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As we’ve been told by Rockstar Games, the next downloadable installment for Grand Theft Auto IV won’t be short on content. In addition to having a new narrative for players to explore, ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ will introduce new vehicles, new tunes and even new television anime ‘toons. The above is an example, pulled from the expansion.

The show is called Princess Robot Bubblegum. In Rockstar fashion, it serves as a scrap of satire that beats on anime as hard as we’ve been smacking GTA hookers with baseball bats all of these years. It’s hilarious and worth the scan, but probably not something you want your boss to see you hitting up at work -- the bikini and phallus-walking stick portions are a bit intense in addition to other things.


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SovietMudkipz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:01
SovietMudkipz
Anime is contrived garbage. I applaud Rockstar.
GEMPadre036's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:03
GEMPadre036
So... Much... WIN!... Koitsu!
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:04
John B
{APPLAUSE} That was fantastic!
Dylan Alford's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:11
Dylan Alford
I'm never buying anything cotton ever again thanks to Miranda Lambert.
Bluestreak2's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:11
Bluestreak2
I already wasted enough time watching my character watch tv, I don't need to do it again just to watch him watch anime satire. I already watch enough cheesy anime myself.
Trebz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:13
Trebz
All I could think of was Perfect Hair Forever.

@SovietMudkipz: No.
PenKaizen's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:15
PenKaizen
I love Anime and that made me lol to no end.
The Cast's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:16
The Cast
This was on radio before.
Zepwich's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:21
Zepwich
That was brilliant. But it could of been a little bit more awesome if they took full advantage of anime jokes
fundando's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:23
fundando
I almost wish this was real.
Steel Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:28
Steel Squirrel
Ahhahahahahaha. That was beautiful.
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:29
Dan CiTi
ANIME AT ITS FINEST. TRULY THIS IS THE AGE OF ANIME.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:31
ArrestedDeveloper
First person to bring up Ghost in the Shell or Evangelion gets punched in the jeans.
Havoc Fang's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:34
Havoc Fang
That was almost epic enough to make me watch GTA4 TV.

Almost.
Kraid's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:36
Kraid
Ghost in the Shell is amazing.

And I fucking came with this trailer.
JehutyFromHell's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:39
JehutyFromHell
Hell yes. Looks great.
Frohike's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:42
Frohike
I love Anime and that made me lol to no end.[2]
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:44
Dan CiTi
The Ghost in the Shell show is amazing, the movie is ehhh. Evangelion is fun though, cool mechs and pretty ladies. There's also all that thought out, deep, referential, and religious symbolism but who cares. If this is how the new TV show stuff is, I'll be sure to watch it on YouTube.
CaptainBright's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:48
CaptainBright
Anime in GTA?I still don't believe it.......
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:53
Samit Sarkar
This perfectly encapsulates the way I see anime.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:05
Jon B
That was truly awesome. Like, really, really awesome.

Still won't persuade me to buy GTA4:BoGT, but eh.

Now if there was an entire 26 episode series of it on the other hand...
Jizl Tizl's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:14
Jizl Tizl
Totally awesome! I remember the radio commercials for this on the original GTA IV. Those were hilarious.
Tdiddy9182's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:16
Tdiddy9182
TAKE THAT JAPAN!
DV2FOX's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:32
DV2FOX
FTW...this should be N.1 Rareness related to GTA Games X3...I DEMAND MOAR XD
CaptainBright's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:37
CaptainBright
@Samit

And the way I see Baseball is like how I watch One Outs the anime.......
Harris Hatsworth's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:50
Harris Hatsworth
@ Samit

The way you feel about anime after seeing this is how most of us see sports games. It's a slightly less insulting version of condescension and lack of interest rolled into one feeling.

This sort of humour is why I stopped enjoying GTA after I turned 12 or so. It's not that I find it insulting to my tastes or that it's beneath me but it's like listening a Latino do stand-up; they pick a form of humour I don't care for and then murder it from every angle possible.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:01
Magnalon
Wow. The amount of close mindedness in this thread is astounding.
Carl Sagan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:05
Carl Sagan
@Magnalon

Sorry, where?
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:10
Magnalon
@Carl
Samit, Soviet.

