as the old anime.
("Was anime ever all that different" anon here - must get around to registering one day)
Quite so. I've been watching anime for over 40 years, and it's not really changed all that much apart from the character designs, and of course all the stuff that goes with the digital age. Most plots have always been pretty dire, and as for fanservice, there were naked lolis even in the 1960's.
Honestly.. I couldn't care less.
They are just being humongous hypocrites for bashing on oversexualization when they do it as well all the time, just in form of 3D models instead of 2D drawings.
Hell, they (the West) were doing it in 2D long before anime came along (i.e., comic books).
Also the first manga "Astro Boy" was inspirated by Disney.
Actually, before superhero comic books became infamous for it, too.
Walt Disney specifically meant for Tinkerbell to be sexy so that fathers taking their kids to the movie would have something to look at too.
Then Disney was a fag, the main reason to make a sexy character is because one likes them so, authors should be honest in their fetishes, it largely justifies T&A anime for me.
Of course I also like plot, but avoiding fanservice just for being prude is hypocrite.
So making a sexy character specifically to cater to middle-age men is "avoiding fanservice"...?
Manga were a completely different form then, but manga is much older than western comic books.
And the stories and "stereotypes" mostly came from this older form of "manga."
As for this spoof, as long as people take it as a horrible western parody, I suppose it's fine.
But does anyone else agree that most of these stereotype situations are more likely to be found in American action cartoons? >.>;
They could lie and give false stereotypes, but as long as it looked like the anime-style, people here would believe it... you know?
No, most of the stereotypes parodied are unique to anime. That doesn't mean anime is bad, just that the majority of it is crap.
...but the majority of ANYTHING is crap. There's even a wikipedia entry for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law]
Jesus, lighten up. It's just a parody.
No, we must overanalyse everything.
THIS
IS
ANIME FANDOM
This is truth
Though I would watch this show
And buy the merchandise
R* hardly focuses on over-sexualizing characters in their games. Sure you've got porn stars and whores, but that's the nature of the game. A whore who looks like a whore isn't sexual exploitation so much as it is an accurate depiction of who the character is. Trying to make a normal and appealing character who just happens to spend almost all her time with no clothes on and ridiculous proportioned tits for absolutely no reason at all other than to score ratings with a male demographic, however, very much is. Maybe you should learn what "context" is.
Considering how Kate, the "main heroine" of GTA IV looked, I would say they're under-sexualizing their characters. Fugly
And having realistic-looking/fugly characters is a bad thing, especially in an industry with a majority of female characters being mostly eye-candy?
Badly written Moe anime in a nutshell. Well done.
I'm pretty sure that if this had been PS3 DLC it would have sold 110,000 additional copies of the game on its own.
so hilarious!
yet so true...
Americans like their Americanized anime as much as they like their American built cars. The whole American anime localization scene is a big pile of poop with companies trying to milk anything and everything.
"as much as they like their American built cars."
So you mean they hate Americanized anime to the point that the localiztion companies are going bankrupt?
Dunno. Has the milking helped?
Geneon and ADV say hello.
What Happen to ADV? Did it followed Geneon's Shoes?
They stopped building cars in the US in the early 90s
most anime = shit nowadays
I just watch it cuz I don't have anything better to do..
you don't have anything better to do than watching "shitty" anime..?
suck to be in your shoes.. o_o;
I'm slightly different, I watch it WHEN I have nothing better to do. There are still plenty of good manga and games out there. And Samurai Champloo is a good anime in my opinion.
iLol
Tsk, they missed the most important thing that is destroying the industry, mindless moe shit. They should have included scenes of girls doing nothing of importance and giggling mindlessly.
LOL. For the anime industry Moe is Salvation! People won't *buy* anything else...
Bakemonogatari isn't moe crap and mecha sells well too.
Sexual remarks are abundant, fanservice isn't spared but I guessed you missed that.
So you're saying if it has fanservice then it's crap huh? Hell, if it has interesting characters, good storyline, nice animation, good looking characters and added fanservice; i'll say that's a Perfect Package. That's why i prefer Blood+ and Darker Than Black over some anime that's trying hard to make them look "mature" in a serious way.
I didn't missed those. I think you are the one who can't differentiate between boring scenes of people not doing much versus language puns, humour, charming fanservice, interesting animation, pop culture references, etc.
