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.
Continue readingIt’s the week of Christmas, and the last full week of the year, so it’s time for my holiday greeting!
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.
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2025 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.
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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.
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.
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Manga 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?
Continue readingI continue with side quests, though the game is hinting that it’s not having any impact on the environment.
In reponse to all the traffic on my blog that came out due to the Teaser for The Electric State, it’s only right for me to give my thoughts on what we have to look at so far.
Book Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground
If you know anything about me at all, I have a passion for the history of tabletop roleplaying. One of the books that helped stoke my interest was the book Heroic Worlds, which I read when I was in middle school. That book was a high level overview of the roleplaying game books that were on the market at the time – like the tabletop RPG equivalent of all those Leonard Maltin books giving an overview, one-to-two sentence of a film’s plot, and a one-to-two sentence review combined with a score. Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground provides a more close in view, covering a selection of RPG books from each decade of RPG history to date, with more involved looks at the various games.
Continue readingDragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 3: A Cunning Plan
This session was a shorter session than before – the big end-of-chapter series of battles is enough take a whole session, so this was handling the setup, with a little bit of combat.
Continue readingI continue to the top of the Central Factory, with another boss fight along the way.