I went to the Portland Date of Miku Expo 2024, and I give my thoughts on the experience of going to the concert, and why I’m a fan of Vocaloids and Hatsune Miku.
TV Series Review: Twin Peaks (Seasons 1 & 2)
When I wrote my review of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, I made some allusions to Twin Peaks in that review, as I was in the process of watching it. Well, now I’ve finished watching the first two seasons, so now is as good a time as any to give my thoughts.
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Manga Review: We Started A Threesome Vol. 1
Recently I dabbled a little in reviewing some more adult materials with a review of the first Emmanuelle novel. Well, recently I learned that the new adult manga from Katsu Aki, the creator of Futari Ecchi (along with the manga version of Vision of Escaflowne & Psychic Academy) involved discussing polyamory, and had been licensed, I decided to pick up the first volume of that manga – We Started a Threesome.
There will be some spoilers.
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Anime Review: Synduality Noir Part 2
I watched Synduality: Noir in a previous season, enjoyed it, and was looking forward to the second season. The second half of the series does do a good job of changing up the dynamic, exploring a few more of the world’s mysteries, and bringing the series to something of a satisfactory conclusion.
There will be spoilers below the cut.
Continue readingTime to get caught up with book reviews again, with my thoughts on the novel Shining Girls.
Anime Review: Metallic Rouge
Metallic Rouge is Studio Bones celebrating its 10th anniversary by going back to its routes with an original anime series, with an action show about a pair of ambiguously lesbian characters going on a journey – in this case a science fiction trip through various planets in the solar system, in the process uncovering several mysteries about the world. The problem is that the series, at 12 episodes, doesn’t quite have the time to really do justice to all the themes that they want to cover.
Spoilers below the cut.
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Anime Review: Solo Leveling
Solo Leveling was one of the web novel titles that I remember seeing promoted heavily by Yen Press. It was one of the first of these Web Novel turned Light Novel titles that got an audiobook release in the US, and generally it had a fair amount of buzz behind it. So, when an anime adaptation came up on the Seasonal charts, I decided it was time to find out what all the buzz was about.
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Anime Review: The Apothecary Diaries (2024)
The Apothecary Diaries, in a few respects, drew me in by both being very similar but very different from a historical fiction mystery series I was really into when I was younger – the Brother Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters – which worked really well to hook me, with the characters and the mysteries keeping me hooked.
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Anime Review: Brave Bang Bravern!
I don’t know what I expected coming into this show. On one hand, I got drawn in by the Real Robots Meets Super Robot take on the show, combined with the involvement Masami Obari. Obari as a director is someone who I almost became more familiar with through his involvement on the Fatal Fury anime series, animating the Brave franchise, along with creating the Angel Blade franchise – putting him at the confluence of strongly choreographed action, spectacularly done super robots, and a lot of… actively heterosexual fanservice. So, I was a little surprised to see just how incredibly queer – and particularly gay, Bravern is.
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Anime Review: Frieren – Beyond Journey’s End
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End was the anime series in the Winter season that was most able to make me ugly cry. It starts off with some heavy reflections on grief and mourning and every few episodes it manages to slip in another shot in the feels. That said, this isn’t a depressing show – instead, it’s a bittersweet reflection on the fact that we and the people we know will eventually grow old and die, so we should value our time with them while we can. It then proceeds to do all of this interspersed with some tremendous fight scenes.
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Anime Review: Chained Soldier
So, we’ve hit the end of the Winter Anime season, so I’m going to take a short break from the Let’s Play to get through some of the anime series I finished this season – starting with the fanservice anime I went for this time – Chained Soldier.
Continue readingI got through my surgery and the recovery, so it’s time to give my thoughts on how the surgery went, along with a really quick update on the whole Polymega situation.
We discuss the current anime we’ve watched, along with the recent passing of Akira Toriyama, before getting into our March Rom-Com, with My Love Story With Yamada-Kun at Lv.999
Anime Review: Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water
I’ve been making a *very* good pace at lopping resolutions off the list – after last month I was able to take care of beating Marvel’s Midnight Suns, this month I was able to finish watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
Continue readingWe get a message from Escharum letting us know the Banished have Echo 216 as a hostage.
I have finally gotten my Polymega after a couple years of waiting. I have video of my unboxing the unit, and a discussion of some of the issues that I had out of the box, leading to me having to have the unit RMA’d.