A Pitch II

The sequel to A Pitch, in which I came up with an idea for an anime. So without further ado, here is another one of my pitches.

An old Chinese saying says: "If you believe in it then it is real", whether it be in ghosts or supersitions. In anicent China, two brothers and thier family live in a peaceful rural village. The family's happiness seemed to last forever, until one day... The two brothers Hua and Sing return home after work, they find thier parents brutally murdered by a powerful sorcerer and his cult. Upon finding their parents the brothers are slain and thier parents souls sealed away by the sorcerer. Now 2000 years later we find the brothers have returned to the world as Chinese ghosts. The Chinese ghosts are feared as vengeful spirts that exist from dead siblings. One brother takes a physical form, while the other takes a form in the spirt realm to unseal the souls of their parents. Seeking the ancient cult that has now become the most powerful Triad in all of LA. Will they exact thier vengence? Will thier vengence really be thier redemption?

Pretty much it all revolves around the two seeking the sorcerer in modern day. It'll take inspirations from Chinese supersitions and creatures for enemies and the shaping of the world. Plus thier will be cool spells. For instance, the brothers are only allowed to take one physical form in one realm at a time. So both cannot be present in the same realm. One brother gets a body and the other takes a form of a piece of paper to tie the two realms together to allow the swap. But the brothers know a powerful spell that allows both to gain a physical form in one realm. Thats an example of the many powers that I have thought up right now. Its a growing list.

Well thats the end of this pitch. To give this one a name I'd call it "Chinese Ghosts". Sure it may sound kinda lame, but it'll do.

Sports: Why Must I Watch?

Sporting events seem pretty numerous these days. Everyone talks about them and it would seem crazy not to watch. For me, I've never gotten into a sport to watch. I have no favorite team and just no interest what so ever. Let me pose this, these people get paid to do something you could probably do right now. You don't need to watch, thats what they want you to do. You see when you watch its like your paying them. Since its airing time for the channel and the various ads they put up in between. Whats even worst is that the athletes who play seem to encourage the prolongation of this habit.

How? you ask; by causing teenagers to get themselves into sports. Sports are not a bad thing if you go out and just have fun with others, its the competition that ruins it all. Pretty much everyday in my elementary school days I was subjected to about a half an hour of competition. When I played it was never for fun, always to win. So it left a bad taste in my mouth. It got even worse in junior high and high school. Anyways back to my peers, I see many people go for the two notable sports in any school, basketball and football. I see them having those torn out pages of basketball players making dunks or football team logos on thier folders, which "inspires" them to be just like them.

The reality is that you'll never do it. You may idolize these people and dream about living thier lives, but its not all glamour. In fact sports even causes people to get lazy. So the players will ask to copy your work and what not. The reason they ask this is because they think they're great, and they think you think the same way about them and so you'd do anything for them. They do it all the time. These people will probably never talk to you, and when they do it's just when they need something. I hate this and so I hate all the football and basketball players at my school.

Let me end with this, sports should only be allowed for fun, not for the profit of players. Secondly, we have enough garbage on TV anyways, so why fill the airwaves with a bunch of people playing a sport that you can do right now. Think about it.

I Cast +5 To Censorship!!

Censorship is pretty much a normal way of life in U.S. broadcasting. Anime gets the full treatment when it comes to censorship. Blood, cursing, sexual references and cutting of the "good stuff" (the original things left in the uncut versions), are pretty much all absent when broadcasted. I don't know what the guidelines are for the cuts are, but let me ask this: isn't it true that you can't censor life? Obivously we cannot prevent children from seeing some of the things that are "cut out" of televison. I once heard a guy that was playing basketball yell out a huge atomic F-bomb in the middle of a public park, with children present. Just about the entire park went silent. I didn't see anybody "bleep" that out, but people were probably offended. Another thing, bloody noses, children get them; so why cut the blood out? (I'm looking at you American broadcast Naruto). All in all the purpose of censorship is to protect the innocence of children.

What we don't realize is that you can't always do that. Holden Caulfield saw this Catcher in The Rye, you can't protect the innocence of children. I've seen blood gush out of a body, heard a person at work string together a sentence with the f-word in almost 90 percent of the sentence, seen fights in school and sex in advertisements. I'm not saying lets rid the world of censorship and allow all the bad stuff into televison and everywhere, but just that eventually Children grow up. Their innocence broken and they realize that we live in a dirty world. I'd like to conclude with a line from C.I.T.R, "parents when children fall down, don't rush over and help them up. Let them pick themselves up and pull themselves back on their feet."