New Gay Tony in-game anime is all too familiar

I'd watch it

That's surprisingly 'high-quality' for what some would see as a throw-away feature.

And, um... boobies?

the onion volcano at the Japanese steak house is what got me.

Wow, the worst in anime. By the end i pretty much forgot what it was all about.

Umm... subtle...

I thought about asking that, but design-wise it would probably mean massive code reconstruction. Embedded videos are usually drawing from another source/server and really have very little interaction with Joystiq's account information.

But now that I think about it... shouldn't be too hard to make a category for mature videos vs unregistered users (drop down still?) vs underage users where posts from that category wouldn't be displayed.

Of course Weblogs Inc could have designed their blog infrastructure to make it impossible, but probably not =|

Oh such wit! I think this rivals Epic Movie and Disaster Movie!

Forgive me for this, but that was retarded.

So Rockstar DIDN'T lose their sense of humor. WTF was up when they were making GTA4 then?

Simply awesome, I love GTA's style of humor!

I can't tell if this offends my lifestyle, or if I just placed a pre-order.

Screw it, moar Negima.

I like to watch anime (not as much now, a little more particular in taste) and listening to Rightwing talk radio but I still found GTA IV's parodies awesome. They were smartly done and I took no offense at them. In fact I enjoyed them more than the actual missions themselves. Listen folks, there's no point in getting bent out of shape over everything, like Prezbo and his Libs. Did I say that out loud? Yes I did.

I love her Bra :P

I was thinking about avoiding this dlc but I may have just changed my mind. XD

I'm not a particularly big fan of Rockstar's sense of "humor", but this was amusing. (Coming from a longtime anime fan.) And before anime weeaboos start crying out that Rockstar hates anime, you might want to check out a little game called Oni that they worked on together with another developer called Bungie (heard of them?) some years ago. It's basically a love letter to Ghost in the Shell and other classic sci-fi anime, and they even got one of the best anime voice actors in the business (Amanda Winn-Lee) to voice the protagonist. So clearly at least some of them are fans.

Still, this particular parody seems awfully similar to a similar "show-within-a-game" joke done by Suda51 in "No More Heroes", right down to the art design and the name. (Suda's version was called something like "Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly".) Though I have to say, Suda's humor was more subtle.

A perfect parody of anime from the 1970's to the 1990's that were dubbed in English.

High production values aside, this is everything that is wrong with GTA "satire." Satire is the art of exaggeration to make a point - but GTA inevitably exaggerates so far that their "point" is stating the obvious (i.e. "bad anime is dumb!"), not to mention unoriginal (all their "satire" is just regurgitation of so many lazy internet posts).

One thought about the odd political bent this took:

It is interesting to note that historically, Liberals and
Ultra-Liberals have a disconcerting tendency to suppress speech the
dissents...and usually, oddly enough, claiming a moral high ground
that justifies the suppression of opposing ideas and quashing of
other freedoms based on some sort of intellectual superiority...when
in fact it could be said that it is intellectually corrupt to do so.

Just something to think about, considering the way this comment
thread has run...

-K

I liked it better when it was called Perfect Hair Forever

Wow, this is so messed up. But I like it. For some weird reason. Then again, I also think it's just plain disturbing. Well, that's Grand Theft Auto for you. When you could make bloody skid marks in GTA III, no one ever guessed it'd come to this. But that's what everyone's into these days, I guess.