Tokyo ghoul live action (film review)

due to its limited run in America I know most of you haven't had the chance to see this yet well at least not in hd I'm sure theres bootleg cam versions going around the internet, but I was lucky enough to catch the Tokyo ghoul film in theaters last week and my first impression was FINALLY!!! A TOP NOTCH LIVE ACTION ANIME FILM THAT SURPASSED THE ANIME.  I know the anime is beloved by many but to the people who have read the manga the Tokyo ghoul anime especially Tokyo ghoul root a were left disappointed do to how much of the manga plot points were left out of the anime and it became a basic battle anime in root A and ruined the well written and character development plus the phycological downfall of ken kenkai.  The anime just didn't have the same impact that the manga  did but the film corrected a lot of the flaws that the anime had and was a more faithful adaptation of the manga.  The film covers the first 3 volumes of the manga series from his initial transformation to a ghoul by rize intill his first confrontation with mado and Amon, and for the most part its faithful.  The only real deveation I noticed was the actual fight between ken and Amon in the source material it was one sided with Amon destroying ken, this was before he went though the turner with Jason and was still a whimp.  Here ken holds his own well before finally getting defeated.  Its a film so top notch action sequences are neccesarry so I understand why they did it and if theres a sequel which I'm sure there will be  the only thing it hurts is a little bit of the character development in ken since he didn't come more aggressive and more intune with his ghoul abilities and was more of a annoying crying whimp of a character intill the gruesome torture at the hands of Jason. here he's more hardened already when he first encounters Amon  but its something that I could easily look past.  The acting here was superb masataka Kubota nailed every aspect of kens character to a t.  Visually stunning and even though it wasn't  perfectly done I was thoroughly impressed with the cgi when it came to the kagune, it didn't look to out of place and looked like it could be a part of there characters instead of just shittly cgi that usually used with things like these that just make it look out of place.  Overall even though I like it I disagree with a lot of the reviews I've read that have called this the best live action anime ever that title for me still stays with rurouni ken shin and its two sequels but this was defiantly one of the better ones in recent memory and it won't disappoint neither the fans of the anime or the manga.  

overall grade

8.5 out of ten

neko majin z (manga review)

Akira toriyama is a legend in the manga community even before dragon ball z he was a highly successful manga writer with the critically acclaimed and top selling dr. slump series. Known for his unique sense of humor back in the dr. slump era people forget Akira toriyama is essently a comedy manga artist who got pulled into the battle shonen genre by the rapid success of dragon ball z. Today where gunna take a look at Akira toriyama's lesser known manga Neko majin which is essentially a parody of his own work dragon ball z and from beginning to end this product showcases the true nature of who Akira toriyama is as a magna artist.  The first two chapters known as "neko main" focus on a anamorphic cat like creature named neko majin who is a mischievous yet childlike creature who helps others, and its also established he's a budding martial artist. Its obvious from the first introduction and by his name he's a parody of majin buu something that is eluded to later in the manga. Typical toriyama comedy gags remenisint of the dr. slump days are sprinkled thought the first two chapters, but where this manga really picks up is during chapters 4-8 known as nekko majin z which is a dragon ball z parody written by the creator itself, and its highly enjoyable while adding more characters into the overall dragon ball z lore.  in chapter 4 Neko majin is fighting a local celebrity while he is distributed by  kuriza who is the son of freeza to a fight kuriza goes into his final form while neko powers up before the fight begins neko majin becomes self aware there no more pages left to cover the fight in the manga so they give up and walk away.  I thought this was very cheeky and a enjoyable read small subtle humor toriyama was known for before the dbz days nothing outlandishly funny or complex but tongue and cheek and enjoyable for what it is. Like I stated earlier neko is essentially a caricature of majin buu and when theres two meet I find it hilarious, I love how this manga is self aware of what it is a parody.  When buu finally meets neko he makes fun of his squinty eyes for neko to point out they look the same and act the same and challenges neko to a fight which buu destroys him.  Like I said theres nothing complex about this manga and its fairly basic with not much outlandish humor but its a call back to the style toriyama was known for before z and its refreshing.  Is it a masterpiece no but its only 8 chapters and its a entertaining read and anyone who is a fan of older toriyama or even dragon ball z for the parody of it should at least check it out and give it a once over read.

ajin-demi human (anime review)

