A while back I reviewed the anime adaptation of the manga Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family. At that time the video review went out, the first volume of the manga had come out, and I’d read it and enjoyed it, and since then two more volumes of the manga have come out since then, so it’s time to give this a proper review.
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The squad makes their way to the Cosmodrome Centrifuge and the beacons.
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We make our way to the water tower to start that sidequest chain.
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I went to Portland Retro Gaming Expo this year, and give my thoughts on the event.
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We start Act 3 and get a new upgrade for Jack.
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This episode we have the second half of our attempts at the Matriarch Boss fight.
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I haven’t watched a lot of “Kids on Bikes” movies and fiction – I’ve seen ET, Explorers, and The Goonies, and as of this writing am currently in the middle of reading IT (which is something of a Kids on Bikes story for the flashback sequences) but I haven’t seen or read any of the other works that really feed into subsequent works like Stranger Things. I haven’t seen Monster Squad, and until recently, I hadn’t seen The Gate – a lesser-known work in the genre that I hadn’t heard about until Giant Bomb did a “Film and 40s” commentary for it with the Giant Beast crew. Well, this oversight has, at long last, been rectified.
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This time I’ve got the second of the Star Wars short story collections with Tales from Jabba’s Palace.
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We have the first part of our fight against the Matriarch.
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We chase after Nigel as he sics his creations on us.
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I wrap up my October horror reviews with a movie that has a much stronger sense of visual flair and style to it than Mother of Tears, and is from Canada instead of Italy – Beyond the Black Rainbow.
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We reach the research facility and learn the truth about the origins of the Locust and the Swarm.
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We get a phosphorous charge and make our way out of the mine.
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Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural is a vampire film that’s been on my watch list for a while. I’ve seen it praised for its theme and tone, but due to the film’s cast and how relatively unknown the director was – and it’s limited DVD release – never really bumped it up my list. Why do a little known vampire film from a director known more for co-writing Eating Raoul than anything else, and starring an actress known for myriad sexploitation films over, say, a film by Amicus? On a whim, I bumped this to the top of my DVD Netflix Queue and gave it a try – and it wasn’t exactly worth the wait.
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In a bit that we haven’t done in a while, we fend off a bunch of Swarm while Jack rips a door.
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We head to a deserted mine to get some explosives.
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This week we have a bunch of movie licensed games and the launch of a major puzzle franchise that continues to this day.
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We find an upgrade for Jack’s flash attack, and find the location of the mine.
I’m fighting allergies this session, so no VO.
We reach the second relay and get a cloaking device!
As with the other episodes from this session, I’m fighting allergies so there’s no VO.
There are some anime with a strong first half, and then which utterly shits the bed in the second half of the show. Yu-No, an anime series based off of an Eroge (and which had an earlier hentai adaptation back in the ’90s) is one of those shows.
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With the Summer 2019 anime season, while I enjoyed El Melloi II Case Files, I found it somewhat lacking as a mystery or detective series and had hoped that Cop Craft would make up for that. Cop Craft executes its Urban Fantasy Buddy-Cop story well from a narrative standpoint, but less so from an animation standpoint.
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We check some salvage points to get supplies.
No VO this time, as I’m dealing with some allergies.
