Firoa’s health isn’t great.
Anime Review: Magilumiere (Season 1)
It feels weird praising a show about a business – and a startup at that – in the times we’re in, but such is the case with Magilumiere. It’s one of several shows over the past few years that have used the framework of Japanese corporate storytelling to kinda give a discrete middle finger at more toxic elements of Japanese corporate culture, while depicting a framework that could potentially not suck – in this case also, in a weird way, riffing on what a modern Japanese take on Ghostbusters might look like.
Read moreAnime Review: DanDaDan
DanDaDan is an anime series that has a rough start. If someone were to drop it after the first episode, I’d completely understand. As the series goes on it tells a story with a tremendous mix of action, humor, and charm, but I’d also say that some of those rougher risque elements never quite go away.
Read moreWhere I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 96 – Hero Comes Back
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 95 – Splitting of the Monado
5 Top Anime of 2024
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 94 – High Entia Instrumentality
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 93 – You Can (Not) Save Mechonis
Anime Explorations Episode 27: Animal Treasure Island
This month we’re watching a Toei anime film from 1971 with some tenuous connections to a work of classic literature.
Anime Review: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction (Season 1)
My Dress-Up Darling was a show I enjoyed immensely and one I ended up watching multiple times, including for the Anime Explorations Podcast. I appreciated how the show got into the work of creating cosplay costumes. However, it felt like there was something missing, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what. Watching the first season of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction made me realize what those things were, because this show filled those gaps remarkably well.
Read moreWhere I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 92 – Betrayal!
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 91 – Final Battle(?)
2025 Holiday Greeting
It’s the week of Christmas, and the last full week of the year, so it’s time for my holiday greeting!
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 90 – Very Final Dungeon
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 89 – It Hits The Fan
2025 New Year’s Resolutions: Anime
I didn’t quite get through all my shows that I’d picked for my 2024 New Year’s Resolutions this year, and to a degree this is a bit of my own doing, because I’d also not accounted to something that I had at my disposal: the podcast. Several of the shows that I’d picked, honestly, would have been good podcast fodder. Admittedly, some of those were also shows that would have been difficult to do on the podcast due to lack of streaming availability (like Betterman, Freedom, or Teknolyze). However, other ones – including one of the leftover shows, were. So, when it came to doing my list for this year, I put my list together based on two things: what would finish up the AniList Advanced Challenge for me and what would make for good podcast fodder.
Read more2025 New Year’s Resolutions: Video Games
A new year is coming up, so it’s time to put together my proper New Year’s Resolutions – I’ve gotten through pretty much all of my video game resolutions (I should have actually finished Xenoblade Chronicles Remastered by the end of the year), so I’m going to start with my video games list first. This is going to be a longer list, as I’m doing a few more Joined In Progress games.
Read moreWhere I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 88 – Foreboding
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 87 – Moving Swiftly On
Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightsend Part 5
It comes down to this – who will hold the mantle of the Bat – Bruce Wayne or Jean-Paul Valley.
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 86 – More Inspection
Where I Play Xenoblade Chronicles: Part 85 – Inspection
Star Trek Adventures RPG Character Race: The Abh
Basically, since I watched Crest of the Stars & Banner of the Stars, I’d been thinking about how I’d incorporate the Abh into the various Star Trek RPGs. After a bunch of thought, I’ve figured out some of how to do it… and I commissioned some art to go with it from Kimberly Odessa! I’ll be focusing on the Modiphius Star Trek Adventures rules – for this post, and I’ll do write-ups for Decipher Trek and LUG Trek later, since I have the books for those as well.
Read moreManga Review: 21st Century Boys
20th Century Boys was a manga about the power and danger of nostalgia. It was a story about a group of childhood friends who grew up in 60s and 70s (late Showa) Japan, who basically had their childhoods literally weaponized not just against them, but the world as a whole, and who ultimately had to go into conflict with their childhoods to save the world and themselves. 21st Century Boys serves as an epilogue to answer one last lingering question – why?
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