You fail at critical analysis. Moe is a form of fanservice, not fanservice=moe. Fanservice can be done well, which Bakemonogatari does.
p.s. I agree DTB and Blood+ are awesome as well. Fanservice can add value if done in a none gratuitous way. But an anime shouldn't have fanservice as its only selling point, which is pretty much the only selling point for moe crap.
I laughed... I'd watch it.
Papillon Rose + La Blue Girl = Princess Robot Bubblegum?
I was expecting some serious stereotyping of anime in general, mayb something clever judging by the comments, but... wtf? Big boobs, skimpy outfits, bad dubbing, tentacles, mecha, etc. Wtf? That's it? What else is new? Seriously. Anything for a laugh, huh? God...
As far as satire goes, that's about as subtle as a kerb-stomping in stilletos. I think it'd have been a whole lot funnier if they'd shown a little restraint.
Welcome to a Rockstar game.
It was a satire?
I thought it was the real shit and Rockstar was finally making anime.
Imagine that, it would rock.
it would totally kick fuckin ass
Yeah man, only japan is sugoi enough to make anime.
(sugoi means awsesome in japanese ^_^)
If they actually made an anime then it would be the best anime since Cowboy Bebop.
No way. Anime needs to be made by the Japanese. Western anime would suck hairy monkey balls so hard they'd turn purple, develop three cancers at once and finally divide by zero.
They could have been a whole lot worse. At least it obvious that they are making fun of old school anime. If they were making fun of recent anime then we probably wouldn't be finding this as funny.
To everyone thinking there are to many moe anime... have you all check what is airing this season? how many moe animes in comparison to other type of animes?
You're kidding, right? It's almost ALL moe anime this season, or was that your point? There's three exceptions, and one of them is turning into moe-in-disguise...
Maybe you'll be kind enough to list the three non moe animes?
Blue literature? Trapeze? Winter Sonata? Miracle Train? Book of Bantorra? Kimi ni Todoke? there are a few more title that I can add to the list, but I'll stop here.
People sometimes confused between moe anime and anime with moe characters in it... not to mention people probably have different interpretation of moe.
Last summer there are lots of moe in animes, but probably only three that are really moe animes. A few others can be argued depending what your take on what makes an anime a moe anime.
"People sometimes confused between moe anime and anime with moe characters in it..."
QFT! Though i would change "sometimes" to "all of the time".
Well I just fapped to this. Fake anime girl or not she is still hot.
That MUST be worth some gamerscore...
10g: Completed Princess Robot Bubblegum minigame one-handed.
Oddly enough, the current hentai video market isn't like this. Is pretty much like regular porn featuring rape/humiliation.
Okay, it is the same. Just not as many tentacles. If any.
Radio-active nymphomaniac plants? Ohh yea, i see that happening~
I'd watch it
I'm curious what the Japanese think about this.
they probley dont give a shit...but when it comes to the sterotype of anime its pretty much true
Except the Japanese are very sensitive about what other countries think of them. If this was made by the Japanese then they wouldn't give a shit but since this was made by Americans then they will probably be pissed.
I'm waiting for a Japanese interpretation of stereotypical American cartoons filled with ridiculous amounts of violence.
Excel Saga did it in one episode.
The joke will be on them, when R* makes Princess Bubblegum their next flagship game.
GTAIV: Calling the kettle black with lots of money to burn.
What I don’t understand is the relation between this videoclip and the GTA IV videogame. Can someone explain it to me?
In the GTA4 game, this Princess Robot Bubblegum was a radio show. Now in these expansions as the story has progressed, the franchaise has moved to the big time and now has the TV show.
They're just taking note of that while parodying anime at the same time, since like we've seen with these comments, people are bound to get offended a cause a fuss, which is what Rockstar want since it helps advertise their product.
Modern state of anime? Isnt it always was like that? sine 80's, there's been jewels, and there's been shit
Hell, even the parodies of anime have looked like this for at least a decade.
4 years from now and this will be everything you will see on the anime market.
It's a shame.
Anyone who truly believes this and isn't joking, I don't think I can respect all that well.
Just because all you hear about on the internet or in America (etc.) might be this, it doesn't exactly mean it is.
In fact, moe anime and fanservice anime are only a sliver of the profits of anime/manga (big enough to make an impact, but far from monopolizing the industry).
If this is supposed to be an anime spoof, they've covered just about 5%-15% of the anime out there. No exaggeration, believe it or not.
Then give actual examples so we might believe what you say. Throwing percentages randomly ain't gonna help you to make a point.
