Problems of Streaming Franchises

Streaming is great but sometimes, if your trying to get into a franchise with multiple entries, it can be frustrating, especially if different distributors owns certain parts of the franchise.

Back in the day, we had Netflix disk rentals and it was very helpful and help me watch most of the franchise. Nowdays, disk rentals has fallen in popularity due to the rise of streaming. It's still around but not used as much as it used to. It's even hard binge watch a series this way because Netflix will suddenly stop in the midway in the series or having missing parts in it's section.

I remember back in the day, it was hard to watch the entire Godzilla series. I grew up with them over the years and caught marathons on TNT and Sci-fi(now SYFY). After I looked it up on the net, I discover a dozen more films I haven't seen, as well as an entire expanded universe to explain all those 5 second cameos that was seen in Destroy All Monsters. One problem was trying to was watch The Return of Godzilla, AKA Godzilla 1984(or 85 going by the US release), and Godzilla vs. Biollante. At the time, they were only available for VHS and I had had to dig out my old VHS to watch these after buying them off of amazon.


Godzilla's box office rival, Gamera was also tricky to watch. Sometimes, I had to use my barely used VUDU account to watch some of his movies. Some were only available with Mystery Science Theater mocking the movie. Do you want to watch it with them or not? If not, your stuck with them because there was no other way. Of course, if you want to watch it in the original Japanese, it's far far more harder to do so. 

The final movie of the Showa Timeline called Gamera: Super Monster, I had to watch on Hulu. I don't know what worse, that I had to use a 3 to 5 different services to watch the entire Gamera series, or I saw that horrible excuse of a movie that ended the Showa Timeline. I have notice in stores in recent years there is DVD boxsets of the entire Showa era and honestly, it's better to do that than to use multiple separate services.

Now you can easily see almost the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+. I repeat, almost because certain Spider-Man movies is unavailable due to Sony having Spidey's film rights. Heck, trying to watch Sony's Spider-Man's Universe is hard to watch. I had to use a Redbox to finally see the 2nd Venom movie since I was unable to find a streaming service unless it wanted to buy the movie or rent it at a very big price at Amazon.

I notice Doctor Who is complicated to watch. I know the BBC in the UK is promoting it's iPlayer that will hold the entire franchise library but only in the UK. Here in the US and other regions, not so much. To watch Classic Doctor Who, you have to have use the lesser known service Britbox. To watch Modern version with Doctors 9-13, you have to have Max. To watch the upcoming 60th anniversary and anything after, it's on Disney+. What the heck. 

There also the spinoffs of Doctor Who. The one-off K9 episode from the 80s is on Britbox. Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures is on Max. Back then, you could watch Sarah Jane on Amazon while Torchwood was on Netflix. Times have changed. I can't find a place to watch Class unless you plan to buy the series on Amazon or VUDU. Shout Factory has the streaming rights the newer K-9 show. However, that is considered non-canon, so you may not have to worry too much on watching this show.

I been trying to get into the Fate franchise but the problem is alot different people holds streaming rights to different series. Fate was based on a visual novel that had three separate paths that had the main dude ending up with a different girl and fighting a different villain. Also it had a prequel and semi-sequel. I been told watch Unlimited Blades Works 1st, then Heaven's Feels, after that, either the 06 anime or Fate/Zero. Easier said then done. 

Unlimited Blades Works and Fate/Zero is on multiple places like Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix. That's fine and good but I'm told Fate/Zero is a prequel and not the 1st entry of the franchise. It be like watching the Star Wars Prequels 1st, or Metal Gear Solid 3 or Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. It may be sort of easy to watch the prequel 1st that way but it be seeing all these references and foreshadowing that may fly over your head. Also Fate/Zero spoils certain stuff that happens in Heaven's Feels.

About Heaven's Feels, I had to use VUDU to watch that movie trilogy and update my credit card since it shows how often I use that service.

The 2006 show, it's on HiDive. Everyone has opinions on the 2006 anime since it's not done by ufotable studio and that show is mostly based on the Fate route but mixes parts of UBW and Heaven's Feels into it instead of giving a true adaption. And that's the main part of Fate. I haven't bother to look into the rest of the multiverse but I'm sure it's going to get messy to figure out which series is on what streaming service but good gosh, all these different services, just to watch the main part of Fate.

I took a quick peak at Gundam and even it is on different services. I have notice back when Hathaway got his own movie Netflix, they put most of the UC Gundams on Netflix frontpage that made it easy for people to catch up on. That is at least a good thing, however ZZ Gundam never got dubbed and not released on Netflix.


Video Games may not count as streaming but there is one gaming franchise that's on multiple game systems. While it's true that as time goes by that you have to get the newer game systems to play the new entry but it's usually going from Wii to Switch or PS4 to PS5 but I'm talking about different games across different systems that belong to different parties. I'm talking about Kingdom Hearts. KH1 and 2 are on the PS2. Chain of Memories is on GBA. Coded is on a Japan-only cellphones. 258/2 Days and remake of Coded that we got years and years later, known as Re:Coded were on the DS. Birth by Sleep is on the PSP. Drop Dream Distance is on a 3DS. Good gosh! Bouncing back between Nintendo and Sony.

Thankfully they released a compilation a year before KH3 on the PS4 to finally played most of the games on the PS4. It also has the bonus content when the games were re-released in Japan a year later with extra bosses and cutscenes that ended up important to the plot and the later games will have flashbacks to these scene and confused people who didn't play these bonus content.

How Demolition Man is a possible post-covid future

During the infamous time of Covid-19, I watched a movie from the 1993 movie called Demolition Man and what's funny is can be seen as a possible future from 2020-21's perceptive. 

The movie in the near future of 1996, an officer, John Spartan(Sylvester Stallone) is after a mass murder, Simon Phoenix(Wesley Snipes). Spartan got Phoenix captured after blowing up a mall and accidently killed some hostages. Spartan's superiors weren't happy about this and wanted to punish the man. There is a plot twist about the hostages but I need to stay on point. Anyways, both Spartan and Phoenix were sent to be punished by being put into cyro-freeze and release decades in the future.

