My Hero Academia Plus Ultra Energy Drink Review

I have no idea what "My Hero Academia" is, except what a quick Google search tells me. And despite being an energy drink, I most certainly not the target audience here. The visuals are pretty spiffy, bright and colorful, but what does it matter what I think?!

If there was ever a power potable who's primary flavor was high fructose corn syrup, this would be it. Thirty nine grams of the sweet stuff, that is almost eighty percent of your daily intake mind you, immediately clogs the back of your throat, simultaneously gummy and grainy. It is a pretty wild mouthfeel that offers zero benefit to the drinker except to remind them of the empty calories they are imbibing, but oh well. As for what this actually tastes like, even an experienced palate such as my own struggles to identify anything inside the saccharinity- I sipped and gulped to no avail. Then suddenly, with about a third left inside the shrink-wrapped can, an extremely mild case of blue raspberry begins to break out from all the sweetness. Not that it matters though, because the few remaining ounces finishes unceremoniously. What a fitting end.

100 milligrams of caffeine, some vitamins, taurine, ginseng, and guarana makes up the ingredient cocktail. It produces a most basic kick, lasting two hours if I am both tired and generous. In the end, My Hero Academia Plus Ultra is an energy drink, and that is absolutely all you can say about it.

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Dragonball Z Warrior Power Energy Drink Review

I have never watched Dragonball Z anything- I am not the target market for Boston America Corp's energy drink adaptation of the franchise. I could not tell who that character is on the shrink wrapped label, nor could I tell you if it makes any sense for the brand to be turned into a potent potable.

The flavor is an odd mix of bubble gum, cherry and apple, all buried beneath an insatiable sweetness. They disrespect nature despite the "natural flavors" listed on the ingredients index, never amounting to anything your tongue bothers to really investigate outside a most cursory observation. Thirty nine grams of high fructose corn syrup is left unchecked by the experience, rotting your teeth with the taste of unsupervised saccharinity. Though there is some sourness, it takes a backseat to the sugar's grasp on every sip, poking its acidic head through only as the saccharine fruits climax and crash into an abyss of nothingness. This clean finish is the only place where you can taste the tartness, a shame considering its relative playfulness.

At twelve ounces, we get only 100 milligrams of caffeine and a host of B vitamins, taurine, ginseng, guarana and inositol. It is a basic blend, providing a most standard two hour long kick. In the end, Dragonball Z Warrior Power is an energy drink in its most basic form.

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Bob Ross Positive Energy Drink Review

For whatever reason, the folks at Boston America Corp. felt that the famously restraint, calm TV painter Bob Ross would be perfect for an energy drink. Though they get points for the wordplay ("positive energy" drink), the can is an awful shrink wrapped product, feeling cheap in your palm and looking just as bad- hell, the label is not even on straight!

Your first sip is pure sugar, thanks to an excessive forty grams of high fructose corn syrup. The addition of some synthetic sweeteners could have rescued the desensitizing saccharine exploit, though their primary achievement would be to stiffen the mouthfeel. The texture is loose, slimy, clumping up towards the rear of your throat and coating your palate and teeth with a pale blue hue that is sure to result in your dentist's disapproval. The actual flavor is a playful blend of blue raspberry, citrus and vanilla, almost like a candied Red Bull clone. But that brings us back to the fundamental obstacle here, and that is the sugariness. Each gulp hits you with a quick blast from the empty carbohydrates, and this cheap sweetness is all you will end up tasting for the rest of the day.

Each can contains a sluggish 100 milligrams of caffeine, which is less than ideal for a twelve ounce energy drink. Other ingredients include B vitamins, ginseng, guarana, inositol and taurine. The developing buzz lasts about an hour, though it honestly appears more as a crazy sugar rush than anything. To end, Bob Ross Positive Energy Drink contains no happy little trees. Just sugar.

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Garbage Pail Kids Adam Cherry Bomb Energy Drink Review

Garbage Pail Kids is far from the first media tie-in I would want to drink; they are nasty little things! Though the parody series picked a pretty generic one for their energy drink expansion, "Adam Bomb," now appropriately (and cleverly) named "Adam Cherry Bomb," the packaging remains pretty unappetizing- mmm, don't you want to sip on something with an exploding kid's head?

The flavor is, well, surprisingly decent. Cherry is the star of the show but zealously idles on the rocky cusp of being shadowed by the sweetness, forty grams of high fructose corn syrup (for those of you watching your intake this Holiday season, that is 80% of your suggested daily value). Things are sweet, but the stone fruit rolls over and soaks in the glory of the gummy, viscous saccharinity; it loves it, like a flower in the sunshine. Acidity is somehow able to break through the the combative sugariness, granting imbibes a blunt but brief burst of tartness. It is an experience that almost does not gels, but somehow ends up being very drinkable.

In addition to 100 milligrams of caffeine, B vitamins, guarana, taurine, ginseng, and inositol making up today's energy blend. It is a complete waste of ingredients, a mediocre chemical cocktail crafting a mediocre kick, lasting an hour and a half at most. To end, Garbage Pail Kids Adam Cherry Bomb is a roller coaster of good and bad. Mostly bad, but unpredictably adequate when good.

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Mega Man E-Tank Energy Drink Review

Mega Man E-Tank is another one of those Boston America Corp. products, and its can is another shrink-wrapped one that still feels super cheap and unimpressive, considering its $3.50 plus price tag (with prices like that, you understand why there are ads on the site now). At least the design is decent and clean, but it feels as if they just tossed Mega Man and his logo on a blue-gradient background.

