We’re introduced to our protagonist, and his first assignment in New York.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars: So Long My Love: Part 1 – Fresh Off the Boat
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Book 10 Review
It has all come down to this, as we have the final book in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 43 – Last Stand
We fend off some swarms before our final battle against the Kraken.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 42 – Strategic Withdrawal
What’s left of Delta falls back to the wall to try to hold off the Swarm.
Read moreBlade of the Immortal Vol. 1-8 (US): Manga Review
I’ve been getting back into reading Blade of the Immortal with the new Amazon anime series adapting the manga – which will still be airing as this goes up. Thus far I’ve read the first 8 volumes of the manga (using the US order), and have some thoughts on the work.
Read moreMy Hero Academia – Two Heroes: Anime Review
When it comes to anime films that tie-in to ongoing shonen series, generally they tend to not be canonical – and basically exist to show a whole bunch of additional cool fights. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes is basically that, except with the nice addition of showing a little bit more of All Might’s backstory, through the introduction of an old friend from his earlier career.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 41 – Sadistic Choice
We plant the last beacon, and end up having to make what is supposed to be a hard decision.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 40 – Homecoming
We return to New Ephira, only for the city to end up under siege.
Read moreShadowrun Hong Kong – Video Game Review
This week I’m wrapping up the year with my thoughts on the last of the Shadowrun video games to date, and the best of the series – Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 39 – Shai Hulud
The rocket is assembled, and we now have to fight a giant monster.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 38 – Tight Quarters
We have a rough fight with two Snatchers and some Scions.
Read moreMiss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Anime Review
After this past year’s horrific fire at Kyoto Animation, I found myself looking at all the animated series that Kyoto Animation had done in the past, and found that I had seen so very few of them, and that they were also all on my to-watch list well before the fire. The body of work of the studio was at a level that I’d compare to GAINAX at their prime. So, having read the first volume of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid a couple jobs ago, while I was working in Downtown Portland, I decided to bump that show up on the list. Also, as a part of the weekly anime viewing nights I’d started with my parents after I got my Dad into anime, I decided to add that show to the rotation, sight unseen. The results were favorable, with an asterisk.
Read moreRivers of London – Action at a Distance: Graphic Novel Review
In the Rivers of London series, there’s always been something of a gap between what Thomas Nightengale, The Folly’s “Gov”, was up to between the end of the Second World War and the start of the series. There’s an implication that he’s been involved in varying degrees with the Met, but not heavily – if he had, then the Met wouldn’t have had to come up with the procedures they did when Peter Grant started working out of The Met. The most recent (as of this writing) collected graphic novel in the series, Action at a Distance, helps to answer some of those questions, though not without a few problems of his own.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 37 – A Friend Indeed
Before putting the rocket together, we finish the Scavenger Support side quests.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 36 – Top Gear Challenge
We race the rocket train back to the bridge controls.
Read moreKumoricon 2019 Con Report
I give my thoughts on Kumoricon 2019, and the movie I saw during the convention.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 35 – One Turntable and a Rocket Train
We reach the Turntable and take the control room.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 34 – On the Road Again
We leave the base and head back to the skiff.
Read morePenguin Highway: Anime Review
At Kumoricon 2019, I had the good fortune of getting into a screening of the anime film Penguin Highway. It is an anime film of a variety that doesn’t come out in the US very much – an anime film that is a straight-up family adventure film, and a film that also plays into some of the Kids on Bikes concepts that came up in a few works I’ve reviewed recently (The Gate and Tales from the Loop).
Read moreBattle Angel Alita – Last Order (1st Half): Manga Review
Battle Angel Alita ended – sort of – on an interesting note. Due to health issues, the mangaka, Yukito Kishiro, somewhat rushed the manga’s conclusion, quickly moving the story into the floating city of Zalem, before blitzing through the city coping with the revelation that everyone in the city has computer brains – and Alita ultimately ending up in control of the city. The sequel, Last Order, starts there, before going into an oddly different direction.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 33 – Payload
We get the Satellites into the rocket capsule and send it to the Assembly Room.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 32 – Guard the Door
We fend off more swarm as we make our way to the satellites.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 95
This issue has the results of the 7th annual Nintendo Power Awards.
Read moreLet’s Play Gears 5: Part 31 – Sneaky
We try to make our way quietly through the building – and aren’t very successful.
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