Awesome Raters

Greetings to the Outside World

2012-11-17T10:55:00.000-08:00

To all our friends and followers,

I was finally able to give this message out to the people. Myself and Captain Awesome have been captured and held hostage at this strange institute. They're making us do large and time-consuming amounts of work and the higher ups here are horrible and malicious. I'm not sure, but I think they call this place...college. Anyway, I wanted to tell everyone that we will be dealing with this place so videos might not come out all the time. Captain Awesome is using all the powers of awesomness to try and get us through this tough time so this will probably take a little while. Our sanities are slowly draining, so it'll probably make for a good video at some point. Still plan to finish Kirby Superstar, a Let's Watch of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and maybe a few Youtube favorites that we've seen. We will try to keep in touch with you all as much as the warden will let us. Until next time, stay awesome.

Yours truely,
Minaku the Otaku

Captain Awesome Doing First Time Solo Let's Play

2012-10-27T07:38:00.000-07:00

So I have been thinking lately. You have seen me play co-op games with Minaku the Otaku, but you haven't gotten my first solo let's play. Well ladies and gentlemen wait no further, as I Captain Awesome will take on my very first solo blog and it will be none other than.... A game of your choosing! Yes I want you our viewers give me your feedback and tell me a game you want to see me play. Of course seeing as I am limited on gaming supplies I ask it be a PC game and its not the newest game out here (people are broke no matter how awesome they are.). So leave a comment and tell me what you wanna see played by me. This is Captain Awesome signing off, telling you play hard, be cool, and stay awesome.

BRONIES UNITE FOR SEASON 3!!!!

2012-10-25T22:27:00.001-07:00

For all the Bronies and Pega-sisters in the world, Captain Awesome and myself plan to do a Let's Watch of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in celebration of Season 3 coming November 10th. LET THE BUNRING BEGIN!!!!

First Poll Results: GAMES ARE AWESOME!!

2012-10-23T14:34:00.000-07:00

Well ladies and gentlemen the people have it. As seen by our polls you all love games more than anything else. Seeing as we're here for all of you that is exactly what we will do and don't worry we are gonna be doing more polls like this every week so we can have more feedback from you our awesome viewers everywhere. It may not be awesome till we rate it, but it can't be rated till our Awesome Army brings it to the table. This is Captain Awesome telling you play hard, be cool, and stay awesome bros. Peace

Awesome Raters Play: Kirby Super Star Episode 2- Uber Rainbow Glitch Boss

2012-10-18T19:26:00.000-07:00

Once again It's the Awesome Raters doing what they do best and thats playing games and goofing off. But how will they do so with an Uber Rainbow Glitch Boss mucking things up? Stay tuned and see, and always remember to share, like, comment and join the Awesome Army today. Play hard, be cool, and stay awesome bros.

Awesome Raters Play: Kirby Super Star- Possessed by...Hell..

2012-10-18T05:20:00.000-07:00

Awesome Raters tackle an awesome oldie, Kirby Super Star. What shenanigans will the two raters get into?

Awesomely Epic Announcement

2012-09-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys if you don’t already know me from the Awesome Raters’ blog site than I am here to welcome you for the first time to Awesome Raters and of course this is your Captain of the Awesome Army himself MegaplayboyX a.k.a. Captain Awesome bringing to you what’s awesome in the neocentric community. Now for the people who have been reading our blogs and or been watching my girlfriend, Minaku the Otaku’s videos you have probably noticed that I have been gone for quite some time. Sadly it’s been a lot going on and I have not been doing written blogs, but that’s where this final written blog comes into play. I am here to announce that now the Awesome Raters are now going to be officially doing videos on YouTube and Blip.tv and showing you our stuff when awesome finally comes to video. Most of the videos will be let’s plays, but we will have other things like video game, anime and movie news as well as anything else we can make to show you pure awesomeness at its best. So until the next post this is Captain Awesome signing off telling you play hard, be cool, and stay awesome.

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Let's Play Facade part 3

2012-07-14T11:53:00.001-07:00

Apparently flirting with Trip did not help with solving their problems. Who knew?

Let's Play Facade part 2

2012-07-12T11:56:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! Still trying to go through Facade. But I don't know why I keep getting kicked out. I'm always a good guest in a house. But if the house if run by a man-bitch, then I might be a bit different.

Let's Play Facade part 2

Let's Play Facade part 1

2012-07-10T17:33:00.000-07:00

I was bored at some point and decided to play a game called Facade and record it. Have fun with my randomness and strange conversations. By the way, please ignore my obvious My Little Pony desktop.

Holy Night: Santa's Gonna Fuck You Up

2012-05-20T07:23:00.000-07:00

Holy Night: Santa's Gonna Fuck You Up

Well it's that time of year (or maybe not) where the lonely people get lonelier and department stores suck the last bit of money from our pockets that the government haven't gotten to yet. Since everyone on the internet already planned on doing something spewed with holiday spirit once the Thanksgiving turkey digested, I might as well follow the ranting crowd and soon found something that you may regret reading. For this week's Manga Management we look at a horrifying Christmas tale other than the creation of a Killer Santa Clause played by a wrestler. This one is called Holy Night by Shintaro Kago. It's a short horror one-shot manga by an artist that's very notorious for his "creative" images. I assure you that this shit beats any psycho killer snowman when the story circles around a very generous Santa Claus. But I digress. Let's get HO HO Horrible with Holy Night. (By the way, because this one has some adult content, I will be using black bars if I have to. Sorry boys.)

The government try to use a giant chimney to store the presents in, but they forgot the milk and cookies to go with it.

