Hits & Misses: Wicked City

Real Talk: Wicked City was my introduction into the more mature anime when I was a kid.

Hit: Just to get this out of the way, the animation even in 1987 is really good.

Hit: Kanako's/Spider Woman's character design, it's not everyday that the spider woman concept be taken so literal in fiction. 

Real Talk: Now if this was made live-action today the Spider Woman character would've been CGI'ed as hell and would've looked like shit.

Real Talk: Also the Spider Woman was my second waifu before waifus were popular, the first being Jessica Rabbit.

Hit: *Taki punches one of the Black World assailants so hard that he made a hole straight through the chest.* I don't care if anime doesn't explain how Taki did it, that was awesome.

Hit: The assailant goes full on John Carpenter's The Thing, hell he even has he head turned upside down and sprouts legs and eyes.

Hit:  Taki's gun is like if the Caster Gun from Outlaw Star had a baby with the Dominator from Psycho Pass.

Miss: The Mayart character is such a creepy pervert in the anime that he makes Master Roshi look like a saint.

Miss: Not to mention he can be such an annoying asshole.

Miss: As awesome as Makie's fingernail claws are I can't help but to get Superman IV Nuclear Man flashbacks.

Real Talk: Wicked City was shown on local TV when I first watched it. And out of most of the scenes with sex and nudity, the scene with Makie getting throat rape by a body horror creature was left uncensored.

Real Talk: Mayart's little guilt trip plea to Taki to let Makie die and protect him is complete bullshit. Which will be explain later.

Real Talk: When these Black World women say "come inside my body" they mean that literally. 

Hit: *Taki punches one of  Shadow's henchmen so hard that he literally knocks the guy's head off.* I don't care if the anime doesn't explain how that was too damn awesome.

Miss: But I have to asked how weak are these Black World guys if they're easily beaten by this one normal guy? Makie is one thing because she's from the Black World but what makes Taki so special?

Hit: Oh shit, Shadow's got Guyver/Kars elbow blades.

Real Talk: Taki getting chew out by his boss for abandoning Mayart is complete bullshit which again I'll explain why later.

Hit: *Taki and Makie making out in some church with a blue hue in the scene.* Suddenly I'm getting Lifeforce flashbacks.

Miss: The anime never once mentioned that Mayart's some powerful psychic. So with that said, if he's such a powerful psychic then why would he need bodyguards? That's like sending secret services to protect Superman, it's freaking pointless and retarded.

Miss: So it's revealed that Mayart was sent to protect Taki and Makie due to two of them being compatible of having children. Which the organizations of the human world and the Black World have been planning for thousands of years. Now if that's the case why the fake bodyguard assignment especially with the possibility of one or both of them would end up?   

Miss: If making an human/Black World offspring is so important why not have Taki and Makie agree to some artificial inseminations? Was banking on these two to eventually hook up and fuck while in dangerous situations really the smartest way to go?    

Miss: And since the whole bodyguard assignment was bullshit what was with Mayart grilling Taki to forget about saving Makie earlier, reverse psychiatry?  

Hit: The fight between Mayart and Shadow is pretty intense, there's even a scene where Shadow gets a large crucifix stabbed to his face. 

Hit: Shadow turns into a proto-Resident Evil Tyrant, makes wonder if Capcom got their inspiration from this anime?

Miss: Apparently getting knocked-up makes Makie powerful enough to kill proto-Tyrant Shadow in one strike. That's not some plot convenience bullshit at all.

Hits & Misses: Edge of Tomorrow

Real Talk: Hey everyone and Happy Fuck Off, 2020! Now get use to me pointing out the heavy contrasts between this movie and the manga/novel it's based from. And oh boy it's embarrassing.

Miss: In the manga, the story's told from Keiji Kiriya's perspective about mankind's war with the Mimics. Here it's the old Plot Exposition News cliché. 

Miss: As much as the film's version of the Jackets looks cool, they're chew toys compare the manga version which are fully armored powersuits.

Hit: To the studio's credit at least they didn't cast Tom Curse to portray Keiji Kiriya who's Japanese. But instead made a new character for the movie.

Miss: But then again I have to asked why couldn't they just cast a Japanese actor to play Keiji Kiriya? 

Real Talk: And no I'm not accepted that stupid "not every character in anime/manga are Japanese" excuse. Let me go right ahead and curve stomp on that argument. Unless you're referring to an anime and/or manga that takes place in an non-Japanese setting with non-Japanese characters then that argument is retarded. 

Real Talk: And if you're not so sure which anime/manga fits the description then here's a little list for you.
Berserk
Full Metal Alchemist
Project Blue Earth SOS
Tiger & Bunny
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
One Piece
Trigun
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1, 2, 3 and 5

Miss: This is most likely some plot contrivance because why else Cage is just drafted to the frontlines with next to no training nor prior battle records. I don't know how it works in military but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just deployed an non-combat officer to combat. Unless they enjoy losing or something.   