Lots of blue raspberry here, a puckeringly tart and nearly comically artificial, each sip has a murky lime bite and bubble gum stained sweetness. There is a distant, lingering cranberry fullness to the body, an unexpected richness to the mouthfeel and the experience's only nod to anything natural. The saccharinity, twenty seven grams of inexpensive high fructose corn syrup, distances itself from its usual syrupiness, but its texture remains uninteresting and dimensionless. Carbonation is another surprise here, a mild effervescence that helps solidify the potation's playful poise.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, caffeine, guarana, ginseng, and inositol. The buzz is banausic, lasting an hour and certainly not enough to refill Mega Man's health bar. Overall, this is a licensed drink. Nothing more, and unfortunately, sometimes less.

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Pac-Man Power Up Energy Drink Review

Shrink wrapped with a cheap design, this bizarre Pac-Man vendible ran me two bucks. Purchased out of pity instead of purpose, this inappropriately childish label is clean and easy to read, but looks hastily made without interest. And actually, it resembles the third game by Namco more than any other.

This blue bubbly beverage has a blue raspberry and bubble gum taste. There is some sourness to the fruit and super sweetness from the other, fantastically false flavors in this innocent energy drink. The tartness demonstrates a surprising ounce of depth with deadened red rasp and cranberry nuances. But that about makes up every sip in only a few brief sentences, an otherwise ineffective experience brought to higher grounds thanks to its refreshingly simple and unassuming balance of tastes.

We have caffeine, taurine, guarana, inositol, guarana, and B6 and 12 vitamins present, providing the kick standard of eight ounces, perhaps weaker. There was an absence of jitters and no crash, but the strength was mediocre and lasted only an hour or so.

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Donkey Kong Jungle Juice Energy Drink Review

Donkey Kong Jungle Juice comes in a small eight oz. shrink wrapped can that's boring and is commonly overpriced. $2.99 was spend at my nearest novelty shop on Jungle Juice, and visually it's far from worth that retail price. But perhaps the biggest problem with the can is that it doesn't outright claim to be an energy drink. The pink and the use of the term "juice" implies much different than your typical caffeinated product, and with a character known well by children drawn in a cartoon-y style, I feel that Donkey Kong Jungle Juice should have exaggerated the fact that it's an energy drink and not something for his younger fans.

Donkey Kong Jungle Juice begins a banal melon influenced lime that's adorned partially by subtle trailing mango notes. The fruits are cursory and ignorant of any depth, and none are fortunate enough to have any tang, sour or tartness. The lime is supported by a subjacent lemon that's equally as shoal and it lacks an authentic or even a synthetic sourness. The melon has a strong watery blandness, but instead of this resulting in the taste mirroring that of watermelon, it unfortunately just tastes aquatically diluted. The mango is insignificant wholly and while it remains mostly capricious within the experience, it has a slight preference towards the tail end. Thankfully focusing on a slight graininess opposed to syrupiness, there's a brusque but brief rise of sweetness that's unstimulating and leads directly to the ultimate closing of all the former. Overall, Jungle Juice's taste is a bland derivative of the unimaginative.

Caffeine(120mg), inositol, taurine, ginseng, guarana, and several B vitamins are the highlights of Jungle Juice's ingredient cocktail, and this blend gave me an impressive kick for an eight oz. drink. I had a solid two plus hours of energy that was jitter free, and it didn't result in a crash. In the end, Donkey Kong Jungle Juice just boils down to a a poor way to spend $2.99.

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Duff Energy Drink Review

Being licensed from the cartoon series "The Simpsons," Duff Energy Drink is based heavily upon the fictitious beer featured in the show. But regardless to whether or not using a well known fake beer can to house an energy drink was a smart idea, it's at least one of the manufactures most inspired cans(given most have shrink wrapped labels and/or are only loosely based upon the licensed property). But personally, I feel the design is a mixed bag, as while I do like the retro vibe it gives, it just doesn't look right as an energy drink. Plus, the name "Duff" doesn't convey energy nor does it really sound like something I'd want to drink.

To me, the only flavour that makes sense to use is root beer, but instead Duff goes for a more orange focused flavour. It begins with a super sweet orange that's meshed seamlessly with an equally sugary cherry. The latter is far weaker than the prior, but it's strong enough to avoid being viewed as a note. The orange has a slight chalky sourness to it, and while it helps to tone down the strong sweetness a bit, its powdery quality is out of place. Underlying the experience is a light tartness that is subdued mostly by the sourness during the orange, but grows more pronounced during the shift to cherry. Neither fruits have any real degree of authenticity to them, and both taste like they were ripped right out of a candy store. Following is suppressed mango absorbed in a strong bubbly carbonated ascent. The mango is sharp and considerably artificial, and its level of sweetness is even higher than that of its predecessors. Once it ends, a hyper condensed adaptation of the experience is unpleasantly left in a syrupy coating across your mouth. Overall, Duff Energy Drink, while drinkable and not half bad, doesn't break new grounds taste wise, and it just screams to be root beer and not orange flavoured.

Duff Energy Drink's ingredient cocktail is that of average, consisting of: caffeine(120mg), taurine, inositol, ginseng, guarana, and several B vitamins. I had energy fairly immediate after I finished the can, and there were slight jitters. The buzz lasted just over two hours, which is when I promptly crashed. All in all, while Duff is a decently inspired novelty product, at the same time it's nothing more(and often less) than a run-of-the-mill energy drink.

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so thats how Mario jumps so high...

Now how could I pass up this beauty? Combining to of my favorite things together, Mario and energy drinks... Nice name, and picture. Now, I decided not to open up this can, so I poked a small hole on the side and poured it out... Guess what, ITS PINK!!!! Wow, maybe Peach, well, pink IS almost red so... anyway, the taste? Cotton candy mixed with bubble gum, not mushrooms, wow Boston America Corp., they didn't even no Mario... Nice 1000mg. of taurine, and 50 mg of caffeine. Not expensive at $2.50 w/ the label sideways... (sarcastic voice)