Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #6: Nigel Uno Vs. Ernst Stavro Blofeld


This is currently the lowest-rated of all my battles in terms of YouTube likes/dislikes, though granted there aren’t all that many total votes on it by which to measure that rank to begin with, and in any case it’s something of a personal favorite of mine among my early battles despite probably being not very objectively good. Codename: Kids Next Door was pretty much my favorite show for a large portion of my childhood, and I’m glad to have found a satisfactory matchup by which to represent it in my series. I also particularly like the ending and James Bond’s cameo here.
This is also where I first brought in the voice of acquaintance and semi-regular “cast member” Paul Bergen, whom I probably could/should use more often in my Season 3 as I go into making it.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

My Other Blog

It can be found here.

Note that the content of the two blogs is currently identical, as I'm just starting up with both of them, but naturally this may very well change as I put more content under my belt.

– Moleman9000

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #5: XJ-9 Vs. S.A.I.N.T. #5 (A.K.A. Jenny Vs. Johnny)


The first of my second “wave” of battles after something of a hiatus following Penelope Vs. Gadget, this is where I first became serious about producing a large series of these things, evidenced by my switch to the in-video title of “Moleman’s Epic Rap Battles” as opposed to “Epic Rap Battles of History... (Fanmade.)”, a gag that was cute for my first few videos but had run its course.

This is also where I first brought the lovely Anna Valenzuela on board with my series.

These two are probably among the least-worthy, most obscure characters I’ve ever used, but the connection of their names was simply too good to pass up.
Gotta love that image (unfortunately not mine) that ended up being the thumbnail.

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #4: Penelope Vs. Gadget


This was, naturally, made at a time when I was fascinated with the character of Penelope from the Sly Cooper games due to her then-very-recent and controversial role as a villain in the series' fourth installment. I even made a group dedicated to her on DeviantArt.

As for this battle itself, it's the only one of mine where ALL the voices were obtained from online, and also the first to feature a cameo by my very good friend CheatsythePimp A.K.A. DeepC. Also, Penny Gadget is a badass. Aside from those details, this is a pretty "meh" installment of my series in my personal views.

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #3: Sally Acorn Vs. Mega Man


Sally Acorn Vs. Mega Man… now what can I say about this one? Obviously (okay, maybe not so obviously, I’m not a real web celebrity or anything) and somewhat surprisingly in hindsight, this always has been and continues to be one of my most successful battles, and is considered my “signature” matchup, mainly because it was such a random combination of characters that no one else would have ever thought to put together. Sally’s victory here has been the most common such topic of comments I’ve gotten across all of my MERB videos, which I guess I can attribute to the battle being unfairly designed, but probably also has something to do with my deliberately whiny, childish Mega Man voice.
Fun fact: I originally intended to make this as Sally Acorn Vs. Mrs. Brisby, and even started production (writing and video-assembly) on it in that form, but I found that I couldn’t satisfactorily write for Brisby, something that I could probably pull off now if I were to go on and use her in another context…

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #2: Twilight Sparkle Vs. Mister Ed

Another classic, though this one is more-so in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. Mister Ed’s outrageous lines make this probably my second-most audaciously offensive battle ever as well, next to Michael Rosen Vs. Jim Dale.
This was actually the first major idea I ever came up with, and I even made the cover image for it well before making Gwen Vs. Daria, at the time not yet intending to write and produce it as an actual battle.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Moleman's Epic Rap Battles #1: Gwen Vs. Daria


This is the video that started it all; quite literally so, as the idea came to me at the height of both my obsession with Total Drama and my original interest in Epic Rap Battles of History prior to making my own, and though it was not the first rap battle idea I had come up with in my head, it clicked extremely strongly, especially with my major emotional investment in Gwen’s character, and motivated me to actually make it at a time when my video output had previously been zero for some time. Truly, this inaugural installment of Moleman’s Epic Rap Battles made all the further ones possible, more-so than the average first episode of a series.