Too many fandoms, too little time!
I missed the tail end of a loss in order to indulge in fandom tonight - I caught the Speed Racer movie. That show was my first anime - my gateway drug, if you will - and the movie was just like the show. I adored it. It brought back my fourth grade year in a flash! Just a warning - don't see the film if you suffer from epilepsy. It was designed to bring on epileptic fits, I swear!
It also reminded me of how I spent my childhood - playing a very cheesy racing game called Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA on the N64. The game was the sequel to San Francisco Rush and was, well, not very realistic - touching practically anything blew your car up, but that was part of the fun. Anyway, one of the stages in Rush 2 was simply called 'Stunt,' and the premise of it was to jump off of things and do cool tricks to get points. The thing was, the car would usually explode if it landed wrong. My kid brother and I still play this game on a reasonably regular basis, as it gets us incredibly cheap laughs. Here's a little gameplay video I found! If you see two red jumps that look like boobs...yeah, that's what he and I call them. Actually, everyone who plays this game calls them that, so...yeah.
Today was a huge fandom day for me, actually, because I spent most of the afternoon watching Oofuri videos on YouTube. And I screencapped a few epic moments, which I'll put under this cut...
I think Sakaeguchi is onto something. Hanai doesn't seem too pleased...
For the record, Sakaeguchi, who is a rather intelligent yet incredibly easily amused middle infielder, reminds me very much of Jed Lowrie. And goddamn it, but I love him for it.
Tajima enjoys being strangled by Hanai, apparently.
Mizutani and Sakaeguchi get their cheesy karaoke on!
And finally, there was, well, this one of Tajima and Hanai. And words just utterly fail me here.
I think I'm kind of in love with that last one. It just cracks me up...
Fake baseball - it makes me feel better when real baseball doesn't always work out.
It also reminded me of how I spent my childhood - playing a very cheesy racing game called Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA on the N64. The game was the sequel to San Francisco Rush and was, well, not very realistic - touching practically anything blew your car up, but that was part of the fun. Anyway, one of the stages in Rush 2 was simply called 'Stunt,' and the premise of it was to jump off of things and do cool tricks to get points. The thing was, the car would usually explode if it landed wrong. My kid brother and I still play this game on a reasonably regular basis, as it gets us incredibly cheap laughs. Here's a little gameplay video I found! If you see two red jumps that look like boobs...yeah, that's what he and I call them. Actually, everyone who plays this game calls them that, so...yeah.
Click to viewToday was a huge fandom day for me, actually, because I spent most of the afternoon watching Oofuri videos on YouTube. And I screencapped a few epic moments, which I'll put under this cut...
I think Sakaeguchi is onto something. Hanai doesn't seem too pleased...
For the record, Sakaeguchi, who is a rather intelligent yet incredibly easily amused middle infielder, reminds me very much of Jed Lowrie. And goddamn it, but I love him for it.
Tajima enjoys being strangled by Hanai, apparently.
Mizutani and Sakaeguchi get their cheesy karaoke on!
And finally, there was, well, this one of Tajima and Hanai. And words just utterly fail me here.
I think I'm kind of in love with that last one. It just cracks me up...
Fake baseball - it makes me feel better when real baseball doesn't always work out.