Phoenix got released way too early in the year 2032 and he's out there causing chaos. The police needed to fight fire with fire and release Spartan but he is a fish out of water and having a hard time adjusting to the new world. It's very funny movie.

One of the things that it can be seen as a possible post-covid world is no one uses a high five. Instead, they hold their palms up a few feet from each other without touching and do a moving circle motion with it. This can be seen as avoiding contact to not spread germs.

One scene had Spartan invited by his partner, Lenina Huxley(Sandra Bullock) to her house to have "sex". It's really just them having VR headsets and experiencing "sex". Spartan was disturbed by this and brings up about actual physical sex and kissing. Huxley is grossed out about "fluid transfers" as she calls it and talks about STDs and unwanted pregnancy. Also getting pregnant is illegal unless you have a license and it has to be clean. This sounds similar to what I saw from the movie Future Cops where in order to prevent AIDS, sex is outlawed and everyone is a test-tube baby. Both came out the same year, so either movie didn't ripped off one or the other. Avoiding sex or kissing could be another way to see this is how everyone avoided Covid.

One scene has Spartan wanting to go to the bathroom but sees no toilet paper and asked his coworkers about and they said to themselves, "He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!" It showed three seashells sitting on a counter near the toilet. I guess with all the toilet paper shelfs all empty in the stores, they got replaced by seashells. They don't explain how exactly used in the movie. Alot viewers were puzzled about this scene and came up with theories how to use them. 

In the movie, everyone has a tracking chip, except for Phoenix since he was frozen long before the chip. During 2021, Alot of anti-maskers and anti-vaccine people has spread conspiracy theories that the vaccines are tracking bugs. So that can be another sign that this could be a post-covid world.

Alot things are banned like alcohol, swearing, chocolate, spicy food, meat. Well it was very hard to find meat in stores at that time. Maybe it was banned early on and that's way the meat shelfs in stores were empty? Or not.

There is alot other stuff that sort of became true. Like Schwarzenegger going into politics or remote cars. VR headsets gotten popular again long after the failure of the Virtual Boy.

Clearly, this future didn't happen but at the time I saw this back when it was the number 1 thing everyone was talking about, I could see this future was a possibility at the time.

Transformers myths and misinformation.

I recently came across some new info about our boy Sideways.  The mysterious bikerbot who is either a spawn of Unicron/Unicron's avatar/a dude with a split personality/a citizen of Planet X/or a member of the Cybertronian Empire was not a dimensional traveler who hops to different dimensions(at first). Over the years, we been told the various versions of Sidewayses may or may not be the same dude, crossing to other universes.

Yes, the guy who died in the opening scene in the 2nd live action movie. Weird that this 10 second character retroactively became same character from other Transformers stories.

I mention this character(or characters) several times in my blog and I had to go back and edit them to prevent more misinformation.

There was a Decepticon bike in the Robots in Disguise 2001 toyline called Sideways with a toy bio. Later on, Armada's toyline had a Sideways and it's nearly the same. He was then featured in both Armada and Cybertron. Two shows set in the same timeline(Sort of, that too is a can of worms) In 2004, there was a two-episode OVA crossover series in Japan called RobotMasters

Optimus Prime, Primal, and Victory Saber teamed up

Transformers from various eras are thrown in one area and fought over a rare power source. Anyways, Sideways was in this crossover and he had the same colors as his Armada counterpart and shared a very similar toy bio as his RID2001 and Armada counterparts. People then mentioned that every version of Sideways from the RID2001 toy, Armada/Cybertron character, and Robot Masters are the same exact man as he hopped into the Japanese G1 universe. It kinda made sense due to his master, Unicron is a god-like being who crosses universes.

In 2010, a book called Allspark Almanic said that the Transformers: Animated universe has it's version of Sideways and hints it's the previous dimensional traveler and it hints he will go to another universe and go to Shanghai. Basically saying that hi&bye Decepticon we saw in the 2nd movie is the same guy. The author of the book said it was suppose to be a joke and an Easter egg, not to be treated as canon evidence.

In 2015, there was an official Q&A section on Facebook called Ask Vector Prime. When Vector Prime wasn't around, Sideways took over and claimed every version of his clashing stories is true, or not. He acted like a total troll and nobody took his words seriously. Also, he mentions your mom alot. Vector Prime did came back to his Q&A section while Sideways retreated.

Well the thing is, the stuff about Robot Masters about Sideways being a dimensional traveler was never true to begin with. Western audiences thought RobotMasters was multiverse crossover but that was never the case, it was a time-traveling crossover. So RobotMasters Japanese G1 exclusive. Another thing is someone online made claims about RobotMasters version of Sideways and claim that this is the same exact guy from Armada as well as the toy from RID2001. Everyone took him seriously and it was added on the Transformers wiki and everyone believed it and it stayed that way for a while.

Later works like Allspark Almanac and Ask Vector Prime were inspired to write about Sideways, the dimensional traveler who likes to troll people. So it ended up as canon but it technically wasn't up until to this point.

Sideways was a confusing headache, saying that every version is the same guy, even you ignore the live-action version. We could avoided all this if we knew about this false info. Well sort of. Sideways will still have clashing origins to begin with. The horribly rushed dub of Armada said he was Unicron's avatar which didn't make sense and contradicts with him commutating with Unicron as a separate person. Cybertron gave him a different origin saying he's from Planet X. A whole twelve years after Armada ended in America, the Japanese version finally got completely fansubbed and Sideways said he was a creation of Unicron.

There were other times misinformation got spread around. I still remember being told that in Japan, that Optimus in Armada and Optimus in Energon were two separate characters. This kinda makes sense because Armada ended with Optimus floating in space, feeling unworried of carrying the Matrix due to give in to his dark impulses. You think Energon will start with the Autobots move on in the ten years of peace and when force of evil attacks, Optimus will make this big come back or something but nope, he's suddenly back with the Autobots like nothing happens and doesn't comment on his floating in space moment. Another thing is they have different voice actors in Japan. However that was not the case and it was an early sign that Energon is going to become one of the worse Transformers series of all time.

