Welcome to another exciting installment of Spacemon, the tale of a Pokemon TRPG campaign! This is a spinoff of the sci-fi space epic played using the Pokemon Tabletop United (PTU) system, this time GMed by yours truly. You can get caught up on the entire Spacemon saga here! It was a calm and quiet evening … Read more
We’re finally there – the absolute, definitive (if only in my mind) ranking of the best anime of 2018 (that I watched). I promise that this is the end. Part 1 of this list is here, while Part 2 is here. 10) Zombieland Saga This show was an absolute scream from beginning to end. It was the first … Read more
(Originally posted 2019-03-28) So, this past weekend, my wife, my son, and I went to Tora-Con 2019, sponsored by the RIT Anime Club, down the road from us at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This made our fourth time attending the convention, and I wanted to do a brief write-up of my experiences. 2019 was the … Read more
Right. Here’s where the struggle gets real. With so much great TV anime in 2018, how on earth to choose which is best? This is my best shot for 11-20. For the also-rans and not quites, see part one of this article here, the same caveats mentioned there still apply. 20) Beatless Did anyone else watch this? Beatless seemed to … Read more
There’s nothing quite like good timing. A review of 2018 at the end of March 2019 probably isn’t the best example of this – but bear with me here. Some of 2018’s shows have only just finished airing their final episodes, so now I feel I’m in a good position to comment on what I … Read more
In the world of Radiant, demons known as the Nemesis fall from the sky and begin wreaking havoc and infecting its inhabitants. Those that survive are cursed, the nature of their infection varying from person to person. A few are capable of wielding magic called Fantasia and are known as sorcerers. One of the latest … Read more
Welcome to another exciting installment of Spacemon, the tale of a Pokemon TRPG campaign! This is a spinoff of the sci-fi space epic played using the Pokemon Tabletop United (PTU) system, this time GMed by yours truly. You can get caught up on the entire Spacemon saga here! Taraka could see Cyrus waiting as he … Read more
I have come to the conclusion that my little darling 8-year-old son is a xenophobe. He begrudges his French lessons in school. He noisily demands that the European/African/Asian children in his class “Speak ENGLISH!” and he gets irritated when I’m watching subtitled anime on television and I tell him there’s no dub option. In his mind, … Read more
Another lucky haul from my local secondhand store’s anime shelf, Princess Arete is a relatively obscure anime movie I knew next to nothing about before I claimed the pretty limited edition box as my own. It has a good pedigree as a production of Studio 4°C (Memories, Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet and Berserk – The Golden Age Arc) and as … Read more
My local secondhand media/electrical goods store has a small anime section with a fairly swift turnover of content. I visit it a couple of times a month, and often there will be something obscure that grabs my eye – like recently a rare Gamecube game (Ikaruga) or a boxset of an anime series I haven’t … Read more