Ah My Goddess: Bad Goddess The Abridged Series (Kevin Neece)

Ah My Goddess- Bad Goddess (DUB) The TTS Voice Track (2020)

Ah! My Goddess: Bad Goddess is a FAN FILM video comic season made for the internet community, that is only available on YouTube and bootleg DVD, but has a listing on Internet Movie Database with an extensive Trivia Section explaining it. Over the years, as fans repeatedly questioned when Kodansha Ltd was going to get around to making a third season, Goddess-Project.net discussed the possibility of Fan Film episodes being made unprofessionally and under the radar as an experiment. One of their members, Kevin Neece, who was, at the time, interning at a Public Access Station in Austin, TX, got the idea to adapt his satirical fan fiction series, Bad Goddess, in the form of a fake studio pitch that was rejected for being too volatile and offensive, using screen captured stock animation off of the Ah! My Goddess DVDs. The practical joke is it looks like it was made by a disgruntled intern who was flipping off his bosses during his presentation on his way out the door. Eventually, after two years of work, a new series called Ah My Job Hunting Goddess was released in Kodansha Afternoon magazine and Kevin decided to cancel Bad Goddess as the new manga was getting all of the attention. Kevin then started pitching the series to every producer, director, and animator he could find on LinkedIn, including Funimation, Kodansha Ltd, and Tokyo Broadcasting Company. He still holds out hope that if he can get enough people in the industry to watch it, then there may be a way to get it produced. Currently, Kevin is waiting on his tax return to come in so that he can fix his laptop and proceed to add a text to speech voice cast to the fan film cartoons. The Intervention pilot film and Like Clockwork both have soundtracks now.

The Plot

In order to not upset the AMG Internet Community, Kevin chronologically set the series to take place TWENTY YEARS AFTER the Niflheim Rebellion incident in the Oh My Goddess Manga, thereby freeing the Producers of Ah! My Goddess to finish adapting the rest of Kosuke Fujishima's stories. In Kevin's alternate universe, The Goddesses met Kosuke Fujishima after all of their adventures, and allowed him to adapt their stories into the manga, hence the anime convention fandom of Ah My Goddess now exists in Belldandy's universe, and the Goddesses could earn a living cosplaying as themselves. Immediately after the first pilot movie, things take a turn for the bizarre when Planet Earth is wiped out in a Nuclear Holocaust and the Nekomi Gang is relocated to another Planet that's been technologically upgraded like Blade Runner meets the Fifth Element. There, they befriend a Doctor Who impersonator that works on Public Access, photoshop cast as Charlie Day, Stephen Geoffreys, Sean Gunn, Lloyd Kaufman, and Jeffrey Combs. Doctor What doesn't fight the Daleks, or live up to the adventures of the BBC tv show, although he does have the ability to jump dimensions into other people's anime shows. The Villains of the Bad Goddess universe are a terrorist group called The Individual Me's (stolen from a 1964 Rod Serling Nuclear Holocaust film called Carol for Another Christmas, which features the ghosts of Past Present and Future).

Kevin from the Other Dimension

When Kevin wrote the Fan Fiction series, he didn't just want to make Ah My Goddess dirty and foul mouthed, he wanted to put extra layers into the stories to make it psychological, and allegorical, and possibly even cathartic. In the stories, the Goddesses become Self Aware that their show has been hijacked by a Blacklisted Bootlegger, and repeatedly criticize his bad writing decisions, often referring to him as Kevin from the Other Dimension, while secretly plotting on how to get their original creators back, aka Hiroaki Goda and Kosuke Fujishima. This was partly inspired by a Daffy Duck cartoon called Duck Amuck where Daffy breaks the fourth wall and starts arguing with the Animator. It was also intended to be a metaphor for how people constantly blame god for their bad life decisions. 

The Allegory

Kevin also used the Ah My Goddess characters to create metaphorical "Brer Rabbit" stories about his life, particularly the incident where he tried to leak all of Alamo Drafthouse Theater's preshow material online, exposing them for ripping their material off the internet. Kevin's revenge tactics fell flat on his face, as the theater didn't care one way or the other, but eventually he realized he may have accidentally saved theatrical material for future film collectors that would've otherwise been thrown away, and finally came to terms that his Blacklisting was his own fault and perhaps it was time to let things go and move on with his life. Kevin's point with these stories, was that, no matter how hopeless your life looks, perhaps there is still light left at the end of the tunnel. The Keys of Marinus also features a climax where the characters represent the Angels of Judgment telling the story of his life to decide if he should be sent to hell for committing suicide. This scene was created in reference to Kevin's Nephew, Dylan Guitierrez taking his own life, so that he could put a memorial for him in the film.  

