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The Devastator: Otaku
The Devastator is the geek comedy book series featuring new works by 30+ writers and artists from The Daily Show, The Onion, Adult Swim, Marvel and more!
The Devastator: Otaku dubs the world of anime culture a new one. We imported over 9000 parodies of Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, Phoenix Wright, Hayao Miyazaki and more! Featuring contributions from Joe Lo Truglio, KC Green, Todd Alcott, and a mecha-hilarious cover by Felipe Smith. Flip the book around for Dick Note, a magic notebook that allows you to dick over anyone whose name you write on its pages. Yatta!
The Devastator: Otaku dubs the world of anime culture a new one. We imported over 9000 parodies of Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, Phoenix Wright, Hayao Miyazaki and more! Featuring contributions from Joe Lo Truglio, KC Green, Todd Alcott, and a mecha-hilarious cover by Felipe Smith. Flip the book around for Dick Note, a magic notebook that allows you to dick over anyone whose name you write on its pages. Yatta!
60 pages, ebook
First published September 12, 2014
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December 17, 2014
SNL meets Mad Magazine but the sensibilities of Family Guy and TED takes on Japanese manga.
The gags go on and on and come in a ton of different guises. There are joke ads (like Joe Lo Truglio, of Brooklyn 99 fame, in PillowMingle.love, where he, ahem, meets his pillow match), written transcripts (like Phoenix Wright’s Asinine Attorney court case), manga parodies (Sailor Moon, etc), and a lot more. To truly enjoy the parodies one would need to be very familiar with the original content. Speed Racer’s suicide dictation (after he determines that he can no longer stand Americans putting words in his mouth – dubbing) make so much sense for fans of dubbed Japanese cartoons.
What you need to know upfront is that there are really funny parts of this book. But this is definitely for those who enjoy potty humor. This is not a “clean” book. So those who mind harsh language may want to pass on this. But if you can stomach it and you love manga this will be really funny distraction. In my opinion, while there are very funny parodies there are too many jokes that end, basically and literally, with an F bomb. While a shocking expletive can be a funny way to end a joke it shouldn’t be the main way. Shock really only works once or twice. After that it can be very ho-hum.
This is the 11th Devastator published on different topics. Even with some of the flat jokes (no pillow pun intended) I still eagerly checked out the other topics and would have read them with gusto. (Who wouldn’t read parodies of the Apocalypse or Toys and Games?) So there is that.
This book was provided by the publisher for review.
The gags go on and on and come in a ton of different guises. There are joke ads (like Joe Lo Truglio, of Brooklyn 99 fame, in PillowMingle.love, where he, ahem, meets his pillow match), written transcripts (like Phoenix Wright’s Asinine Attorney court case), manga parodies (Sailor Moon, etc), and a lot more. To truly enjoy the parodies one would need to be very familiar with the original content. Speed Racer’s suicide dictation (after he determines that he can no longer stand Americans putting words in his mouth – dubbing) make so much sense for fans of dubbed Japanese cartoons.
What you need to know upfront is that there are really funny parts of this book. But this is definitely for those who enjoy potty humor. This is not a “clean” book. So those who mind harsh language may want to pass on this. But if you can stomach it and you love manga this will be really funny distraction. In my opinion, while there are very funny parodies there are too many jokes that end, basically and literally, with an F bomb. While a shocking expletive can be a funny way to end a joke it shouldn’t be the main way. Shock really only works once or twice. After that it can be very ho-hum.
This is the 11th Devastator published on different topics. Even with some of the flat jokes (no pillow pun intended) I still eagerly checked out the other topics and would have read them with gusto. (Who wouldn’t read parodies of the Apocalypse or Toys and Games?) So there is that.
This book was provided by the publisher for review.
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