Salmon Flavored Toothpaste.

I’m going to be very honest here people. By and large, I don’t care for anime. For me, the curtural relevance of having a “serious themed” program’s characters wildly flail about and be redrawn as sock puppets is lost on me and it rips you forcefully from any engrossment in the show’s plot. YES, DAMN IT, they all look the same. Pull any five characters from any five American/European animation studios and try to find ones that are similar. You’ll not find any as similar as a random grouping of five anime characters. The end of the world, extremely oppressive governments, giant demons/robot suits and tentacles aren’t fun anymore, and I never liked the cat-girls/obvious promotion of pedophile jailbait as Japanese themes would have me to believe…


HOWEVER! There are a trio of cartoons from the Land of the Rising Sun that I LOVE. Mostly because of the unique plot lines, character types, and animation styles used In the production of them.




Lupin the 3rd: Fun, upbeat stories about a clever thief, western gunslinger, Japanese samurai, and the thief’s would-be main squeeze who travel the world stealing rare treasures and do their best to avoid the authorities. Old as dust, but it’s a barrel of fun. Police chief “Pops” steals the show with his attempts to apprehend the world-famous thief, Lupin.




Shin-Chan: Japanese South Park with a SUPER-DUBBED hilarious version that never fails to make me laugh. Rude, crude, & often nude, this is one unique and iconic funny show. His dubbed friend “Georgie” who talks like a complete Right-Wing American (Like myself) always gets a smile out of me. Money…. Makes Life Happy! :P




Death Note: WOW. Story that grabs you by the ghoulies with twists & turns that you will not see coming, beautifully fleshed out characters, action, suspense, mystery, apples. I need to watch volume 9, so Netflix here I come!

And to my readers, I’m so sorry about the lack of posts Mon & Wed, my Network was down, but I’m back in business baby! Enjoy the weekend, and see you next week!