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This Zone is dedicated to the lesser known elements of anime hosted by the cast of Victory Script.
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With my recent run of Detective Conan movies and how many there are, it's only fair that I rank them.
The Time Bombed Skyscraper
Conan attempts to stop a series of bombings at major architect projects.
Great way to start a film series, full of suspense.
B-Tier
The Fourteenth Target
Conan investigates a string of murders relating to Kogoro.
A mystery plot that has been used before but did well with it's set pieces to deliver a good watch
B-Tier
The Last Wizard of the Century
Conan chases after an assailant known to kill their victims by shooting them in the right eye, all the while investigating the attempted theft of a rare Faberge Egg by Kaito Kid.
Felt a little convoluted but at least Kaito Kid didn't feel shoehorned in.
C-Tier
Captured in Her Eyes
Ran becomes a target after witnessing the attempted murder of a police officer.
Great set pieces and solid execution makes this movie a joy from start to finish.
S-Tier
Countdown to Heaven
The Black Organization makes a move to try to assassinate Haibara all while a series of murders take place in the twin towers.
Detective Conan at it's finest, a brilliant mix of all elements.
S-Tier
The Phantom of Baker Street
Conan gets wrapped up in a virtual reality death game based on Sherlock Holmes in an attempt to save the child players.
Great high stakes plot if a little bit supernatural for a grounded show like Detective Conan.
A-Tier
Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
Conan and Heiji stop antique robbers in Kyoto.
Weakest film so far as Heiji can't hold a film well.
D-Tier
Magician of the Silver Sky
A poisoning on a flight goes horribly wrong when both pilots fall ill leaving Conan and Kaito Kid to land the plane.
Bit of an absurd plot but worth watching for Ran's love confession alone.
B-Tier
Strategy Above the Depths
A series of murders takes place on a cruise ship which starts to sink the ship.
A defining moment for Kogoro and a not so defining moment for Ran.
B-Tier
The Private Eyes Requiem
Kogoro and Conan are locked into a dangerous detective game with their friends and family held hostage at a theme park.
A weak premise saved by great character arcs and a good use of Kaito Kid and Heiji.
B-Tier
Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure
Conan and co end up being dragged into a pirate treasure hunting escapade when one of the divers gets attacked and killed by a shark.
Appreciate the change of pace but I get the feeling this movie was for Ran and it never really came out the way they wanted it to.
C-Tier
Full Score of Fear
Conan investigates a bombing incident involving a renowned opera singer.
It's nice to see a strong interaction between Conan and the movie characters, although there are some moments which feel like an ass pull.
B-Tier
The Raven Chaser
While investigating a string of murders connected to the Black Organization, Conan comes face to face with their new agent Irish.
Pretty intense thriller giving Conan the type of action it deserves.
S-Tier
The Lost Ship in the Sky
While attempting to catch Kaito Kid, Conan gets caught up in a terrorist hijacking of an airship.
Should've been better and the climax was wasted potential.
C-Tier
Quarter of Silence
A series of bombings occurs at a snow festival
Felt like it played it's best card too early but that climax is really effective at grabbing your attention.
A-Tier
The Eleventh Striker
A series of bombings occur during J-League soccer matches
Pretty intense and played it's suspects well.
S-Tier
Private Eye in the Distant Sea
A spy infiltrates a battleship to steal military data.
Slow, dull and half assed with it's writing
D-Tier
So I'd like to introduce a new feature that looks at old cartoon characters who may not have made much of an impact at the time but are really not that great when you look into them, equally I'd like to redeem some characters who got unwanted hate.
The only rule is that all shows must pre date 2006 and is not an active long running cartoon like the Simpsons
Bert Raccoon from The Raccoons
Bert Raccoon walked so SpongeBob could run, the 80s manchild is the titular lead of the Raccoons and while not stopping Cyril Sneer from destroying the forest for financial gain, he's having fun with his friends, however he's a freeloader, a third wheel in his best friend's relationship and has more than once betrayed his friends for glory whether it being a baseball star or a rock star, needless to say Bert is no SpongeBob.
