Greetings Ladiez and Germtelmen! 'Tis I, the wonderful and amazing Titan Greybeard!   *fanfare with full band and brass section* I am coming to you with another article in regards to the topic of race and modern media! (Yaaay relevance!) This will be a spiritual successor to an article I wrote on my blog (https://thoughtspillsite.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/why-daredevil-season-two-is-important-and-also-one-of-the-best-shows-of-all-time/ pluggity pluggity plug plug!) which talks about why racial representation in modern media is important. Why are you writing another article on a similar topic I hear you ask? WHY ARE YOU ASKING I DIDN'T ASK YOU!? *Ahem* I am writing this article because today the first press shot was released of Scarlett Johansson as the female lead in   the live action adaptation of the iconic Masamune Shirow manga and anime, Ghost in the Shell. Now, I'm not going to go into what the show is about, 'cause you can Go...

I remember when my big sister, Bukky, rushed through the door with a VHS tape of a “manga” everyone at school had been going crazy about. It was Wicked City, I was 8, I shouldn't have been watching Wicked City, but I did and it was great. . That was the day my sordid affair with Anime began. At that point had no idea cartoons could be like that; so violent, so sexy and so well drawn. The thing about wicked city, coming from that pre HD era is that the lighting has this warmth that, at the time, I thought could only come out of a film camera. The action was out of this world. Remember this was the early 90’s, there was no Matrix and western movies had not embraced the over-the-top style of eastern action yet. If you watch Wicked City now, it has all of the ridiculous and cynical pandering to a western crowd that a lot of Manga Entertainment dubs had back then; the superfluous swearing, the horrible sentence and speaking cadence problems in the audio dub. It’s a mess....