Yes, this video is very stereotypical and takes all the bad merchandising and bad anime tropes in order to mock the anime industry but, if people laugh about that it's because they find some insightful attacks in it.
Look at the Fall season anime. A lot of them contain a lot of fanservice and almost no interesting plot. And if there's one, you have to wait 3 to 5 episodes to get something at least interesting and senseful. "A certain scientific railgun" → 2 episodes of Yuri fanservice, 1 episode with a plot ruined in terms of seriousness (Oh god, tazer in the eye... no wait... wtf !?) and 1 episode with Touma-rediscovery. The only two "hints" are "Database lies" and "The scientific woman". "The Sacred Blacksmith", Fanservice, Stupid woman is stupid, fanservice, Sluggish plot evolution. The only character with non-idiotic personality seems to be "the savior" (which is quite cliché).
Almost all others are everlasting overrated romance anime. There's exceptions like "Darker than Black ～Comet of Gemini～" but they are a few.
Even Seitokai no Ichizon satirical jokes becomes quite repetitive and bland after a few episodes.
So, IMHO, yes, saying that every anime will become like this GTA video because of some mystical merchandising power hypnotizing the anime producers crowd is clearly, at best, an uneducated opinion. But it also seems like there's a clear intent to produce a lot and lot of anime about big (and stupid) boob girls with overused clichés and tiresome scenarios, like this video satire, since it's fast, cheap and quite easy.
Laughing about a parody doesn't require anything particularly insightful. People laugh at movies in the vein of "Meet the Spartans", and those aren't insightful parodies. They're not funny on their own, either. They're also not good. In fact I'm pretty sure that they're a human rights violation with how bad they are. But someone out there is chuckling at them because they keep getting made.
The thing about this parody is that it really isn't very insightful at all. It's a parody that's based mostly on other parodies, which based themselves on other parodies, and somewhere someone may have actually watched a couple of episodes. Just like the Dragonball Z parodies that go on and on about powering up for three months and growing hair of skyscraper proportions... a lot of the people doing the parodies probably haven't seen more than part of an episode, they're just repeating someone else's parody where they powered up for two months and grew hair of radio tower proportions.
I mean, this thing basically just seems to be "Perfect Hair Forever" with somewhat better animation. It wasn't insightful then, and it's not insightful now.
As William Shatner said, "You people have been making jokes at my expense all night long, and frankly, I'm insulted... at how bad you are at it."
I didn't deny that it had an impact on the industry, nor did I deny that it sold well.
The big moe series do sell extremely well (K-ON!, Bakemonogatari, and Haruhi are swell examples of top anime series in the genre).
In fact, I'm not really talking about series with moe character designs, but rather, fan-service based series made to exploit images of the female body using insignificant plots plots.
The percentages up there were, indeed, just an estimate based on my own knowledge, so here are the thoughts behind my estimate.
Of the 65 anime scheduled this fall, only [around] 15 were fan-service based.
In the summer, of the 45, only [about] 10 were fan-service based.
And in the spring, [about] 12/63.
The majority of these series not being watched by Japanese audiences.
And of course, you cannot take children series, popular shounen series, popular shoujo series, some of the older-women romance anime, and plenty of re-runs of older classics on television.
Practically none of these are fan-service based.
In short, I was simply pointing out that one should not take one small side of the picture and assume it represents the whole or will represent the whole.
Anime is huge, so of course, each part of it has a huge fan-base somewhere.
But considering the difference in opinions and preferences between different groups of people, if one hangs out on moe-themed news sites (Sankakucomplex) and hears mostly that part of the story, it is likely that such a person will assume all otaku are similar to them and what they know is the gist of anime.
It's not stupidity that I'm accusing anyone of (because most people here can think for themselves, right?).
I'm just saying that you should open your mind to other things. >.>
I did say that it's fine as a joke...
Just please don't actually believe that other anime will become overwhelmed by these kinds of series. ^^;
probley funniest anime pardoy ina game ever there must be anime fans within rockstar unless they did there homework
Can't stop laughing (despite having a sore throat) on the intentional bad voice acting and translations.
Japan Anime + English voice acting = unbearable piece of SHIT!!! Wait, what are you mean about "intentional"???
Didn't you hear the narrator said "badly translated dialogue" or something like that? Pretty much it's making fun of bad English dubbers who hardly put any effort in their work unlike Cowboy Bebop.
I could swear that music is from Guild Wars: Factions.
Girl-chan in paradise did it better
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat is this place?
