At long last we have come to the NextGen Magazine after the first E3, so we get reactions from the developments from that event – and there were some biggies.
Read moreNextGen Magazine #7 – July 1995
Let’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 64 – Nelson Before Trafalgar
Before the final battle, we tour the ruins of New York and see how our fellow members of the Star Division are holding up.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 63 – Cliff Faller
After overcoming Ranmaru, we come face to face with Nobunaga himself.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 101
We have a smaller number of games this issue, since at least a couple games have been previously reviewed. However, we have an actually good fighting game for the Game Boy.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 62 – The Floor *Is* Lava
We continue our fight against Ranmaru’s mech.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 61 – Danger Close
We try to take down Ranmaru’s new mech.
Read moreMassacre Gun: Film Review
Massacre Gun is the other kind of conventional Yakuza film – if Blind Woman’s Curse is all about the honor of the Yakuza Code triumphing over other dishonorable gangsters, Massacre Gun is about keeping to the code even, and especially if it means your death.
Read moreBlind Woman’s Curse: Film Review
When I was reviewing Yakuza films earlier on my show, after reviewing the Yakuza Papers series, and Outrage, I’d realized that I’d basically covered a bunch of deconstructions, without getting into what they were deconstructing.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 60 – Demon City Manhattan
Nobunaga’s citadel appears in Manhattan.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 59 Rom-Com Hijinx II
After screwing up the conclusion of the date I start over to re-do the finish.
Read morePhase IV: Video Review
Since we’re spending so much time cooped up indoors, I give my thoughts on a Base Under Siege horror movie.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 58 Rom-Com Hijinx I
We go on our first date with Gemini.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 57 A Friend Indeed
Before rehearsal, Shin helps out some other members of the Revue.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #5: The Cave of the Dracolich
The Cave of the Dracolich is, thus far, the our first really big “exam” dungeon. Lots of random encounters with Drow, who may have some good equipment, but which all disintegrates outside of the dungeon – and I do mean lots of random encounters.
Read moreRoyal Space Force – Wings of Honneamise: Anime Review
Let’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 56 Sadie Hawkins
Gemini asks Shin out on a date!
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 55 Live in Central Park
The Little Lip Theater is putting on a show in Central Park for Christmas.
Read moreKeep Your Hands Off Eizouken: Anime Video Review
It’s been a while since I did a review of a show that just finished airing, so it’s time to give my thoughts on Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken.
Read moreSorcerous Stabber Orphen (2019): Anime Review
By all rights, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, at least this year’s show, should not exist. It’s an adaptation of a heroic fantasy light novel that not only isn’t an isekai, but is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary. That said, I’m glad it does.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 54 – Ride Into The Sunset
We take down Ran Maru, and Gemini takes the stage.
Read moreIn/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.
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