In this story interlude, The Brave Express Force runs into another member of their Rogue’s Gallery.

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It’s now time to figure out the Martian Successors’ deal.

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TV Special Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, Live

I’m not the biggest fan of musicals. I’ve liked some of them, but I don’t really get into the genre as a whole. One of the Musicals that has always worked for me is Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice – with the musical probably being one of the two’s best collaborations. The musical recently got a new stage adaptation, performed live on NBC, and I watched the archive of the show on Hulu. Continue reading

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Anime, Reviews

Anime Review: Fate/Apocrypha

Let’s make this clear from the beginning – if you’re looking for a gateway to the Fate universe – this isn’t it. While Fate/Apocrypha is set in an alternate timeline which would, in theory, free it from some of the baggage from the original work, this is not even remotely the case. I’ve discussed the first half of the series a few months ago, but now it’s time to talk about the series as a whole. There will be spoilers – so if you haven’t decided to watch the show yet, read that review first. Continue reading

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With Shogun Mifune’s forces out of action, that leaves just one more group to go.

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The city is under attack by not one, but two groups of Super Robots!

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I saw Avengers: Infinity War in the theater on April 26th, so I’m giving my thoughts in a (mostly) spoiler-free video.

Please refrain from any spoilers in the comments until the end of July, 2018.

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In Between missions, Chitose tries to find a good gift for her friends.

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The Nadesico B joines up with Ryoko and Akito.

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Title of the Crystal Shard, from the cover of the first edition.
Books, Reviews

Book Review: The Crystal Shard

More than Darkwalker on Moonshae – which I need to get around reviewing at some point – The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore is very much the introductory jumping on point for fiction within the Forgotten Realms campaign setting – and the introduction of possibly the most infamous character in fantasy fiction – Drizzt Do’Urden. Continue reading

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Akito Tenkawa returns to take on a new threat!

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In the wake of the dimensional rift, Chitose and Soji find themselves in a whole new world.

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We start the Best of the Rest Part 1, with a whole bunch of platformers.

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The Yamato gets left in the lurch and ends up facing a slew of robots.

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The Yamato attempts another jump, only for it to go horribly awry.

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Books

Book Review: Log Horizon – Books 3 & 4

When I last left the Log Horizon series, they’d gone into a political and economic thriller, as Shirou started forming the Akiba Round table with members of all the major guilds, before driving a bunch of the bad actors out of Akihabara through the unified powers of cash and good food. However, the series had also set up a new concept – that the People of the Land – the former NPCs are now fully sentient. Books 3 and 4, with the collective subtitle of “Game’s End,” get into the ramifications of that, along with what’s been going on while Akiba was getting its act together. Continue reading

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Film Review: Heaven’s Gate (Director’s Cut)

Heaven’s Gate is a film that originally had a profoundly negative response – critically panned for its excess, both in terms of the troubled shoot and the film’s length, it was considered everything wrong with “New Hollywood”, even before we get into the reports that horses were killed and maimed in the making of this film to enough of a degree above and beyond earlier westerns that this movie lead to the start of the American Humane Society sending monitors to film shoots to make sure this didn’t happen in the future. Since its initial release, the film built up something of a cult following, which ultimately lead to the film getting a re-edit and re-master to fit the director’s vision for its final release a few years ago from the Criterion Collection. Continue reading

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We get another pair of allies from another universe.

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The survivors of the Gammilans Pluto Base try one more attempt to take out the Yamato.

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I give a few possible candidates for another approach to adapting anime to live action.

5 Anime That Could Work in Live Action
Mother’s Basement – When Will Hollywood Anime Git Gud

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In this story installment, the Yamato leaves the solar system for the first time.

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In the next DLC mission, our new arrivals go on a team-building sortie.

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Role Playing Games

Adventure Review: D3 – Vault of the Drow & Q1 – Queen of the Demonweb Pits

I off and on have been reviewing the parts of the first AD&D adventure path – Against the Giants (in two parts – Part 1 & Part 2), and Descent into the Depths of the Earth. Well, now the time has come to the conclusion of the Adventure Path, and while for an inventive ending, it’s kind of a rough one. Continue reading

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