So thaaaat explain everythi-
Well... the bad dubbing is probably right on.
I thought it was kind of funny looking, but I had the sound muted from the start. Don't need to hear it to know it must be horrendous (and not the funny kind of horrendous)
I didn't find this funny at all...
There is advertisement of this show on gta chinatown wars, near on the drug seller Zubair.
in the psp version, i don´t know if has on ds version.
@__@ Oh god.. its like Kappa Mikey + XJ9 The Teenage robot.. and + japanese pervyness.
awesome!
hahaha when moe and fan service crap backfire. well done Rockstar!
Id say that was pretty convincing
man i love america's ability to parody anime. case in point: megas xlr.
Unfortunately America cancels those parody shows too quickly.
That is a sad truth. I actually liked Megas. :-[
I agree.
I found Megas XLR to be fairly amusing.
Ender: I end things....
Argh, everyone who is talking about how "accurately" this describes anime these days knows nothing.
Everything that parodied was old, like Bubblegum Crisis, Dragonball and Sailor Moon. Floating mascots have been around since forever, and even the "breast rockets" are from Tranzor Z.
Learn something, noobs.
Lol, sure it references old anime but that doesn't change the fact that it describes accurately the anime nowadays.
old =! new...
And yet, nothing has really changed, has it? Small talking animal sidekicks are prevalent and still a staple of magical girl animes, mecha armor is just as popular as it's always been, and fanservice is so thick in the industry you can't watch anything without a beach episode showing up somewhere, regardless of the series. Hell, did you notice the Bleach/Cloud character, with his generically huge sword? ;p
Also, "Tranzor"? Was that a localization name for "Mazinger" somewhere?
And don't forget the old pervert midget sensei stereotype. I dunno but I hardly can find the likes of Muten Roshi and Happosai anymore in anime nowadays , the new pervert characters we can see now are mainly office workers, stalking otakus and schoolboys.
Spot on. Animke has been terrible over the past few years. Remember when anime spit out a few epic series a year, and at worst dropped a sprinkle of fan service: Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Last Exile, Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Azumanga Daioh (funny as hell), Higurashi (When they cry). Now it's all rampant fan service, and the plots are only devices to manufacture harems and compromising situations. Japanese men has really fallen too deep into depravity. They need to get their act together.
In Cowboy Bebop, Faye ran around in a tiny top and short-shorts and spent a lot of time tied up.
Outlaw Star had a catgirl wearing bikini bottoms, a female assassin with the upper half of her boobs bared, and Melfina spent at least half the series naked and floating in a tank. Not to mention the various strippers/prostitutes/whatever in the first episode alone.
SAC. The Major's DAT ASS. That's enough, even if they didn't have her walking around in less than Wonder Woman wears most of the time, or if episodes weren't delving into the sexual peccadilloes of the future or having the Major proposition young boys.
If Azumanga Daioh came out today, people would be grumbling about it being "another moeblob series". It's cute, it's funny, it's got blushy girls and cute girls and silly girls and it's not about anything in particular other than the girls' day-to-day lives. In general concept and execution it's largely indistinguishable from K-On!, save that the girls of K-On! actually have a more consistent storyline and motivation.
So basically, y'know, you're full of it.
You're joking right because it has to be a troll if you're are saying GiTS or Cowboy Bebop or Outlaw Star is even close to that parody. Faye wore more clothes than most girls in my highschool as did the Major. You are just nit picking and I like how you said prostitutes and strippers because those are in GTA. This parody is a parody as in not taken seriously because it's actually inaccurate of any anime worth watching. The problem is non-fans perceive anime as this and don't have any respect for anime. You can watch american action films that are more ridiculous than that parody with tits ass and explosions and people say it's good. But do the same with an anime and it's "perveted funny chinese cartoons" unworthy of any respect. Then there's all the ignored thought provoking anime.... But if people don't like something they will of course grasp at straws and latch on to stereotypes.
You know what you need to do? Go take a rage dump.
