My Neighbor Totoro is, undoubtedly, one of Studio Ghibli’s (in general) and Hayao Miyazaki’s (in particular) most beloved films. IF there was a film that established, clearly, Miyazaki as the “Japanese Walt Disney” to international audiences outside of anime fandom, this was it, whether Miyazaki wanted the title or not.
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We finally start to regain control of the battle.
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I continue my efforts to try to keep the party alive, burning through a lot of my resources.
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A slow issue this month, but we’ve still got a big one, with Mario Kart 64.
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One of our party members goes down, as we try to keep our head above water (lava?)
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We end up getting swamped by a variety of dragons and other large units.
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Book 1 in the Black Fleet Crisis was not very good. Book 2 isn’t much better.
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Well, we’re breaking even when it comes to catching up to Nintendo Power.
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What’s better than a fight on a bridge in a castle? A fight on a bridge over a volcano!
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Before heading on to the next story mission we buy some skills for our characters.
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It’s time to finish off Bloodlines, before we return to Knightquest.
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We finally take down the Galgastani commander, but sadly Vyce is having none of it.
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We almost make it all the way across the bridge.
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Any movie franchise, when it goes on long enough, will have its rough spots. For the Fast & The Furious franchise, Tokyo Drift is that film – or potentially the first of those.
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It is a long-standing trope in romance fiction to have an author protagonist whose own romantic inexperience drives them into the relationship that is the focus of the plot. Normally, the way this premise works is that the author has a degree of self-awareness of their own inexperience, in turn leading to them being self-conscious about it as they look for a partner. Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun, however, is not one of those stories. Oh, the male lead is inexperienced, but he’s also a grade-A Wholesome Himbo.
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It’s time to deal with the last holdouts of the Galgastani monarchy.
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We finally take the enemy commander down.
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Haven’t done an unboxing in a while – I’ve received my copy of the Neon Genesis Evangelion Ultimate Edition, so let’s take a look at what’s on the inside of the box.
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We almost catch up with the enemy commander.
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We continue this sort of circular chase.
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A while back, I reviewed the 1978 Space Pirate Captain Harlock anime on the blog. My general verdict was that, after finishing the show, it was an enjoyable work of space opera. Well, almost 40 years after the series originally aired, the story is getting revisited and expanded in the form of a comic by Leiji Matsumoto & French comic writer Jerome Alquire.
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Bitmap Books is a company that’s been on my radar for a while, but whose books I’d never gotten around to picking up. They had built up a very solid reputation for generally very well-written books about video games, both on the computer and the PC with really solid production values, both in terms of the layout of the books, and the quality of the materials used. The book I’m reviewing today – The CRPG Book – is no such exception.
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It’s time to attack the last bastion of the Galgastani government.
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We finish off this batch of monsters before calling it a session.
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