I wasn’t expecting to get through my first New Year’s Resolution this early, relatively speaking – this is going up partway through January, but I was close enough to the end of Final Fantasy IV that I was able to finish the game before the full the first full week of the month. This is a game that I had been trying to beat off and on since I was in Middle School. So, I’m glad that I’ve finally gotten to beat the game – so now the question becomes, was it worth the wait.
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Anime Review: A Certain Magical Index (S1 & 2)
When I finished A Certain Magical Index Season 2, and sat down to write this review, I thought I’d also reviewed Season 1. It turns out I have not – so I’ve got a lot of ground to cover in this review. Hopefully it will go fairly quickly, because while I cannot speak for the novels, but the anime version of these stories is a remarkably breezy watch.
Continue readingTime to go into Bionis’ Innards – but though have a slight detour for a weapon upgrade.
I did a Let’s Play of the PSP game, but I never really did a review for those who didn’t want to watch a long Let’s Play to see what I thought about it – time to rectify that.
Quick Review: MF Ghost Season 2
Not a lot to say about MF Ghost Season 2. I enjoyed it, and will move on to season 3 when it comes out. However, the show is getting kind of formulaic at this point – season 1 wrapped with qualifying for the race that started season 2 and took up most of the season – ending in qualifying and the start of the following race. We have some character beats in between, but most of the season is focused on the racing. It’s well-animated and well-paced racing, but there isn’t much more to say. It looks like Season 3 is likely going to shape up to more of the same. So, if you’re looking for some auto racing anime to watch (or you want something to save to watch during the off-season of your auto racing of choice), this is a good candidate.
However, I’m probably not going to review Season 3 or subsequent seasons, unless they do something really stand out.
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Anime Review: Ranma 1/2 Season 1 (2024)
Much as Urusei Yatsura received a revival from David Production, now Ranma 1/2 has started to receive a revival from Mappa, distributed internationally by Netflix. It’s a pretty good adaptation, though thus far it hasn’t had any of the series trickier elements to deal with.
Continue readingI finish off this side questline and look for some High Entia survivors for crafting materials.
I’ve got a bit of a medical procedure coming up that could interrupt my streams and videos, so here’s a heads up – and also some quick thoughts on things the VGAs can do to improve.
Anime Review: Magilumiere (Season 1)
It feels weird praising a show about a business – and a startup at that – in the times we’re in, but such is the case with Magilumiere. It’s one of several shows over the past few years that have used the framework of Japanese corporate storytelling to kinda give a discrete middle finger at more toxic elements of Japanese corporate culture, while depicting a framework that could potentially not suck – in this case also, in a weird way, riffing on what a modern Japanese take on Ghostbusters might look like.
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Anime Review: DanDaDan
DanDaDan is an anime series that has a rough start. If someone were to drop it after the first episode, I’d completely understand. As the series goes on it tells a story with a tremendous mix of action, humor, and charm, but I’d also say that some of those rougher risque elements never quite go away.
Continue readingThis month we’re watching a Toei anime film from 1971 with some tenuous connections to a work of classic literature.
Anime Review: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction (Season 1)
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.
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