Somehow these were two separate people in Japan.

However that was never the case, they really were meant to be the same guy. The thing is not everyone had the space in their hard drives to download 52 fansubbed episodes or their relatives didn't want them to download a ton of stuff on their PC. This was long before the age of streaming BTW. All they heard was from they saw on forums and other places of those who seen the Japanese version.

However, this information did spread and people started asking questions like is Nemesis Prime from Armada the corrupted version of Armada Optimus?

It sounds simliar to some fan theories about the recent film, Rise of the Beasts. People theorized that the movie is going to be the like Days of Future Past and that the Maximals are from the future of  the events of The Last Knight and Unicron woke up and destroyed the Earth. The planet eater got control of Optimus and turn him into Scourge, the villain of the movie. The Maximals go back in time to warn the Autobots of the 1990s to prevent this bad future. However that didn't happen and to this day, Paramount still kinda sees the Post-Bay films maybe prequels possibly.


I remember one rumor of something else in Armada but 1st, I must go back to the very 1st episode of Transformers: Robots in Disguise when it premiered in September 8, 2001. The episode had a Dr. Onishi at a press conference in New York City when

Megatron bust through a skyscraper to abduct the scientist but the Autobots arrived to clashed their foes with NYC as their battleground with fallen skyscraper debrief all over the place. Of course, we all know what happen three days later in real life.

The English version of the show got heavily re-edited. Any shots of buildings getting destroyed were edited out. Several episodes aired out-of-order, confusing viewers. There were three episodes that never aired in America. The 1st episode was reran with heavy editing.

Ok, back to Armada, I had to explain the situation of how 9/11 affected RID2001. In January 30, 2003, an episode premiered with a mysterious light almost crashing into a space shuttle. It was revealed that was Jetfire scanning his new form. Two days later in real life, the Columbia Shuttle Disaster happen. Suddenly people were spreading rumors that we were going to this episode is going to banned or edited. Actually it didn't happen surprisingly.

I think there was one rumor that Orson Wells died during production of the animated movie and that Leonard Nimoy finished his lines. This been disproven by the people who worked on the film.

There were myths of that the Japan-only series Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo, that the cast came from the 24th century Cybertron, just like the characters of Beast Wars. Not true. The problem is these shows didn't get properly translated and everyone assumes they came from 24th century Cybertron. They actually came from tens of thousands of years after Beast Machines. However this misinformation did influenced a mid-00s comics based on Beast Wars and threw in characters from the Japan-only shows.

Inspired by lack of info from an untranslated anime.

Then there is the High Moon games, War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron. Alot people think this is a direct prequel to the G1 cartoon. It's not, it's more like inspired by G1 and all it's pre-earth stories featured in the comics. It's actually a prequel to the show, Transformers: Prime. However it was originally designed to be G1-like but Hasbro at the time wanted everything outside of the Michael Bay movies to be part of this one big timeline and it was called the Aligned Continuity. Trying to ram an unconnected video game with a T.V. show doesn't make sense but that's the official explanation we got. The 2nd game did sort of added little Easter Eggs that sort of connect it to Prime.

They got rid of their big muscles, Tron lines, and their noses since the events of the game.

Godzilla Island and other stuff is available

The offical English Godzilla YouTube page been uploading episodes of Godzilla Island with English closed captioning. I heard of the series for a while but for the longest time, there was no way to watch it.  Also there's no subtitles. All we had was read brief summaries of the show and look up brief profiles of new original characters. The only clip on YouTube was a short scene where everyone on Monster Island is hypnotized into dancing, no really.

The show aired in the late 90s to advertise toys by showing, well toys duking it out. All the episodes are three minutes long, that includes the intros and ending, making it really a minute and half of footage. 

So far there's only like 24 episodes as I'm writing this. So far, the main highlight is Godzilla is framed for a crime, so he goes to trial, while wearing kaiju-sized handcuffs gets questioned and Godzilla admits he got high eating Mantango mushrooms. Let this all sink in.

There're other shows on the channel. Chili Godzilla strikes back is very funny. 

Chibi Godzilla is way too brief and forgettable. It like 20 second episodes.

 https://youtube.com/@GodzillaToho

Why I hate Moryomaru!!!

If there is one Inuyasha villain that I hate, it's Moryomaru. Most people don't hate him for a few reasons. One, he was introduced at the very last minute of the 1st anime. Most people were too busy on ending where the good guys ran off into the sunset, saying they defeat Naraku. After 167 episodes, the show just abruptly stops and doesn't give a conclusion. I still think Berserk has the worse anime ending, Inuyasha didn't end on a straight cliffhanger. Your options were ..well legally speaking is wait several years for the manga to be officially released in your country. Otherwise you have to read the fan translations. Alot casuals who were unware that it's adapted from a manga and were confused and only official way to learn what happen isn't going to be available in several years.

We did finally get a 2nd anime several years later that did wrap up the story called Inuyasha: The Final Act. However by the time it came available, alot people forgotten who the heck is Moryomaru and the show starts with no recap of what happen. It's like the show pretend you recently saw the final episode of the previous show like it was last week.

Another thing is the 1st ten or so episodes of Final Act took over a dozen manga volumes and crunch it into several episodes. Nearly of the entire Moryomaru arc which is nearly 100 chapters is done over in episode 8 of the 2nd anime.

Final Act may tighten the pacing, there are alot of canon fillers as I call them as they encounter random monsters that has no connection to the overall story. However it does ruined the moments of some stuff. Kagura's death happen when 8 different storylines were crammed in the same episode. If felt like an afterthought and should of been it's own episode or half an episode.

