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 moreThis week I’ve got a review of a book about film history, covering the history of Japanese Animation.
I’ve switched back to using Davinci Resolve for my video editing, so my credit rolls will look a little different. That said, encodes are obscenely fast – which should allow for my Let’s Play videos to encode faster.
This year had a new full Murderbot novel, System Collapse, which I was eagerly looking forward to the whole year? How eager was I – I pre-ordered the audiobook and spent Kumoricon listening to it when I was going back & forth from the con (instead of listening to anime podcasts like I normally do). So, how well did it meet my expectations? Fantastically.
Read moreAfter retrieving Weapon, Master Chief starts getting hit with memories from his – and Cortana’s – past.
AzBat teams up with Ballistic to take down a trio of Stooges who are killing people who could provide info on Abattoir.
So, I’ve moved on to the next of the Vinyl Detective novels after Flip Back with Low Action, which once again has kept with the trend started with that book of moving between music scenes, after exhausting types of records (more or less – the Detective hasn’t gone after a Picture Disk yet). This time covering the ’70s Punk scene.
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We’re finally working with parity with Nintendo Power Magazine with our current NextGene Recap, covering March of 1998.
Read moreSo, I’m falling a little behind on blog posts, and I realized the image of my newer cat, Mr. Mason, is dated compared to how he looks like now, so time to provide updated pictures!
In the previous episode of the Anime Explorations podcast, I mentioned that this month’s episode is going to include some discussion of Anime Music Videos, in memoriam of the creator of the medium, James Kaposztas, passing away this past year. I had put together a playlist and had some notes on each of the videos, so in advance of the episode, it’s only appropriate to embed it here, along with my comments on each video selection.
If you’d like to join the conversation in the next episode, please E-mail animeexplorationspod@gmail.com, with your comments, and they may be read on the show.
