Black Sun
Black Sun may refer to:
Film and television
Literature
Music
Albums
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Black Sun (manga)
Black Sun (Japanese: Black Sun 奴隷王, Hepburn: Black Sun Dorei Ou, lit. "Black Sun Slave King") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Uki Ogasawara. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga on 4 November 2008.
Reception
Leroy Douresseaux, writing for Comic Book Bin, felt that the characters were underdeveloped, and that despite the characters' "equally masculine" depiction, that Black Sun was a good example of yaoi using the rape fantasy device, finding that the sex scenes were so plentiful that they became "tedious". Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, felt that the writing was weak and that the romance between the characters amounted to Stockholm syndrome, but that the series' primary draw was its many "graphic" sex scenes and " gorgeous art".
Rachel Bentham, writing for Active Anime, enjoyed the writing, comparing it to "bodice ripper" romance novels with points of humour and enjoyed the interesting Crusades setting. Casey Brienza, writing for Anime News Network, compared the author to Ayano Yamane, another manga artist known for her humour, historical fantasy themes and good sex scenes. Brienza notes that the story ends on a cliffhanger, and that DMP does not acknowledge that it is part of an ongoing series in Japan. She found that the characters were well-written and not true to seme and uke stereotypes, and praised the narrative device of telling part of the tale from the perspective of a pet panther. Brienza described the art as "gorgeous", feeling that the art alone could turn people on to Black Sun. Despite the high production quality from Digital Manga Publishing, Brienza felt that the recommended retail price would reduce the likelihood that people would buy it.
Podcasts:
Black Sun Empire
ALBUMS
- Variations on Black released: 2013
- From the Shadows released: 2012
- Cruel & Unusual released: 2012
- Lights and Wires released: 2010
- Resident Presents: Black Sun Empire Recordings released: 2007
- Endangered Species released: 2007
- Driving Insane released: 2004
Variations on Black
Released 2013- Arrakis (Noisia remix)
- B'Negative (Phace & Misanthrop remix)
- Brainfreeze (Neonlight remix V2)
- Breach (The Upbeats remix)
- The Rat (Gridlok remix)
- Sideways (Optiv & BTK remix)
- Lead Us (Audio remix)
- All Is Lost (Memtrix remix)
- Deadhouse (Insideinfo & Mefjus remix)
- Extraction (Rido remix)
- Killing the Light (Icicle remix)
- Don't You (State of Mind remix)
- Dawn of a Dark Day (Prolix remix)
- Bitemark (Zardonic remix)
- Potemkin (S.P. Y remix)
- Monologue (Ulterior Motive remix)
- Eraser (SPL remix)
- Brainfreeze (Neonlight remix V1)
- Gunseller (Counterstrike remix)
- The Sun (Evol Intent remix)
- Fever (Chris.SU remix)
- The End of Me (N.Phect remix)
- Milkshake (Black Sun Empire VIP)
- Hideous (Black Sun Empire VIP)
- Drizzle (Black Sun Empire VIP)
- Killing the Light (June Miller remix)
- All Is Lost (Telekinesis remix)
- Dawn of a Dark Day (Receptor remix)
From the Shadows
Released 2012- Exoplanet
- Killing the Light
- Battlefish
- Extraction
- Transmissions (Mindscape remix)
- Salvador
- Illusions
- Descent
- Datahub (Mindscape remix)
- Tripel
- Drizzle
- Dawn of a Dark Day
- Machines
- Chaingang (Jade remix)
- Homage
- Battalion
- Inpeak (Telekinesis remix)
- Lotus
- All Is Lost
- Eraser (Neonlight remix)
- Resilience
- Poison
- Feed the Machine
- Roulette (Gridlok remix)
- Adaptation
Cruel & Unusual
Released 2012- The Cooler
- Boris the Blade (Optiv remix)
- Bitemark
- Masquerade
- Hideous
- Everything
- Sideways (feat. Illy Emcee)
- Future Frame
- Breathe Sunshine (Black Sun Empire Remix 2)
- Breathe Sunshine (Black Sun Empire Remix 1)
- Stranded V2
- Centepod
- Circle of Nine 2005
- Sahara
- Brood X
- Just the One
- Got Lost
- The Promist 2005
- Skullfucked
- Eggplant (Black Sun Empire Remix)
- Night Raiders
- Fearless
- 1138
- Panorama
- Beautiful Morning (Black Sun Empire Remix)
Lights and Wires
Released 2010- Kurchatov
- Bullet in the Head (Gridlok remix)
- Kempi
- Chaingang
- Wake Up (Black Sun Empire remix) / Musclecar
- Deadhouse
- 1138
- Extraction
- Infusion
- Transmission
- Animal
- Inpeak
- Milkshake V.I.P.
- Fever
- Red Velvet V.I.P.
- Synergy V.I.P. (BSE remix)
- The Bane
- Driving Insane (Counterstrike remix)
- Eraser
- Hideous V.I.P.
- Brainfreeze
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Endangered Species
by: Black Sun EmpireI don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
[shouting]
Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"