Alot people didn't know the baddie due to being introduced at last minute and his entire arc was done in 8 episodes and I wasn't joking that the Moryomaru arc is nearly 100 chapters. Naraku, AKA the Big Bad of the anime, his heart is now in a form of an infant. Now Hakudoshi who is another offspring of the Big Bad wanted to go all Starscream on his dad and go against him(He dies early in the arc BTW). The infant was sealed inside a weird Frankenstein monster called Moryomaru. Because killing him will end the series, they chased after him instead of Naraku and it lasted for nearly 100 chapters. Our Big Big was actually not seen throughout the arc, so basically the main villain of Inuyasha got replaced by this loser.

Moryomaru was very 1-dimenisonal and boring. His only purpose was to drag the manga for another two years till his Big Bad status was yanked back by the original baddie. Moryomaru also went through a few upgrades like a powerful armor that he absorbed from a turtle demon. Just an excuse to drag on the arc.

Throughout the arc, Inuyasha gets yet another power up in this arc with a Dragon-scaled Tessaiga that can cut the source of the demon's power and absorb it. Him learning his new power takes forever to master it but by the time of the end of the arc, he hardly uses it because he got another power up that can shoot black holes.

I know alot people were annoyed by Naraku and that he keeps escaping and took forever to get killed off. I heard he was like one of the top ten most satisficing villain deaths but I was asking, "What about Moryomaru?" However that's just me since alot casual viewers didn't see him go on for nearly 100 chapters. At least everyone has a personal connection to Naraku and why they hate his guts, Moryomaru doesn't. 

At the arc's end when Naraku absorbed Moryomaru, I cheered that Naraku went back to his main villain status.

If there a few good things that came from the arc is Kagura and Hakudoshi's deaths. I guess Koga getting a power up so he can finally catch up. However it didn't last long because by the time he loses the shards in his legs, he pretty much leaves the show and only came back in a one second cameo in the ending where he marries his non-canon filler love interest. After this arc, Inuyasha finally started to take the story to it's conclusion and started to slowly wrap up storylines. So yeah, during the brief time the Final Act didn't air yet, I mention all the interesting stuff that happens after this arc, and maybe who died in the very beginning but that's it.

Yashahime season 2

Here's a link on what I said about season 1

I was told that Season 2 was a huge step up from Season 1 and they got a different showrunner. So at some point, I gave season 2 a chance.

My 1st impressions of the 1st episode is totally great because for one reason alone, a short recap of what happened and how it the previous season ended. This is a problem I had with the 1st episode with Inuyasha: The Final Act when it started. It just straight up starts and continue where the original Inuyasha left off and pretend the last episode of the 1st series happened like it was a week ago. No recap or anything. It's been about 5 years since the original show ended in Japan and they somehow expect people to remember everything. Most people were confused and completely forgot who Moroyomaru was despite being introduced in the last few episodes of the 1st series and being set up as the new big bad for next arc.

I admit I needed a refresher too for Yashahime's 1st season since I haven't watch the thing in months at the time and I may of forgotten some stuff here and there.

This season starts with Towa giving her all to restore Setsuna back to life. After that, Sesshoumaru tells Towa to go sidequesting to find rare materials to craft new weapons. Yes, this is totally like a video game.

There are fillers in Season 2 but it's not all over the place and they arrived every now and then, plus they at least try to connect to the main plot mostly. So this is a huge set up.

Very early on in the 3rd episode of all things, we got an episode explaining why Rin is in a tree, or why Inuyasha and Kagome were sent to the shadow realm, as well as why Setsuna has her dreams stolen by the Dream Butterfly. Rin got cursed by Zero to have silver scales that will kill her quickly. So Sesshoumaru had to put her inside the magic tree to put her suspended animation to prevent her death. Also the whole Dream Butterfly with Setsuna was done to help keep Rin suspended.

 It's so nice to actually get answers. In a few episodes, the Dream Butterfly is killed, meaning Setsuna should be able to sleep, however it means they need to finish up their quest or their mother is dead from the curse now that time is ticking. I'm glad the 2nd season isn't playing around.

On their quest, they meet the Big Bad's innocent undead daughter, Rion. She's basically like Kikyou, a dead being in an artificial body made of clay and dirt. She joins the good guys on their adventures as well as Riku. Riku is an offshoot of Kirinmaru and Towa's love interest. It's funny the big bad has two of his kids working against him.

We did get a filler episode in Season 1 about an annoying spoiled princess that try to get everyone in arena combat. I didn't know she will come back again as a recurring character. Now she wants to sneak away from her home school class and try to switch places with Setsuna when no one is looking. When it was revealed that her teacher for the day was Miroku's son, I said to myself, "Let me guess, she's going to fall for him and will regret running away." Turns out I was right.


The next couple of episodes has the trio split up for a very good while before they get back together. Setsuna and demon slayers deal with a former village deity. Moroha is joined with Takchiyo(the Yashahime knockoff of Shippo) and Hachi to overthrow an evil tanuki from their village. I know that Hachi was just simply a very minor recurring character in the original series that never did anything special and didn't have a backstory. All he did was occasionally help Miroku but man, I would never thought we get to see exploration of Hachi's background or anything.

There was a new moon that appeared in the middle of these episodes and showed Setsuna on her 1st night being 100% human for once.

Towa was captured by Zero.

The sister of the Big Bad was filling Towa with sorrow and angst, basically brainwashing her and fill her with anger. Episode 13 is where the gang try to stop the brainwashing and use the power of family love to undo the brainwashing. They battled Zero and it ended with her filled with regret of not being able to prevent the man she totally simps over, InuDaddy. She dies while Rin's curse is lifted, meaning she can finally get out of that tree.

It never really bother me in the original series or Final Act because they never referred to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's dad that often but in Yashahime, good gosh. It's annoying to keep hearing "The Great Dog Demon".

It times like this I wish he had an actual name. That be like someone from Jr High who had a crush on you and referred to you as a title or something because that's what Zero acting like. The dad never got a canonical name always referred as "Your father" or "The Great Dog Demon(or Great Dog General)" Supposedly, early drafts for the 3rd movie was going to call him Toga but it never went through. Somehow, alot people on social media and wiki sites referred to him as that like that his official name or something. There are other times people thought his actual name was Inutaisho but it's just an untranslated word for his title of being the dog demon or dog general.