The basic premiss of this one-shot is apparently Santa is either very generous or he's very pissed off with Japan making more money for toys than his elf-made creations. This all seems well and dandy to get more and more presents, but soon the presents pile up and even crush people leaving the hospitals full of injured people and even death. The government tries anything to stop the craze fatass from a self defense force of jet pilots trying to shoot him down to a giant stocking to fill up the presents until he runs out. No matter what they try, people are continuously get more and more gifts and if Santa thinks you're not using your gifts or are happy with them, he brings more until you're crushed by a sea of Xbox video games. You know, 'cause it's Christmas! We circle in on one girl named Nobuko, who wanted a boyfriend for Christmas, but instead got a sea of vibrators and dildos. To be honest, this just sounds like a dream for Paris Hilton. A chance for her to swim in a sea of cocks? What skanky and ditzy blond wouldn't want that? But maybe Santa is a pervert. I mean he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. What the fuck is he doing at that time he watching you? The only thing Nobuko and her older sister can think of is by using every single one of them and make it look like she likes them. Next door to them, a guy is having sort of the same issue where Santa gave him a bunch of porn magazines to jerk off to. The older sister gets an idea that if her younger sister and the other guy have sex, then there would be less presents. Let's just pretend everyone is of age here and we won't have to keep calling the Japanese perverts, agreed?

I really prefer not to go into much detail about this image. I also suggest never to look at it for more than 10 minutes for fear of mental scarring and temporary blindness.

With the city being covered in a sea of presents and people possibly dying and being crushed to death, at least two people who just had sex are getting closer together...because they had sex. Really. Nothing else came from this (that's what she said. Yeah I put this there 'cause I knew someone would say it). Anyway, because they had sex and now realize that they love each other, although I'm sure they bare;y know each other since they're just neighbors, the gifts have stopped coming in and can relax in bed while the rest of the city is destroyed. At the end, I don't really get the present that Santa sent nor do I want to know how the hell that can be made by elves. While the presents do decrease, presents like lube and condoms, there's one that emits a bad smell and a troubling aura. I can't really explain where they were going for this last image so I'll just show you. The manga is short so it's not like it will take much time away from your last minute Christmas shopping. The author for this is Shintaro Kago, someone whose one-shots usually involve some weird or twisted realities that just scream "I'm not taking anything, but I'm definitely on something". His stuff I can't really say is harmless, but it's something twisted yet a little interesting. He mostly goes for the most awkward and uncomfortable situations imaginable. One story involving a teenage girl fad called harakiri, where people would cut their stomachs and show of their intestines. So you see teenage girls, if you can't lose weight by throwing up, you a big ass knife and cut the weight of (Note: I don't really indorse neither eating disorders or cutting. If you really by my sarcasm then please exit from this page right now). Anyway, for my rating, I give it 1 out of 5 candy canes. It's not like it's a horrible read...oh wait yes it is. But it's nothing more than a twisted one-shot and with one-shots you got to have something memorable. It's just one of those stores that's not for everyone. So until next time, this is Minaku the Otaku saying don't fuck with the red guy.

My Balls

2012-04-26T05:50:00.001-07:00

My Balls: Yes, It's as Fucked Up as It Sounds

For my dudes that are reading this, what if the fate of the world and all of humanity rested in the fact that you can't ejaculate for one whole month? It could be a cures to say the least, right? Well for some reason the thought of this is what created today's Manga Management selection entitled Oretama or "My Balls". Believe me I wished I made up this name, but then again that's what happens when I randomly click on a Japanese word and find out what it means. The story follows a young 19-year-old virgin named Kohta who, through some strange reason, ends up with The Queen of Terror sealed away in his testicles who was suppose to come out in July to end humanity and have demons rule the Earth. The only thing stopping her from taking over the world lies in Kohta not ejaculating by any means necessary. Because of this many types of demons keep trying to get him to lose his load such as his somewhat ally Elyse, a lesser devil. She wanted to make him release the Queen of Terror at first, but starts developing a soft side for the human Kohta. What comes of the anime involves a succubus, vampire, an invisible demon, and many more. Will Kohta hold the fruits of his loins or will it spell a moment of release for him and disaster for the world? Let's get the cock jokes coming and find out in today's Manga Management selection "My Balls". I guarantee that I may need a show after all this is done.

AHHHH! It's the One-Eyed Monster!!!

As I've said, this manga follows the troubles of a 19 year old virgin, who somehow gets The Queen of Terror named Lady Emanniel locked away in his "family jewels", unable to let her out in the whole month of July. Because of an old man angel named Michael (yes the one in the bible) chasing the Queen of Terror down, it leads to a drunk Kohta taking a piss at a closed shrine. The old man messes up the spell to seal her away in a crystal ball but instead seals her in one of Kohta's balls leaving a "69" shaped mark on it. The mark isn't censored but everything else down there is so don't get too many ideas you fucking perverts. The demons in Hell want their Queen to be released the month the Earth will be taken over, so they send Elyse, a lesser devil to make Kohta ejaculate. Elyse tried all she can, but due to her disgust of humans (and because she's a virgin) she can barely go near his franks and beans. She even used a spell to circumcise his privates so that they would be more sensitive. Because she's afraid of not making him do the white chocolate rain, she soon joins his side so no one takes the glory from her from trying so hard (Hehe. "Hard"). Elyse soon starts developing feelings for Kohta seeing as she gets angry with the thought of someone else making him bust a nut. So with the help of Elyse's support and magic and Kohta's willpower to save humanity, he tried to hold it in for one month, but trust me it's not easy.

Throughout the series, several devils come to Earth to try and make Kohta jizz, but that's the thing. They come only one at a time. The first one to arrive is Irene, the succubus, who tries to "eye rape" Kohta (still wish I was making this up). Irene is basically so powerful that she can even make guys feel good just by staring at them. But she's stopped and soon gives up and actually becomes an ally for Kohta. Her reason for saving humanity is because she wants to fuck all the pretty guys in the world. I guess it's to be expected as a succubus. But throughout the series, it's not just demons that get to him. At Kohta's workplace, there's a girl named Minayo who he has the hugest crush on. She seems well and innocent enough, but has one flaw to her perfection. Whenever she gets drunk, she turns into a nympho maniac and she can get drunk off of even just one beer. It would seem like paradise for Kohta, but seeing as he can't ejaculate, it's a curse for him. So along with female demons of every sort trying to rape him, he now has to worry about the girl of his dreams getting wasted and ending humanity. July sounds like a lucky month to me!

