Phew! All done with yet another collection of Anime. Enjoy!

Here is October's top 5:

1. Captain Capitalism Inspired by John Sutherland's "social engineering" cartoons from the 50's, Captain Capitalism is the Cold War's Hottest hero...saving us from Intergalactic Communism. It's a well animated short that seems to have a "Ren & Stimpy" cartoons influence. Anyway small children have heard the F-word by Vice president Dick Cheney after continually annoying him. It's up to the Cap to explain all about curse words and when it is and is not appropriate to use them. It's actually pretty hilarious.
- Piggy Bankko The sequel. In this episode, the Cold War's hottest hero teaches a misguided youth about the dangers of saving money. I am really liking this series!

2. Burnt Face Man 5 Firth will keep winning these things forever I think. Still, it's my personal favorite of his many series. In this episode, Burnt Face Man decides to retire after being upstaged by Slightly Bruised Man. Doing this has interesting ramifications. Will Burnt Face Man EVER return to fighting crime. You will just have to watch and find out.

3. Flathead Symphony Another one of those musicals where we take a singular sound (mostly actual instruments this time) and then add another and another and another until you have a little symphony going. These are always interesting to listen to I feel.

4. Our First Halloween A nice looking and funny animation with above par voice acting. On to the story, it's Halloween and two friends are dressing up to get ready for the kids that will be trick or treating at their door. I loved the garbage fairy costume idea. If only that is what really happened <sighs>.

5. BadGuys2:AppeasingTheGods Two adventurers attempt to get a secret jewel but are captured by the natives. Don't worry though that's just when the show begins. So so animation but plenty of cute jokes. Worth a look. It a kind of sequal to...
- BadGuys Short animation that is about 2 soldiers that are manning a nuclear silo. Chaos ensues when unruly townspeople come to bother them.
- BadGuys3:BatteredMonsters The two nameless guys are giving out candy to the trick or treaters. Not as good as the other two but still not too bad.
- Bad Guys Go To Hell An amusing conversation on how some people hate poorly animated cartoons marks the third addition to the Bad Guys Series. This time the author decided to focus on the the villain characters and we follow their journey as they to... TO HELL!!!
- Down At Juice Bar Now on it's fifth episode, I can say that every one is self contained. There doesn't seem to be any overreaching plot here. Just a bunch of weird stuff that happens the the same group of people. Again we concentrate on the "villains" of the series. After a hard day of world conquering what could be better then to go down to the juice bar with friends and have a nice drink of... POTATO juice? I thought this one was really cute.

The rest:

1. Not MTV's Fault This is a 30 second long public service ad for greater awareness of AIDS in India. Wish it was longer as it was very stylishly done.

2. Duck n' Cover! It's an animation for school children on how to protect themselves if an Atomic bomb hits. It's black and white with that old time feel to it. All audio in this movie was taken from the original Duck and Cover, released in 1952. This was serious business at the time...

3. - Only Gay Eskimo - Great music video for the song "Only Gay Eskimo" by Corky And The Juice Pigs. The animation is very good too and it goes well with the song.

4. Stick City Another Sin City animation. I am positive they ripped the audio right from the movie in this scene. It's a detailed, faithful and smooth running stick version of the scene when the hero is confronted by a gang of hired killers.

5. A's to Z's Tutorial GAME! This is a tutorial that will probably be useful to many people that want to become internet assholes. One example tip: "P is for Pwned!- It's a great word to use after you win a game. Make sure to gloat lots."

6. Bees Music video set to this catchy, sort of jazzy song about bees. The author created it himself. It's a fun, watchable, decently animated flash. Give it a look.

7. Bush Punk'd Bush hasn't found those weapon's of mass destruction yet and at a press conference the TRUE reason why one is revealed. Good, short, little funny.
2008self: Author deleted it for some reason. Too bad.

8. Canadas Really Big! Music video featuring The Bare Naked Ladies singing "Canada's Really Big" The song is absolutely hilarious and while the animation isn't quite up to snuff it engages you enough to add to the music.

9. CNN: The Special Report THis takes old video game sprite characters and casts them. In a CNN style news show. Among the stories are we alone in the universe, Bowser has kidnapped Princess Peach AGAIN and In Hyrule an old man was killed by someone upset about being sold a wooden stick for a weapon.
- CNN: The Special Report 2 Human cloning, Bomberman goes to court and Donkey Kong smuggling cocaine are among the stories in the second edition.

10. Starfire GAME! Fantastic scrolling shooter game where you can customize your ship. If you like that type of thing you will love this.

11. CT: "the Fated battle" This is a fantastic animation tribute the game Crono Trigger. In it, the last battle between Magus and Crono's party is shown.

12. Daily2oon SE: Hun A short music video Called "Hunting the Hun" by Arthur Fields. This song is OLD as it was a propaganda song for killing Germans in WWI. The animation fits in quite well. Give it a watch.

13. Dude where is my face ?! GAME! This is really silly. Some guy puts some pictures of a friend out to display and asks people to photoshop his face on other pictures. By the time all was said and done over 300 pictures had this person's face added. From presidents to supermodels, his face was put on everything. This is basiclly a slide show where you can look at all the nutty things his face was added too. Good for a chuckle and to see just how easy it is to make things that are not so.

14. Virtavalta This one creeped me out but in a good way. Scary and tense without being violent or giving those GOTYA moments. A man is fiddling with his remote when suddenly it makes a scary weight lifter appear. Every further use of the remote makes it come closer and causes the mans tension to rise. What will become of him? Take a look at the animation.

