Anime Characters Live

For whatever reason, we finally got around to messing about with Rock Band again (though not in the competitive we want to be #1 on the leaderboards thing again, so much as “Hey, this game is fun to play.”), and while we were at it, we picked up a few tunes including a new song called Monsoon by a German group called Tokio Hotel.

When I first heard the song, I honestly had trouble figuring out whether the singer was male or female. I figured that checking out YouTube would quickly settle the matter. As you can see from the picture of the band on the left, the issue became even further confused.

Wikipedia was once again my friend however, and confirmed that the guy is a guy and is named BILL.

However, taking one look at the fellow in question immediately made the Wife go into Paroxysms of Passion and she immediately declared that, were she younger and single, she would be Totally In Love With This Dude, because of the fact that this is the first time she’s ever seen someone who wasn’t cos-playing actually look like an anime character just freshly stepped off the screen of some game or vicious ninja/vampire fest. In a fit of Separated At Birth, she made the connection between Bill and this guy:

This is Axel, of Kingdom Hearts II fame. Your standard issue, generic, angst-ridden, pretty boy in a trench coat (of sorts) who may seem cruel and evil, but is really just misunderstood, and can open his heart to the right person (of which, of course, most girls fantasize they are in fact that person). Girls. Go figure. All I know is that Axel had an interesting mean streak to him, and he talked up a good fight, but wasn’t really much of a match for a Keyblade wielded by one of Pure Heart And Noble Intentions. Moral ambiguity gets you nowhere in a Disney game and Sora’s inhuman goodness proved that.

Also, here’s the music video in question with the oh so catchy song that we now own for Rock Band. Amazingly, these guys were just playing in town on May 16th. Had we bothered to pick this song up sooner, I’m sure we somehow would’ve ended up checking that performance out.