I've been thinking about the sort of TV/Movies/games/etc. that I like and I've come to a few conclusions about the sort of things I like: Fun over-the-top 'awesomeness,' generally with lots of camp and cliché, with plenty of "what the crap?" moments that are just so crazy awesome you just can't help but laugh.
Examples of this are some of my favorite movies: Press Start, Dragonball Evolution and, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Games such as Castlevania, (where you whip a wall and get turkey,) Super Mario Brothers (What the crap is a goomba, anyway?) and many other games full of those "What the crap" moments. Malstrom wrote in his blog about this sort of things, the "What the Crap" moments making a game fun, but I can't be bothered to look it up to give you a link.
This is only spurred on by some of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid: Power Rangers, Xiaolin Showdown, Jackie Chan Adventures. These all have that same over-the-top awesomeness/silliness.
Anime has it too.
All of the things I've mentioned have that same over-the-top awesomeness/silliness that comes from anime. I haven't even mentioned my favorite shows growing up that were anime: Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Escaflowne, and others. Power Rangers is pretty much just a live-action anime.
And so we come to today, where I've browsed through various anime and found this (it's about a half hour long, so be warned. Also apparently Veoh won't work in some countries, so sorry if you can't watch it):
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This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. This is what I mean when I say that games, movies, music, books, et cetera, are all getting too 'serious,' 'artsy,' and generally just 'adult,' and aren't fun anymore. They should be more like this. Fun. light. Not afraid to be corny, cheesy, or campy.
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