Anime Mine Extra: Full Metal Starfire.

Is it me or does a girl from the Full Metal Panic series look a lot like Starfire?
Probably just me.

Axel Gear from Rocket Knight Adventures for Sega Genesis and Mega Drive.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/rocket-knight-adventures-axel-gear-genesis-mega-drive.html

Anime Mine: Kureha Tsubaki 2.

Scramble Cemetery.

What happened yesterday is that I didn't check the front page like I usually do. Instead I went in and updated other sites like Dragon Princess and Shadey Theatre by copy/pasting the code from my HTML editor instead of going to the Panel Monkey site and getting it there.

This is pretty much  what everybody saw all day. I found out about it when a friend of mine told me the site was screwed up. I checked it out and sure enough it was. I fired up the HTML editor and tried to find out what was going on. It did tell me at the end of the page with a highlighted </body> tag that a <div> tag wasn't properly closed. That's no help. Which one is it? There are hundreds of divs on that page. On top of that everything looks normal in the Design View of the editor.

I finally traced it to the recent updates line. I noticed what looked like some extra divs in that box. I found the code and deleted them and everything fell into place.

 I'm not sure why it happened, I only know how: when I deleted the div on the right, I didn't get all of the code.  All I can tell you is this: It's not the first time, won't be the last.

Axel Gear from Sparkster for the SNES.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/sparkster-snes-axel-gear.html

I'm sick of Magica Madoka and her ever depressing spinoffs.

When I first spied Puella Magi Madoka Magica I was intrigued. Guns, bloodshed, death, fighting to kill each other over magical trinkets, and even standing back and watching innocent people be killed. This was written by people who were sick to death of the icky-cutesy love conquers all that has defined the magical girl genre for many decades.

After three years I'm sick of Madoka. Almost every single spinoff has been pretty much the same, a magical girl or group of girls are out to capture or kill every other girl to stop the cycle. It all ends in failure. The only one right now that is taking a slightly different track in Tart Magica, but we already know the ending.

What set me off on this rant was the third Madoka movie. Sure it looks like it had a happy ending, but at what cost? Homura became the one thing she despised most of all, Kyubey, manipulating everybody on a whim to her own ends. The movie would have been good enough if it had ended twenty minutes earlier with Homura going into eternity with Madoka. We needed a whole two hours to undo everything that had been done in the TV series.

There are some "bright" spots. In Homura-Tamura we are treated to a RiffTrax like take on the whole Madoka can never be rescued no matter how many times Homura tries. The bar scene is worth it alone. Oriko Magica: Extra Story gives Yuma a happy ending.

     

Amy Rose and Metal Amy by Bendilin, Daniel Sidney, and Ren "Foxx" Ramos.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/metal-amy-rose-by-bendilin-and-daniel-sideny-and-ren-foxx-ramos.html

Anime Mine: Kureha Tsubaki 1.

Nack the Weasel by Bendilin and Daniel Sidney.

http://panelmonkey.org/html/nack-the-weasel-by-bendilin-and-daniel-sidney.html

Anime Mine: Liz Thompson 3: Patty is More Than Meets the Eye.

On the blog I'll maybe explain why I'm uploading this video here. #souleater #animemine #waitress pic.twitter.com/spfUo2AaQr

— The Sprite Cemetery (@panelmonkey) February 1, 2016

The reason I posted this video to Twitter and then to Blogger instead of the usual way via YouTube is because more than likely it would be taken down. I did try to upload the video directly to Blogger but it wouldn't play in any browser.

Here's a little funny thing I see that you probably wouldn't:

Even accounting for my penchant for assigning upload times of my choosing, still, this Tweet and blog post was done on January 31.

I really wish Twitter would allow us to edit tweets for spelling errors instead of having to delete them.

— The Sprite Cemetery (@panelmonkey) February 1, 2016

Being able to post videos to Twitter opens up some possibilities. I've noticed more than a couple of anime with similar sequences that would be too much as an animated GIF.

One final thing to say about Twitter video option:

For some reason Twitter videos default to mute. Which defeats the purpose of the Liz and Patty Thompson #souleater video I just tweeted.

— The Sprite Cemetery (@panelmonkey) February 1, 2016

Another funny aside: I just noticed that the video plays with sound here on the blog. For some reason not on Twitter.