Girls Und Panzer (which I reviewed at Bureau42, not here), was a show that I absolutely loved. It had a sports anime plot for a sport that didn’t exist in the real world, Sensha-do, the art of Tankery: the art of crewing and maintaining a tank, and succeeding in combat using that tank – though Sensha-Do competitions are not to the death. Read more
In case you’d missed the ham – we have Go Nagai Super Robot Villains! Read more
After the fight, Gendo Ikari and Bright Noa meet – and Shinji & Rei meet their new teammates. Read more
We return to the Star Wars novels with a fairly underrated trilogy. Read more
The unified forces of Londo Bell and NERV finish off the dragons and the Angel. Read more
Unfortunately, Team Mazinger/Londo Bell finds themselves facing another Angel hot on the heels of the last. – and it’s not alone. Read more
Not to get overly reductive in the way that is often mocked when people talk about criticism on the internet, but maybe a better title for Death of the Family is Fridging of the Family. Read more
Continuing with my look at the Star Wars Expanded Universe with a stand-alone story from the creators of Power Pack – Louise Simonson and June Brigman. Read more
Team Mazinger and Londo Bell team up to take down the Federation drones and get Eva Unit 1 out of Berserk Mode. Read more
Shinji Ikari has his first sortie in Eva Unit-01 and it manages to go *worse* than it did in the anime and manga. Read more
This month I’m wrapping up a few loose ends, as I review the two Hayate TV series I hadn’t previously reviewed. First off is Hayate the Combat Butler: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You! Read more
Londo Bell heads out from their base, as our scene shifts to Tokyo-3…
(Also, my cat caused me to shift scenes for a minute – sorry). Read more
The members of Londo Bell discuss Audrey’s departure and what that means, and everyone who hasn’t seen Gundam Unicorn already finds out Audrey’s true identity. Read more
One of my favorite works of anime fantasy is Record of Lodoss War. It’s a show that I try to watch at least once a year, and due to my appreciation of that, I’ve sought out the various works by its creator, Ryo Mizuno, which have gotten a US release, from the Lodoss series onwards. In any case, when Record of Grancrest War was announced, and that even more it was related to a tabletop RPG that Mizuno had created, I was definitely onboard to check this out.
The Roman-Period Epic was something of a staple of cinema in the 1950s and ’60s, and one of the films of that genre that tanked the hardest was The Fall of the Roman Empire from 1964, which is a bummer because it’s really not that bad. Read more
We wrap up the fight, with at least two factions having mostly punched themselves out. Read more
Londo Bell continues the fight, with Neo Zeon and the Titans being the next targets. Read more
This month I have another special book review episode, as I give my thoughts on a book from Dark Horse that covers the making of the NES and SNES era Final Fantasy games. Read more
Londo Bell makes contact with Amalgam forces while the Earth Federation forces and Zeon/Amalgam troops clash. Read more
The Three-Way Dance begins. Read more
The movie Night of the Lepus is a something of a joke in horror movie circles. While that is somewhat deserved, those reasons strictly lie with the film’s budget and some of the film’s effects. The rest of the film is put together incredibly well. Read more
When it comes to bad action movies, there are some names in action films that can be reasonably taken as a warning sign that the film you are approaching is a stinkburger. Frank Stallone is one of those names. Frank Stallone started his career as a musician and composer and has had a reasonably successful career at that. However, as his older brother Sylvester became one of the action juggernauts of the 1980s and ’90s, Frank kept also getting action movie roles, presumably on the basis that he looks enough like Sly, that if you put “Stallone” in large enough letters on the poster, people won’t look closer and recognize that it’s actually Frank. Read more
The Vist Foundation sets their plans in motion. Read more
After the battle, Judeau ends up chatting with the Ples, and Nine drills various cast members about their love lives. (But not Love Live – that’s a different game). Read more
