$$60 Billion Funky Chicken

[khyros]

I saw the Trigun/Cowboy Bebop fandub, The $$60 Billion Funky Chicken at Otakon and I can't find the creators' (Otaku Revenge,) I believe, email or website.

I LOVED this thing and I would very much enjoy a copy, so if anyone can put me in touch with them or knows where I could get a copy of it, reply please.

-Khyros

[VegettoEX]

I saw the Trigun/Cowboy Bebop fandub, The $$60 Billion Funky Chicken at Otakon and I can't find the creators' (Otaku Revenge,) I believe, email or website.

I LOVED this thing and I would very much enjoy a copy, so if anyone can put me in touch with them or knows where I could get a copy of it, reply please.

-Khyros

Directly from the Otakon 2002 Pocket Program Guide:

$$60,000,000,000 Funky Chicken

Made by Otaku's Revenge with footage from Cowboy Bebop and Trigun and a smattering of other stuff. A wanted man with a $60,000,000,000 price on his head, Vash the Stampede is having one lousy day: the down-on-their-luck crew of the Bebop are heading to planet Gunsmoke to collect on his bounty, and cannot be reasoned with. Of course, Spike Spiegel's having one lousy day himself: how can he claim the bounty if he can't even find Vash in the first place, much less catch him? Otaku's Revenge -- nifty slogan: "Too busy making videos to have a nifty slogan" -- are P.J. Simmers and Greg Genge, makers of the anime music video, Purple Eva Eater (2002). This is their first fan parody. If you want to get in touch with Otaku's Revenge you can write to P.J. Simmers at vegeta_pots@yahoo.com.

Hey, while I'm at it, let's continue with the fan parody descriptions and contacts of stuff from Otakon this year. w00t.

Evangelion: ReDeath

Studio Sokodie's anime fan parody was made using footage from Neon Genesis Evangelion (as if you couldn't guess). Giant robots loom over-head, mysterious conspiracies plot a murky future for humanity, and the answers to fundamental questions about the nature of mankind hang in the balance. Which is just too bad, because it's questions ranging from Shinji's clueless "What are melons?" and "Get some? Got some... what?" to Kaji's "A crowbar?! What does Misato have a crowbar under her bed for?" that really need to be answered. Fortunately, uber-pimp Gendo Ikari has all the answers, along with some bad-ass theme music. Evangelion: ReDeath was made on the group's Mac G3 and premiered at Fanime Con in 2000. The guys at Studio Sokodei are working on a remastered and expanded special edition: Evangelion: ReDeath Redux. Some of their other fan parodies are Jubei Powers: Japanese Man of Intercourse (1999) and Fanboy Bebop (2002). If you would like to contact Studio Sokodie, e-mail Andrew Hosking at fundus@cats.ucsc.edu or visit their web site at: http://www.starback.com.

Oh, there's more.

Hamstah Gangstaz

Genki-web's anime fan parody, Hamstah Gangstaz is the first episode of the wholesome Japanese animated children's show Tottoko Hamutaro (which just started running on Cartoon Network as Hamtaro, re-edited, re-scored, and re-dubbed so that the cuddly little fuzzy critters are tough-talking gangsters, pimps, and crackheads. I kid you not. Hamstah Gangstaz makes its convention premiere at Otakon 2002. If you catch Hamstah Gangstaz at the con and want to tell the makers how much you liked it, you can write to Jack Nixon at shad@genki-web.net.

Of course, there's one more.

This is Otakudom

Not Not Digital Editing Films' anime fan parody This is Otakudom is what you might get if you blended the rock-band mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and the anime mockumentary "Otaku no Video" (Fan's Video). Made with footage from Fushigi Yuugi (and a lot of other shows), it relates the misadventures of anime fans going to a big anime convention (Otakon 2001, yay!) and the mysterious filmmaker documenting their experiences. It makes fun of anime cons, hentai-obsessed fans, vampire live-action role-playing, yaoi, video gaming, and all those little failings that make us human. Directed by Scott A Melzer (whose meticulously-crafted anime music videos have won several prizes at Otakon over the years) and taking over seven months to complete, the hysterical parody is the culmination of the ideas, art, writing, and voices of -- quite literally -- dozens of friends (including two of Otakon's own Staff). A work-in-progress version was first shown at ShoujoCon 2001 and the final cut was officially premiered at Otakon 2001. Since then, Scott has been taking the parody on the road to many anime cons, as well as sending tapes (all over the world) before the parody's return to Otakon, where Scott will most likely collapse from exhaustion. For more information, you can check out the official web site at: http://welcome.to/otakudom. If you would like to contact NoN.D.E. Films, write to Scott Melzer at kdreams@eticomm.net.

It is at this point after all the typing that I would like to douse myself in gasoline and set myself on fire. Thank you.

[khyros]

Well, that answers that then... Danke Danke

[RichLather]

Nonetheless, I would like to shake your charred, lifeless hand for keeping alive the Good Word of fan parodies.

[Scott A Melzer]

Thanks!

Believe me, some of us have heard of Jigoku No Video. I've been a fan of the "old school" (though at 35 I consider myself that, too!) stuff for eons and we made sure that plenty of references to the older stuff made it into "This Is Otakudom."

I've already got a reference to X-23 (forgive me for not knowing the full title off the top o' my head, please!) written for the new one.

Peace.

[Waldo]

It is at this point after all the typing that I would like to douse myself in gasoline and set myself on fire. Thank you.

Ouch! I've got all the descriptions in a text file from doing the layout for the pocket guide this year. Does anyone else need descriptions posted before VegettoEX types his fingers to a bloody stump?

[RichLather]

Thanks for the reference! Do you have anything in line for COrn Pone Flicks as well?

Full title, by the by:

Super-Hyper-Mega-Bloody-Ultra-Cosmo Death Extravaganza X-23

[Scott A Melzer]

Nothing for Corn Pone Flicks... Yet... We mentioned Ranma 1/3, Steam, Lupin Gang, and a bunch of others in the last one. I definately want to continue the "acknowledgements" in the new one! Any ideas...? I've got most of their stuff on tape. Maybe mention the "Ozone Commandos" or something?

And why couldn't I remember that title? I mean, it's pretty much the same thing as "Super-Hyper-Mega-Bloody-Ultra-Cosmo Death Extravaganza X-23 II." Duh.

[MistyCaldwell]

The Hamstah Gangstaz guy seems to have dissolved away...at least his web site has. Other than Otakudom, it's the only one I am really anxious about finding to show off. My younger sister loves Hamtaro, and I like it too. Of course she's old enough to watch it

But, I also didn't actually get to see it myself. Has anyone else here seen it? Is it as good as it sounds?

[TnAdct1]

While waiting for MAT3K, I did get a VCD of Hamstah Gangstaz. Here's my comments about the fanparody.

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GOOD:
-Nice choices of what type of characters each character plays (i.e. Oxnard as a crack head)
-A few clever jokes that fit very well (i.e. Laura saying that her eyes are too *censored* apart)
-Makes Hamtaro seem as dirty as Ebichu.

BAD:
-It's a "first episode" fan parody, though I find it better than most "first episode" fan parodies that I've seen
-There is a lot of swearing in it, which turned off a lot of people

COMMENTS:
While most weren't impressed by it (which I can understand, as the other fanparodies were better written), I personally enjoyed it a lot. I'd give it at least one viewing to see if you like it or not. As for your younger sister, I'd reccommend that she waits until she's a little bit older, as the fanparody (with it's excessive swearing, drug jokes, and sex jokes) is definitely not for younger viewers.