The Creep from Galaxy High
I shouldn't need to tell you why the Creep is hear but in case you've never seen it, The Creep is a yellow bug like alien who has an unhealthy infatuation with Aimee to the point of literally chaining himself to her, don't let the random Sinatra voice fool you, the Creep is a flat out stalker.
Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
Disney's Alice in Wonderland is quite the beloved movie and the Cheshire Cat is arguably the most popular character next to Alice herself but Dreamlight Valley exposed Cheshire Cat; as a kid, Cheshire Cat's deliberate cryptic annoying answers seem silly and charming but as an adult, he's the personification of every internet troll I've ever come across, from personal experience, someone even attempted that routine on me only to receive a well deserved block.
Peppermint Fizz from Strawberry Shortcake
My biggest pet peeve of traditional girls cartoons is that they preach forgiveness and tolerance but if characters don't change then it portrays everyone as dangerously naive and gullible, Peppermint Fizz really tests that theory with as many as four times possibly more instances of Peppermint being a complete utter bitch, she even cheated a toddler out of a sports day victory and tried to drive off another character for being different with the thinly veiled message of racism being bad, needless to say, I skip any episode where Peppermint is the focus.
Scrappy Doo from Scooby Doo
It's well documented how hated Scrappy Doo is but I feel it's unwarranted, his appearance in the series saved Scooby Doo from cancellation into the 80s, and one thing which Scooby and Shaggy can't do is hold a series together on their own, they need characters to playoff otherwise their cowardly routine gets old really fast, Scrappy Doo's head on approach is hardly the worst dynamic to play with and the only thing genuinely annoying about him is his voice, he's not even the worst character in the franchise, that's saved for next episode.
I've done the cures now time for the series themselves, all 24 will be ranked today.
Precure as a franchise doesn't do bad, at worst it's okay at best it's in my top ten so I rate none of these entries as bad.
24. Wonderful Precure
What were they thinking? No magical violence and a lead that has been reduced to someone's pet dog, the lead is supposed to be a girl the audience can relate to. The lowest Precure have sank.
23. Fresh Precure
Precure prides itself on it's influences and likes to pay homage to them, especially if certain staff worked on other shoujo series, however Fresh takes so much that it can't stand as it's own show, the influences are hard to ignore and are distracting not helped by the fact it was released in the genre's stale years.
22. Healin Good Precure
Beautiful setting in a very plain environment. Largely uneventful for Precure and very stale and a very stupid ending.
21. Futari Wa Precure Max Heart
Shiny Luminous wasn't really needed as the duo were plenty strong enough as characters to not need support, too many episodes made this season drag.
20. Yes Precure 5 GoGo
Season fatigue was the problem here, a near 100 episodes of the same team is just too much and never found any real boost from Precure 5.
19. Delicious Party Precure
The plot is back to basics but hardly ground-breaking.
18. Precure Full Bloom
An opportunity to showcase former Yes Precure 5 and Splash Star Precures as adults, great idea that failed to stick the landing, 20 years of Precure and still no adult Precure, at least effort was made.
17. Maho Tsukai Precure Mirai Days
I'm all for more of this couple but I can't help but think it's going for an audience that has already moved on from precure.
16. You and Idol Precure
It's becoming a bad habit of recent Precure seasons to drop in quality mid season, I really wanted this to be better but it failed to take advantage of it's assets.
15. KiraKira Precure A La Mode
This series made the homage so obvious you could almost call it plagiarism but at the very least it's still colourful and the characters although familiar to magical girl veterans were fun.
14. Doki Doki Precure
Contains two of my least favourite precures and one of my least liked villains and possibly worst costumes, but there is some entertainment to be witnessed.
13. Hirogaru Sky Precure
A season that plateaued hard by mid season but ended better than it had any right to, it brought alot to the table but ultimately never hit it's true potential.
12. Tropical Rouge Precure
A laid back offering with not much agency in the plot and utterly dominated by argubly the best Precure ever made.