Since Zero is no longer a threat and Rin is curse free.

And I nearly threw up after seeing their reunion.

Gosh, I always saw her as his adopted daughter, never his baby mama. It feels odd and wrong.

Sesshoumaru gives Moroha a pearl to reunited with her parents, only for Kirinmaru to come in steals it. He demands that they take Akuru's pinwheel. A mysterious spirit that been seen briefly episode to episode. Kirinmaru is going to use the macguffin to bring the Degenerate Age. The next episode has a big battle and Sesshoumaru is badly wounded but sent the three girls into the black pearl. After that episode, we finally get the heart warming reunion with Moroha meeting her parents. Unlike season 1, Moroha acts like she cares and wonders what happens to her parents throughout this season.


They said they were able to watch their daughter grow up by watching a magical lake and making them see through Jaken's staff. The girls who happen to have Sesshoumaru's healing sword was the key to get them out of the shadow realm and they return back to Earth.

Kirinmaru revealed by the end of the episode that the Grim Comet that's been foreshadowed since the previous season is not going to caused the end of the world in the Feudal Era but in the Modern Era. He also reveals that Towa's school teacher, Osamu from that era is actually an offshoot of Kirinmaru that got transported through time. It was a common fan theory that there was a connection, mainly because they share the same voice actors in both Japanese and English versions. Plus, the school teacher does look like the Big Bad if he wore thick glasses and wore a suit.

Also guess who finally return? It's Shippo...somehow? He's an old dude a class but according the trickster, he's only appearing in that form because he believes he think his students wouldn't take a younger man as their teacher seriously. 

Shippo transforms again and dude got a big glow up and he has a hot waifu. I mean dude.

Shippo transforms back into his normal kid form and the hot waifu is actually belongs to someone else. The show purposely trolled us. I had a good laugh on the total scene. Afterwards, he joins up with the other good guys in the show and assist them.

I was a little curious where he was in the sequel serious but I'm not too concerned. He was last seen going to an academy to practice his fox magic and he had his own happy ending. Plus, he's not directly related to the new trio, so him being on the new series wasn't a major deal to me.

I admit I didn't like Shippo in the original series. All he does is him and Inuyasha have unfunny banter and his magic does nothing in battle or anything. Fillers do try to do something about the kid where he clashes with demons on the same (weak) power levels with him in a humorous manner or he falls in love with a girl close to his age, for the six different times. He also gain a few abilities that are actually useful to the gain like a giant top that teleports the gang to a different location. I'm surprised to say this but Shippo somehow went to one of my least favorites to one of my favorites. Maybe it's because he was saved up to near the end, or he became useful, or he's actually funny for once and not all over the place and overused like the original series.

His kinda replacement Takchiyo is simply ok to me. He does transports the gang but doesn't get too involued and simply a middle-man for the person that Moroha works for. Basically he never annoyed me like Shippo did in the previous series.

Back to the plot, the trio split from their parents and their allies as they try to hold back the big big while they go see Sesshoumaru's unnamed mom. It was funny back in the day that we all assumed that she was dead long before the dad got with his 2nd wife but then she out of nowhere showed up and all our theories were thrown out of the window. Now we have new questions, did they divorced, did he cheat on her with Inuyasha's mom, was their relationship a one-time fling, or dog demons having a polygamy relationship is totally normal? 

I'm going off subject. The mom task them with a trial and fight a demon from hell. Then this Akuru helps make them time travel to present era.

The next set of episodes take a break from the whole conflict with Kirinmaru's long fight that's been happening for six episodes as the three girls entered the Modern Era and catch up with Towa's step-family. They also met with homeroom teacher, Osamu and unlike demon he's an offshoot of, he actually wants to save the Modern Era. They join forces to stop the comet that's going to crash in Tokyo, problem is it's an invisible magic comet, meaning the muggles are unaware they're going to die. The four warriors did everything to stop the doomsday rock but nothing happening. Osamu then decides to have a change of heart and teleports the comet to the Feudal Era.

We also see Miroku with his new magical powers from his training and Sango got a new Black Hiraikotsu

Now suddenly, Kirinmaru out of nowhere had his main villain status hijacked from the school teacher. He wants to destroy all the demons of the Feudal era by merging with the comet and wants take his sister Rion to all the great cities all over the world. The three girls go inside to fight against Kirinmaru and Osamu inside the comet. They were defeated, Kirinmaru makes amends with his daughter as they passed on to the afterlife.

The final episode is basically an epilogue and maybe a teaser if there was a season 3. The three girls say there goodbyes to their parents as they and Towa's love interest plan to have more adventures in the western lands that's completely separate from the whole Kirinmaru plot.

I admit season 2 is leagues better. May not be the greatest show or most worth watching but it's nice to see a huge set up from season 1. I think the main issues the show starts dragging after Zero got defeated.

Thoughts on Yashahime season 1

 

In late 2020, suddenly out of the blue that we had a sequel to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had daughters it seems. My opinion towards this sequel is mixed, more to the negative side.

The show had great promise for a while at first. It set up our new trio of protagonists. Sesshoumaru had two daughters who were separated at a young age. The white-hair Towa who got stuck in present era and grew up there and the dark-hair Setsuna, who was left behind the Feudal era but had her memories and her dreams remove due to a magical butterfly. Moroha is Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter and she's in some serious debt and takes up demon slaying to clear it.

Half of the 1st episode was a flashback of our heroes from the previous show and takes place a few months after the ending and they slay a tree root demon. The demon sort of came back from the dead years later and try to attack our new set of heroes but dies quickly. I found out months later the 1st episode was an adaption of a bonus manga chapter that was released years after the manga finished. I doubt most people knew about the bonus chapter since Inuyasha was long over and there is barely a reason to come back to check for new content. Plus it didn't hit front page news all over the webs. There are people who may of saw The Final Act when Adult Swim finally got around to airing the series despite it's been more than half a decade since it's premiered both subbed and dubbed and already on DVDs and streaming but I doubt people who were watching on Adult Swim were aware of the obscured manga chapter.