Let's just think of this as "sunscreen" and no one will have to take a steel wool bath.

I can't really go into much about the rest of the manga. Most of it just has the same plot going on for about 5 volumes. A demon comes, Kohta gets in danger, Elyse bails him out every once in a while, another day saved. It does get a little interesting when the demons of Hell don't want to wait for Lady Emanniel to come out and decide to just work on spreading the Apocalypse, where neither human of demons may win. The plot thickens like 3 week old semen when Kohta has to suffer at the hands of the Devil Satan, who tries to play with Kohta until he jizzes to death. The weird thing about Satan is that you would think she would be more "busty" but she's not. I guess when you have both the powers of light and dark, tits don't really matter. Yeah, as Michael states, she was a fallen angel that became Satan. They also used to date. Go fucking figure. Anyway, the showdown between Satan and Kohta is to have him last 10 hours of sex with her have Elyse and Michael crushed to death. Believe it of not, he doesn't hold it in. Even as Kohta let's his load fly, only the arm of Lady Emanniel comes out of his Johnson and is stuck due to all the back up plumbing issues. As Satan tried to pull the arm out, Elyse tries to stop her and both demons end up in the "danger zone" of Kohta's nut. I don't think this is what people meant when they say a girl is on his nuts too much.

This is the face of a demon that is very pissed off. Best to remember this.

So Kohta sleeps and subconsciously goes to where Satan and Emanniel are holding Elyse hostage and the only way to save her is for him to release the dragon. As a way of distraction, Kohta agrees to do it with Elyse, but is cut short when Michael and Irene pull the lesser devil by the tail that was still sticking out of the tip. What the fuck, man. This makes any sort of S&M look like child's play. Anyway, with Kohta at the mercy of the two higher demons, they try and make him ejaculate, but blacks out and he wakes up next to Minayo and with the date being August 1, the world is saved!! But he's not out of the abstinent hole yet. Because of holding in this issue, he has issues with his ejaculatory gland that might rupture. And with the two demons still in his sack after they were suppose to come out, the only way to protect Elyse is to make her human. The only way to make her human is to have her be in love with a human. you see where I'm going with this? Kohta says he loves her, she denies her feelings and runs away, and when Kohta goes out to a boob bar with his boss (best not to ask) he releases Satan. Elyse finally comes to terms with him and will even let him splooge even if it means releasing Emanniel and with that kind of sacrifice she now knows what love is and turns human. Emanniel is released, but Satan no longer wants to take over the human world... because Michael fucked her. Plain and simple. So the world is saved and Kohta and Elyse have two kids of their very own. Kind of a storybook ending, but with naked women in it. The story is standard though it could've been shorter since most of the middle volumes had the demons coming to rape Kohta. After about volume 2 it's the same pattern; a demon is sent after Kohta, Elyse and Kohta find a way to stop it, and then were reminded that we have to look at that same structure about 25 times. It's not a bad story with the childish romance between the two main characters and there's really not much action to it. I also do give them credit for using actual biblical names with certain demons such as Beelzebub and Asmodeus. It's definitely for the mature readers and to anyone who likes harem-themed manga it's a pretty decent choice. For this manga, I give it 2 out of 5 nuts (walnuts you pervs). That's about it for this Manga Management so I hope you take a look and have a good fap to this.

Goth: This Time the Dark Side Will Have Cookies

2012-04-17T21:40:00.000-07:00

For this segment of Manga Management, it is circled around the dark and dreary world of the creatures we call "teenager". We know most teenagers from manga and anime as peppy or energetic and in most cases, annoying. With this manga, we look at teenagers in a darker light. In fact, there might not be anything light about it. It's about murder. No sunshine romances and happy days bullshit here. Moving on, the manga I'll be reviewing is called "Goth" by Otsuichi. The manga follows two dark and disturbed teens who find they have in interest in death and murders that happen around them. Kind of like modern day Nancy Drew...only with more death. With the different murders and mysteries that happen around them, the dive into each other and get to know about each other and who they really are. Or who they really are not. You know, for something that's in black and white, it get pretty gruesome to read with the images and even the art of the characters. Your chibi faced and doe-eyed cuteness is now replaced with black irises and silhouetted scenes that makes you feel like you're in an old black and white detective story where the detective always wears a trench coat and only speaks in monologues. With the title of this manga, it can only be explained that anyone who has such a fascination with death and murder will be considered "Goth" so all you emos can piss off. I'll find something for you later. And Goth doesn't have any painted-up weirdos with piercings in every part of their body so don't look for any mentions of My Chemical Romance. So let's travel to the dark side and look at "Goth". And I do plan on letting off some spoilers to the manga so don't get pissy at me if you wanted a mystery story. I suggest you read it yourself, see what you like, and come back to this page and see that I know what I'm talking about!

Anyone want a million high fives from severed hands is welcome to smack their computer screens as much as you want.

The manga is only about 5 chapters and is a pretty short read. Nonetheless, it still takes the time to explain the male character's background in the first twelve pages.The character we're introduced to is nameless until the very last chapter (just to move things along, his name is Kamiyama). His story is pretty simple and basic; he's been a pretty messed up kid in the head. Even showing a panel of him as a kid coloring the faces of dolls black and dismembering them. Not really Bebe's kid, but more like Damien from "The Omen". In the first chapter, the news story is that someone is killing people and taking their hands. He has been watching a girl in his class named Yoru Morino, someone whose also very distant from people just like Kamiyama. Kamiyama finds out the culprit of the hand case and tried to provoke him into thinking Morino knows what he's done. The culprit is caught and Morino gets to keep her hands, to Kamiyama's dismay. Think of it as he wanted to hold her hand, except he didn't want the body or person who was attached to it. In a weird way, Morino and Kamiyama talk and become somewhat friends Thought I doubt you have a friend that plays with the thought of KILLING YOU!!! But they do realize that they have the same taste in death and murder and soon click (but there's nothing romantic about this whatsoever so get those perverted thoughts out of your damn head).