I loved the bit, but pigeonholing an entire medium because a small amount of them are like the above parody is one of the most absurd statements you can possibly make.
Carl Sagan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:12
Carl Sagan
Citizen Kane of anime?
Harris Hatsworth's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:13
Harris Hatsworth
@ Magnalon

But that's two people. I expected Fanboy Friday material here and my post is probably the closest thing to a "Fuck Rockstar for picking on anime" response.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:18
Magnalon
@Harris
Haha, true.
invader alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:19
invader alex
meh... I watch to much anime for my own good, and didn't that funny, just because most of the anime watch isn't like this at all. But just saying I love what Conan did to the anime dub of Blood.

More people need to see Azumanga Daioh.

Also needs more moe
Mulk Calathar's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:20
Mulk Calathar
They should have called the anime parody Mucus Angel Lemon or Tortured Flower Hime or something.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:20
Jon B


Seems appropriate for these comments.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 20:37
vexed alex
LOL ANIME
RaunchyBulbasaur's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:01
RaunchyBulbasaur
Wow, Rockstar really knocked it out of the park with this unsubtle satire! Will their comedic invention never cease? It's funny 'cause it's true, guys!
the7k's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:19
the7k
Hell, I like anime (well, not most of it, but I think that goes for any medium when you have decent taste - just like I don't like most video games), and I liked this clip. Anybody who gets offended by it can't take a joke, and anybody who really thinks all anime is like this needs to take off the blindfold.
ninjalegend's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:22
ninjalegend
Wow, I love Rockstar! Can't wait for this one.

@ Carl Sagan
Citizen Kane of anime?

LOL.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:33
Char Aznable
SUBTLETY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maniac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:48
Maniac
This is why American don't take anime seriously, lol.

But if this is how Americans satire anime, I can't imagine how the Japanese satire American comic books and cartoons.
KaL YoshiKa's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 21:54
KaL YoshiKa
I like that if this was an anime ripping on games for being generic masculine power fantasies certain people on here who were slamming anime would leap to video game defence.

It's a fair okay parody in it's all non-subtlety.
Neo Rena's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 22:31
Neo Rena
I wanted to watch that vid when I saw the vomiting blue thing, but as soon as that cotton commercial came on I closed the window.
I swear if I ever find the person that sung that STUPID freakin' song...
Trust me, wouldn't be pretty.

Anyways, pretty funny stuff. Thing I love about Rockstar is that they make fun of everything but themselves, like Family Guy or South Park.
Modern Robot's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 23:28
Modern Robot
I love anime, but I'm not so blind to not realise it's got some played out genres and lowest common denominator programs. That was a great take on anything Go Nagai has created.
Sage Ludwig's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 23:34
Sage Ludwig
From my experience, the majority of anime is pretty much as described, my latest creepy encounter with this side of anime was with an anime called "Kämpfer" (german for soldier, Heil to the former-nazi-allies catching up with the old times.)

It's about a guy who wakes up and notices he's not a big-breasted girl who has to fight other transsexuals with equally increased proportions. That's pure art to some people? perhaps, but it's also more ridiculous than anything rockstar can come up with.

Making fun of the west is also pretty much a national-passtime in most of asia, mocking how our "comic book" heroes are all "muscular and gay" because they are muscular, also, bald, they consider everything bald to be gay (the irony eh?).

My individual position is: all these cultures suck, anime/comic/movie/western/asian/etc.. they are all equally biased, prejudicial, alienated and sad. And there are real-people being crumpled in the middle of these cultures that do incredible genious work.. stuff like: Paranoia Agent, Transmetropolitan, Death Note, Full Throttle, GTA, Chihiro, Oldboy, Nobody Knows.. so on. Most of which, the creators don't give a damm about anime, movies, western, asian, etc.. they just want to tell stories, to be storytellers..
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2009 01:32
Monodi
Rockstar could actually market a game based on it in Japan.
NESgamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2009 01:54
NESgamer
hahaha that was so fun! I love the satire of GTA games.
Soulwax's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2009 06:24
Soulwax
I think all you butthurt neckbeards crying about this and how it insults glorious animes is much funnier than the video itself.
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