Miss: The majority of All You Need Is Kill takes place in Japan where the Mimics are currently invading. Why the studio change it to most of Europe fuck if I know.

Hit: Ladies and gentleman Mr. Bill Paxton, god rest his soul.

Miss: *Kimmel wears no clothes under his Jacket, getting a clear view of his ass.* I did not need to see that. Also that would make you a huge target not wearing any other protection besides the Jacket.

Miss: Keiji in the manga got in some training before shipped off to fight the Mimics. Cage has giving no training nor knowledge on how to operate a Jacket. Because that's not gonna get someone killed at all. I feel like this movie's bum-rushing to the battle without proper set up at all.

Hit: Emily Blunt with a buster sword, yup that's bad ass enough for me.

Miss: But I have to be that asshole when I say that this hunk of metal ain't shit compared to the manga counterpart. Which is a giant fuck off battle-axe that'll even make Guts from Berserk blush. 

Miss: As bad ass Rita Vrataski is, it's really irresponsible for her to be in combat without a helmet. 

Miss: Since I'm talking about Rita, she's an American from Illinois in the manga. And fuck me if I know why the studio changed her nationality in the movie.

Miss: They wanted Cage at the frontlines yet couldn't be bothered to give him proper training. Or in this case helping him to switch off the Jacket's weapons safety. Accountability, what's that?

Miss: When the time loop first started in the manga, Keiji thought it was a dream at first. Until he died then awakes the previous. Eventually he learns about the time loop; using it to train, improve and even acquired new weapon to kill Mimics. Basically trying different scenarios to find a way out of the time loop. The movie on the other hand becomes a running gag after first time loop, just wasting runtime with Cage getting killed over and over again. 

Miss: In the manga only Keiji and Rita know about the time loops and how the Mimics believe. While in the movie some rando doctor knows about it along with Cage and Rita.

Miss: Also in the manga there was a top secret research team studying the Mimic time loops. Yet in the movie no organization knows about the time loops

Real Talk: Rita explains to Cage how she was able control the time loops until she lost via blood transfusion. I'll come back to this later just keep this in mind.

Miss: More death loop running gags, at least Keiji and Rita respectively got better at not dying so quickly with every time loop. This is just more runtime wasted on padding instead actually plot progression.

Hit: OK seeing Cage and Rita kicking ass is pretty awesome.

Miss: And here's where the bullshit starts piling up. So the movie established that there's a "Omega" Mimic that controls all the Mimics and by killing it kills all the Mimic. Furthermore if an "Alpha" Mimic is killed the Omega resets the day. In the manga there's no such creature that controls all Mimics and method of time looping is wholly different.

Miss: Cage and Rita got their time looping ability from an Alpha Mimic's blood after killing it. In the manga on the other hand a special type of Mimic which acts as a network server with the rest of the Mimics. Once that Mimic is killed it sends a tachyon signal to the past, triggering the time loop. Keiji and Rita got their ability from killing a Mimic Server. However, it's revealed near the end that the Mimic signal has affected Keiji's and Rita's brains to the point of receiving this signal that cause them to time loop. And in order to end the time loop completely one of them has to die. Now this whole "kill the main thing, you kill the rest of the things" plan sounds like the most bullshit of plot convenience just to throw in happy ending for Cage and Rita.   

Miss: Also that whole losing the time loop power via blood transfusing is bullshit as well.

Miss: *Cage managed to kill the Omega which cause it to bleed for Cage to time loop one last time.* Now how did Cage just got looped back in time with the Omega Mimic dead? Wouldn't that mean the Omega could time looped back as well if that's the case? The writers of the film really had to throw logic out the window for that unearned happy ending.

BONUS ROUND

Miss: In the manga Keiji's platoon sergeant, Bartolome Ferrell is a bit of a beef cake of Brazilian and Japanese decent. In the movie he's played by a white guy.

Miss: Rita's mechanic in the manga is a Native American name Shasta Raylle. Whereas in the movie they replaced her with some British guy.

Miss: Rita in manga was from a small town in Illinois who survived a Mimic attack but her parents weren't so lucky. Afterwards she steals a passport from a refugee, Rita Vrataski in order apply for the UDF under a false identity due to being too young. While it's revealed that Rita Vrataski is not her real name, the manga also keeps Rita's real name unknown to the reader. Of course none of this important detail is nowhere to be found in the film. Which makes the film version Rita suffering from the "bad ass female character with zero development/characterization" syndrome.

Real Talk: And it really doesn't help Emily Blunt with such a hollowed out character she had to portray.

Miss: The movie doesn't display the mental/emotional strain on Cage and Rita with the multiple time loops they went through like the manga.

Real Talk: Sure I've been pretty bias against this film but even if I haven't read the manga I'd be calling bullshit with Edge of Tomorrow.