We enter the Auditorium, and begin the final boss fight.
Anime Explorations: Episode 19 – Ippon Again!
We discuss the start of the Spring Anime season, along with some of the failings of Gundam SEED, before moving into Ippon Again.
Quick Notes On Upcoming Content
The next game I’ll be Let’s Playing once I finish Halo Infinite will be Citizen Sleeper.
Also, I fell a little behind on putting episodes together, so I will be putting together a Youtube video on my experiences getting my CPAP machine and getting diagnosed with Sleep Apnea.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 75 – Push to the Arena
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 74 – Spartan Hunted
Wrestling Vlog Review: Prestige Wrestling Roseland 8
I went to my first Indy wrestling show, and my first wrestling show in almost 16 years – Prestige Wrestling’s Roseland 8 show. I give my thoughts on the venue and the card.
Find out about upcoming Prestige Wrestling events: https://www.prestigewrestling.net/
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 73 – Auditorium Gate
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 72 – Go To Your God Like A Soldier
Film Review: To Live & Die In LA
A while back I watched and enjoyed William Friedkin’s The French Connection, and had seen, of his subsequent films, To Live & Die in LA come up a lot as other films I should watch, first just as Friedkin film in general, then in terms of crime films of the ’80s, and in terms of great films with Willam Defoe, then in terms of great movies with pop bands doing the score. So, eventually I decided that it was time to take this film off my watchlist, and onto my watched list.
Read moreFilm Review: Beep – A Documentary History of Game Sound
What is particularly significant about Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound can be found at the end of its title – Sound. Beep is a documentary not on just game music, though that certainly would merit a documentary on its own – but on sound in games as a whole, from the rudimentary tones of Pong to modern game sound effects, along with music and voice acting.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 71 – The Last Spartan Killer
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 70 – Arena Survival II
Vlog: Miku Expo 2024 (Portland)
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.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 69 – Arena Survival I
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 68 – Thunder Run
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.
Read moreManga 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.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 67 – Panzer Vor!
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.
Read moreBook Vlog Review: Shining Girls
Time 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.
Read moreAnime 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.
Read moreAnime 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.
Read moreAnime 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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