“Break the Ice PV by Britney” Review & Minor “Otaku” Rant
So, normally I try to avoid total train wrecks (with, I’m sure, a few exceptions) but I saw a random picture and I thought “Wow, this reminds me alot of the style that Alexander Senki is in!” (Alexander Senki is also known as Reign: The Conquerer [it was on AdultSwim a bajillion years ago]) It’s an anime, but had a really distinct art, that when I first saw it on AS I really didn’t like it, but it’s grown on me and I really like the story line. Now, I knew it wasn’t going to be like Alexander Senki, but I liked the art so I thought “why not?” after all I have nothing better to do on a Thursday night with no school the next day. The opening scene she totally looks like a bizarre version of Catwoman (obviously without the tail and ears) standing on top of the building, then she TOTALLY goes into this “GITS:SAC” OP thing, it was rediculous then going straight into a total Tifa scene when she’s fighting in what I like to call “Cloud’s Church” (the place with the flowers) from FF: AC! I mean seriously! It was rediculous, now, granted, those scenes are cool, but they just didn’t seem to go with the lyrics AT ALL, I mean, it’s all “It’s been a long time, you’re getting me horny, let’s have sex” so… seriously… why all the fighting? Trying to appeal to the growing anime-fan crowd? Aint gonna happen, unless they’re already into her they might become a fan of the PV, but that’s unlikely. Chances are they’re going to do what I did with Gwen Stefani’s “L.A.M.B.” and consider it horribly done, a sad attempt, and a butchered American-edition that’s no where near the real thing (of course being fans of such a dramatic medium we tend to have dramatic reactions. Remember though, this is just a generalization from what I see from fans and from what I have experienced as well as others who I know are fans.) Especially if they’re going through that otaku phase, honestly, RUN! I mean, I’m a fan of anime and manga and all things Japanese (well, basically) but an Otaku is the scariest, and possibly, the creepiest thing in the world! More sketchy than that fat guy who takes pictures of school kids for the newspaper and other Town events! They’re in a state of confusion most of the time and tend to hate their culture so much they retreat into another world. They can become obsessive and call themselves Otaku, generally you must pass through the Otaku phase to fully understand that Otaku is a bad term. It’s like being called a “slut” (I’m not saying if you’re an Otaku you “sleep” with everyone you meet, I mean it in the sense that you don’t want to be called it.) It’s common for fans to be easily consumed, I must admit I did go through that phase. I snatched up every manga and anime whether I liked it or not, but then again, when I was growing up (I still am, but not the point) it was hard to find and it wasn’t anywhere near as booming as it is now! Before there were few and far between, so now you can actually choose what you want to read/watch because there’s so much that’s translated and available to us now. Of course, even with all of it there are still those that go through the phase. Dear God XP So hard dealing with Otakus.
Oh and I just realized for those who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about when I say “GITS:SAC” It stands for “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” and “OP” is opening and “FF:AC” is “Final Fantasy: Advent Children”. GITS:SAC is a TV series (that may or may not be on still, if it is on, it’s probably on Adult Swim (I abbreviate it frequently as AS) and Advent Children is a movie, a good one 
I really wanna see more Ergo Proxy (haha another story, I just really like the art).
Anyway, back to the point… which I lost a long time ago, although I thought the art was a little Alexander Senki I also thought it was really cool, it didn’t feature the real Britney at all (she probably needs the break, I hate her so much, but all this bad press makes me feel bad for her) As with the classic Alexander Senki art the lips are freakishly wide, she tends to have an angular face and her hair looks… 2-D One part has a giant, bulky, muscle-man who totally reminds me of a not-green hulk. But whatever, if they want to steal scenes from just about every place on the face of the earth… well… we’re not forced to watch it… It was okay… the end was all “TO BE CONTINUED” but I didn’t see why, I could’ve sworn she defeated the bad guy (and the song totally has NOTHING to do with the PV so it’s like… WTF?) anyway… that’s it for now… at least on this subject…
