Ultraviolet Anime Announced, Proving There Either Is No God, or He Hates Us
I saw Ultraviolet on opening day, as a fan of Milla Jovovich in ridiculous outfits, as well as entertainingly dumb yet stylish action flicks. When I exited the theater 90 minutes later, sobbing, stupider and my body covered in the vile fecal matter sprayed by the film, I was willing to admit that Ultraviolet was too dumb to be entertaining, the action sequences were dumb, and that the director was almost certainly brain-dead for allowing such an abomination to come to pass. And I assumed I was done with it.
But no, as there’s going to be an Ultraviolet anime movie, subtitled Code 044. I hate everyone involved in this, including the generally excellent Studio Madhouse. I curse the heavens for allowing such a thing to happen, but clearly there’s no one up there who cares.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.