I don't think this kind of mosquito bite you can just put rubbing alcohol on and cover it up with a band-aid. Hope you weren't eating when you saw this.

The next story revolves around a notebook Morino finds at her favorite cafe that has the details of gruesome murders that happens. As the two walk through the forest one victim was supposedly killed in, they find her body mangled to the point of not looking human. Things get even more complicated when Morino decides to take the clothes of the victim and dress like her the next time she goes to the cafe with Kamiyama. Believe it or not, dressing and looking like a person from the news who was brutally murdered is not really the best idea when Morino is kidnapped, most likely be the killer. Kamiyama soon takes a guess and realizes who the killer is. The killer says congratulations to him, gives him the key to the room Morino is in, and leaves without another word. What the hell kind of killer acts this calm about being discovered?? And Kamiyama wasn't any much better. He just sat there and let the guy leave. The killer was basically the cafe worker of the cafe Morino goes to. Morino gets set free and Kamiyama gets a cool knife set left by the cafe owner and a piece of paper with a bunch of crosses on it. And no, it's never 100% explained why the killer had crosses on the paper.


Why the hell they did this picture for the 3rd chapter is beyond me. I guess it's hard to think of fan service ideas when the basic theme of your story is MURDER!!!

In another chapter, we start out with some random guy who buried a boy into the ground and drowned him using a stick of bamboo to flood the box. With no rhyme or reason. Just because he felt like it. Seriously!! That's the kind of reasoning for people who come back from Hell and start killing people because Hell was too boring. It's not like we ask Michael Myers why the hell he keeps coming back, but it at least shows how his life was shit and wanted to have some fun or whatever. But I digress. The big twist of the story is that the guy (whose mostly nameless through the story) thought he buried Morino, but buried some other classmate who found Morino's school ID somewhere. The girl turns out to have had a boyfriend who ultimately finds his girlfriend dead with Kamiyama. In pure grief, he has Kamiyama bury him with his dead girlfriend and on goes with the story. It's nothing really too interesting about this one since, for some reason, we mostly hang out with the killer and see that he's mostly just some confused guy who for some reason cared the fact that the girl died by killing herself.
As for the last two chapters, they deal with a gruesome past dealing Morino and her twin sister names Yu Morino. It's kinds of the cliff hanger chapters since it's finally realized that Kamiyama has wanted to kill Morino for a long. The background for the story is that Yoru and Yu liked playing jokes like they were dead to surprise people and while doing a hanging prank, her sister accidentally hung herself. The bulk is mostly that and in the end there's a bigger twist. This one, I'll leave you to find out. The last couple chapters are kind of the same as the rest of the book, but just involves the main characters more directly. In the end, Morino is depressed, Kamiyama is depressing, and you just feel like you need to watch the Care Bears Movie just to get your sanity back.
The book is fine for a read if you want something dark and mysterious. If there's one thing you notice in these stories is that whoever the villain or antagonist is in the chapter, it's someone related to the main characters, but it's so loosely connected that they don't even need to be there. It's not like you get too much info on whoever is the murderer in the chapter; it just passes by in a minute. Even in the final chapters, the killer turns out to be someone we're introduced to in the very last chapter. Another thing with this one is that what happens is usually a misconception or a coincidence. It tries to play itself as being dramatic twists, but most comes off as not getting the whole story all at once. Even how they find the killer is some twist of luck and coincidences. It kind of takes you out of the fact that these two people keep avoiding death as if the Grim Reaper was afraid of them. But the stories are interesting, the art is dark and fitting to the atmosphere, and the twists, no matter how forced, add more to the story. There's even a live action movie of the book called Goth: Love of Death. In the end, the manga isn't a big suggestion; it's more like a light read that you can be done with, not read it for a while, and end up writing a review on it for all of you six fans to read. I give it 2 out of 5 creepy ass skulls. A good story, but will remain just a one shot to me. Well that's it for my Manga Management this time. Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go get a teddy bear to help me sleep at night.

Doubt: Easter Will Never Be The Same

2012-04-11T08:25:00.002-07:00

Hello my anime and manga lovers. It’s Minaku the Otaku with yet another manga for your Manga Management. This time, were gonna be looking at something twisted, deceiving, and it somehow involves a bunny mask. Though I can’t really say anything about the bunny mask too much since just typing in the words “bunny mask” in Google images will probably give you nightmares (I‘ll probably do something like that for my next Random Shit segment just because of this). Anyway, the manga that I’m reviewing is called “Doubt” or “Rabbit Doubt” if you need the whole name. The backstory on this story circles around an online game called “Rabbit Doubt” where the object is to find the lying wolf in disguise among the helpless rabbits. Sounds easy enough, right? If you find and kill the wolf, the rabbits win. If you choose the wrong person, the wolf eats the rabbits one by one. But what happens when the game is played in real life where a “wolf” is hiding among the helpless victims and killing them in the most gruesome ways possible. I rest assure you; this is nothing like that piece of shit of a movie called “Cry Wolf”. I promise. So let’s dive right in and hope the evil wolf won’t come after any of us.

Seriously. How is this not making you shit your pants.

