This episode we take on tanks and fighter jets.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 12 – Midnight Thunder Boy I
Dragons of the Dwarven Depths – Book Video Review
I kick off my August GenCon licensed tabletop fiction reviews with a Dragonlance novel that fills a gap in the original Dragonlance Chronicles.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 11 – The Viewtiful Escape III
In the engine room, we encounter a dark version of Joe and have to take them down.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 10 – The Viewtiful Escape II
We stop the flow of missiles and flip the ship again.
Read moreQuag Keep: Book Review
If I was going to describe the modern “Isekai” genre in brief, I’d describe it as “Game-based another world fantasy.” It’s not just fantasy where a protagonist is whisked to another fantastic world from ours like with the John Carter of Mars novels, or on the anime front with El-Hazard and Magic Knight Rayearth. This is fantasy where the characters are explicitly in a world that draws inspiration to games from gaming – sometimes by drawing the characters or their psyches into an actual game (ala Sword Art Online or Log Horizon), or a world which uses the language of RPGs like with Konosuba or Grimgar: Ash and Illusions. I would argue that if not the first of these, then one of the first of this particular genre – and was done in the ’70s by a woman.
Read moreRobiHachi: Anime Review
RobiHachi is a very different show than most of the anime series I’ve seen – particularly those about travel. Most anime series that are about travel and tourism that I’ve seen tend to be chill slice of life comedies, like Laid Back Camp. RobiHachi, on the other hand, is a very silly, wacky, over-the-top comedy – though one with some thematic elements in common with those other series.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 9 – The Viewtiful Escape I
This time we flip the script and flip the ship.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 8 – 2 Million Leagues Under The Sea III
We finish off Gran Bruce.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 92
I’m putting the next episode of the show on hold for a month, in the wake of the tragedy at Kyoto Animation and due to the presence of “The Ignition Factor” among the covered games. Instead, I’ll be discussing the second companion book to one of Nintendo’s miniature consoles – Playing With Super Power.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 7 – 2 Million Leagues Under The Sea II
We get our first attempt at beating Gran Bruce.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 6 – 2 Million Leagues Under The Sea I
This time I have to disarm a really annoying bomb.
Read moreGundam 0083: Stardust Memory – Anime Review
I first watched Mobile Suit Gundam: Stardust Memory when I was in High School, a little after 9/11. The story worked for me at that time, when all the Gundam I’d seen had been the Gundam compilation films and Char’s Counterattack. Since then I’ve seen considerably more Gundam (including Zeta Gundam) since then.
Read moreWe Never Learn: Anime Review
A lot of fanservice anime tends to be gross. Maybe it’s because the fanservice comes through sexual slapstick of the “Whoops I fell and groped you or looked up your skirt” variety. Or it comes through battle damage of the “Female character gets their top shredded in combat and now their boobs are hanging out” variety. Or it’s of the “Male lead openly sexually harasses female characters variety.” Perhaps that’s why the fanservice that comes up in We Never Learn feels like a breath of fresh air.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 5 – Some Like it Red Hot III
Joe takes on Hulk Davidson – will this lead him closer to Sylvia?
Technical Notes: I’m playing this using a physical copy on PCSX2. There may be some technical hiccups.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 4 – Some Like it Red Hot II
Joe continues to make his way to the next boss, while lacking a proper Superhero name.
Technical Notes: I’m playing this using a physical copy on PCSX2. There may be some technical hiccups.
Read more5 Anime Series to Watch After Neon Genesis Evangelion
Well, you’ve just finished watching Evangelion on Netflix, and you’re wondering what to watch after this. I have a few recommendations here for you. The video is fairly spoiler-light so if you’re making your way through the show now, you should be fine.
Lists of all the works I recommend below the cut/further down, with affiliate links for Amazon and the Crunchyroll Store, and streaming links, where available. Buying anything through affiliate links helps to support the show.
Let’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 3 – Some Like it Red Hot I
We push on to the city in the second level.
Technical Notes: I’m playing this using a physical copy on PCSX2. There may be some technical hiccups.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 2 – Joe the Hero Part II
This time I beat the game’s first boss. Please pardon the lack of commentary, due to technical difficulties and a cold.
Technical Notes: I’m playing this using a physical copy on PCSX2. There may be some technical hiccups.
Read moreDororo: Anime Review
There are works of anime and manga which view feudal Japan with a less than critical eye. Dororo is not one of those works. The original manga by Osamu Tezuka was a work that, while more than a little cartoonish (as this was ’60s Tezuka), looked on the realities of Japan leading into the Warring States period with a critical eye. The 2019 anime adaptation of the work keeps a similar appraisal of the period.
Read moreHayate The Combat Butler Vol. 28: Manga Review
In the last couple volumes of Hayate the Combat Butler, we got something of a new status quo for the characters as a whole, while not really setting up what the next arc for Nagi was going to be. Volume 28 introduces a couple of new characters (sort of) while setting up Nagi’s next arc.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 1 – Joe the Hero Part I
Starting a new Let’s Play, this time of Viewtiful Joe. I don’t talk that much these first few episodes as I have a cold.
Technical Notes: I’m playing this using a physical copy on PCSX2. There may be some technical hiccups.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 281 – Epilogue
We see how the various members of Earth Fleet Tenku have fared after their world are restored.
Read moreLegends of the Force Part 34: X-Wing – Rogue Squadron
This month we start a sub-series of the Star Wars novels following one of the fixtures of the original trilogy of films – fighter dogfights!
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 280 – The Gulf Between Past & Future VIII
We finally bring down Nevanlinna.
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