Well at first it showed promise. There are questions of how everyone got separated and where is the entire cast of the previous show. I know it ain't going to be answered in one or two episodes.
After episode 4 where everything is set up and our trio heads out to save the day.

Well we ended up getting filler after filler, technically they are canon to the anime series. It's really a bunch of demon of the week stories here and there. Inuyasha was guilty of fillers too and I don't mean the non-canon anime-only ones, I mean canon fillers. The problem is this is a 26 episode season, meaning they should have a beginning, middle, and end set up from the get go, this is not a 100+ series that's adapting from a manga that still going and slowing the pacing just for the sake of not caching up with the manga.

There's still been no word of what happen to Inuyasha and his friends. I know this is a new generation of heroes and they need to have a chance to shine without our previous set of heroes overshadowing them but in recent years, I been seeing in fiction this is done all wrong and it felt like they just want to do it in the most disrespecting manner possible, because that's exactly I felt with this sequel series. Moroha has missing parnets and she doesn't seem to care less what happen to them.(Or till Season 2 retcon her feelings about this)

Star Wars' new Sequel trilogy felt like that where they killed off the main trio and changed their personalities for cheap drama and shove in new characters we barely got to know. Terminator: Dark Fate killed off John Conner and gave us some knockoff we don't care for as they fight a knockoff of Skynet. You can argue which post-T2 film is the worse but for me, it's Dark Fate

Cobra Kai, the sequel to the Karate Kid trilogy is one of the few examples of the old generation passing the torch to the new generation actually works. It gives both the new and old generations a chance to shine, gives everyone character growth, and it doesn't come off as disrespectful to the old film characters for the sake of cheap drama.

For 15 episodes, it's nothing been filler after filler after filler. Our patience been wearing thin. The season is more than a half over and nothing has happen. We would forgive this if this was non-canon fillers because everyone skips them and they don't count. The early part of Inuyasha long before we learn about Naraku or the entire gang got together was more forgivable. You can tell our two heroes were slowly bonding together and they slowly gained a new member one by one while setting up side characters like Sesshoumaru or Kikyou's return. Yashahime on the other hand just straights up sets up our trio four episodes in and then threw them in filler with over a hundred questions for the viewers. We didn't have that many questions in the old anime back in the day.

The trio does encounter the Four Perils who all have Macguffin pearls and work for the show's Big Bad but they come off as your typical demon of the week. Also they barely explain about the rainbow pearls and when they do talk about it, it's so rapidly told. So even it is important to the story, it feels like another filler.

Three of the episodes between episodes 4 and 15 are adaptions of old Inuyasha manga chapters that replaced the old set of characters with the new trio in their place. After the original Inuyasha series got caught up with the manga and the anime went on a hiatus for a few years, a continuation called The Final Act adapted 21 long volumes of manga and crunched into a 26 episode series. Now some stories from the manga got skipped.

Episode 6 has our trio fighting a Bakeneko or a ghost cat which is adapted from a skipped manga story. Towa's blade is pretty much like Inuyasha's dragon scale blade where he absorbs demon energy or Yokai into his blade.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/de/wiki/Bakeneko  (You may have to use google translate)

Episode 10 has a set of conjoined twins called Kinka and Ginka who are trying to kill each other. The problem is we saw a different Kinka and Ginka who both got killed in the Final Act. Do all members of their species name themselves that?
https://www.furinkan.com/iycompanion/characters/kinka.html

Episode 12 has them fight a demon called Nikosen while Towa is affected by the New Moon, causing her to lose her power and briefly turns 100% percent human for one night. Well this is an adaption of a skipped manga story and that also had Inuyasha revert to a human state for a night.

Speaking of the New Moon, it's strange that Towa's night to be human is the same exact night as Inuyasha.

https://inuyasha.fandom.com/wiki/Nikosen

Also it seems strange that it only happens when she's in the Feudal Era but not present time. This is alot of weird retconning about half-demons and their time to be human. Thankfully Season 2 answered why she didn't get affected by the New Moon. I guess it doesn't affect Quarter Demons seeing Moroha is ok.

Episode 13 shows what happens with Miroku. Dude has let his hair down and doing some spirtual training. He feels useless since his main ability, the wind tunnel is gone. Miroku, you were useless even when you had it because poison insects always appeared why it try to appear. I didn't mind this episode that much since it gives our pervert monk a spotlight and some character growth.

Both his Japanese and English VAs passed away unfortunately. His old English VA was around for the 1st episode and people notice he sounded rough. His new voice doesn't sound quite the same but it works here because he's meant to be older and he's looks way different.

Now don't asked me why Sango looks exactly the same, maybe she ages well?



We finally got answers in episode 15 but oh boy, it wasn't the answers people been wanting to know. There was some questions on who Sesshoumaru's baby mama is. Alot theorized it was Rin aka the human child that followed out dog demon around. Sadly, SesshoumaruXRin unfortunately became canon. (Or non-canon since the original Mangaka didn't write this)


Some were grossed out while others were happy. There been shipping flame wars all over the place. People did accused Sesshoumaru being a child groomer. Others pointed out it's Feudal Era and it's totally normal for a man marrying a minor, also he was only with her for a few months and than dropped her off at a village to be raised by humans when the original show ended, and it was many many years later when they meet again when she's all grown up.

I feel sick to my stomach

If you argue that this is normal back in the day. Inuyasha may been set in Feudal times but was more closer to fairytale fantasy, it never went with full medieval gritty realism. This isn't like Game of Thrones or Berserk. 