The beginning of the story is about a group of people who meet up because they played the game with each other before. Some of the people involved include your “regular everyday normal guy” named Yuu along with a bossy friend name Mitsuki, a shy quiet girl named Rei whose in a wheelchair (and yes, she IS cute so you’ll probably like her), an outspoken boobie bombshell named Haruka, and a yankee-looking dude name Eiji. They all meet up and decide to hang out, even when Mitsuki has never played the game before. Things go really well as they all bond at a karaoke bar, including finding out a little about Rei, who was once a child hypnotist name Saimin Shojo or "Hypnotist Girl" on TV years before and because of being called a liar and a fake for her hypnotism, tried to kill herself by getting hit by a truck. Things soon fall apart when everyone wakes up in some sort of warehouse and soon discover Rei pinned to the wall dead and a cellphone with the “Rabbit Doubt” start screen on it. Along with everyone being kidnapped, they also meet someone else that was suppose to be joining them; the calm and intelligent Hajime, a college student who seems too calm for a situation where people are dying.


No please, don't do it! I'm sorry I lied. It was me that took the cookie from the cookie jar! I admit it.

As everyone try to understand what's going on, they realize that they all have bar codes on different parts of their bodies that work as keys for the locked doors around the warehouse. The only thing is, the keys can only work on one door; once used, it's only good for that door and nothing else. So everyone decide to move out of the room to look for a way out when they find a room where there are monitors on the wall and a person in the rabbit mask sitting in front of them. When they try to attack him, he's unconscious, but then we get a manga jump scare, where we see a scary image of him waking up when his mask is off. Just to let you know, this manga is practically made of jump scares so if you're into that kind of thing, good for you. If not, please be cautious. I don't need any readers getting heart attacks. But I digress. Once the guy they thought was the killer was dead, they look around the room to see it had files on each one of them and even people before them. People who have played the game before them, including the man they thought was the killer. What Haruka points out first is that it's suspicious for her to be in those files since she has never played Rabbit Doubt and believes her and Yuu killed Rei. It's a regular soap opera, I know. Especially when Yuu lied about having a bar code and realized he was the only one that didn't have one. This drove Haruka to attack Mitsuki in the bathroom and for her and Hajime to tie up Yuu and make him tell where the exit is. Yeah...didn't turn out well for her when she locks herself in a room by herself and gets killed later on anyway. Karma's a bitch like that.

It's like Pee-Wee's Playhouse if he was a sadistic psychopathic murderer.

Things get even more complicated when Hajime and Yuu find Eiji strung up by the neck with his wrist cut off that had his bar code on it. How nice for the killer to do that. With Mitsuki getting a fever, Hajime and Yuu discuss their findings. Since Rei might have been killed for being a liar about her hypnotism, they discover that Eiji was a promising boxer who was in one of the largest gang fights that left one victim dead with the claim by someone name "H-san". Leaving Hajime tied up, Yuu and Mitsuki go to find Haruka only to discover that she's completely vanished only to find her severed head in a mask in another room. In this room, there were rabbit masks, ropes, daggers, and axes. All the makings of a serial killer. While looking for Haruka, Mitsuki's fever gets worse until Yuu has Hajime look after her while he looks in the room. Things go from bad to worse when Yuu sees Mitsuki's dead body on the monitor leaving him and Hajime to fight it out. If there's one thing I can tell you without it being too big a spoiler, is that neither Yuu or Hajime are not the killer. I would go on more about the manga, but this one is harder to explain. I can give you a reason why Haruka was murdered. Apparently she ran a ring of teen prostitutes and got most of the money. She also blackmailed any higher up people that did business with her. It's like a Saw movie where you think someone is the killer, but it turns out to be someone completely unexpected. I do strongly recommend this manga to anyone who likes mystery games like this. As a person who loves mystery herself, I wouldn't want to spoil something so juicy. Anyway, the story is suspenseful and kind of a typical horror movie with nearly all the horror movie cliches to it. There's not much I can say is wrong with this manga, especially when they go the extra mile to give lighting and shading to make it more dynamic. I'm giving this series 5 out of 5 rabbit masks. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be watching My Little Pony since there's nothing about ponies being serial killers.

Anime in 10 seconds: Fruits Basket

2012-04-05T21:50:00.000-07:00

To show off my masterful editing skills (or lack their of) I decided to do a little shot segment called Anime in 10 seconds. It will be a quick wrap up of how I see certain shows. So come and waste 10 seconds of your time watching my first bit of self-editing.

Kamisama no Iutoori: Something Less Creepy then Corpse Fucking

2012-04-04T22:28:00.001-07:00

Ok so I'm trying to move away for having too much horror in all my Manga Management reviews so I'm slowly trying to make my way to some sappy shit shoujo and romantic crap. Just my luck, I find something a little more romantic than the manga about necrophilia I did a couple weeks ago. This story has Death Gods, unconditional love, For this week's Manga Management, we take a look at a love that seems like it was suppose to transcend time and space...but only lasted 2 volumes and about as short as the "Boy Band" craze in the 90's. The title of this one is called Kamisama no Iutoori or "As the Death God Dictates" by Mimori Ao. Like most shoujo manga, it follows the mindless workings of a pretty useless girl named Maki Ayumi who is about as dim as they come with these sappy romance stories. She's then told by a nameless shinigami (or Death God for people who've never seen Death Note before) that she will die in one month. I suppose the concept kind of beats The Ring, though the shinigami annoys her for days with the talk of how many days she has left to live. The only difference is the fact that the shinigami turns out to be a hottie while the girl from The Ring isn't winning any Beauty Contests any time soon. But there's definitely more to the story than just that. Who the fuck am I kidding? It's a romance shoujo manga. It's about as predictable as the endings of M. Night Shyamalan movies so you can probably guess what might happen in the end. But I digress. Let's get into this kooky love story and hope I don't vomit from too much cuteness.

Bitch give me money!!

