Morally Repugnant: Redo of Healer Epitomises a Disturbing Anime Trend

TRIGGER WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF RAPE, SEXUAL ABUSE, PROSTITUTION AND SLAVERY FOLLOW Sometimes I need to heed the warnings of my better-informed peers. Had I done so, I would not have suffered through possibly the unhappiest 48 minutes of my life so far — the first two episodes of HIDIVE’s sole Winter 2021 exclusive — … Read more

Random Blu-ray Review: Penguin Highway Collector’s Edition

Some of the very best movies leave behind a sense of aching melancholy, a intangible feeling that persists long after the end credits roll. 2018’s Penguin Highway is one such film — an aquatic story that effortlessly outmatches the similarly themed anime Children of the Sea. As the perfectly matched closing song “Good Day” tugged at my heartstrings, … Read more

Novi’s most anticipated videogames for Q1 & Q2 of 2021

January is already done. What am I looking forward to this year. Well assuming nothing gets delayed. Here is a brief list. Based on Techradars page: https://www.techradar.com/news/new-games-2021 February! My most anticipated game for the month is HUNIEPOP 2! I won’t dare link any trailers or images for it though lol tryna keep this article safe … Read more

Mega Update #16

The script is done!…and I’m 3k words short. It turns out I wrangled Koni’s script a little too much and it’s making part of the route a little light. The good news is 3k words is only about 2-3 scenes, but as that is ONLY 2-3 scenes, it can actually be a little tricky to figure out where to stick them. I think I need a bit of a break, come back in and see where the story needs the most fleshing out.

I don’t know yet if I’m going to back burner Kaiju Crush for a few days or if I might just jump into the art part and start doing the cut scenes. I could also start doing some coding, but with those missing scenes going back in and trying to edit it in might prove more of a headache then just putting all that stuff off for the moment.

But this is still something to celebrate as the finish line for Kaiju Crush is much, MUCH more tangible now. Cut scenes, manual, menu art, website and trailer. That’s a much more manageable way of looking at it compared to how daunting and theoretical this project was at the beginning of all this.

TAY: Open Forum – Absurdity

Welcome back to the Friday Open Forum! I’m your host, DisturbedShadow! Another week down in 2021 and another crazy thing going on already. It’s like 2020 is still clinging to life! This time, Redditors broke the stock market with GameStop stock. Normally I don’t talk too much about current events in the Open Forum, but … Read more

Cyber City Oedo 808 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review

Anyone who survived UK anime fandom in the early-to-mid-1990s, can effortlessly list the most prominent hits of the time — Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, most infamously Urotsukidoji. All released on VHS by Manga Video and marketed to the “beer and curry crowd” who wanted something lurid, noisy and violent to watch with their mates on a … Read more

The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter: AniTAY First Impressions

So when I volunteered to write something for this “first impressions” series, my favoured shows were already snapped up by my fellow writers’ sticky paws. Oh well, I thought, maybe it’ll be fun to review something I’ve never heard of. This “Hidden Dungeon” thing might be fun.” I held uneducated preconceptions that this might be some kind of whimsical, … Read more

Doctorkev’s 2020 Postmortem: A Year in Anime Dismembered

Here’s a fateful quote from my 10-month old My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review: “The first part of 2020 has certainly been great so far for cinematic anime… I hope the rest of the year can keep up with this relative feast of theatrical Japanese animation”. I’m sorry. I jinxed it. 2020 was my fault. A little … Read more

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