15. The Future (5SOP) Drop dead gorgeous 3D animation. It is extremely detailed, especially all the reflections off the metal surfaces. We can even see the ceiling and EVERYTHING is purple. The plot is this, in the future we still make M&M candies. Come, see how it will be done.

16. Insanity + 1 Interesting claymation. The Clayman in this has become insane. Come, see the world through his distorted lenses as he tries to work his way around the craziness intensifies.

17. Validium Animated Series It's a cartoon about guys in a band. A real band the characters are all cartoon comparisons of real people. However, I don't think these guys have made any songs yet. In this first of a possible series the band is sitting around in a coffee shop, ranting about things.

18. -Little Room- Short, music animation video set to White Stripes' Little Room. Very good animation on this one and it matches the song's lyrics very well. A mechanic builds something good but decided that she could do better with more resourses. A good idea in theory... Heh!

19. late night shopping Wierd little music animation video about late night shopping. I didn't like it at first but as I kept playing it the song grew on me. Take a listen

20. The Good and The Evil A touching little short set to ethereal music and has plenty of symbolism. The figure is born with a clean heart and he must walk the path of his life journey and recognize good and evil. He has opportunities to do good or to do evil in his life and when he dies his place will be determined by those actions.

21. NASA Report: 10th Planet Short little funny. Scientists have found a tenth planet in the solar system and you will never guess what's on it.

22. Renaissance Music video set to Kansas' song "Dust In The Wind". Renaissance protrays the artist's anger against the growing individualism and materialism of the last few years. It's very well done piece that is is made to make you think with it's subjective imagery. The author offers no answers to what the scenes mean. He prefers it if YOU come up with your own.

23. The Gnome: LSD Trippy music animation video set to Pink Floyd's "The Gnome". I really liked this song and while the animation isn't the best (though faithful to the lyrics) the neatest thing about this was the constantly changing neon colors that really gave this submission a drugged out feel to it. Which of course is the point!

24. The Pickup Game GAME! This game is like an instructional on how to pick up girls at the bar. It's based on a book that it has links too. While it's slow and confusing (you have a plane that you need to hit the correct pictures while avoiding the bad ones. Unfortunately you are not told which is which and then you have to start all the way at the beginning again.) It's still interesting.

25. Yet Another Day Music video that uses some Asian song. Very fast paced and well animated snippets of a girls day around the house. Then it set itself above the pack with a nice little, feel good message that made me smile and add it to this list.

26. KAZAHANA: Face To Face The KAZAHANA series is not a Newgrounds exclusive you you have interest in looking into that check out the extras in this animation. The the over reaching plot that ties it all together is there is a treasure that will be given to the last Kazanana family member. Currently there are a few hundred so they start killing each other off. In this self contained episode, a lonely, porn watching, sad sack of a man has been targeted for elimination by one of his clan members.

27. A Theft of Funny (TTA) Do you remember the Tiny Toon cartoon series? It was basically kid versions of the Bugs, Daffy , Porkey and the rest (who still show up as teachers). Well, the author of this submission obviously has a deep appreciation of that series. This is an excellent tribute to it. The voices are similar to the actual series, the sound effects are spot on, the personalities feel right and the animation is VERY faithfull to the look of the actual cartoon (though a bit more crudely done). I tip my hat to the man that made this.

28. Justice League: Countdown Another great animation that makes fun of the ridiculous superhero comic plots that keep coming up. This time we make fun of the Countdown story line from DC. Apperently, memories have been altered of superheroes and supervillians to protect secrets. Will the lies and deception be uncovered.
- Marvel Villains Assemble This time the author is making fun of the sillyness that are supervillians.
- X-Men: House of M part 2 In the second part The Avengers and The X-Men compete in a game show to determine who will save Wanda from herself.

29. Scaramush! Scaramush! Music video set to Queen's song "Bohemian Rhapsody". Many people like using this song but this is an excellent animation going with it. It takes the form of an extravagant puppet play that is playing at an old time live theater (red curtains and all). Very stylized and different looking. Worth a look.

30. Dan's World 1 These are jokes you may only understand if you work in a bookstore. Basically, it's a character study of different kinds of difficult customers book store workers have put up with.
- Dan's World 2 This is the same as part one, only with new customers.

October is another month that has a special event. This time authors create specially themed Halloween episodes that go into a new collection every year. I have posted the link to that collection below plus 5 of my favorites from it. Enjoy!

Collections / Holidays / Halloween / Halloween 2005 http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/h alloween2005.html

1. THRILLER Music claymation video set to Michal Jackson's "Thriller". It cut short the song. I hate it when that happens but it's still fun to watch this Halloween themed but still weirdly random flash. A man is walking along when strange things start happening to and around him.

2. Wolfboy Short claymation about a little trick or treater that was beaten up by the local bully. Bad idea bully because you just attacked WOLFBOY and pissing him off is not a smart move.

3. After Work This one... was just so good. Nice animation with a good, long introduction and a fantastic punchline that left me gobsmacked and chuckling at the end. Anyway, this is a story of one man's unfortunate encounter one night on a dark road. Watch it!

4. Belong to everyone A very cute and clever Halloween cartoon about a bunch of insects celebrating Halloween. It's also played to some relaxing fiddle music.

5. Halloween Hoopla FOAMY!!! Bet you thought you were not going to see him this month huh? Well he's here and ranting about all things Halloween. Nuff said.

That's all for this month. As I type this I am getting ready to start sorting out the November list. There sure are a lot of quality animations that show up on Newgrounds.

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