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For what it’s worth, I haven’t seen any serious impact on my own employment from AI so far (not that I was exactly raking in the big bucks to begin with). It could well be a different story higher up the ladder, but at the small business end, the readily available AI models still can’t reliably...

Delicious in Dungeon ep1-2 Yeah, it’s fine. I really knew nothing about this beforehand, beyond the manga being well regarded and the fact that Netflix are giving this a simulcast release seems to suggest they have high hopes for it. The characters seem well realised and there’s plenty of fun...

Finished reading Ghost in the Shell: Human Error Processor today, the last part of Shirow’s original GitS manga that I’d not read. It’s a collection of chapters from the original manga that followed after the first TPB (and the end of the Puppeteer storyline) but don’t tie into the actual...

The only one I’ve seen so far is Lily C.A.T. (Even Japan was not above the terrible 80s forced acronyms, it seems) but listening to the episode, it’s something I wouldn’t mind revisiting. In particular, as Streamline were often in the habit of playing fairly loose with their dub scripts, I’d...

Fwiw, I think Black Lagoon has better action, but Jormungand has a better story.

16-Bit Sensation ep12-13 [end] What a strange little series. In the end, I think Konoha’s journey did feel like the arc of a visual novel, which I guess is what they were aiming for, but this never quite got beyond being a strong idea held back by frustratingly ordinary execution. There’s a...

Catching up on things other people played years ago, short version. Sonic Mania is a great looking, great sounding recreation of the classic Mega Drive-era Sonic games. The level design is just kind of fine though. I think it would have been better if they’d gone back to the original game’s...

Undead Unluck ep3-4 Under Ninja ep12 [end] Not quite sure how to feel about that as a conclusion. I suppose it rounds out that arc, but it doesn’t provide much catharsis otherwise. My suspicion, based on the fact that the end card changed in the previous episode, is that they want to do...

Undead Unluck ep1-2 This is entertaining and well directed, but I think it is struggling to hide the familiar shonen fighting show structure of the story at the moment. I’ll keep up with it for a while at least, but how long it’ll hold my attention remains to be seen. Weather Report Girl...

I had a pretty similar experience with Occultic;Nine iirc. There’s definitely something to it; it‘s an engaging horror story that has a sense of mania and unreliable narration that reminded me of Paranoia Agent, it just feels like they were in a desperate hurry to finish the story towards the...

Feels like I always end up banging the drum for the old guard when I should really be trying to pay more attention to new and upcoming directors, but I do still love the look of Osamu Dezaki’s work. Between him and the people he worked with (most notably Akio Sugino as animation director and...

Bullbuster ep2-5 Given the typical strike rate for new mecha series in recent years (by which I mean those not linked to an established IP), I think I was a little unfairly dismissive of Bullbuster’s first episode, but it’s rather grown on me. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s hitting its marks...

Under Ninja ep9 Getting a little frustrated with the pacing of this now; it feels like we’re setting up for the season finale, but the show still needs to get all the pieces on the board before it can really begin. I imagine it’ll be worth it when it arrives, but the balance of action to weird...

Under Ninja ep8 Nichijou ep5 Ranma 1/2 ep34 It surprised me that Ranma and Ryoga are sort of friends now, but mostly this one felt like an excuse to get girl Ranma in glasses and the winter-type sailor dress… 16-Bit Sensation ep8 They really changed this one up this week, that was the most...

Pieces (1982) A fairly standard campus slasher movie, now notorious for its awkward dubbing, oft-nonsensical plot and general absurdity. With the right audience, particularly after a couple of drinks, I think this would be a riot, but watching it alone, I didn’t quite know how to take it a lot...

16-Bit Sensation ep7 Bleh. Again, I feel like I keep wanting to rewrite this series myself - given that the show is presumably playing to people with nostalgia for classic visual novels, I’m not sure trying to fix everything with the ‘inherent superiority’ of something from the present day is...

Blue Giant The story, about a young small-town saxophonist hellbent on becoming the greatest jazz musician who ever lived, may feel a little familiar, but this is a powerful film that does a tremendous job of evoking what it is put every fibre of your being into creating music. Yes the CG is a...

16-Bit Sensation ep6 Coming back to this series after seeing Komada kind of underscores how much I wish it was a PA Works show. I enjoy it, but terms of its delivery, I think it plays everything weirdly straight - surely they could be doing a lot more to poke fun at the artifice of visual...

Under Ninja ep5 16-Bit Sensation ep5 Finding myself starting to second guess where this might be headed (the fact that there’s seems like a strong hint) but it’s still a charming little series. Lupin III: Part 2 ep53-54 (English dub) 54 was the strongest episode in quite a while, pitting...

The New York Ripper (1982) A weary copper, a bored housewife and an aspiring sportswoman tangle with a knife-wielding killer preying on young women in Lucio Fulci's giallo thriller that does pretty much what it says on the tin. The film has a grotty appeal in the sheer, unbridled sleaziness of...