I always saw Seeshoumaru as Rin's father-like caretaker, not potential love interest when she grows up. Even Sesshoumaru's Japanese VA and the original Mangaka even saw the dog demon as a father figure, not future husband. *throws up*

Also the show can't make up it's mind when Rin gave birth. It sound like she gave birth at age 12-14 *throws up*. Later on, it said 18 years old. I guess Inuyasha and Kagome were the type of married couples to wait several years before deciding to have a kid because they got together long before Sesshoumaru did.*throws up*

Enough ranting about SessXRin. The other bad thing from episode 15 is we learn what happen to the main couple of the 1st series. Sesshoumaru banish Inuyasha and Kagome into the Shadow Realm aka The Next Dimension, no really. You know, when anime airs on kids networks and try(and fail) to censor death. Actually the couple got sent into the Border of the Afterlife.

Basically where InuDaddy's skeleton is located. Not the place I want to start living of over a decade.

The heroes of the previous generation been stuck there for over a decade. What a way the writers decide to treat our heroes and their daughter acts like she doesn't give a care.(At least in Season 1).

The remainder of episode 16 and 17 did say Moroha grew up with Koga's tribe before she ended up in debt. Some question why she ain't living with Miroku's family or why they ain't doing something about her debt. 

Episode 20 shows that Shiori, the half-demon bat lady who was a little girl from a small arc in original series returns and told us that she raised Setsuna after she got separated from her sis. Also the villain designers gotten lazy and copied an old moth demon from a filler episode from the old series who was a copy of a filler movie villain.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/wiki/Moth_y%C5%8Dkai

The remaining episodes finally started to feel less fillery but it's so fast paced and all over the place. I was getting lost. We learn that the main villain and his sister knew Inu-Daddy and they destroy a giant comet that would destroy everything and said it will come back again centuries later. The heroic trio clash against the two siblings. Sesshoumaru's healing sword breaks while Towa dies and the season ends on a cliffhanger. Honestly, I was not feeling it.

I heard there is a manga adaption that re-imagines the story. Setsuna and Moroha were raised in Kaede's village and while RinXSesshoumaru does happen, she looks way way older than the anime. It sounds like the superior version of the story.

Minor updates

I added a few new thing about Predator 2018 in this old article. I don't why I didn't think of writing it down back then. I just came to my head while watching the new Prey film. I remember stuff like it was going political about stuff and failing on telling it's messages.

Here's the link to the old article

You Will Cry 2021!!! Part 2

 A list of jokes of movies from the 2nd half of 2021

I'm going to make you watch Paw Patrol: The Movie. You will cry that the lame knockoff of Rescue Bots was so popular that it ended up having a movie. Man, why did this get a big movie but material they stole from didn't?

Hmm, a preschooler show about non-humans being rescuers that helps people in need. This came out in 2011, two years before it's copycat came around. For shame Paw Patrol for coping off of this, for shame.

Note-I'm joking about Paw Patrol ripping off of Rescue Bots. I was aware of Rescue Bots long before you started seeing Paw Patrol all over the cereal aisles. I never watched Rescue Bots but I knew it was part of very loosely connected universe of Transformers shows, comics, and games. I repeat, very loosely. I found out some issues I had questions about the timeline was resolved in of all things, a preschooler show like how many years does RID15 take place after Prime or that Grimlock in RID15 when by a different name back in the day, which totally makes him a separate Grimlock from Fall of Cybertron.

Over the years, I see Paw Patrol merchandise everywhere and jokily pretend to others that I'm jealous of Paw Patrol's success while the Transformers spinoff becomes forgotten and airs only on some channel that you need to spend extra money on.

I'm going to make you watch Shang-Chi...You Will Cry...That after three attempts...They still can't get The Mandarin's skin color right.

Everyone who grew up with this Iron Man cartoon definitely knows that the Mandarin has green skin. How dare the MCU ruined our childhoods. You think they learn after the 1st time but no, they did it three times already.

Note- There was one Iron Man show in the 90s that has his iconic nemesis with green skin. If you read the comics or see anything else that features him, he doesn't have green skin. It was a bizarre choice that came from this 90s cartoon.

I seen people out there who seen at least one incarnation of a popular franchise and they act like they have decades worth of knowledge and make themselves look like fools for complaining about their one particular version isn't in the big major motion picture. So maybe there are Green Mandarin fans out there crying?

Back in the early 2010s, Iron Man 3 heavily hyped up that his iconic foe from the comics, The Mandarin was making his big screen debut and the trailer showed him to be as a legitimate threat for Tony Stark. Unfortunately, it turns out the Mandarin is a goofy actor reading his lines while the man calling the shots was a some dude in business suit who engineered a middle eastern terrorist group from from a western computer lab.

There was a short film afterwards that showed the goofy actor in prison and it told us that there is a real Mandarin out there and the computer nerd took inspiration from the ancient mythical man. Fast forward to 2021, we finally got to see the man himself.

I think the problem is The Mandarin is a tricky villain to adapt due to him originally being based on a dated Chinese stereotype from decades ago. I think Marvel been somewhat trying to change a bit by making him bi-racial and toning down the stereotype in the comics, or skin green in the old cartoon(which is dumb), or avoiding having him East Asian in Iron Man 3(which failed).

*warning major spoilers, skip to the next entry to avoid spoilers*

1. You will cry...That 007 is a black woman

Ok, I can handle a blond Bond, or a young pretty boy Q, but making 007 into a black woman is going too far. How dare ruin James Bond.

2. That Biofield dies right after he's introduced.

What!? Bond's iconic foe dies in one scene and there 2/3s left of the film's runtime? Well time to leave the theater then.

3. The ending

*again major spoilers, I already warned you earlier*
4. That the credits say James Bond will return despite he's dead.

Wait, what you mean he returns? Didn't he die just then? I mean what, did he slipped under a magical dumpster and it sheltered him from the missiles? Did he did a transfer his Katra to another before his body died? Was his body thrown in a Lazarus Pit? Did he literally live only twice?

Note #1- James Bond was retired since the previous movie. When he came back, he found out the person that holds the title of 007 was a black woman named Nomi.

It seems people vaguely heard early reports about a female black 007 and went fan rage, thinking James Bond himself been heavily re-imagined or something.

