We're off to the movies! Let's see how Dragon Ball has been carried to live-action around the world! First up: Korea!

Movie Title: Dragon Ball: Son Goku Fights, Son Goku Wins (1990)

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Wow. Wooowwww. WTAF. I... might just have to seek this thing out. As they point out in the above, there are choices.

The best parts of this video were the parts where they weren't talking about Sparking Zero or Dragon Ball, which were significant portions of that 47 minute runtime.

"The answer may surprise you!"

I would've said either Makoto/Jupiter or Haruka/Uranus. Ami/Mercury would've been at the bottom of my list, or maybe tied with Hotaru/Saturn.

Though I guess it depends on if powers are allowed or not. In that case, maybe Mercury would be at the top, since she's about the only one of them who has non-lethal powers. As one of the comments mentioned, maybe the Shabon Spray could be used as a Great Muta poison mist kind of thing? *shrug* But even then, just from a personality standpoint, I don't see Mercury doing well as a professional wrestler, simply because it doesn't seem like the kind of thing she'd ever want to do.

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Via KaiserNeko of TeamFourStar.

"I'm incredibly fucked up over this, so I needed to get this out.

"Toriyama not only changed the manga industry, he changed the landscape of ART. The sheer scale of his influence is as immeasurable as it is profound.

"The art he created, the lives he's touched, the work he's inspired. Words alone could never do the man's life justice."

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Hearing these two guys talking about Pat being a new dad is pretty surreal.

Given the thumbnail, I was expecting them to talk about how changing diapers was like Diavolo being hit with Gold Experience Requiem, except with diaper changing instead of dying, but they never mentioned it. Pat just said he'd gotten a lot of practice really quickly, and it had messed him up so much that he went to bed worrying about poop under his own balls.

And by "Mario fans," Polygon really meant "that one guy on Twitter who happened to remember this obscure as fuck anime movie." What bothers me way more than the possible return of this Haru guy is the possible return of that ass-ugly yellow/orange color scheme for Luigi.

Oh, and here's the movie in question, by the way (which I will be watching for myself in a bit):


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In this, the Mario brothers are not plumbers, nor are they carpenters. In this, they run a grocery store. Go figure.

Mario is kind of cowardly. And while both of them are greedy, Luigi is the far more greedy one of the two. And, most of all, both of them are kind of egregious dumbasses.

And yet, they still manage to save the princess in the end, with the help of the three power items (mushroom, flower, and star) and that little blue dog thing that turns into Prince Haru in the last five minutes of the movie. As such, I certainly wouldn't say that he's "the worst guy" or "one of the Mario franchise’s most despised characters" or "a guy that people hate." (Really, Peach could do way better than Mario as he was depicted in this movie. That said, I don't necessarily think she should be basing her marital decisions solely on legends about random guys wearing matching jewelry, either.)

The Toads in this were weirdly hot.

There was a brief scene where Mario is dressed as a stereotypical Mexican bandito... for some reason. I wonder when that particular power up will ever appear in one of the games. ¬_¬ (Assuming it hasn't already, and I'm just not aware of it...)

And there were these strange moments where they'd stop everything to advertise things like Mario ramen or Mario rice seasoning. It was really odd and out of nowhere.

Okay... so, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible, either. I'd say it was probably at least on par with anything you'd see in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It was certainly a better representation of the games than the live action movie was (though I still have a soft spot for that one, even so). Can't compare it to that new The Super Mario Bros. Movie, since I still haven't seen that one, yet.

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Okay, the editing on this is pretty good. Minh as an eldritch abomination is pretty neat.

Haruhi is one of those "been meaning to get around to that someday" shows for me. That said, while I know about the whole Endless Eight thing, I was actually unaware until now that the show itself, as a whole, was aired intentionally out of order from what it was in the light novels.

I'm honestly not sure if that makes me more or less inclined to want to watch it someday. Assuming I ever watched it at all, I'm not sure if I'd try to watch it in chronological order, or original broadcast order.

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Yeah, this is my second post just today alone that has to do with Executive Meddling.

Cowboy Bebop is yet another one of those "haven't watched it yet, but maybe someday" anime. As such, I already had next to no interest in the Netflix version.

Like, at all. (Dreamwidth posts don't count, not really.)

I've left MLP/Star Trek crossover fanfiction behind. (Like, duh, since I haven't written any of that since before moving back to NC from WA). Or, perhaps more appropriately, it left me behind, given I kinda stopped watching MLP:FiM after the start of season 5 or so, even though I always keep meaning to go back and watch the rest of it "someday." (Sure, I'll get right on that after I finish Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and/or Sailor Moon Crystal which I've also been meaning to get around to watching "someday." In any case, the likelihood of doing that getting me to write another Sailor Moon/Castlevania fic or whatever is about the same as [re]watching MLP is to getting me to finish those MLP/Trek things. I.e. not too awfully high at all.)

But there's always that novel that I've been "working on" for the past... *counts on fingers* ...eight... no, more like almost nine by this point... ...years... ....goddamn..... now... and on which I've made next to no progress for about half that time.

Or the other novel that I've been working on occasionally thinking about for even longer than that, by like at least a whole decade (talking even pre-DigiPen here), and even wrote a shitty prologue for at one point.

Hell, I barely even write in my damn pencil-and-paper journal anymore. Maybe once or twice a month at most, these days.

Thought I'd cheer myself up a bit by listening to some music... but then that just got me thinking about Alec Holowka again... which probably isn't the best thing for my frame of mind right now. And yet, I'm still listening to it even as I type this thing here, whatever this is. Oh well, at least I haven't reached Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls levels of funk, yet... oh... wait... (Seriously, I love that song, and it's my favorite of that soundtrack, but it [and some of the others] can be pretty damn depressing, if I'm in just the wrong sort of mood, which appears to be the case tonight.)

Blargh. Should probably just go to bed already. Enough 報復性熬夜 (and self-referential links) for one night, I guess.

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