Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secondly, akin to the Disney industry, anime boosts its franchise through soundtrack releases. Amazingly, each show comes packaged with its own CD of best hits, or two or three or four. But none of those characteristic "toony" jingles. Composed mainly by Yoko Kanno, prominent composer in the soundtrack industry, it represents an eclectic mix of lyrical ballads, orchestral vignettes, with a funky Gregorian chant piece thrown in as well. With a beautifully incorporated soundtrack, any dramatic moment in anime can be enhanced tenfold...
...Within the first minute, I felt myself cringe as I watched an unproportionally busty female, Yoko, slowly peel off her skin tight shirt as she stood in the direct pathway of softly animated sunlight that happened to be emanating from her bedroom window. Her large round eyes stared at me through the television screen as she slowly began to strip, a process that was thwarted by the entrance of her younger, male friend, Lucha. As she scrambled to cover her massive breasts, which we note were each larger than her own head, she emitted a high-pitched giggle that...
...there pouting about rampant female exploitation, the plotbegan to take some rather bizarre twists. Little Lucha, it turned out was actually the reincarnation of a badass sorcerer known as "Dark Schneider," who, with a mere kiss from Yoko was unleashed from his pubescent body, ready to conquer the world. After an impressive tour de force, where Dark Schneider proved his might to Yoko's father, a head priest, another kiss from Yoko returned him to his diminutive state...
...Soon, a ninja master entered the picture. He confiscated Yoko one evening, as she lay in sublime calm next to her child lover. Soon, I began to learn of the deep historical ties between Dark Schneider and this new ninja-kidnapper figure, Gara. Gara had spent the past five years working on his own objective to conquer the world, but he continued to be haunted by a defeat he suffered years ago at the hands of the formidable Dark Schneider. Although he knew that Dark Schneider could be a valuable asset to his campaign, Gara's own personal ambition demanded...
...dramatic scenes continued to unwind before my eyes, I suddenly stopped lamenting my missed night of fun. Yoko's screams were accompanied by fast paced, energetic rock ditties and Gara's stories of his past encounters with defeat were virtually too much for my poor soul to bear. But what drew me the most to the film was its surprisingly reflective nature. This wasn't a foray of pointless, indescretionary violence like we see in so many films today, but rather violence calculated to prove a point about ambition and the power of evil. And as Gara stood over...