Behind The Nihon Review » Nijuu-Mensou no Musume http://behind-the.nihonreview.com An insight into the minds of the staff of The Nihon Review Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:02:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Facial Expressions in Anime – The Extreme, The Effective… http://behind-the.nihonreview.com/20100206/facial-expressions-in-anime-the-extreme-the-effective/ http://behind-the.nihonreview.com/20100206/facial-expressions-in-anime-the-extreme-the-effective/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:43:44 +0000 Sorrow-kun http://behind-the.nihonreview.com/?p=1633

…And the extremely effective.

Recently I’ve taken to watching video reviews from The Angry Video Game Nerd. I find his work hilarious… he has that college internet style of humour that online satirists like Maddox from The Best Page In The Universe have, except the “satire” itself has been replaced with extreme crassness delivered with highly colourful (and often creative) language. As a reviewer, he’s kinda going for easy targets by searching for the absolute worst in video game history (though I don’t think any of the titles he’s examined have received any less than they deserve), but as an entertainer, I think he’s great. He’s got legions of fans and he’s been imitated many times, but no one’s come close to reproducing the same responses or executed the over-the-top deconstructions of really bad video games as well. So there’s gotta be something that he does better than most. And I think a big part of that is due to his wide range of facial expressions.

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