As I said, the story follows Maki Ayumi, a 16-year-old girl whose pretty useless and absent minded mostly throughout the whole series. And like any 16-year-old girl, she has a huge crush on someone she didn't even say one fucking word to and falls in love instantly. Very original, guys. Really. The only thing is she won't even tell the guy how she feels. Boo freaking woo!! The guy's name is Musashi and her relationship with him now is more like one of a pimp and his prostitute. For some reason, Maki will give the guy money if he asks, give him her homework to copy, and basically treat her like a lap dog. It would've been cool if he had some sort of personality, but in the first volume, it's all about how he looks and how uninterested he seems. But oh wait! He's only doing it because he IS interested in her. How silly of me not to notice his 1st grade routine where you say a girl has cooties but you actually like her. Anyway, unrequited love story, prostituting for the guy you like, blah blah blah. Maki then sees a guy sitting on the window sill, starts talking to him, and then jumps out the window on the fourth floor. God damn I knew Maki's personality is pretty plain and simple, but I didn't think it was that ghastly. Anyway, since the guy disappeared when she looked out the window, she naturally does the mature thing and let's it go as just a figment of her spacy imagination. No that's not what happened. She does the girly thing, thinks she saw a ghost and passes out in the arms of Musashi. Smooth move.
She can't help but think about what she saw until the boy actually comes to her house and even walks past her mother without being seen. Maki freaks out and is then told that she will die in 30 days and that the guy is actually a shinigami. The only thing is, it's never explained why Maki is the only one who can see him so you might as well chalk it up to "it's supernatural so we don't have to explain a damn thing". As proof, he even let's her know that the lead singer of a band is going to get into an accident. Hmm, I wonder if he might be able to tell me Justin Bieber will die from a mauling of tween-age girls and middle-aged single moms. So like the annoying gay ass fairy from Zelda, the shinigami constantly follows Maki around giving her an update on how many days she has left to live. Even egging her on to finally confess to Musashi and go out with her. She and Musashi actually get closer as he says he tries to protect her and guess what else happens? Musashi actually really likes Maki and wants to make Maki his girlfriend. BIG SHOCK!!! But the thing that pisses me off is the fact that the guy barely shows ANY emotions while doing this. Even while they're just walking and holding hands, Maki is beyond happy that the flowers in the background are making my computer screen smell like a garden, but the guy is still looking crappy. I don't deny his love for her, but he's pulling a very "emo face" that's annoying.

Death Never looked so smexy.

So because Maki is so love struck and happy, she seems to forget about you know, the whole "dying" thing. But that's until the shinigami gets jealous and tries to kill Musashi and have Maki for herself. And please do not compare this to some sort of Twilight plot. This time it's not as cock-fighting and gay as it sound. And how the shinigami falls for Maki is so simple it's practically stupid. The only conversation the two really have is about the fact that the guy likes cats and doesn't have a name. When Maki tells him that she would give him a name the hearts fly and he falls madly and obsessively in love with her. Makes sense? How the hell am I suppose to know. Maki comes up with the name Shiro because he wears white clothes and has light colored hair. So Shiro tries any way of being a Shakespeare character and kill Musashi, he actually admits that he loves Maki and won't let anyone take her away from him. Yeah that's not creepy at all. Someone who technically doesn't exist has a crush on you. So of course Maki does the mature and responsible thing and tells Musashi the truth and ask what she should do. Hahahaha!! Yeah right! No. She actually just avoids Musashi like the plague and doesn't tell him anything. What the fuck is wrong with you? The guy said he would help and protect you and you blow him off because you think you're doing the "right" thing? But I digress. So Maki tries to avoid Musashi and Shiro gets all emo and pissed because she's hanging out with him to protect Musashi. This may not be Twilight, but why the hell are all the guys acting so damn depressing? I'm not even kidding. Shiro cried when he saw the cat die, cried when Maki started dating Musashi, and cried when he had to put Maki in a coma. The guy is beyond baby-back bitch right now.

Don't get too many yaoi ideas from this. It's not sexual!!

In the 2nd volume, were introduced to another nameless shinigami who, unlike Shiro who wears white clothes, actually wears black clothes. SYMBOLISM!! The other shinigami tells Shiro that he's getting too involved and decides to have Maki die earlier than just a month. Shiro puts aside his attempts to kill the human who can't help but like Maki and asks him to help protect her. There was an accident involving a car where Maki was about to get ran over, but Musashi pushes her out of the way amd gets hit instead. See, if it was like Twilight, he would've stopped the car with his bare hand while staring awkwardly at Maki. Musashi is OK but in the hospital, Shiro gives Maki touch and go and puts her in a coma. In the magical world of "insert religion crap here" Shiro puts Maki's soul back into her body, but because he saved and fell in love with a human, Shiro disappears forever. So in the end, Maki stays with Musashi and a shinigami dies. Ain't that such a happy ending? I can't say I'm a big fan of the typical love stories in shoujo manga, but it's not like it was bad. It was just uninspiring. The guy characters were too moody, it's never explained why Maki could see Shiro, and the ending is just a cliché ending. It won't do any harm in reading it since it's short, but I wouldn't put too much into it. For this one I give it 2 out of 5 scythes. Well that's it for my Manga Management this time.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Mass Murder with a Positive Message

2012-04-01T21:42:00.001-07:00

For this week's Manga Management, I chose something a little different. And by different I mean something random and that's not exactly qualified as a manga. But I could care less about it. It's written animation so for all the trolls, I suggest closing the damn window. So for this week's Manga Management, I chose Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasques. If you were a kid or someone that watched Nickelodeon, you might recognized Vasquez's work with the cult series Invader Zim, a dark humored cartoon about a reject alien trying to take over the earth. JTHM was a project that Vasquez worked on before Invader Zim and believe me, the graphic novels are...a bit extreme. There's blood, murder, toilet jokes, and demons from other dimensions. So aren't you glad it's all in black and white?

Don't you just hate being judged by your stuffed animals.Johnny does.