You guys are complaining too much about all anime this year being moe and fan service crap. Sure, there are alot of them, but I honestly can't say I agree. Good shows like Clannad After Story, the new Fullmetal Alchemist(much better than the old one, imho), and the Kara no Kyoukai movies came out this year, did they not? :-/ And in January there's going to be an UBW Fate/stay night movie, and the Disappearence arc from Haruhi in the form of a movie. And, I know a bunch of haters are going to bash me for this one, but Naruto is still running, and yes, I think it is a great show. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei was kinda disappointing...unfortunately. I'd like to say though, that I actually like many of the fan service and moe shows, atleast all the Yuri ones. ^^ And I loved Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu. Damn funny chibi comedy. ^^ If you're a bit on the dark side(like say, you love shows like Higurashi), I recommend a show called Mnemosyne, that also came out this year. See? It's far from all bad.
seems a long time ago now when the likes of akira broke into the western world making anime popular, just sheer awesomeness
now its just moe shit, non stop moe shit, fuck moe. How many of these shitty moe schoolgirl animes can you otakus watch before you realies they're all as boring as generic as the next
anime today reflects how pathetic japanese men have become
worshipping stupid looking moe schoolgirls
japanese men are disgrace, I hold them responsible for the shitty state of the anime industry today.
If they grew a pair of balls than shit like k-on would never be popular, and rightly so. All fanservice, no substance.
The funny thing is from the very beginning I thought it was a 80's anime parody. My favorite anime have fanservice but not even close to that much. For example one of my favs. Chaos;HEAD's (which also had hot girls with swords) most gratuitous fanservice was weak compared to that (not to mention illusionary) My favorite anime Welcome To The N.H.K. had little fanservice and IMO a great story and a lot of character development. Other great anime with fanservice that don't devolve into retardation Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan. Sayounara Zetsubou Sensei, Elfen Lied, FLCL, Death Note, the list goes on and on all of the are from 2000 up btw
To be honest when i read the title in Kotaku i was enraged.
Then i watched the video and was actually quite funny.
I couldnt deny than... well it is like things are.
-_-u
This reminded me of that Hamburger anime parody show on Adult Swim.
PERFECT HAIR FOREVER!!! I love that show. "Uncle Grandfather the kids at school make fun of me......they call me retarded hair boy" Hotdog: DOLAALALALALALALALALALA Kid:hotdog..... Hotdog: DOLAALALALALALALALALALA Kid: HOTDOG!........you're starting to piss me off...
Haha yeah thats it =)
wtf isn't this 'hey lets make fun of anime' thing done to death? just throw in pink-hair girl with tits and ass, tenticles, and big guns and make it comedicly insane.,,, but since its in gta, everyone goes 'duhhherrr its funny'.
Why, are they craving more attention through making fun of anime genre because violence isn't working? 'Lets insult the anime fans just to get more attention... we haven't got enough attention and violence thing is old'. I liike gta but this somehow is a cheapshot.
Hopefully there is more to this then just the trailer and that someone uploads it on youtube do to I don't really like GTA.
I'm gonna watch it when I get this game! lol GTA = High Production Values and this is one example of that being true!
Still had better voice acting than most dubs these days.
It;s from polish youtube chanell !!!
Current state of anime? Try "for the last decade".
I'm kinda fascinated that everyone is decrying "the current state of anime" when the first thing i though when i saw this was Cutie Honey, and that comes from 1973. Naked girl with sword, kekko kamen, Breast Missiles, Mazzinger, Go Nagai called, he wants a royalty check.
Who care if moe anime sold extremely well! It just mean there is more geek and pervert out there that willing to pay money for it.
Ew fucking disgusting shit!
*waits until the episodes get on the Internet*
ITS ANIME AT ITS FINEST!
I love that part.
best show this season
Satire is serious business.
so this is what Rockstar thinks of anime....
Only if you think that the events of GTA 4 are what Rockstar thinks of the common life of a New York immigrant.
The people who made this trailer for this fake show are fucking geniuses. I mean I love anime but some shows are just too ridiculous.
wow well done, i may buy GTA just for that
Is it sad that I'd still watch this?
not only did it feel like a jab at anime, but also at American marketing and dubbing, and even at American cartoons that are animated in a manga/anime style and passed off as "Americanime". i give Rockstar props for a parody well done.
I noticed this too - in fact, the selection of overdone older titles and "hentai" anime as parody elements is itself a low blow at an industry which has been slow to market more modern titles.
Amen to that.
Excuse me while I buy an XBox.
Rockstar pull the piss out of everything , why wouldn't they do the same to anime. I thought it was great.
If all the shows were moeblob or oversexualized shows then most of the currently airing shows would be. I checked with the anime series currently being released and there are 6 shows that fit this out of several dozen currently running anime. People just like to focus on the bad and ignore the good. The bad is the small percentage of shows that are considered moeblob or oversexualized which doesn't precede whether it has a good story or not. The good is the many shows that don't fit under the said catagories.