 I just finished ajin-demi human. The show revolves around kei nagai who just found out he's a ajin a human/demon world who can never die and can summon black ghost and his trials getting used to being a ajin as well as avoiding the government and stopping another ajin Sato from committing terror attacks in Japan. This show was well paced and dived deep into the phyci and struggles of the main characters. What I enjoyed the most it felt like a well written strategy based war drama with strategic planning. Kei teaming up with the anti ajin government group to stop Satos quest at world domination had me on my feet and glued to the screen. The end was a little disappointing since instead of one of the plans working Sato Is finally stopped by a flood of black ghost that kei didn't even know he can do, a sort of asspull you see in a lot of shonen battle anime. Another thing I didn't like was the CGI animation. The characters lagged alot especially while walking feeling like Netflix was buffering but was just the shitty CGI which hurt the overall quality of the show for me. Another for the plus column for me was the opening sequences and music music was top notch and the animation was stellar fitting perfectly with the music. Overall between the fleshed out characters strategic war like feel and the phycological aspects of keis character development I really enjoyed this show even if the animation wasn't to my liking.  Overall id give ajin a 7 out if ten

TOKYO GHOUL RE: CHAPTERS 144-146 ANALYSIS ken kaneki's decent into full anti-hero territory when the hero becomes the villain for the sake of uniting all

You try your hardest to change the world for the better but no matter how hard you try nothing's changing so you make yourself a martyr go against your strong moral code and become the enemy, a enemy so powerful everyone has no choice but to unite to stop you. This is a character trope that we have scene in comics, manga, and anime for years from Batman in the Dark knight film to leleuche in code geas and it's always been a trope I've loved if done right. If something like this is foreshadowed if the main character has already dwelled in some morally grey moral areas for the sake of Justice then the turn from hero to villian or anti hero from the eyes of the viewers or readers is emotionally satisfying, and ohh was it heartbreaking yet absolutely necessary as well as a long time coming for ken kaneki,s heel turn to the ultimate evil for both human and ghouls. Ken kaneki was been one of the most fleshed out, emotionally damaged, tragic  characters in recent times in manga. From the time rize turned kaneki into a ghoul he was determined no matter what to still keep his humanity, determined not to embrace the ghoul inside him joining up with antieku the ghoul equivalent of vegetarians since they won't feed on humans to survive, and even though he's been slowly losing grip of his humanity he still tries to unite humans and ghouls into peacefully living together and still holding tightly to the little shread of humanity he has left.  His descent into the more anti-hero territory had started during his torture by yamori (Jason), while trying to hold on to his sanity and escape the pain he started having mental conversations with the embodiment of rize who was still a part of him.  Taunting him for being weak and fragile, phycolologically toying with his sense of self righteousness she pushing him to stop only caring about himself and worry more about others, which in logic is a good think but in the fragile mind state kanenki was in during the torture it pushed him into a more darker character with a punisher mentality save the ones you love at all cost no matter what you have to do.  In a matter of chapters ken went from a shinji from neon genesis evengalion character, a whiney emo teenager that was annoying into a more brutal more give no fucks as long as I save everyone vigilante character but despite this he still tried his hardest to stay a good person even if he was riding down a morally grey path at times, a example of this was his joining of agori tree.  Slowly thought the manga he started suffering from dissociative identity disorder while not hinted at much in the original Tokyo ghoul manga in RE. it slowly started coming full circle.  Having developed a more brutal emotionally broken second him in his mind a mental construct of himself still as "Jason's" prisoner who taunted him daily to embrace the more darker side of himself, a mental fight between his two selves he tried his hardest to win. eventually developing a third personality in the form of hide who helped him stay out of the moral grey areas.  This takes us to now starting with Tokyo ghoul re: chapter 144 when juuaza has taken ken down at he's at the bring of death.  Some might say what happens next is his final decent into darkness and fully embracing his full ghoul I intemperate the last three chapters we have so far as the most human he has been in the longest time ever if he fully transformed his kagune into full centipede form.  While slowly dying his mind turns to touka, how he won't be able to say goodbye to her, how we wants to see her one last time, fretting over the fact they haven't even named there child yet, and how he won't be in his Childs life since he believes he's dying.  Then he snaps the rize personality comes into full circle and tells him to kill everything in his path to survive no matter human or ghoul, then he transforms completely into his kagune and starts reaking havoc all over Japan. Yes the rize personality was domininate here but the most proment think that brought him to this state was protecting his wife and unborn child and creating a world of peace and humanity for his unborn child something any human would do anything to protect even diving into morally grey areas or completely psychotic actions to protect.  Its human nature to protect the ones you love and even though ken has fully embraced his ghoul side in appearance his mental state has not been more human since his turn into a ghoul.  Thats why I love the direction Tokyo ghoul is going and by the looks of it its slowly coming to a end but Len's full anti-hero decent is unique from every others I've seen for the fact its personal, its to see his wife one last item to hold his child, its the things that make us human the most that turn us to are darker selves and its a poetic visuals that mirror real life emotions.

