This month we memorialize Leiji Matsumoto and the creator of the Anime Music Video (not necessarily in that order).
Anime Review: Overtake
In the Fall 2023 season, we had an interesting occurrence of two different racing series, each covering different kinds of racing, scheduled on the same day, in adjacent time slots (and I believe on different channels). One was MF Ghost, the sequel to Initial D, and the other was Overtake – a series about Formula 4 Racing. While both were about racing, the two were remarkably different.
Continue readingI finish off the outpost, but not before dealing with an obnoxious Elite with camo.
Anime Review: Blood Blockade Battlefront
Yasuhiro Nightow is a creator with style by the truckload. Trigun and Gungrave both are works with a tremendous sense of flair, with Trigun also having a strong heart as well. So, when I learned about Blood Blockade Battlefront, I went “I should watch that” — and then never got around to it. When this year’s Anime Secret Santa came around, the show was among my options, and I decided now it’s time had come. I chose wisely.
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Anime Review: MF Ghost (Season 1)
The Fall 2023 anime season featured the spiritual sequel to the classic street racing Anime, Initial D. As people tend to mellow with age, so has the creator of Intial D. MF Ghost continues the concept of racing on regular roads with normal cars, but expands the concept from pure drift racing, and moves it from beyond the underground.
Continue readingThis week I’ve got a review of a book about film history, covering the history of Japanese Animation.
I’ve switched back to using Davinci Resolve for my video editing, so my credit rolls will look a little different. That said, encodes are obscenely fast – which should allow for my Let’s Play videos to encode faster.
Minor Behind the Scenes Note
Book Review: System Collapse
This year had a new full Murderbot novel, System Collapse, which I was eagerly looking forward to the whole year? How eager was I – I pre-ordered the audiobook and spent Kumoricon listening to it when I was going back & forth from the con (instead of listening to anime podcasts like I normally do). So, how well did it meet my expectations? Fantastically.
Continue readingAfter retrieving Weapon, Master Chief starts getting hit with memories from his – and Cortana’s – past.
AzBat teams up with Ballistic to take down a trio of Stooges who are killing people who could provide info on Abattoir.
Book Review: Low Action
So, I’ve moved on to the next of the Vinyl Detective novels after Flip Back with Low Action, which once again has kept with the trend started with that book of moving between music scenes, after exhausting types of records (more or less – the Detective hasn’t gone after a Picture Disk yet). This time covering the ’70s Punk scene.
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NextGen #39 (March 1998)
We’re finally working with parity with Nintendo Power Magazine with our current NextGene Recap, covering March of 1998.
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