Cool bits, cracktastic bits

[rachelmanija]

telophase has created a Cool Bits story generator.

The narrative is about triumph beating the odds. Romance blossoms between a scholar and a woman with a gun, while difficulties they encounter include sex against a wall and nothing being as it seems.

oyceter said that someone should make a Cracktastic Bit generator. I here solicit suggestions of cracktastic bits. They can be from any genre or media, though I do think that manga and anime gives great cracktastic.

By "cracktastic," I mean giant talking soldier ducks, giant robot chickens, heads in jars, heads in jars because the villain cut them off and put them there and hopes to clone the body and revive it so he can kill the person again, random incest, exploding heads, cannibal zombie angels, giant floating eyeballs, diseases that make your head spontaneously fall off, attacking floating fetuses, boys dressed in girls' sailor suit uniforms, "I cross-dress because it's so relaxing!" transformations into pandas, adorable chibi side illustrations of eyeballs on a platter, characters wearing kimono in Victorian London, little boys with bags over their heads and an axe in their hand, librarian chickens in tennis shoes and bonnets, possessed cockatiels, conjoined twin villains, combat butlers, butlers named Rifael Rafael, prosthetic limbs that double as any kind of weapon but especially guns or rocket-launchers, tentacle rape, characters with missing eyes (it's a thing), "Whatever you brought home, make sure you share it with your brothers! Oh... it's a wife?"

You know. Stuff like that.

What are your favorite cracktastic bits?

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the reason I like the anime more is that it would cost so much money to catch up on the manga. :D My TiVo catches it and I have it on in the background while I do art or I watch it while I bike - it's perfect for that.

I think they're broadcasting the final season of the anime now. The manga is still ongoing in Japan, and I'll eventually have to figure out where they split and start getting the manga. But I bet octopedingenue will be happy to help me there. :)

If you were going to start it, you really need to watch the first season more-or-less in order because they introduce all the major characters there - I accidentally got the DVDs out of order and missed the one where the lecherous monk Miroku and the demon-slayer Sango were introduced, so it was confusing until I figured out who they were and why they were traveling with Inu-Yasha and Kagome. After that, until near the end it goes into a repetitive formula of searching for the baddie of the week to regain the shard of the Shikon Jewel that said baddie has, all the while searching for, almost catching, and then losing the main villain Naraku. It's near the end that you start getting things that permanently affect the characters.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

Adult Swim made it all the way through the final season of Inuyasha a while ago, so they're recycling through it now. The schedule's a little random--you can try to find an episode list somewhere and match it up to their schedule to see where they are.

I've been renting individual disks in order to watch it in Japanese, in order. Advantages to watching in Japanese: honorifics (which just add a lot to character interactions, and are very hard to translate); Jaken's voice actor is much less annoying; and you get to actually hear the opening songs, which Adult Swim doesn't play for some reason of their own.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'd watch it in Japanese with the subs, because I'm usually a subsnob, but I'm desperately working on a comic right now, and I don't hate the dub, so it works perfectly to be on in the background while I'm working on the computer. except that I ahve to stop and watch the TV when Sesshoumaru is on because I am a sad, sad fangirl

[octopedingenue]

it's okay I do it too. also with Koga, although I hate his dub voice hate hate haaaaate

also if Sesshomaru is onscreen it usually means there might be actual PLOT DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING

[octopedingenue]

The anime ends with episode(s) 166-167, which roughly corresponds with chapters 345-356/volumes 36-37. Some actual "wait wait WHAT OMG" plot development occurs in the manga after the anime ends, which kills me. At least the first 3 of the 4 movies are loosely in canon with the anime but not the manga. The manga is currently up to chapter 503/volume 51 in Japan, making Inuyasha Rumiko Takahashi's longest-running series (not incidentally, she is one of Japan's richest women). Someday my corpse will be found buried Scieszka-style beneath my collapsed shelves of Inuyasha manga. Bookmooch.com and Half.com have helped a lot.

Ear-Tweak is an excellent information resource for the series, including the lovely cracked-out soundclips collection.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks. :D I think I'll be treating Inuyasha like Rurouni Kenshin and starting to buy after the anime continuity ends, and work back on getting a full collection. :D

[octopedingenue]

Bookmooch has a good cache of the early volumes, especially people dumping their older Viz editions--which is dumb, since they're bigger and prettier and all the manga's flipped anyway. (I keep meaning to check if Kikyou's kimono is originally folded "flipped," i.e. lie a corpse's.)

[octopedingenue]

Also, one of the videogames is an RP in which you play a Mary Sue and you fight with the gang and are rescued by Sesshomaru and Inuyasha falls in love with you sort of. I WANT.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

WANT