We take down Ran Maru, and Gemini takes the stage.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 54 – Ride Into The Sunset
In/Spectre: Anime Review
In/Spectre is an urban fantasy mystery anime with something of a novel concept. It’s not based around finding justice or solving the crime, but instead on finding a solution that hurts the least number of people. It’s a take that manages to be both pragmatic while also being upbeat.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 53 – Flying Reaper
With the Star Division members free, it’s time to take to the skies against Ran Maru’s robot – Garan.
Read more07-Ghost: Anime Review
07-Ghost is a josei battle anime that I dropped years ago, but decided to revisit for a challenge for AniList. It is, for a variety of reasons, not great. As a disclaimer, I am unfamiliar with the manga that it’s based on, which has been licensed for the US release.
Read moreMafia III: Video Game Review
Mafia III is a more deliberately ugly game than the second title. Not in the sense of “Open World Jank” – though that’s certainly there – but in the sense that the game is set in the American South in not-New Orleans, and with an African-American protagonist, with all the ugly elements of society that go with that.
Read moreBlade of the Immortal (2019): Anime Review
Blade of the Immortal has had a mixed adaptation history. The last anime adaptation came out while the manga was still ongoing. This past year, we finally got a new anime adaptation thanks to Amazon – who produced and distributed it.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 52 – Four Corners Battle
Gemini and Shin must rescue the other Star Division members from Ran Maru’s insidious trap.
Read moreAzur Lane: Anime Review
Azur Lane is, basically, Ship Girl Tohou. World War II Warships from various navies are personified as cute girls, and they generally hang out at the bases of their respective factions and do cute things until the plot decides that they have to do combat in battles along the lines of shoot-em-up video games. It’s not quite at a danmaku level – but only because the game series is designed to be played on a cell phone, and you don’t have that level of control with a touchscreen.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 51 – Battle in the Mind
Shin and Gemini hash things out on the Brooklyn Bridge, before riding to the rescue of the Star Division.
Read moreID: Invaded – Anime Review
If I was going to describe ID: Invaded to someone in an elevator, it would be Inception crossed with Criminal Minds. It’s probably the closest I’ve come to a more standard procedural in a genre anime for quite some time, in a very imaginative way.
Read moreBreaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Road to Knightfall Act 2 – Venom
This week we move on to the introduction of the super-steroid that will play a major role in the Knightfall saga – Venom.
Read moreFate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia – Anime Review
Considering that Fate/Grand Order is widely considered to be one of the most successful mobile games of all time, one would think that more of the game’s chapters had been previously adapted to the screen. You would be wrong – previously only the game’s prologue has received an adaptation. At long last, though, one of the game’s final chapters (at least before the current sequence), the Babylonia chapter, has finally been adapted to the screen.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 50 – Steampunk Psychiatrist
Shinjiro and Sunnyside discuss Gemini and Shin swears to help her with her dissociative personality.
Read moreKeep Your Hands Off Eizouken: Anime Review
Let’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 49 – Killing Time
We spar with Gemini, then kill some time before an event triggers.
Read moreScience Fell In Love, So I Tried To Prove It: Anime Review
Each anime season, however heavy everything else gets, in terms of what I’m watching, I do try to go with at least one romantic comedy anime. For the Winter 2020 season, the rom-com I went with was Science Fell In Love, so I Tried to Prove It.
Read moreThe Friendly Orange Glow: Book Review
Histories of the computer industry tend to have a focus on the West Coast in general and California and Silicon Valley in particular. It’s where Apple and Microsoft came from, along with Atari. Occasionally, histories will head to Texas (because Texas Instruments) or New Mexico (because Microsoft was based there in a while, and that’s where MITS operated). However, the Midwest tends to get brushed over. So, when a book about the PLATO system, which came out of the University of Illinois, came up on my radar, touting about how much of modern cyber-culture came about on the system, I decided to check it out.
Read moreSword of Azrael #4: Comics Recap
Today we wrap up our introduction of Azrael to the Bat-Family.
Read moreSword of Azrael #3: Comics Recap
Last time Batman had his first encounter with Azrael, and the Avenging Angel of Death was forced to withdraw.
Read moreDragons of Winter Night: Video Book Review
This week, since we’re probably not getting GenCon this year, I’m going right ahead with the Dragonlance Chronicles, with book two – Dragons of Winter Night
Read moreSword of Azrael #2: Comics Recap
When we last left off, the previous Azrael had died in Gotham and left the mantle to his as-yet-unnamed son (who we will later learn is Jean-Paul Valley). Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth have traveled to Switzerland to learn the truth about the Order of St. Dumas – but arms dealer Carlton LeHah has gotten there first.
Read moreSword of Azrael #1: Comics Recap
At last we come to the last of the lead-in stories to Knightfall, and one with the most direct hook outside of Venom – the introduction of Azrael.
Read moreFalse Value: Book Review
When I finished reading Lies Sleeping, the seventh book in the Rivers of London series, I kind of wondered where the series would go from there. I had thought The October Man might point out the direction of the story’s progression, but I wasn’t exactly sure. Well, I was part right – in that the direction of the story’s progression was going to get into more international practitioners, just not those in Germany.
False Value involves Peter Grant getting involved in the tech sector. Earlier books had set up an idea where technology and magic couldn’t get along – this book sets up a situation where the two can coexist, though parasitically if not symbiotically. Spoilers will be below the cut.
Read moreDragons of Winter Night: Book Review
Dragons of Winter Night, as a novel, runs into the problem of adapting what was we think of it into just a trilogy of books – a bunch of material has to be skipped over. We start off after the retrieval of the Hammer of Karass and the re-unification of Dwarven society (which would later be covered in Dragons of the Dwarven Depths), with that kind of setting the tone somewhat for how the show comes out.
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