define: technogibberish

April 26, 2008 at 12:25 am | In definition, technogibberish | 3 Comments

This is also known as Shirow Syndrome, or Star Trek: The Next Generation Syndrome. Nothing sums this up better than solving a problem by ‘inverting the polarity of the phase capacitor’.

Basically you get someone who thinks Science is Cool (and it is) and wants to do a series with Neat Science, or gets overly obsessed with it like Shirow, but they really don’t have any education in it or they want to justify pseudoscientific garbage with science.  So they end up producing something that may look cool if you don’t know anything about the subject, but if you do it’s just embarrassing.

In fact, total gibberish is often better than pseudo-science because at least it’s not even wrong.

Real Drive Sennou Chosashitsu (spring 2008 anime)

April 26, 2008 at 12:15 am | In anime, one episode rule, spring 2008, technogibberish | 2 Comments

Summary: pandering technogibberish
Based on: 1 ep
Series Info: on Anime News Network

This is what happens when someone tries to write an adult(ish) series about science and doesn’t know much about it. You get tons of gibberish thrown at you to make things sound impressive, ala Star Trek: The Next Generation, badly forced expositions, and a mixture of hugely futuristic technology with anachronistically primitive tech where it’s convenient for the plot.

Then of course we have the obligatory cyber-matrix second life and pseudomystical hoo-hah.

I think the opening scene pretty much sums it up, where after you have a diver and his boss expositioning at you for a while the diver dives, then the boss goes into the boat where there’s a Death Star command center where apparently they’re monitoring the brain waves of the diver. You can tell this because there’s a big monitor with brain wavey things on it the boss says things like ‘Enable language decoding!’ and the henchman says ‘Enabling language decoding!’ and suddenly you can hear what the diver is thinking, so they’re beaming his brainwaves (and not just brainwaves, but ‘cyberbrainwaves’) up. But they can’t get a working radio or camera and for some reason wouldn’t want the language decoding on all the time.

So to counteract that the characters are mostly middle aged and old men, the Secretary General (of what, the UN?) is a busty ho who dresses to expose flesh and takes her video conference calls from her four poster bed, and they haul in a bevy of young teen girls (with panty shots of course) to take care of the old guys.

Kanokon is probably the worst show this season, but it wasn’t even trying. This is more disappointing because you can tell they wanted to make an adult anime, and they did, but only if you’re a dumb adult.

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