The greatest ninja anime ever made.

Ninja Slayer is an ONA (Original Net Animation) produced by Studio Trigger and directed by Inferno Cop’s director. The Inferno Cop sense of humor and animation style was mainly the reason why no one’s heard of it and why most people who’ve seen it hate it right off the bat. Despite being one of the most visually impressive shows to come out last Spring. The show parodies your textbook 80′s tropes, pokes fun at America’s offbeat obsession over ninja culture, and oodles of cheesy one-liners! FUNimation’s dubbed the entire series last year. Which is ten times superior to the subs in every way.

It’s getting a “special edition” TV broadcast version next Saturday with an expanded story and legit animation. I’d recommend giving the show a shot then, but I’m skeptical if the visual gags from the original ONA version would hold up. I say watch both since everyone is missing out on a goldmine of hilarity here.

It’s okay to ignore Nancy Lee though. She sucks.

Just throwing this out there real quick before I go into some long drawn out rant. Telling me how “great” I am at art while simultaneously devaluing your own is the equivalent of being a total butthole. I’ve been getting stuff like this a lot recently and it’s gotten so bad that even my own friends are doing it.

“Stop being so talented so I stop hating myself!”

“Looking at your art makes me hate everything I draw.”

“Be glad that you’re better than me. Your work is amazing and I’m terrible.”

STOP THAT! NOW! Seriously, that has to stop. I’ve come across artists who produce great work who still think it’s okay to tell an artist they look up to that their art makes their admirer hate what they do. I used to be guilty of this until I realized a couple months ago that this way of thinking is completely stupid. Did bringing myself down like that make my favorite artists feel good about themselves? Heck no it didn’t. My guess is it would’ve made them feel like utter crap. Which is how I’ve been feeling lately since I’ve been getting comments like that every week or so. None of that self-deprecating nonsense boosts my ego, nor does it help you improve as an artist.

Hating your own art is not the way to go for boosting the overall quality of your work. That toxic way of thinking will stunt your growth to the point where you’ll refrain from trying new things, your passion will dissipate over time, and you’ll eventually want to quit. Sure, I feel like that sometimes when I see what other people can do with a pencil or tablet. At the very least, I don’t try to bring them down to my emotional level by whining about how much I don’t like my scribbles. I’d just keep it to myself and work hard at improving wherever I need to ‘cause I certainly know for a fact they don’t wanna hear it. In my case, all it would do is give me a guilty conscience thinking that doing the only thing I’m good at would make an aspiring artist want to give up doing what they love.

TL;DR: Stop bringing yourself, or your artwork, down to make me feel good. It does no one any favors and it can only make you feel worse off in the end. I’m awful with words and a ton of Tumblr users worded this better than I ever could. I don’t normally go into paragraphs over personal crap like this, but I had to get that off my chest before I turn into friggin’ Asura.

Speaking of my stream from last night.

Everyone who watched me die in KoF2002 over and over again can agree that Omega Rugal CAN GET BENT!

Oh shoot, I just realized one of my favorite artists started following me.

I usually try to play it off as no big deal, but it’s getting kinda difficult to be so cool about it these days. So uhh……. HI BOOB GUY!

OH WOW, THANK~!

For the story really. Now, Ninja Gaiden has always had silly stories surrounding them. 1 and 2 weren’t necessarily deep, but more like excuses for Ryu to fight in cool locations. 3′s story was just as silly, yet it expects players to take everything seriously. Which produced bad writing and overall cruddy story (I love Regent of the Mask to death though…)

But then here comes Yaiba. Where the story is still senseless and ridiculous, but presented in a way which it makes fun of itself. It’s one of those things that’s so stupid that I couldn’t help but love it. A first time run was fun just seeing how dumb it gets by the end of the game. In which it totally delivered. What can I say? I like a game with a sense of humor XD

The gameplay isn’t as deep as the standard NG game. But it has combos for days and HARD AS BALLS. There are neat puzzles and hidden collectibles scattered throughout the levels to help break up monotony. The art style was a huge selling point for me as well. While the level design limited exploration options, the environments themselves are very well done. As creative as you can get with a game based on a real life location like Ukraine. The game does have problems with the camera and the combo display. After getting over them, I’ve had a lot of fun.

I’m probably being too nice since some criticism surrounding Yaiba is justified. The game isn’t amazing, but I don’t find it bad when I’m not trying to approach it like the traditional Ninja Gaiden title. It could be better overall, but I like it. Totally craps all over the train wreck that was vanilla Ninja Gaiden 3!

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My opinion on giant robots is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!