Master Chief clears a Banished prisoner transfer center.
8-ish Top Anime of 2023
It’s time to look back on the year that was, with 8 picks for my top Anime (along with 2 honorable mentions, which I guess means it’s 10) of 2023.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 20 – Across the Bridge
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 19 – First Skull
Anime Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend Season 2
The core refrain of the first season of Girlfriend, Girlfriend was “They are such horny idiots.” – That refrain remained true in the second season of the series, with the addition of another Horny Idiot to the series.
Read moreAnime Review: Bullbuster
When Bullbuster was announced, it was viewed as a more grounded successor series to Dai-Guard, a Super Robot anime series that had its tongue firmly embedded in cheek, as it grappled with the tough questions of how do you financially justify operating a Super Robot to fight kaiju. Bullbuster revisits those questions, except with a more grounded Real Robot (though still fighting fairly large monsters), and couches the story in the conflict between small businesses and big corporations.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 18 – Broken Blademaster II
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 17 – Broken Blademaster I
Book Review: Designers & Dragons (Vol. 1-4)
It’s time to kick off the new year with a look at a series of nonfiction books that I finished reading last year.
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 16 – Checking Some Boxes
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 15 – Climbing the Tower
I try to climb the outside of the Tower, to retrieve a Skull from the top, without success.
Anime Explorations Episode 15: Anime Music Videos & Arcadia of My Youth
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.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 14 – Storming The Tower III
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 13 – Storming The Tower II
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 135
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 12 – Storming The Tower I
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 11 – Sneaky Bastard
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.
Read moreAnime 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.
Read moreWhere I Play Halo Infinite: Part 10 – Dig Fight
Where I Play Halo Infinite: Part 9 – Hot LZ
Book Review: Anime – A History
This week I’ve got a review of a book about film history, covering the history of Japanese Animation.