Note#2- Biofield did die 1/3 in the movie but it sets up a whole new villain. It does seem disappointing he shows up and dies suddenly.

Note#3+4- The movie did in a surprising manner killed our hero at the end.  What's funny is that the end credits flat out said he will return, despite killing him. They may meant that they may reboot 007 or go back to the original timeline. Daniel Craig's Bond was set up to be a self-contained timeline.

They didn't bother to stop Thanos.

Seriously, get off your lazy butts. Also, isn't Thanos considered a Deviant? The monsters that your assigned to stopped?

Note- The whole net joked that they didn't get into the affairs of the world shattering events, unless it's Deviants that's messing stuff up.

In the comics, Thanos' race is complicated. He was born from two Eternals but had the Deviant gene and born all purple.

You cry...that they milked another sequel.

Note- There been a several Home Alone movies over the years after the 2nd one. Alot of them were not good and went straight to video with no promotion. I never heard anything good about them and they sound like quick cash-ins.

1. Forget watching 20+ Marvel movies but now you have to watch 2 separate Spider-Man films series that take place outside of the MCU. That's more stuff to add to the binge watch.


2. Also Matt Murdock made a cameo, requiring that you to watch all of the shows that originally aired on Netflix.

Wait, I now have watch 3 whole seasons of Daredevil to understand this cameo? I thought the Pre-Disney+ shows weren't canon to the MCU. Oh gosh, do I have to torture myself by watching Iron Fist?

3. That they are copying off of One More Day. One of the worse Spider-Man storylines from the comics.

You mean the story that ruined my OTP. 1st Star Wars Episode 9 pull from one of it's infamous comic stories, now Spider-Man?

(The lizard is missing in pic)

4. There is 5 Spider-Man villains.

They still haven't learn from Spider-Man 3 and Amazing Spider-Man 2. Their film series ended on a bad note when they had too many villains. Man, this movie is going to suck.

5.That 70s Spider-Man isn't in it

Or Japanese Spiderman don't show up with his giant mech.

What!? Man, nobody came to see No Way Home to see Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. We wanted the guy from the forgotten 1970s series that everyone forgot about. Also wouldn't be it cool to see Japanese Spider-Man coming in and summon his giant mech into battle and give all five enemies a run for their money.

6.That the Venom cameo means nothing

What!?  Ever since I saw Venom got transported to Tom Holland's world, I thought I be seeing an epic showdown. What a letdown.

Note#1- You kinda need a checklist on what to watch on the MCU movies but now, we're seeing characters from films series that been long rebooted.

Note#2- 

Once upon a time, there was a group of shows on Netflix that was very loosely set within the MCU. I repeat very loosely. The only references to the MCU is the Kingpin's company helping rebuild NYC after "The Incident" or gangsters found special bullets made from metal that's "out of this world" that came from the "The Incident". There was also mentions of Supermax prison that was seen in Civil War. The Incident was another name for Loki's invasion of NYC.

After several years, alot shows that's sort of connected to the MCU were immediately cancelled because Disney+ was coming around with new shows with actual direct connections to the movies. Daredevil was unfortunately one of them.

I joked in the past that Infinity War and Endgame was going to have all these characters show up and confused the viewers as they make 50 thousand references to their shows. I also joke that random upcoming MCU movie/show would resolved the cliffhanger of Luke Cage being a mafia boss or explain Danny Rand's new energy guns since the chances of any of these stories being wrapped up is very small.

Daredevil and Killpin is now being welcomed into the main portion of the MCU. It's possible you may not be required to watch all the Netflix shows and basically give these characters a fresh new start as a new jumping on point.

Note#3- This movie sort of follows the infamous One More Day story but done better.

In the comic events of Civil War(which the MCU movie is loosely based on), Spider-Man unmasked himself to the world. Problem is, his enemies now know who he is and planned to attack his love ones. Aunt May was shot and showing no signs of recovery. 

The Marvel version of the devil called Mephisto appeared and offer Peter that he will save Aunt May and restore his secret identity if he gives up his marriage to MJ. They agreed and his years of marriage was magically erased from existence. Peter and MJ remember but not the whole world around them.

Everyone hated this direction. Marvel's higher ups thought Spidey be better off being a single man despite him being married for decades. Also MJ was preggers and was magically aborted. It took 10 long years to finally get them back together. Also, people would say that Peter would make the responsible choice and let his aunt die because it was her time instead of making a deal with the devil.

The movie was a million times better on the story. He went to his friend and ally, Dr. Strange, not the devil. It was to restore his secret identity because Spidey and his friends were bullied and denied their collage scholarships. It wasn't done to simply make Spidey single.

Note#4- These the complains from the previous Spider-Man movies. I think the main problem with the 2nd Amazing movie wasn't too many villains, it was way too many storylines and set ups for later films because The Rhino was only around in the last 5 minutes.

The good thing is all the villains stories were already establish from previous films and they more or less have the same predicament and working together. A dozen villains can work in a film if they are together in a group, not three villains that are completely separate from each other and all their stories getting rushed through and crammed in.

Note#5- This was clearly a joke about 70s and Japanese Spider-Man appearing. Most people has forgotten the show from the 70s and it's not worth watching. The Japanese show is good for a laugh and all but I don't know if they can get the original Japanese actor and he may not speak English.

If anything, what we got was already awesome. Who would thought we see Tom Holland's Spider-Man working with his predecessors and seeing the villains played by their original actors again after everything got rebooted over twice.

Note#6- The post-credits of the 2nd Venom movie have him fell through a portal and see the news reports of Spider-Man's identity exposed to the world and it seems it was setting them fighting. Well the post-credits of No Way Home have Eddie Brock drinking at a bar and hearing the history of the MCU from the barkeep, and then he suddenly vanished back to his home dimension.

All that set up was nothing more than a tease. There be no epic showdown between Holland's Spider-Man and Tom Hardy's Venom. A piece of the symbiote was left behind but I don't know if this will lead to anywhere.