11. Star Twinkle Precure
The story wrote itself into a corner that they never recovered from but at least it was fun.
10. Suite Precure
It's position after Heartcatch gave it the impossible task of trying to recapture the same glory but I found myself loving the art style along with a certain guitar haired Precure.
9. Precure Splash Star
I can't ignore the fact that the two Precures can easily be mistaken for the original duo but the fighting set a high standard to follow.
8. Yes Precure 5
I've grown to appreciate this season more but again, so many cures that I don't rate highly.
7. Mahou Tsukai Precure
The best duo since the original pair along with the most beautiful Precure. Strong in characters, weak in setting.
6. Go Princess Precure
The most fabulous Precure, no, Magical Girl series ever. Every transformation produces an ever bigger dress, it's pure unapologetic fun.
5. Futari Wa Precure
The first season is showing it's age but there's no denying that without it, the franchise would not reach such heights.
4. Hugtto Precure
Anniversary year aside, this is proof that Precure still has a place in the world, packed full of the most heart warming, emotional scenes Precure has ever had.
3. HappinessCharge Precure
This was when Precure was at it's most creative and deserves more praise than it gets.
2. Smile Precure
The last two I consider the seasons that best represent Precure. Fun, colourful, memorable precures, memorable villains, not afraid to get silly yet deliver an experience worthy of it's name.
1. Heartcatch Precure
Same reasons as Smile only this series is in a different league altogether. Every good quality that the franchise has is showcased here in Heartcatch, this season will never be topped.
Having been watching Bad Game Hall of Fame's streams, a question that has been bugging me for weeks now, which console group has the worse games, avoiding obvious failures like 3DO, Phillips CDI and Atari, were just focusing on the big four, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation and XBox.
Sega
We'll start with the group no longer making consoles Sega, having not been around for 20 plus years now, there isn't much to work with and Dreamcast's library has hardly any bad titles, however with the Genesis going on so long it produced some quite bad titles, Mega CD and 32X being particularly bad with games, surprisingly the Saturn has very few truly bad titles but doesn't have the best track record adapting it's Sega arcade catalogue.
XBox
I've heard this a million times now, achievement hunters only play bad games, I've seen your profile; look almost everything Xbox has ever had is available on the other consoles, in fact alot of companies try and avoid porting to Xbox entirely as it's proven to be harder to port on xbox especially the more recent ones.
PlayStation
With PlayStation having a relatively good track record between all it's consoles, it's hard to imagine it having a bad game catalogue, however it's because of it's over whelming success that everyone tried to port on to it for a quick buck with very little push back from Sony themselves not to mention it has xbox's so called cheap achievement games.
Nintendo
You'd think Nintendo wouldn't have this burden with it's immaculate record on it's first party titles but that's the thing, it's first party record may be immaculate but it has a porting problem, Nintendo is so keen to go it's own way that anyone wanting to port on it has to jump through more hoops more than Xbox, it's not like Nintendo isn't capable of making something better, Gamecube is proof of that but also like the PlayStation, something too popular can create an endless supply of shovelware titles which were still feeling now thanks to the Wii.
Final Verdict
Sega have been out the game too long to really have a bad catalogue with the majority coming from it's attempts at keeping the Genesis alive.
Xbox's catalogue is available on other consoles, if anything it's redundant in the grand scheme of things.
PlayStation has no quality control when it comes to it's catalogue and it has no excuses for allowing it to be that way.
Nintendo has a porting problem as it won't make something that caters for anything other than it's first party games.
Really it's between PlayStation and Nintendo, but I'll give it to PlayStation for one major reason. Corcord. Critical failures are a part of a consoles life cycle but only PlayStation has failed so badly that it has lost more money than all it's previous bad games combined.
I like vtubers, but vtuber talent agencies can go do one.
Pay your talent!
Ironmouse
The Puerto Rican has been around the longest and most people know of her condition where in basic terms, she has practically no immune system but this didn't stop her from being a gremlin who brings her feisty latina routine to every stream along with her incredible singing voice, her main appeal is how well she plays off other people especially CDawgVA.