Well said. This is more a parody of a hentai anime than regular anime. Sadly most westerners are so ignorant that they think that all anime is about tentacle rape.
The anime I've watched recently is Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Kyou no Go no Ni, Shinigami no Ballad, Eden of The East, Ouran High School Host Club and Kannagi. I see very few similarities between these shows and Rockstar's parody. About the most similar series to the parody was Kannagi but even that is a considerable stretch.
To be fair, Rockstar probably intended this as a joke but unfortunately it has come off as being rather offensive to anime fans and the anime industry as a whole.
To be fair, Rockstar pretty much insults everyone left and right with these types of parodies and side jabs, so stop being an oversensitive prick.
Yeah man, offensive to us anime fans lets ban it.
Some people are too sensitive....im a huge anime fan and i found it kind of funny. I didnt order anime whore lol
somehow some of this reminded me of Perfect Hair Forever, and looked like "Brenda's BACKstory".
It was a pretty funny parody nonetheless. Rockstar's the media troll. Don't take them too seriously.
@West
Just FYI, Ouran High School Host Club is several years old now, and so does not count. But I agree with your statement.
Pretty much fits the description of about 10 percent of the animes out there
Funny how they're fine with parodying anime but tried to sue the ass off the guys making The Simpsons Game for parodying GTA...
LOL! I forgot abt that!
Just creepy, but it's true that too much moe will kill you.
english dubbing of japanese anime is the worst thing ever
german dubbing makes me cry
English dubbing was only bad back in the 80's before they had voice actors. And you cant tell me there has never been a bad Japanese dub.
I beg to differ ive seen some pretty badly dubbed anime and they were long after the 80s.
People like you make me rage.
blah, no flat chest loli.
epid fail
or does that mean they think loli is a good thing in anime?
LOL, simply LOL
I so lol'd 'coz of trufax XDDD
Is it just me, or does this seem to not be a parody of all anime, and is only a parody of the english dub of La Blue Girl?
Why is anyone talking about America? Rockstar North is located in Scotland.
America is the center of the universe, don't you know?
A great man once said: "Everything belongs to America." Said man, when asked where to flee to if banned from America, admitted he didn't know.
I know no one implied america is a bad place but still, america or more rather United States is a cool country, they don't ban media or register users internet records.
Maybe not the land of freedom it once was but still free'er than many other places in europe or asia.
This made me not hate Microsoft.
For like two seconds, but whatever.
Few could fault its grasp of the state of late 80s, early 90s anime FTFY.
Current state would be a moe moe harem parody.
"Crazy misogynistic sexuality"
QFT.
I hate it when anime sexualizes moe when you don't need to. In my opinion I think that's why some people look down on moe so much because it's being turned into some kind of worthless sex-sludge. Some people equate moe to something like this Princess Robot Bubblegum (to me it reminds me of really bad bargain-bin eroge).
...i NEVER get a baby hot girl in a basket on my doorstep.
Needs more lolis.
Yeah, for those wondering what a Japanese person thinks about this, he's laughing. Who you ask? My otaku next door neighbor. If I have his words correctly he said:
Eh, its the equivalent to you American otakus facination with Princess Lea. Not bad though.
"Eh, its the equivalent to you American otakus facination with Princess Lea."
Lol, let's not forget Lara Croft too.
i'lol'd hard at the video.
true story bro.
At least Girlchan in Paradise is actually entertaining. This one's actually a bit patronizing, much like those Meet the Spartans movies.
Funny, but not as funny as...
REPUBLICAN SPACE RANGERS!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5SFr1v4LY&NR=1
Also from the game.
Nah, boring.
"biting satire of the less than healthy state of the current anime market"?
How could this not have been made at any time since 1989?
It's also awfully blunt. "Why do I have to wear skimpy clothes? Anime has bad translation lol". The best joke was the deadpan "women dressed as schoolgirls" thing and the parody of loli via sexualizing the "baby" heroine.
Oppai Missiles!!
i actually saw this at GTA chinatown wars billboard. well not the video.
and it's way better than mainstream us cartoons, maybe the should try to keep doing parody anime instead of the stupid shows the come up nowdays.
aw man! i was hoping theyd say, "now we make'a love like, thrash can!"
Lol, Kappa Mikey?
Reminds me of La Blue girl...All the western just thinks off are tentacles.
this is soo stupid
Anyone who gets offended by this need to take a long, hard shit.