Minor Controversy

While Kevin's attempt to create a new Ah My Goddess universe was admirable, and features the same sentimentality and passion as the original anime series, the show features a sense of humor similar to South Park, and would earn itself a Hard R-Rating due to Foul Language and Adult Subject Matter. Because Kevin made the show without permission from Kodansha from stolen internet materials, it can never be released on dvd through a distributor. Kevin was called out by a French Photographer as a Thief for using some of her models for the Three Norns off of what he thought was a Desktop Background that had already been downloaded a thousand times over. In his attempts to get a critical response from the Ah My Goddess Voice Cast Members, none of them responded, and whenever he attempted to post the videos in anime Facebook groups, or send them to anime film reviewers, they removed the links, referring to the show as illegal. Eventually, Kevin had to acknowledge this and make fun of it in his own show to explain to the Ah My Goddess community why it was having such a hard time finding an audience. Blame it on Brodsky talks about why the Voice Actors are afraid to comment on the cartoons because they are considered to be illegal, Bubblegum Shortage talks about why Kevin from the Other Dimension has to steal his animation artwork because he isn't an illustrator and the show is a mashup show paying tribute to all the past animation styles, and the ultimate final message of the show in The Mokkurkalfi Theory is that if anime fans continue to pirate their shows off of the internet instead of buying them on dvd/bluray or paying for streaming subscriptions, one day the only shows they are going to get are the bootleg shows made off of stock animation like Bad Goddess that cost nothing to make. Ironically, when Kevin started sending the cartoons to people in the actual film and animation industry, a majority of them had no problem as they themselves engaged in fan artwork and fan films.  

Marller Gets a Spinoff: The Dragon Eye Serial

Ah My Goddess- Marller Gets a Spinoff (DUB) The Dragon Eye Serial TTS Voice Track

About one year after completing the adaptation of almost the entire fan fiction series, Kevin lost his job off Public Access and decided to vent all of his anger by rebooting the series and making it about Mara Marller. This time, it would be different. Kevin tried to make most of the episodes crossovers with other Anime shows so that he could take the Bad Goddess formula and make fun of other tv series in SNL Sketch Format. The plot concerns Doctor What and Sayoko kidnapping Mara Marller and getting stranded in the Middle Ages, where they find Velsper the Demon Child (before he was turned into Belldandy's Housecat), and Keiichi Morisato's Twin Ancestor, Keiichi the Spineless. The Marller Gang does battle with a Medieval Warlock called The Dragon Eye, but just when they think they've won, The Dragon Eye uses the Tardis to unleash Thirteen Demons into the other Anime Universes that the Marller Gang now has to track down and bring to justice. The plot is a SPOOF PARODY of quest format cartoon shows like The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo or The Pirates of Dark Water, where the characters were on a quest to collect Thirteen Lost Treasures. Both of which were cancelled before they could reach a resolution. Some of the crossover characters include: Those Who Hunt Elves, Hellsing, eX-Driver, Ghost in the Shell, Najica Blitz Tactics, and Bio Booster Armour Guyver.  

 Marller Gets a Spinoff: Like Clockwork Redux

Ah My Goddess- Marller Gets a Spinoff (DUB) Like Clockwork TTS Voice Track

One of the unsung episodes of Marller gets a Spinoff was called Like Clockwork, that was originally intended to be a full length feature film. In the story, the Marller Gang gets stranded in Milos Forman's Hair, only to discover that it is a mashup world of all New York 1960s/1970s movies and musicals. Just as they get the parts to fix the Tardis, they are confronted by Alex the Droog from A Clockwork Orange who steals their means of escape, and the Marller Gang has to go searching through all of the hippie musical scenes to find him including: Midnight Cowboy, Butterflies are Free, The Monkees Head, Jack Nicholson's Psych Out, Sammy Davis Jr's Big Daddy scene in Sweet Charity, and Walter Hill's The Warriors. If they don't get the Tardis repaired by the end of the videotape, they will all disappear when the credits role. Kevin didn't get around to expanding his episode until after the end of the series, but chose to go with a gimmick where 95% of the movie was improvised one shot at a time without the existence of a written script.  

