Weird Japan!

After I am finished with my review of Death Note, I thought I would take a quick break at reviewing anime and do something I have been wanting to do for a while. Back in March of this year, I had the idea of taking a comical look at some videos showcasing some of the weirdest stuff to ever come out of Japan in a format somewhat similar to the Nostalgia Critic's commercial specials. I intended it to be the first installment of a regular segment of the show, but I decided to postpone it after the earthquake in Japan fearing it would be distasteful posting it so soon after the earthquake. Instead, I did a somewhat rushed and relatively short review of the anime To Heart which was going to follow afterwards. So rather than my review of Chobits, which I was originally going to do, I am thinking of setting some time aside to finish this project first. At least it gives me more time to plot out what my review of Chobits will be like.

F**k Youtube!

I regret to announce that as of this week, I have left Youtube for good. Actually, no. I don't regret it. In fact, I say good riddance!  I stopped posting my reviews to my Youtube account after getting two of my reviews removed over Youtube's paranoid copyright policy. After posting a couple of parody shorts here and there, I thought it would be okay to start posting trailers to my reviews on Youtube, but alas, they finally got around to removing my account entirely. Well I say, What the ****?! You give me a copyright complaint for under less then twenty seconds of copyrighted material, and yet you allow some kids to upload entire episodes of Spongebob Squarepants and not give a damn?! How hypocritical!
 Second, what the hell happened to Fair Use? I did a ton of research on Fair Use Policy, both in the US as well as in Japan even before I posted my first episode. I read that it is okay to use copyrighted material in trans-formative works such as a review, parody, educational, or other works of that nature and my videos clearly fit within the boundaries of such works. Plus, if that were to be the case otherwise, then things like Let's Plays, video remixes, AMVs and certainly doujinshi would also be illegal. However, Japan is full of people selling doujinshi yet the producers of such original work the doujinshi is based off of could care less!  Third, most of you who know me very well know that I will not review an anime series if I do not own a physical copy of that particular show to be fair to the people who made said anime. Plus, any money I make from this is from things I have made myself or from running advertisements on my site.
 Finally, Youtube purposefully made it difficult to restore your account with them if it is removed and quite frankly, I don't have the time and energy to go through all the hoops and loopholes in order to get my account back on Youtube. And when Youtube removes a video or worse yet your account, they don't give you a full reason why they removed it nor do they give you any proof of such.
Now I know why the Nostalgia Critic decided to leave Youtube and I wholeheartedly agree with him. Bottom line, Youtube is overly paranoid with their copyright policy, hypocritical, and difficult to deal with to get your videos back online if removed. Screw em! I am done with Youtube!

The Reasons Why I Haven't Reviewed A Gundam Title

I'm writing this article guessing that you're wondering " It's been almost forty episodes in, and still he hasn't reviewed a Gundam Title." Well, here is why. First, is that the Gundam Series is a huge series with over fourteen TV shows and countless movies. It is intimidating just picking out which one of the Gundam shows that would be the best one for a review. Then there is the snowball effect. Just picking one Gundam title to review will have other people wanting me to review their favorite Gundam title and quite frankly, watching and reviewing all of them is a phenomenal task. Then there is the time it takes to watch and review a Gundam title since each of them usually consist of two seasons, each containing about 24+ episodes each which would possibly be stressful on my schedule. Since I release a new review about every couple of weeks, I would find trouble in watching shows that consist of more than thirty or so episodes. For instance, For me to review Gundam Seed would require twenty-two hours for me to watch in less than a week in order to fit the time needed to write the script, record the audio, select clips of the show I want to use in the review, film the necessary footage needed and edit them all together, which takes about another week to do. And that doesn't include other daily things I need to do! Last and not least, I just haven't gotten around to watching a Gundam title yet and if I decide to review a Gundam title would take a good deal of planning in oreder to give the review some justice. There is one Gundam title I am thinking of reviewing, but it's not a title that you would expect. If you want to know what it is, you'll just have to wait until the premiere of Season 3 to find out!