The Shrine

Holy sweet mother of God.

I saw one of these once in a Spike & Mike festival a few years ago, and it blew my brains out through my nostril. I didn't know anything about the author at the time. This is similar. Basically, as a synopsis, think pixel flash animations that are heavily inspired by anime/manga doujin games, as seen through a lens shaped like the teddy bear that bleeds milk from the sequence in the psych hospital from Akira.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdoDjcI ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYKe3lg8 ... re=related

The videos link to a full version of the animation, which is a lot faster and less pixelated, and worth seeing if you like it.

Do NOT attempt to search for the man's personal blog while on anything other than your own personal computer and internet connection. It's worth seeing, but just don't do it. Not only will you lose your job, you may go to jail depending on the cultural sensitivities of your employer. That being said, I think "mad genius" is not too strong a phrase to lay on the man's ouevre, at all.

That was fantastic.

...what the hell was it about?

Heh, it's a 20-minute boss fight. (Or a series of them, rather.) It manages to touch on every Japanese cliche that exists.

It's not the first one he's done. There was another one I saw a few years ago that got picked up for Spike & Mike's and it was sweet too, if a little less insane. But I'm glad you liked it.

Loosely, I think it's about coming together to save the world, and then realizing at the end, if you do, you will still die. (By being killed by a little girl who happens to have the power of a thousand gods.)

I read that as Robert Paulson animiation...

His name is Robert Paulson. His name is robert Paulson...

Paul Robertson, in fact!