The graphic novel with characters like the ones here is somewhat relative to anyone even though from first glances he looks deranged. I'm not saying to go on a killing spree and stab knives in the mouths of women, but if you do you didn't get the idea from me.The message that Johnny wants to convey is that humans are nothing but filth to this world. Even to the point of having another segment in the series called Johnny the Suicidal Maniac, where depression gets to him in many ways that make him want to end his life. One way involves not being able to get a slushie at 2 in the morning from the store. WHAT A COMPLETE TRAGEDY ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH!! OH THE HUMANITY!!!

Yeah I wasn't kidding about jabbing knives into someone's mouth.

Throughout the series, we dive deeper and deeper into a more sinister plot (yes there IS a plot than just killing). The plot is still weird about how it wants to go about, but has a supernatural feel to it that makes it believable. It's not really one of those "believe in this scientific bullshit because it's science" or "it's magic so don't question". It's more into things you would hear from an occult where Johnny's reason for killing is to use the blood to paint a wall so that an inter-dimensional monster won't enter this dimension. See, he kills us to save us. All this is also circled around Johnny hearing voices from two Styrofoam pigs with one dressed as a Pillsbury Dough boy and the other one named Mr. Fuck. Johnny slowly starts to lose focus on who he really is based on the common sense of a dead dismembered head of a rabbit. This all leading up to a pretty weird climax where Johnny actually dies and has a complicated time in heaven and Hell. Yes, a psychotic maniac who dwells on suicidal and homicidal thoughts got into heaven based on an accident. Things didn't turn out too well in both places so instead the Devil brings him back to life so he can live on earth. The series kind of slows down after this and Johnny even goes on some soul-searching trip to figure himself out. And by soul-searching, I don't know if he plans on taking anyone's soul.

Ain't he just the cutest and horrible thing ever?

The other series like Wobbly Headed Bob is about a reject chibi cartoon whose burdened by his vast knowledge doomed to walk the earth. Not much of an ego when he just whines about how horrible everyone else is and how smart he is. He's a confusing character, but when he interacts with other people it's just cringing and painful. Either way you keep reading for it's entertainment value. The other story that come up is a stick figure named Happy Noodle Boy. I can't really describe what the hell goes on with this one. It's a stick figure whose possibly on crack. Nothing he says makes any sense nor does it have much of a message or meaning. He screams and yells at other deformed people and calls THEM the idiot. And the one thing to remember is that the author of this bi-polar combination of lines and circles is Johnny himself. Go fucking figure.

Do you REALLY want me to explain what the hell he's talking about?

JTHM is a weird read and not exactly something you would want your child to read for fear of suicidal thoughts about how the world is a cruel place and we're just waiting for the infinite end where either God is a lazy fat ass who won't answer questions and where Hell has a giant eyeball in the sky that expects you to be good-looking and attractive. There's plenty I can talk about with the way the graphic novel like the short about Vasquez's actual life that involved rescuing the pope from aliens and defeating the devil who runs a store where he couldn't get a slushie past 2 in the morning (wow I'm getting the weirdest sense of deja vu). Other stories even include Squee's lifestyle to the point where Vasquez even made a spin-off for the frightened little boy. The series is a good read for people who could try to understand the psyche of a deranged killer who has a few tormented issues. The series isn't really hard-hitting but it does want to take you to a different place. Hopefully not heaven or Hell. But the stories are different from anything you would expect. Wait, it's called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. From that title you should expect a hell of a lot of craziness. But I digress. So JTHM for me gets a 4 out of 5 bloody knives (try not to puke on your computer screen). It's good read but not really for everyone enough to be a gem. That's it for this week's Manga Management of if you'll excuse me, I have to be morbid and depressed after re-reading this horrifying and dreadful graphic novel. Have a nice day everyone!!!

Uzumaki: Manga May Cause Dizziness

2012-03-29T00:07:00.000-07:00

If you’re looking for something creepy, tragic, and kind of pretty to look at, then you’ll love Junji Ito’s manga Uzumaki or “Spiral” for people who haven’t seen Naruto AT ALL. Uzumaki follows the story of a girl named Kirie Goshima and her small town of Kurozo-cho where it goes through some weird and bizarre changes. To start off, let me tell you a little about the spiral that you’ll learn just from reading this manga. The spiral is a shape that’s practically infinite. It goes on and on and is seen just about everywhere around you. Sea shells, snails, fingerprints, even the swirling pattern of the water as it goes down the drain makes a spiral that feels like it’s sucking you in. And believe me. The story you read is about how the town of Kurozo-cho gets caught up in the hypnotizing pattern they call the uzumaki.

Are you dizzy yet?

As I’ve said, the town goes through many chapters where the townsfolk are practically thrown into the spiral. In the first chapter, we meet Kirie’s boyfriend Shuichi Saito, a pretty well-rounded person who’s life is plagued by the spirals that haunt and possess his father. Even on her way to meet Shuichi at the train station from his high school (in another town of course), Kirie runs into Shuichi’s father staring at an empty snail shell on the wall.

Love at first sight. How romantic!

Things really turn out awful when Shuichi’s father becomes crazed about spirals. The stress gets so bad for Shuichi that he asks Kirie to elope with him just to get out of the town that has a terrible curse on it. But Kirie refuses thinking he’s just stressed, but it gets harder to leave the town, and she watches as the spiral slowly captures Shuichi’s father. Shuichi’s father collects everything with the swirling pattern on it, from sea shells to snails and only eats spiral-shaped fishcakes in his miso soup and stirs his bathwater before getting in. The spirals start to get even worse to the point where the death of his father is a large spread on the page that would make curly hair become straight to the tips. The father coils his whole body into a wooden tub with ignoring the fact that he had any bones in his body. With Ito’s work, words can never describe the image that’s seen on that page. But even in death and beyond, Shuichi’s father is absorbed into the spiral as the smoke from his cremated body forms a spiral in the sky and twists down into a pond near Kirie’s house, making Shuichi’s mother go insane and gets sent to a hospital for developing a phobia of spirals. Hair buns, food, the I.V. tube that forms a spiral, sends her into a frenzy. His mother feels like her husband is talking to her through the spirals that appear in different ways even to the point of shaving her head of curly hair and cutting the skin from her fingers and toes. It becomes even worse when she finds out that there’s a spiral in the ear in the form of the cochlea and jabs a pair of scissors into her ears (don’t worry it’s not seen so don’t be squeamish). But with how the art is with Ito’s manga, scissors jabbed in someone’s ears is the least gross out thing you’ll have to worry about.