Her position as the top talent in the agency is well deserved.
Zentreya
Zentreya has the strongest presence among the talent and regularly uses an electronic voice to hide her real voice suggesting she's either well known in real life or is more than one actor as it's often suggested that Zentreya's model is used by more than one person, but the mystery is irrelevant as it's Zentreya's relationship with her chat, comedy timing and material along with the deadpan delivery of her electronic voice makes her a joy to watch.
Silvervale
Silvervale has the presence of being sexy, wholesome and altogether fun to watch, her models often stood out the most by how much detail each one has, her main appeal is that she has her family join her on stream most notably her mother.
Projekt Melody
From revolutionizing the cam girl industry to becoming the lewdest vtuber on the planet, Projekt Melody's goal is to normalize the discussions of the often taboo subject of sex while also bringing her brand of innocent lewd humour, up with Zentreya and Kson, she's an absolute genius of her craft.
Nyanners
Having since moved agencies, Nyanners is the last of the founding members of Vshojo and arguably the weirdest among them, older than she acts she brings a host of weird and wonderful streams everything from classic PlayStation to toy streams from fun collabs with partner Lord Aethelstan to butchering 80s ballards.
Apricot Froot
Froot brings the British flavour into Vshojo, her appeal is that of an artist that never left the 00s emo era of metal, from butchering metal songs to being the straight froog girl in a game room of chaos, Froot is always a joy to watch.
Hime Hajime
Better known as Sydsnap the degenerate Queen, Hime Hajime rarely plays her character mostly only for promotional events, why she bothers to stay as a vtuber is beyond me especially as she is married to Trash Taste's Garnt.
Veibae
I probably learned more about Veibae from her interview with the BBC, not much to say about her, pretty forgettable.
Kson
Formally the world renowned vtuber Coco, Kson returned with Vshojo and quickly reminded us why she's the best Vtuber on the planet, not afraid to use sex appeal, Kson brings the best of Japanese Vtubing mixed with a blossoming career with Sega's Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. Kson truly is the best of the bunch.
Nazuna
Formally Rushia, Nazuna had a good start but it was becoming abundantly clear over time that the former star didn't want to do Vtubing anymore and has since retired for good.
Haruka Karibu
High on gremlin energy and always one to antagonize the others, Haruka is that one friend you always bring to a party.
Henya
Formally Pikamee, she became an innocent victim of the whole Hogwarts Legacy incident, as Henya, she's become her best self with her kettle like reactions to just saying Dayo, Henya is always a joy to watch.
Geega
Basically Veibae with more gremlin energy, she has a much better presence than the devil maid but you still can't get over the fact that there are a high number of vtubers that use a similar look. Good actress though.
K9 Kuro
Fitting very well among female talent, K9 Kuro is one male that can deliver an amusing performance from his wide range of silly voices.
Matara Kan
A dommy mommy, Matara Kan is the adult charm often missing from most vtubers, whether she is older than others on this ranking is hotily debated but two things are apparent, she somehow made cockroaches sexy and she quickly cemented herself as the perfect mommy character.
Michi Mochievee
Reinvented from a previous vtuber agency, Michi may not strike anyone as original but high on gremlin energy and a good karaoke partner, she's a strong personality.
Amalee
Amalee has quite the reputation as a singer and actress, already quite well established in the medium, Amalee
Akatsuki Homura
Hestia Happiness
Okamoto Nagi
Yutori Peke
Arielle
Snuffy
Trickywi
We'll be using a tier grade system to rate the talent today.
Ironmouse - S
Zentreya - S
Silvervale - B
Projekt Melody - S
Nyanners - S
Apricot Froot - A
Hime Hajime - C
Veibae - C
Kson - S
Nazuna - D
Haruka - B
Henya - S
Geega - B
K9 Kuro - B
Matara Kan - A
Michi Mochievee - A
Amalee - A
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