Spy Classroom Season 2 is one that is a lot more serious than the first season. It’s not to say that there isn’t a large quantity of slapstick, some comedy around the members of Team Lamplight’s personality foibles, and more development for some of the other members of the group – that’s definitely there. However, it does make an attempt to be more dramatic than last season, with varying degrees of success.
Continue readingAlan goes to the radio station, where he has another run-in with Agent Nightengale.
Wake ends up on the run from the law, after a trigger-happy FBI agent gets involved.
I’m able to replay the end of the previous level, making up for those technical difficulties, and start episode 3 and our meeting with Rose.
Wake continues back to the lodge, and I have technical difficulties that caused my PS5 to restart, leading to my losing the last 15 minutes of the stream, so you don’t get the driving sequence, or Wake fighting off crows, or you learning that the Dark Presence has possessed Rose.
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Anime Review: Oddtaxi
Oddtaxi is one of those truly unique series – on paper it’s the sort of hyperlink-cinema noir story that fits right in with series like Baccano and Durarara (or, for that matter, films like Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, and Pulp Fiction). However, how the presentation of the story helps make it truly distinct from the other stylistic works that came before. There will be some spoilers below the cut.
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Anime Review: Ayakashi Triangle
So, this anime is a little less “spooky” and a little more “fanservice-heavy”, but it’s a series that also involves the Yokai, which are used in both spooky and silly contexts, so I feel okay including this more recent series, Ayakashi Triangle, into my Halloween reviews.
Continue readingWake turns the tables on the “kidnapper”.
Continue readingAlan finally meets with the “kidnapper” and is forced to team up for a little bit.
Continue readingIt’s time for the Spooky Season – so let’s do some horror movies from outside the US – first off is Deep Red, a Giallo film from Dario Argento from before he did Susperia.
Another supporting character becomes Taken and bites the dust.
Continue readingAlan learns someone is claiming they kidnapped Alice, but that can’t be right, can it?
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Film Review: Tentacles
As far as Jaws ripoffs, especially those of the Italian variety, are concerned, Tentacles doesn’t mess around. Within the first 5 minutes of the film, the movie’s antagonist – a giant octopus – has murdered an infant. And the movie barely slows down from there.
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Anime Review: Synduality Noir
Of the Summer 2023 anime series, Synduality Noir is the other of the series that I’d almost describe as “horror adjacent” – in this case not because of the inclusion of traditional gothic horror monsters (Werewolves, Vampires, etc.), but rather because of a few of the elements introduced later in the series.
Continue readingAlan reaches the service station, and realizes the police won’t help him with the threat he faces.
Continue readingAlan starts to make his way through the woods.
Continue readingSo, I’ve had some life stuff happen, but it’s not going to stop me from going to conventions this year – here’s info on my upcoming conventions, and what that life event was.
The Wake family vacation goes horribly wrong.
Continue readingWe open with a dream sequence tutorial.
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Anime Review: Undead Murder Farce
I’m starting off my October horror reviews with a mystery horror anime – Undead Murder Farce.
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Manga Review: Record of Lodoss War: Crown of the Covenant
I was excited to see a new Record of Lodoss War… anything really come out, both in terms of the Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth game (which I’ve just finished Let’s Playing – I’ll have a review of that in November) and when I learned that a new manga was coming out set after the events of Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. I had wondered if it was going to be an adaptation of Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth – but Crown of the Covenant being its own story (albeit one that Wonder Labyrinth led directly into) was something of a pleasant surprise.
Continue readingThe final boss fight ends, Deed says goodbye to Parn, and I give my final thoughts on the game.
Continue readingI continue taking on the final boss fight.
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