How hair-raising!!

With Shuichi’s family dead from the spirals, nothing is ever right with him and, along with Kirie, is cursed to see the spirals consume every single person in Kurozo-cho. What I just told you were the first couple chapters of this horrifying manga that only the twisted mind of Junji Ito could create. The stories vary from large curling hair sucking the life from you to people slowly tuning into giant snails, the tales become more tragic until the very end of the city and everyone in it. The manga is a brilliant piece of work that leaves you wanting to read and at the same time fearful to even turn the next page. Uzumaki is a tragic tale of a town gone straight to hell, and hopefully you’ll get that small feeling when you read the whole story. There’s even a segment at the end of each chapter where Ito is obsessed with the spirals and wants to eat, collect, and consume himself with the art of spirals for inspiration on Uzumaki. I can admit that some chapters seemed a little forced into having something to do with spirals. One chapter talked about how mosquitoes fly into a spiral pattern to put people to sleep. While Kirie is in the hospital, there’s an increased number of pregnancies that lead to the pregnant women drilling patients and drinking every drop of blood in the bodies. It’s mostly because the female mosquitoes are the ones that drink blood for their eggs. The one before it deals with a lighthouse with a horrible light that when it turns on, anyone in the lighthouse will burn into a crisp. They’re good chapters that leads up to other chapters, but it kind of forces us to pay attention to a spiral that I’m not sure really exists. I can’t necessarily judge on what we know and don’t know about lighthouses or mosquitoes, but it’s not like it’s hampering on the story in any way. Other than that, the stories are creepy, unique and gives you that feeling that something like spirals consuming people might actually happen seeing as we don’t notice spirals until we think about them. The manga was even made into a horror movie that shows the different spiral-related deaths that come to some of the towns people, but I recommend reading the manga to get the whole effect of this small town going in ruins because of a shape. For Uzumaki I give it 5 out of 5 swirly lollipops. Well, I needed something nice to end on with all the gore you’ll get from the manga. And it’s not like some spirals like sushi rolls, cinnamon buns and those giant ass lollipops aren’t good. So until next time, this is Minaku the Otaku with your manga management of the week.

The Mass Effect of a First Blog

2012-03-25T11:16:00.000-07:00

Okay ladies and gentleman, if you guys don’t already know me from some of my friend Sabastian Smith and I’s old AMVs, my name is AJ a.k.a MegaplayboyX and this is Awesome Raters. Because after all, its not awesome until our crack team of raters rate it. But on to what this first blog post is really about and that’s the Mass Effect series. If you don’t already know about it, let me fill you in. Mass effect so far is a trilogy sci-fi/rpg/third person shooter, where you are a man named John Shepard who is trying to save the universe from these sentient robots named the Reapers. Sadly, of course, things aren’t that easy. The first Mass Effect brought you robotic enemies like the Geth, then the second game brought you these insectoid/humanoid-like creatures named Collectors, which true to their names were collecting humans to liquify them into a fine stew for –STOP! SPOILER ALERT- I’ve said enough, but let me just tell you, things are more complicated than you think. So, the first one I wanna talk about is the game that started this all off and that’s Mass Effect. First, I would like to say the game was very innovative with the decisions you had to make. Back at that time, the only game I knew that used that type of decision making was Fable and its sequel Fable II. Knowing that every decision I made not only affected me, but the whole entire universe as well as my ship crew and friends in the game made me have to play as a good guy or in their words a paragon character. (Sadly after I beat it, I went completely black guy renegade and got everybody killed but that’s neither here nor there) Not only that, but it also made you truly think about what's best for everyone and not just yourself. Now, I know what your thinking: I'm a gamer, I'm already desensitized to the death of game characters and the like and if you cant take it stop being a reviewer. Well hey, stop being a nag and listen to the reason. The reason why I actually felt for the characters is that they actually had a personality, they actually showed emotions and they made you feel for the crew and their depressing emo lives. Now, if you don’t mind, I wanna get more into that since everybody had a depressing life that made you, at one point or another, put your foot in your mouth. For example, there was your Krogan crewmate, Wrex which when you first talk to him and you wanna here some stories about fights he had been in back in the day, he tells you he doesn’t have any. To which you would respond that he has to, seeing as Krogans are an old race. Now this is where it gets bad, as he will tell you that his people are carrying a disease which will only let 1 out of 1000 Krogans give birth because a rival alien race, named the Salarians, wanted them to go extinct. Now, do you think it will be easy talking to your crew? Or how about your own character? No matter what back story you want to give him, his whole original team dies and on the first level, your new squad mate dies. In this game, death is everywhere but what pissed me off more than anything is the actual close up conversations. Now, I know what your thinking: I thought you liked the decision making in the conversations and that is true. What I didn’t like about it was the graphics on the people. They look like freaking dolls talking and also, the shady way they walked away after you had nothing else to say gave me the creeps. Not to mention, some characters while talking had an extremely lazy eye that would always bug the hell out of me. But, all in all, I have to say the games keep you coming back for more every time and I would highly recommend getting the whole trilogy and playing it. Because when you play Mass Effect all the way through the third one, your old save and old decisions come back to haunt you. Anyway like, share, comment, subscribe and join the Awesome Army and if you enjoyed this, I will be making a sequel to this blog for Mass Effect II next week. 'Til then, play hard and stay awesome.


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