The power goes out in the theater right before showtime – can Shin and Gemini restore power in time!
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 5 – Crunch Time
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 96
This Christmas we start the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s 7th year.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 4 – Proving Ourselves
We distribute fliers for the show in an attempt to prove our worth.
(Sorry for the audio issues early on in the show).
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 3 – Find Our Place
We get to meet more of the members of the New York Combat Revue, and get to see a performance by the group.
Read moreHouse of X/Powers of X: Comic Review
A while back I gave some thoughts on my concerns about the upcoming X-Men series House of X and Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, and where the X-Line was going to go from there. Well, Hickman’s first two series – House of X and Powers of X – are now out and I’ve read them, and now it’s time to re-assess some of my analysis, as we’ve gotten into the series coming out of those series.
Read moreScorching Ping-Pong Girls: Anime Review
Sports Anime is something of a blind spot in my viewing habits. A lot of the top shows of the past few years (Kuroko’s Basketball, Haikyu, Yowamushi Petal) are on my to-watch list, and a few other shows (Giant Killing, Free, Princess Nine) I’ve never gotten around to finishing. So on a recommendation I decided to sit down and watch Scorching Ping-Pong Girls, on the one hand I found it an enjoyable and brisk watch – but on the other, it left me hanging.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 2 – Getting Our Bearings
We arrive in New York City and try to find our apartment.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars: So Long My Love: Part 1 – Fresh Off the Boat
We’re introduced to our protagonist, and his first assignment in New York.
Read moreLegend of the Galactic Heroes: Book 10 Review
It has all come down to this, as we have the final book in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 43 – Last Stand
We fend off some swarms before our final battle against the Kraken.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 42 – Strategic Withdrawal
What’s left of Delta falls back to the wall to try to hold off the Swarm.
Read moreBlade of the Immortal Vol. 1-8 (US): Manga Review
I’ve been getting back into reading Blade of the Immortal with the new Amazon anime series adapting the manga – which will still be airing as this goes up. Thus far I’ve read the first 8 volumes of the manga (using the US order), and have some thoughts on the work.
Read moreMy Hero Academia – Two Heroes: Anime Review
When it comes to anime films that tie-in to ongoing shonen series, generally they tend to not be canonical – and basically exist to show a whole bunch of additional cool fights. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes is basically that, except with the nice addition of showing a little bit more of All Might’s backstory, through the introduction of an old friend from his earlier career.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 41 – Sadistic Choice
We plant the last beacon, and end up having to make what is supposed to be a hard decision.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 40 – Homecoming
We return to New Ephira, only for the city to end up under siege.
Read moreShadowrun Hong Kong – Video Game Review
This week I’m wrapping up the year with my thoughts on the last of the Shadowrun video games to date, and the best of the series – Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 39 – Shai Hulud
The rocket is assembled, and we now have to fight a giant monster.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 38 – Tight Quarters
We have a rough fight with two Snatchers and some Scions.
Read moreMiss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Anime Review
After this past year’s horrific fire at Kyoto Animation, I found myself looking at all the animated series that Kyoto Animation had done in the past, and found that I had seen so very few of them, and that they were also all on my to-watch list well before the fire. The body of work of the studio was at a level that I’d compare to GAINAX at their prime. So, having read the first volume of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid a couple jobs ago, while I was working in Downtown Portland, I decided to bump that show up on the list. Also, as a part of the weekly anime viewing nights I’d started with my parents after I got my Dad into anime, I decided to add that show to the rotation, sight unseen. The results were favorable, with an asterisk.
Read moreRivers of London – Action at a Distance: Graphic Novel Review
In the Rivers of London series, there’s always been something of a gap between what Thomas Nightengale, The Folly’s “Gov”, was up to between the end of the Second World War and the start of the series. There’s an implication that he’s been involved in varying degrees with the Met, but not heavily – if he had, then the Met wouldn’t have had to come up with the procedures they did when Peter Grant started working out of The Met. The most recent (as of this writing) collected graphic novel in the series, Action at a Distance, helps to answer some of those questions, though not without a few problems of his own.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 37 – A Friend Indeed
Before putting the rocket together, we finish the Scavenger Support side quests.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 36 – Top Gear Challenge
We race the rocket train back to the bridge controls.
Read moreKumoricon 2019 Con Report
I give my thoughts on Kumoricon 2019, and the movie I saw during the convention.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 35 – One Turntable and a Rocket Train
We reach the Turntable and take the control room.
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