Pretty Tiger-Boy!
Aug. 22nd, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIt is so Sunday. The sun has come out so the girls are outside, playing. I made waffles for breakfast-- they came out perfectly. And tuna fish for lunch-- at least for the girls and Omaha. I had a mozarella sandwich with fresh basil from the garden and, well, cheap balsamic vinegar. I didn't watch any of the anime I intended to last night; I was just tired and went straight to bed. The water tank leak hasn't gotten any worse.
What inspired me to blog, however was this: Onmyou Taisenki, which contains an anime short of a young boy (can you say Ash?) fighting a terrible villain, and using pokeballs, er, magic spheres with which to do it.
This series combines absolutely the most terrible of everything you find in synergistic marketing. The young boy, his very cute tiger-boy with the Big F'ing Sword, the villain and the mysterious magical woman-- it's all very anime, visually. But then comes the marketing. She uses a card set and lays out ranks... gosh, another card game. But it gets worse, oh yes. You see, Ash, er, I mean, the hero stores his very cute tiger-boy with a Big F'ing Sword in his "magic sphere", and summons said cute tiger-boy with shouts and gestures. Now, in the innocent era of Pokemon, the real-world marketed balls were just storage containers for cheap beanie-baby sorts of things. In the era of Onmyou, the spheres are full-blown IR networked digipets who will "battle" with one another, and whichever boy made the gesture most properly (apparently measured with some kind of on-board gyroscope, the chip-based kind cost pennies these days) will "win" any given round when the two balls are "activated" and brought into proximity.
But Kogenta is a very cute tiger-boy.
What inspired me to blog, however was this: Onmyou Taisenki, which contains an anime short of a young boy (can you say Ash?) fighting a terrible villain, and using pokeballs, er, magic spheres with which to do it.
This series combines absolutely the most terrible of everything you find in synergistic marketing. The young boy, his very cute tiger-boy with the Big F'ing Sword, the villain and the mysterious magical woman-- it's all very anime, visually. But then comes the marketing. She uses a card set and lays out ranks... gosh, another card game. But it gets worse, oh yes. You see, Ash, er, I mean, the hero stores his very cute tiger-boy with a Big F'ing Sword in his "magic sphere", and summons said cute tiger-boy with shouts and gestures. Now, in the innocent era of Pokemon, the real-world marketed balls were just storage containers for cheap beanie-baby sorts of things. In the era of Onmyou, the spheres are full-blown IR networked digipets who will "battle" with one another, and whichever boy made the gesture most properly (apparently measured with some kind of on-board gyroscope, the chip-based kind cost pennies these days) will "win" any given round when the two balls are "activated" and brought into proximity.
But Kogenta is a very cute tiger-boy.