 Marller Gets a Spinoff: The Hellsing Peccadillo Extended Director's Cut

Ah My Goddess Marller Gets a Spinoff (DUB) The Hellsing Peccadillo- The Director's Cut (2020)

In 2020, Kevin Neece did a complete top to bottom remodel of The Hellsing Peccadillo improvising new dialogue, new jokes, extended scenes, a brand new scene in a cheap sex motel with a cameo by Andy Dick, and a TTS Voice Track. When the Marller Gang mistakes the vampire Alucard for one of the Thirteen Escaped Demons, their attempts to capture him leads to Alucard being unleashed into the Ah My Goddess universe. The Marller Gang does not understand that Alucard was an Anti-hero in his universe and only see him as a monster, fearing that he will go on a bunch of killing sprees, and everyone he kills will be blood on their hands. Adding to the dilemma, there is no logical practical way to kill Alucard, Doctor What must defeat him and trick him back onto the Tardis without resorting to violence. The film features a lot of joke references to Alucard's red trenchcoat outfit resembling "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" and the sex humor dialogue runs the risk of getting slapped with an NC-17.  

Bad Goddess: The Moral Dilemma

Ah My Goddess- Bad Goddess (DUB) The Moral Dilemma TTS Voice Track

Shortly after completing Marller Gets a Spinoff, Kevin witnessed a girl from one of his youtube documentaries alleging on facebook that she had been sexually assaulted by a member of The New Movement Comedy Club, and that the owners of the venue did little to nothing about the situation, giving the accused "a good talking to" and then allowing him to continue intermixing with the other members. The girl alleged that he may have had other victims. Kevin immediately screencaptured her accusation and sent it to the local police who said that there was little to nothing they could do if no one would co-operate (including the girl herself). She immediately blocked Kevin on facebook, which kept him from getting the rest of the facts about the situation. Kevin was so upset that he vented all of his frustrations into a Bad Goddess PSA about Sexual Assault Awareness called The Moral Dilemma. He then tried to give it to the manager of The New Movement Comedy Club in person, without telling her what was on the dvd, and she was nervous to take it, stating that she had just resigned, implying something was deathly wrong. Kevin created a testimony video for the police trying to argue his case about why the issue should be looked into even though the girl refused to come forward. He then tried to give the video to the Police and the Local News. He was immediately chastised by all of his friends, out of fear that he accidentally involved them, and they caused him to second guess himself out of fear that he may have been wrong.  

You're Under Arrest: Path of the Raven

He then got into an argument with a friend of his over facebook, and realized that she was a lead towards getting information about the incident to the police, and that she was telling more about herself and the incident in anger than she did when he asked her politely. Kevin repeatedly screencaptured their conversations, turning them into You're Under Arrest cartoon PSAs to further anger and upset her into helping him. In the cartoon, Kevin's dialogue was played by Officer Ken, and the girl's dialogue was played by Natsumi Tsujimoto, and Kevin's Note assessments were made by Miyuki Kobayakawa and the Chief. But the whole affair crashed and burned, falling victim to a case of Tragic Irony. The girl that Kevin was trying to get information from, was herself being accused of covering up Sexual Assault Allegations, only this time, there was a large body of evidence to suggest it was SLANDER. The accuser was upset over losing control over a facebook group and somehow convinced all of her friends to attack Kevin's lead with no evidence whatsoever. The Accuser's actions also affected Kevin as he had a documentary show called Saul Ravencraft's Vault of Horror that was almost cancelled when the Accuser called up the venue and threatened them to shut down all of the horror screenings, under the guise that she worked for SAFE and the local APD. As it turned out, SAFE had no records of any accusations ever being made against the accused.  

She Liked It Spooky: The Drag/Burlesque Documentary

She Liked It Spooky- A Celebration for Ebony Strange at the Elysium (2018)

Kevin's You're Under Arrest cartoon conversations build up to Kevin taking a Documentary job recording a Memorial Drag/Burlesque show at an Austin TX venue called The Elysium. Kevin knew that a fight was going to break out, and while he couldn't catch it on camera at the risk of them destroying his camera, he was able to use his videos to create map of the surrounding areas and maintain a time frame of events and where people were to help the Police should they look into it. During the recording of the documentary, anything and everything went wrong. The lighting of the venue was too dark, and the noise was too loud. Ultimately, all of the wrong accidentally created a right, as all of Kevin's friends thought that the film was hilarious in a shot on vhs mom and pop video store kind of way. She Liked It Spooky strangely appeals to fans of the Z-Grade Horror Movies you would find while dumpster diving at Goodwill Thrift Stores.