These teenagers became armed-to-the-teeth ninjas to take down the drug-dealin' scum in their town. They wanted to stop drug dealers' "impure" activities. Then they encountered into every vigilante's potential downfall: authorities that felt threatened by their power. This would never happen if Mike Haggar was their town's mayor.

Link to story with video, including don't-miss interviews with the ninjas. If you're not in a video-watching mood, here's a text version of the story.

I love how the lives of these kids are one big circa-1992 side-scrolling beat-em-up fantasy.

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Although Machine Girl only has two attachments in the film, it's a really fun time.

After her brother is killed by the son of the local yakuza/ninja boss and his gang, she goes to get her revenge by killing them although her family is definitely not of the killing type, regardless of whether or not her parents committed suicide after being investigated under suspicion of murder. She goes through hell and thinks things are lost after losing one of her arms, but two people from an auto shop make her a new arm and she resumes her bloodthirsty quest.

Swords, guns, chainsaws, flying guillotines, drill bras, detached arms and more. Anything can be a weapon. For this film, I think pictures speak louder than words.

See the trailer here.

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I enjoyed the Death Note manga and while I have not seen the anime, I did see the first Death Note live action film, which was decent. L is definitely an interesting and popular character, which led to him leading his own film which is kind of a prequel to Death Note. I say "kind of" because the film seems to want to overlap this story with the one in Death Note but it only serves to confuse. I do think there was an interesting film to be made and it would have been focused on how the L persona came to be and demonstrated the current L's intelligence and crime solving ability. One thing that people not familiar with Death Note wanted to know was why was he so weird.

L is contacted by W who informs him of a town wiped completely out by a man-made virus. K has turned sides and has twisted the term "make the world a better place" to mean most humans should be wiped out so nature can make a return.

While L puts a few pieces together, he mostly is there to look cool and act weird and eat sweet things. If you've been anticipating this movie, I think you'd be mostly disappointed.

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Caught this as the Asian Film Festival of Dallas. Very fun movie. Best with a group of friends. A lot of Robocop influence with the privatization of the police and the funny TV ads to get you into what the culture in the film's all about. Like designer wrist-cutting blades for girls.

After Ruka sees her father's head blown off by an assassin as a girl, she vows revenge against criminals and joins the police force which has recently become a privatized organization. Engineers are her specialty, called that because if they lose a body part, some weapon or other grows back in its place. As Ruka searches for the root of the engineer menace much bloodshed ensues.

There is indeed much gore here and it's all fun. There's an extended scene here.

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Who knew that the apocalypse would be so lush, verdant, and hauntingly beautiful? Link contains the original images as well as some tutorials on their creation that will be of interest to artists. If anybody can find links to higher-resolution versions of these files, please post them.

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Remember how Versus was kind of the best movie ever? Tak Sakaguchi, star of Versus, is working on his directorial debut. Cosgrove passed this on to me and it while the trailer is short, it looks like it's going to be a fun movie. I mostly just like the title, of course.

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I see no problems with Plunder's new name. Story via Kotaku.

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The world lost a true genius. George Carlin has passed away due to heart failure at 71.

Some OtakuBooty members saw his final performance last weekend during BootyCon. OB member Mel reports that Google's cached version of his website's schedule lists his last performance as June 15th, with his next performance not scheduled until July 20.

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Finally, pictures! BootyCon 2008 was another fantastic success. Over 100+ OtakuBooty members gathered together at a town in the middle of the desert for an extended weekend of friendship, eating, drinking, dancing, gambling, and various acts of depravity. I took around 600-700 pictures and here are the best -- or least horrible -- 300 or so of them. See all 300+ of my BootyCon 2008 Pictures at Flickr. Also see this forum thread where our members have posted their own image galleries.

Here are a few of my favorites.



#1 Thom and Joe look casual and assured #2 Sergio looks like an angry Tony Montana #3 Dana accepts her Best Boobs award #4 Sergio thinks, "This town is like a great big..." as he plots his takeover. #5 Scene from the registration desk on Thursday. We printed up color programs and everything #6 Christina gives Mike a facial in the pool #7 Jon and John armwrestle #8 Sasha is horrified by memories of the Shitburgler

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