In writing my review of The Game Wizards, I came to a horrifying realization – I hadn’t given my thoughts on the other previous sequel by Jon Peterson to Playing at the World that I’d read – The Elusive Shift. Considering that all three of these books kind of form a full narrative, I realized I really needed to rectify that situation. So I’m rectifying that situation.
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If you’re at Kumoricon this weekend, come see me! Today! I have a panel – “Anime at 33 1/3 RPM: Collecting Anime Soundtracks On Vinyl” – in Panel Room 5 at 1:30 PM! Don’t be a stranger!
We get a fairly long random encounter this time.
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Our third random encounter of the session – now in some ruins.
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I’ve kinda fallen behind on the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (at least as far as the video reviews are concerned), so it’s time to get caught up.
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Another random encounter – this time on a mountain.
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We get a random encounter on the way to the next side quest.
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With The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri, I’m finally getting back to being caught up with the Sword & Laser Book Club picks – more or less (November’s pick is Six Wakes, which I read a while back, so I’m using this month to catch up on some other books). While I liked the novel, my thoughts on The Jasmine Throne are complicated in ways that somewhat intersect with my views on She Who Became The Sun, and in ways that don’t.
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We’ve been getting a fair amount of anime and manga spinoffs of Tokusatsu series lately. The main ones I’ve covered have been the Ultraman manga series and its anime spinoff on Netflix, and Studio Trigger’s Gridman universe series – Gridman and Dynazenon – in addition to ones I haven’t gotten to yet, like the Garo spinoff anime series. This fall’s Fuuto PI (or Fuuto Tantei) is another of those – this time tying in with Kamen Rider W.
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We clear out this fight, and now can go to the Palace of the Dead whenever we want.
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One dragon down, two to go.
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It’s time to review the last of the Hugo Nominees that were on my shortlist – She Who Became The Sun By Shelly Parker-Chan
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We have one more fight to do in order to clear the path to the Palace of the Dead.
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We finally lay into the Necroprentice – but are we too late?
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We have the inaugural episode of the Anime Explorations Podcast! I and my friends David and Tora take a look at Masami Yuasa’s 2020 adaptation of the manga Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!
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We attempt to push through the undead defenders to aid this new guest character.
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We finally take on this new Necroprentise, and attempt to save the village’s last survivor.
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We finally have our review of Goldeneye 007.
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We mop up the last few of this fairly small force, so we can get into the castle.
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We now have to get through the handful of undead guards.
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It’s not October without a review of an Amicus film, and this year I’ve got another Amicus Anthology here – the one with the title that grabbed my attention the most – The House That Dripped Blood. Unfortunately, it’s also probably the most disappointing I’ve seen to date.
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For the Spooky Season, I decided to do something a little different from my usual string of horror films – having picked up the Vampire Hunter D audiobooks from Audible, and since I have a commute again, I decided to get started listening to those on my way to work – and having finished re-reading the first one, it would be appropriate to give my thoughts.
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We take on the mercenary who had been left in command of these undead.
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