Featured image: “Magical Girl Goes Shopping” by Sakimichan
Looks like probably some kind of mind-controlling villainess. This is really a superb image, disconcerting though it may be. I rather want to see or read something in which the heroine has this character as her final boss.
Magical girl – Kelly by Crizthal.
This is an interactive image made with Flash, so you have to click it and follow through to the original, where you can alter Kelly’s outfit at the touch of a button.
NAME: Jake Blatowski
CURRENT AGE: 14
THREAT LEVEL COMPETENCY: N/A
MAGITECH: None
“I can’t stand magical girls.”
Living in the relatively peaceful Juban District on the edge of Urbanopolis, Jake Blatowski has spent his life at a distance from the city’s perpetual monster attacks. Having never needed magical girls to defend him, he is annoyed by others’ obsession with them.
Convinced of his own maturity, Jake is eager to try out for the basketball team when he enters his first year of high school, but after a computer glitch erases part of his transcript, the school system in its wisdom sends him back—to fifth grade! Continue reading “JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Bio 6: Jake Blatowski”
This is the second installment of the visual history of magical girl anime from SourcererZZ. So far I’m quite impressed by this series.
Only one of the series that he discusses in this installment is readily available. The long-lost and decidedly obscure English dub of the 1982 series Minky Momo
It’s a good series, but it’s not that good.
Enter the Dynamo: Who is this mysterious girl … and why is she such a jerk?
When Jake got up in the morning, monsters and magical girls were in the news again.
He dressed in his brand new school uniform and checked himself out in the mirror. This was his first time in a suit. It couldn’t quite hide his gangly frame, but it looked sharp enough, if a little stuffy for his taste. He untucked his shirt, loosened his tie, opened his top button, and folded the French cuffs over the jacket sleeves—yes, that was better. He quickly ran his fingers through his mussed black hair before he slouched downstairs and landed in his seat at the breakfast bar. Leaning across the bar, he watched his mother, who, clad in a frilly apron, fried up breakfast. With a sweet smile, she slid a steaming plate of eggs and toast in front of him. Meanwhile, his father, coffee in one hand and a folded newspaper in the other, sat on the loveseat and hunched toward the television. The light of the TV played against his thick spectacles. Continue reading “JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 2”
Jake Blatowski is about to have a close encounter of the dynamic kind.
JAKE AND THE DYNAMO
5 · 2 · 2016
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal, Episode 29, “Ripples,” and Episode 30, “Two New Soldiers.” Toei Animation, April 2016. Approx. 48 minutes. Available on Crunchyroll.
I’m going to discuss what is arguably a plot twist, though if you know Sailor Moon at all, or even if you don’t, you’ll easily see it coming. I’m also going to discuss a scene that’s presented as if it’s supposed to be a shocker. So for courtesy’s sake, I’ll give a spoiler warning on this review, though I don’t think I’m actually giving much away. Continue reading “Review: Sailor Moon: Crystal, Season 3 Episodes 3-4”
“Magical Girl” by NEKO♨@真·提督無双
I think these are supposed to be characters from Tohou Project dressed up as sailor senshi. They also just happen to look somewhat like the Moon Princess’s gang of sukeban magical girls, who will show up later in Jake and the Dynamo.
I recently found this series of videos on the history of mahou shoujo anime by SourcererZZ. Somehow, he’s managed to dredge up clips from early shows, including some that are quite hard to find. He seems to know his subject very well. Depending on what he gets into, some of his later videos might be NSFW, but this first one is a pretty good overview of the evolution of the genre from its origins with Sally the Witch to the early 1970s with Cutie Honey (that last getting a little racy toward the end of the video).
He’s a little hard to understand and rather quiet, but if you turn on the closed captions, he’s added accurate subtitles.
… I don’t even know what that is. But it kind of looks cool:
This is in some mysterious fashion linked with the new Facebook page for Jake and the Dynamo. I think you can scan it with your phone using the Messenger app. You might have to print it first.
Back in my day, things you scan with your phone were square and looked like mazes. You kids these days have it easy, what with your pictures and circle thingies.
As an added note, Chapter 2, of Jake and the Dynamo, “Enter the Dynamo,” will appear this coming Monday, just in time for Mother’s Day … at least if you like to get your mom things like free ebook chapters because you’re some kind of cheapskate tightwad who doesn’t appreciate his parents.
Chocolate and flowers, dammit. That’s what your mother wants, not magical girl ebook chapters! Believe me, I know this.
Because she told me last night.
Zing.
Oh, by the way, like our Facebook page. I promise not to talk about your mom.