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the fatal flaw of dragon ball super: taking the Naruto approach and writing villains so overpowered they have written themselves in the corner (Multiple times)

While watching dragon ball super the last two weeks one thing that has come to my mind and I'm sure to the mind of everyone else watching is how in fucksakes will goku defeat jiren.  They have written this character so overpowered it seems almost impossible that he will ever get defeated shit goku learns ultra instinct a ability that even makes the gods of destruction and kioshins tremble in fear, even making beerus sweat and yet jiren within a matter of seconds figures out his movements and manhandles goku with ease!!!  This has gotten me thinking back to naruto specifically Madara, and how even the writer of Naruto masashi kishimoto didn't even know himself how his main characters where gunna defeat him to the point he basically just gave up wrote another character in kaguya who was more powerful but had flaws Madera didn't who defeated Madara with ease but because of the flaws in kaguya nararuto and sasuke were actually able to defeat her.  It got me thinking has the writers over at dragon ball super writing them selves into a corner they can't come out of without completely switching antagonist or have to pull a ending out of there ass then I remember JUST ONE ARC AGO DRAGON BALL SUPER DID EXACTLY THAT and that doesn't give me high hopes for the end of this arc or how jiren will be defeated.  Remember back to the future trunks arc after goku black and zamazu fused into one being, he was unbeatable shit even goku and vegetarian fusing into yegito or even trunks Genki dama sword couldn't even end him for good, it took a cop out ending of goku hitting the Zeno button and Zeno erasing the whole future timeline to put a end to zamazu.  Dragon ball super has so far been having a good run at least since they got past the movie retellings and got into original material but the one major flaw and it has been since the beginning of super there writing there antagonist so overpowered there legitly no way for the heroes to win so they take a cop out ending. They even actually did this in the battle of gods arc based off the movies BEERUS JUST BECAME FRIENDS WITH GOKU WHEN HE COULD OF EASILY KILLED HIM, in the universe six arc hit could of actually killed goku but they handicapped him so there was no killing involved limiting hits strength, future trunks arc Zeno had to interview to end merge zamasu I'm afraid to even think what cop out there gunna have with jiren I mean dragon ball z was guilty of this a lot I also saw the spirit bomb as a cop out ending they'd power up transform can't defat the enemy fuse still can't defeat the enemy then magically kill them with a spirit bomb which they could of done the whole time.   Supers issue is the spirit bomb can't even be used as a cop out ending any more because it didn't kill merged zamasu and jiren just tanked it away with ease. While trying to please the fans with overpowered fights and transformations and stronger villains they have gotten to a point that Naruto did that there writing villains so over powered the heroes of the story can't even defeat them anymore and dragon ball super is only in its THIRD original arc and not ending anytime soon and this if not fixed will ruin this series

