When's the next Final Fantasy VII installment coming out?

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OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Goku: Midnight Eye

Having nothing to do with Dragonball, this 2-episode OVA series was based on the limited manga series by Space Adventure Cobra creator Buichi Terasawa. A cyberpunk detective noir anime set in the far off future of 2014! Yoshiaki Karajiri of Ninja Scroll fame directed the 1989 anime which gave him a moderate success to do other cyberpunk projects like The Animatrix.

In "Tokyo City"(talking place like most futuristic anime in Japan after not one-but-two earthquakes!), Goku is a former police detective turned private eye who learns most of his old partners are mysteriously committing suicide, leaving the only one left, his friend Officer Yoko. The department was investigating a nightclub owner who is really a criminal arms dealer, and uses a killer cyborg crew to thin out anyone poking into his business. Goku infiltrates the bad guys headquarters, but makes off with poking his left eye out to avoid being hypnotized. He awakens being giving a new bionic eye by a mysterious benefactor which allows him to use unlimited cyberpathy, meaning he can access any computer anywhere in the world, controlling machines, and getting any data available on the net. Goku uses his new powers to get revenge for the death of Yoko, and shutting down the criminal empire. The next episode challenges Goku's abilities as he has to hunt down a cyborg with the power to use a microwave forcefield which can fry anyone, and giving the determined terminator energy-projection which takes out a good part of the city. Goku has to assemble his own one-time use flying Batmobile to take the murder machine down.

The anime has had two separate dubs, once by Manga Entertainment for a British release, and a different one starring Steve Blum as Goku for the now defunct Urban Vision. The manga has been printed in English through the also out of print Comics One, so if you wanted to find out what Godlike entity gave Goku his magical eye, you might want to check out the full story as the anime only covered two story arcs from the original source material. The anime itself has been released on DVD in America, and is also available for streaming download.

ANI-MOVIES, *Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

Being one of the first big anime films to be taken in by non-otaku during the mid-90s, the Street Fighter anime movie set itself apart from the American live-action counterpart, even though in a totally different manner. Night Of The Galactic Railroad director Gisaburo Sugii went on to helm this project in 1994, which incorporated elements from not only the original Street Fighter I and II video games, but all the subsequent bonus addition of the II video game, this includes the Super, Turbo, and Champion Edition which each included separate additional characters, who in the context of the movie are shown to be an additional distraction of fighters from the main game, meaning that the movie had to add multiple scenes showing these bonus characters, thus padding out the movie longer than necessary. Even Akuma makes a brief cameo considering he was a hidden fighter in the game. This distracts from the main flow of the story, that and some serious background pandering. However though, The Animated Movie has continued to be one of the more faithful adaptations of the Capcom game series over the last few decades.

Beginning where the original Street Fighter video game ended, powerful fighter Ryu defeats the muay thai champion Sagat, where his victory is monitored by the criminal organization known as Shadowlaw. Sagat is brought into the fold of their psychic leader, M. Bison, who recruits other high level fighters from around the globe to brainwash them into being assassins, and hopes to get Ryu to be part of their merry crew. Not able to find the wandering world warrior, Bison's forces locate Ryu's old sparring partner, the rich playboy Ken Masters. Bison captures Ken, and brainwashes him to have an overly dramatic final bout with Ryu. While being tracked down by Interpol agents Chun-Li and Guile, Bison unleashes Ken on Ryu, but the two buds shake Ken's mindfreak and put a double deuce down on Bison, even though he appears in a ghost truck during a mid-credits scene.

As one of the first anime adaptations of an arcade fighting game, this movie tries its best to incorporate all the given characters with their own moments to shine, even though it does it with stretching out the plot further than it really needed to. Its hard to bring a cast of fighters from points all over the globe into a singular narrative instead of just one bout after the other. The animation is above the norm for a mid-90s production, it is in the same league as Ghost In The Shell and Ninja Scroll. The strangest thing about the movie though is its numerous English releases. First dubbed by Animaze, the first VHS version featured with an altered soundtrack lined up with American musicians, then an uncut version was put out on DVD in 2006, but finally in 2016 on DVD and Blu-Ray by Discotek with the original Japanese score and all the original forbidden footage and dialogue(including Chun-Li's entire obligatory shower scene), which is also the version currently available for streaming. Even though its nearly three decades old, it still manages to be an entertaining and thrilling watch, at least during the parts in the movie where the fighters are actually "fighting".

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Happy 50th Earth Day!

The C.D.C. didn't do anything.

The C.D.C. allows thousands of people to die every day because they are lazy heartless bastards. That's the joke.

The CDC needs to stop getting high!

Remember, I can murder you while you sleep

Another pointless day where the CDC accomplishes nothing.

CDC: You had one job!

CDC stands for "Can't Do Crap"!

I've had it up to HERE with your inability to make a damn vaccine!

OBSCURE O.V.A.S, *Lily C.A.T.

Where in the 80s alot of OVAs were inspired by blockbuster American films, like Black Magic M66 is a blend of Predator and Terminator, Lily C.A.T. is a fusion of Alien and The Thing. As one of the first OVA ever made, it was largely created by the makers of several 70s anime shows, including Vampire Hunter D character designer Yoshitaka Amano, Gathchaman producer Hisayuki Toriumi, and Gundam writer Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. The anime itself gained early success in America when Robotech founder Carl Macek released it dubbed on VHS through Streamline Pictures in the 90s, and then several years later on DVD by Discotek Media who specialize in reproducing older anime titles.

In the mid-23rd Century, a mining company sends a crew into space for 20 years to break ground on an alien world. The ship is made up of the crew itself, and several company employees that volunteered to help found the new planet, but at two of the volunteers are reported to be using false identities. Suddenly, one-by-one, the crew ends up getting mysteriously killed off by an alien bacteria that takes the fresh corpses into a combined Cronenberg-nightmare. It's also revealed that one of the crew's pet cat is really an android feline that has taken control of the ship, which is also slowly being taken over by the bacteria forming a techno-organic mess. The last two survivors manage to get off in the captain's old space shuttle which he kept around as a deus ex machina.

Lily C.A.T. makes for an interesting bit of 80s nostalgia, and its homage to American theater makes it a good watch for non-otaku. American fans should also recognize the character designs by Yasuomi Umetsu who worked on cult hits like Kite and Mezzo Forte. This was ultimately created by Studio Pierrot, an animation studio that had started the OVA market a few years earlier with Dallos, but it demonstrates how a good portion of the 80s OVAs were space adventures as their an easy sell to most fan audiences. The quality is above average for late 20th Century anime, and is a short but still dynamic watch.

I wanna vaccine to COVID-19!

C.D.C. keeps the cure away!

Another day of the CDC getting its ass kicked!

But the future refused to change...all thanks to the CDC

The C.D.C. are nothing but a bunch of power-hungry, paranoid, incompetent, lazy turds!

The best remedy for COVID-19? Close Talking!

Center For Disease Control...DO SOMETHING!

Did you even TRY to make a vaccine today?

Center For Disease Control IS STUPID

Gozer no like social restrictions!

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