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
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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.
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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.