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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Rockstar pull the piss out of everything , why wouldn't they do the same to anime. I thought it was great.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Pretty much fits the description of about 10 percent of the animes out there
english dubbing of japanese anime is the worst thing ever
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.
german dubbing makes me cry
People like you make me rage.
LOL, simply LOL
blah, no flat chest loli.
epid fail
or does that mean they think loli is a good thing in anime?
ITS ANIME AT ITS FINEST!
I love that part.
best show this season
*waits until the episodes get on the Internet*
Satire is serious business.
Excuse me while I buy an XBox.
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.
@West
Just FYI, Ouran High School Host Club is several years old now, and so does not count. But I agree with your statement.
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.
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
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?
i actually saw this at GTA chinatown wars billboard. well not the video.
Oppai Missiles!!
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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5SFr1v4LY&NR=1]
Also from the game.
"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.
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.
Reminds me of La Blue girl...All the western just thinks off are tentacles.
Anyone who gets offended by this need to take a long, hard shit.
This video still makes me laugh, because it's so accurate.
aw man! i was hoping theyd say, "now we make'a love like, thrash can!"
Lol, Kappa Mikey?
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).
Needs more lolis.
...i NEVER get a baby hot girl in a basket on my doorstep.
"Crazy misogynistic sexuality"
QFT.
This made me not hate Microsoft.
For like two seconds, but whatever.