While the first season of Call of the Night was a series that was heavy on vibes and less on horror, the second season of the series does delve a little more into Vampire society – and also is something that really gets that while our little low-fi Camarillia is generally very chill, vampires are monsters – and even if the group that Ko is around doesn’t act like monsters, other Vampires can be monstrous.
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My Dress-Up Darling was one of the first shows we did for Anime Explorations, and it was a show we generally really enjoyed. Yes, it was a somewhat horny-on-main romantic comedy anime, but it was tonally light, and didn’t feel leering in the way that other fanservicey series did, combined with a romance between Gojo and Marin that was very sweet, so I’ve been looking forward to a second season, and was quite pleased when we finally got one this year. I already had some high expectations, but this season blew those right out of the water.
Read moreI cover chapter 4 of the adventure, including a few of the difficulties of our first dungeon exploration.
This month we’re watching the anime adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.
The first season of Sakamoto Diaries was a fun season, with some interesting characters and some fun writing and fight scenes. the concept of “What if John Wick’s wife didn’t die, and he retired to run a combini?” worked for me. However, the second season had a really strong fall off for me, and I dropped it before the season finished, so I should probably talk about why.
Read moreWell, there was more than one diary. Right?
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I’ve completed my first week of Linux, which has predominantly involved getting Linux set up on my computer.
Read moreWith the crowdfunding campaign for an English Language release of Sword World 2.5, I get into why Japanese Tabletop RPGs (or JTRPGs) might be the thing that’s just right for your tabletop group.
I’m going to go on a bit of a computer journey, which I’m also going to be blogging about here – I’m going to try to start the process of transitioning from being a primary Windows user, to a primarily Linux one.
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When it comes to the Procedural genre of film, generally these works tend to put their focus on law enforcement – cops and robbers, literally. However, the cops the generally don’t cover are ones who deel with what are considered more “boring” crimes – white collar financial crimes. Smuggling is sexy, robbers are sexy, gangsters are sexy. Tax fraud is still sexy… except people stealing from workers by not properly paying taxes, people stealing from the community by not paying taxes to pay for the services the government provides that they use are still robbers. So, it’s up to a more financial cop to catch them – one like the protagonist of A Taxing Woman.
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