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.
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This time we flip the script and flip the ship.
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We finish off Gran Bruce.
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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.
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We get our first attempt at beating Gran Bruce.
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This time I have to disarm a really annoying bomb.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 moreWell, 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.
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.
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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.
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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 moreIn 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.
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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.
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We see how the various members of Earth Fleet Tenku have fared after their world are restored.
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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!
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We finally bring down Nevanlinna.
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Just put Huey Lewis on repeat for this episode.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight ended with the refugees from Pax Tharkas having found a refuge in a mountain pass in the hope of (possibly) making it through the winter. The second book in the Dragonlance Chronicles series begins with the Heroes of the Lance having already gone on another adventure, and having brought the refugees to the Dwarven city of Pax Tharkas. In the roleplaying game modules, your player characters would have gone through this story. However, while much of the Dragonlance modules were adapted to the original Chronicles series, not all of them were. In the late 2000s, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman returned to Dragonlance to adapt this missing chapter into novel form.
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I’ve previously discussed the first installment of Michael A. Stackpole’s Rogue Squadron Comics earlier. Well, he’s not just limited to the medium of comics, this week we get to the first of his Rogue Squadron novels, but with a different lineup of the squadron.
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Nevanlinna presses her attack.
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System Nevanlinna prepares to remake the three Earths, and we only have 5 turns to stop it!
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