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Looking at the playthroughs people have posted for the new Design of Strife event in Arknights, I think this will be the first event I can’t make any impression on - even my best characters are nowhere near the level other people are using. I’m not unduly put out about this, the event seems...

After one of my friends persuaded me to give it a shot, I’ve spent the last four weeks or so playing Arknights. Having never really done gatcha games before, bar a little bit of time on Genshin, it’s certainly been an interesting experience. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the...

Delicious in Dungeon ep13 Maybe I’m over analysing, but I wonder if this was the ‘if the manga isn’t a hit, we can end the story here’ part. Doesn’t matter. I don’t mind them doing something with a bit more substance, but I do think I preferred this when it was being more irreverent. Urusei...

Delicious in Dungeon ep12 Frieren ep26-28 Pretty much just echoing the same sentiment as other folk - this is one of the most consistently good series I‘ve seen in a very long time, even if the last arc felt a little more ordinary than what came before it. If I was being particularly fussy...

RadFemHedonist already touched on most of what I’d have mentioned, but as something of an Osamu Dezaki stan, I’d throw in Space Adventure Cobra, probably the movie more so than the series. Along with Golgo 13: The Professional, I think Cobra represents Dezaki at the peak of his powers as a...

Delicious in Dungeon ep11 Well that took a turn, this has certainly been a lot darker in the last couple of episodes. It’s not zany in the way you might normally expect Trigger’s output to be, but I think visually this is becoming my favourite thing they’ve done to date, it feels like they’ve...

Have you tried Anime World Order? Sounds like it’d be exactly what you’re looking for. Shoutout to the Retro Anime Podcast lads as well.

Delicious in Dungeon ep9-10 It feels like this is finally starting to solidify into a more definite story, with ep9 in particular adding substantially more dramatic conflict than we’ve seen so far. I hope it’ll run for two cours continuously, if they stop at one I think it’ll have ended just...

Bang Bravern ep7 Metallic Rouge ep7 Thinking I might shelve Metallic Rouge for now to be honest. When it’s not taking itself too seriously, it can be entertaining, but when it tries to lean into any darker elements, it just feels like a dreary Blade Runner fanfic with two of the least...

Urusei Yatsura (2022) ep9-11 Thus ends the first season. Now that most of the main characters have been introduced, I think the series is chugging along quite merrily (the New Year’s party at the Mendou mansion was a real highlight), although I’d like to make a point of watching some of the...

The Witch and the Beast ep5 The resolution of the previously promising setup is just kind of fine, but I did get a laugh out of them using the famous carpet pattern from the Overlook Hotel in one scene. Shame they didn’t model the villain on Jack Nicholson. I’m also curious how the anime...

Delicious in Dungeon ep7 Urusei Yatsura (2022) ep7-8 Thinking I might switch this out for the original UY for a while once I finish the first season, I’d be interested to refresh my memory and see how it compares. The new version seems to have hit its stride now though, even if it’s hard not...

Study of Micah Gianneli. Also now doing short drawing streams most weekends around midnight. Nothing too major as yet, still just trying to get a feel for it, but I think it does help me to have a regular time in which I draw something which isn’t work related.

I keep threatening to revisit Nuku Nuku, I have fond memories of the old UK dubbed version. Urusei Yatsura (2022) ep5-6 Delicious in Dungeon ep6 Might have been a bit hard on this initially; much as I keep expecting it to grow stale, I’ve been watching it regularly every week. Metallic Rouge...

Bang Brave Bang Bravern ep4 Delicious in Dungeon ep5 The Witch and the Beast ep4 Having had this down as middle of the road hokum, I was pleasantly surprised by this week’s instalment, the story seemed noticeably more engaging. The change in the main group of characters was a surprise too...

The Witch and the Beast ep2-3 The finale of that two-part story was rather anti-climactic, but I dunno, I still find this oddly likeable. I am absolutely convinced that is the Vigrid train station from Bayonetta.

Bang Bravern ep3 Delicious in Dungeon ep4 Metallic Rouge ep2-4 Still slightly unsure how to feel about this one. It’s a remarkably good looking show and I appreciate the plethora of references to sci-fi pop culture, but it does seem like it’s still being wilfully obscure in an attempt to...

After a video essay arguing for it as a misunderstood masterpiece came up on YouTube while I was working recently, I decided to revisit Hotline Miami 2. I never quite found it as compelling as the first one, but the sheer nihilism of it was unlike anything I’d come across before and it...

Delicious in Dungeon ep3 I think it’s much more obvious this week that Trigger are working on the show, the squashy, stretchy movement during the action scenes feels very much like it has their hand on the tiller. Bang Bravern ep1-2 I clapped like a seal when the music came on in the first...

As a show (or an adaptation) I had very mixed feelings about it, but I think it’s worth mentioning that Studio Orange’s work on the new version of Trigun seemed like a real leap forwards in terms of anime CG. I thought the care put into the characters’ body language and changing facial...