OCTOBER 2017 IS THE MONTH OF WU (DOUBLE REVIEW): WU TANG CLAN THE SAGA CONTINUES AND MASTA KILLA LOYALTY IS ROYALTY

THE SAGA CONTINUES


As a die-hard wu-tang clan fan even myself has to admit that the quality of music wu tang has released over the past decade has been sub-par.  Ever since 8 diagrams rza has been pushing a more experimental production style on new wu-albums a lot of hit or misses more misses than hits and albums so all over the place many fans including myself agreed that wu-tang needs to drop rza from main producer or stop releasing group products because what they were releasing was hurting there stellar legacy as one if not the greatest group in hip-hop history.  Apparently the cries of wu-tang fans were heard and even though most won't consider a saga continues as a (wu-tang album) its more of a compilation of songs that feature members of wu-tang clan) its still a step in the right direction for the group.  Rza here steps away from the production chair and lets long-term wu tang affiliated producer mathematics take full control of the soundscape of the saga continues.  The reviews so far have been polarizing some fans up in arms that the production style is to crisp and have them hating it just because it doesn't have that gritty stripped down  sound like 36 chambers, wu-tang forever or the w, and other fans praising this as the best wu-tang album since the W and commending mathematics for brining the real gritty wu-tang sound back.  Now my opinion yes this album is more polished production wise than there older work but the production on this album is still gritty and dark while being crisp and clear having a more lox sounding tone to it but it fits perfectly for the wu-tang sound, and as far as there best album since the w I have to disagree I believe iron flag is better (and HIGHLY HIGHLY SLEPT ON GETS MORE HATE THAN IT DESERVES  ITS ONE OF THERE MOST VERSATILE ALBUMS SOUND-WISE THAT DOESN'T MISS A STEP) but overall I really enjoy the sage continues and its a step in the right direction for wu-tang dropping a product that is reminiscent of there earlier work while sounding more polished than there older sounds. The lead single the people say which is the only full wu-tang song on here featuring redman is a soulful hip-hop track with some of the strongest lyrics by there members in a while. The best song on the album and the reason why I think aloof people can't appreciate this album since not every song is up to this caliber and few even come close.  People say is such a classic throwback style wu-tang track that had fans clamoring for more and while the rest of the album Imo is amazing none of it stands up to people say or the 2nd single ;lessons learn'd with inspectah deck and redman.  And thats this albums main flaw it showcased its two standout tracks way to early and gave people higher expectations for the album and while this album isn't bad the quality besides one other song on here doesn't come close to the singles.  The track Imo that does stand toe to toe with the lead singles is the method man track frozen featuring Chris rivers and killa priest.  This track is pure vintage 356 chambers wu-tang kung fu samples gritty stripped down beats with lyrical prowess and destruction by top tear emcees. I loved seeing chis rivers on this track who held his own with two legends because it gives him more exposure and even though he is the son of the legendary big bun he's still highly slept on.  Overall like I said I enjoyed this album a lot but the album isn't perfect, id compare this album to a smoke dza or chuuwee album while there are no bad tracks on this album most of the tracks are good but not expectational and nothing that stands out heavy besides 3 joints there just good while not providing those ear-gashing moments we expect from older wu-tang and while this is a step in the right direction for wu-tang its still not up to par with there older material which is sad especially since solo projects by wu tang members have been some of there best work yet especially ghost face kills and as of recent pasta kill which leads into the next review

 wu-tang clan presents the sage continues rating: 7.5 out of ten



MASTA KILLA LOYALTY IS ROYALTY

Masta killa has always been on the lower end of the talent spectrum in the wu-tang clan and on solo releases.  While no one can deny master killa is talented when you have a group who has 5 members who I could easily put on the top twenty of all time list master killa just takes a back seat. Though with his latest release loyalty is royalty he shows that most including me have been sleeping on him way to hard and his name should be mentioned with the likes of the higher rung wu members like ghost,rae, deck, and meth.  The album starts off with the track "return of thee masta) a track that has the same sound and vibe as anything on Raekwon's classic only built 4 cuban linx) With asian woodwind sounds setting the mood the opening track is the most wu sounding track out of any wu-tang releases in recent times, bringing back nostalgic feelings of when I was first introduced to wu-tang back in the second grade when wu-wear was all the age and c.r.e.am was in the lexicon of every person young and old black and white in America.   The albums standout track by far is therapy which samples the 1985 soul classic mr. wrong by r and b legend Sade, along with reman and method man this track not only has some of the best sample work I've heard all year on a hip-hop release it has three strong verses by three veteran emcees that prove they haven't lost there step.  Another stand out is the Sean price assisted down with me a song that shows homage and love to one of the most slept on yet relevant group of people when it comes to why rap music became so popular in the late 80's and early 90s and thats the mixtape dis and more importantly the college radio personalities such as mr. magic stretch and bonito that gave most of the 90s rappers there first major platform to be heard.  Even though how amazing this album is this album does have flaws while the flaws aint lyrical its more trying to fit in with times.  On the title track to this album a love song over a soulful instrumental that while lyrically strong feels off especially since ml's hard gritty delivery feels out of place over a beat that has the makings of a classic hip-hop ballad. Regardless though this is defiantly master kills best solo album and so far IMO my favorite album this year and defiantly a contender for album of the year