“Life makes no sense week” is brought to you by Hurricane Ike, Taro Aso, yaoi con, and Toonami’s gravestone.
1. Hurricane Ike destroyed Houston, which is TG’s spiritual home. Note that when we say ’spiritual’ home, we mean ‘place we have to visit when somebody dies.’ Our marketing manager’s DVDs and comics are floating in 3 feet of water, and thus he has nothing left to live for and has been placed on suicide watch.
ADV was placed under duress as well, but really, we’ve been hoping that company doesn’t get the Old Yeller treatment for about 2 years now. Sorry Stacy. : /
2. Taro Aso is now prime minister of Japan. Geeks are all excited because home dude reads comics. We welcome his devolution into impotent figurehead with open arms.
3. We will have buttons (see the above design), coupons, raffle items, and possibly gloms available at yaoi con this weekend in, where else, SAN FRANCISCO. RAGE!
4. On a personal note, we’d like to spend a moment commemorating the passing of Toonami. 11 years of really cool shows buoyed by inventive bumpers finally got the bozzack thanks to schedule changes, politics, and licensing and monetization.
Sure, sure… we’re reading enough posts and getting enough IMs and emails (aim us at tokyogetter sometime if yer bored and don’t mind random) to choke a donkey about it, but the fact of the matter is: times are changing. Perhaps people just don’t enjoy turning on a box and seeing their favorites anymore. I couldn’t tell you what’s on Cartoon Network right now and Gurren Lagann’s ending soon anyway, so I’ve handed my soul over to the total ennui that is… *gasp*… actually buying stuff or borrowing it from my friends.
All things aside, the Toonami scorecard? Ridiculous. Let’s go over the ROCK ACTION:
Voltron, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Ronin Warriors, G-Force: Guardians of Space, Blue Submarine No. 6, Tenchi Muyo!, Naruto, Cardcaptors, Zoids, .hack//SIGN, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, The Big O, Outlaw Star, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cyborg 009, Duel Masters, Astro Boy, Gundam, Rave Master, Zatch Bell, One Piece, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Pokémon, MÄR, The Prince of Tennis, Megaman Star Force, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, and Blue Dragon.
(Tell me you didn’t like one of those series enough to fall in love with anime. BTW, we carry doujin for many of the fine, fine series mentioned above at Tokyogetter.com…)
Enjoy your week ya’ll. Be safe.