“The Tale of Sephiroth Goku” is an odd little piece of work. Effectively a parody of anime produced in 2011 by a very bored Lets Play commentator as the story of his “D&D character from [his] favorite animes”, it’s an oddly fun to listen to pastiche of direct references, bizarre genre conventions, and dead horses (and unicorns, having never been real) to beat. The whole thing is less than the full ten-minute runtime of the video that contains it – most of it is in the last four minutes – but it jams in a hilarious amount of plot summary and reference.
In 2013, Kakumeiki Valvrave (Valvrave the Liberator) appeared, apparently as an attempt to bring the Tale of Sephiroth Goku to the screen without actually violating any copyrights. As an attempt to properly represent a stream of consciousness nonsense from the internet it’s… wait, I was supposed to take this thing seriously? And it’s got two seasons?
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