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The Fable ep23-25 [end] While I was never blown away by The Fable, it was a refreshing break from the usual fare (a show with a cast exclusively made of adults!) that kept me entertained pretty consistently all the way through, and it definitely filled a gap for me in giving us an anime...

There wasn’t much that appealed to me this season; the only thing that I stuck with all the way through was Terminator Zero, which I guess would make that my choice by default. I did enjoy it though; some unlikeable characters notwithstanding, I thought it did a good job of making me want to...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines ep1-2 Quite how much of an appetite I have for yet another high-school rom-com at this stage in the game remains to be seen, but this is certainly making all the right noises and good lord, is it ever well animated. It’s not as outlandish, but I feel A-1 are...

Terminator Zero ep6-8 Yeah, that was pretty good. Much as it’s blatantly borrowing from the first two only two films which were ever made, I think it does enough to feel like a distinct entity in its own right. It would be nice to feel a bit more attachment to the characters (a shiny penny to...

Terminator Zero ep1-5 Reserving judgment (day) until I reach the end, although thus far I’ve been much in agreement with what everyone else has said; the characters could do with being more engaging and they’re definitely playing the hits, but it’s well enough packaged that I haven’t been put...

SAHO mentioned it already, but Arknights is very accessible on a f2p basis, especially if you like it enough to stick with it. No direct PC client unfortunately, but there are workarounds for that if you want to play it on desktop.

Astro Note ep1-3 Kind of on the fence about this one; there’s nothing particularly wrong with it, but I feel like it could do with a stronger hook. As a romcom, it’s all just a bit too genteel and mannered for me. As other people have commented, its setup is uncannily similar to Maison Ikkoku...

Do you know what language the film was in? The fact that it seems to be so hard to find anything that matches your description makes me wonder if it might have been a Japanese-European co-production. So much of English-language anime fandom is focused solely on Japanese films that, if it was...

Another trailer has dropped for the Arknights x Delicious in Dungeon event and I think this is the first one to show the Dungeon crew in game (can’t believe the didn’t make Senshi a 6 star, smh).

Come and See (1985) A poor teenage farmer in Belarus joins the partisans fighting the nazis in 1943, in this famously haunting anti-war drama from the USSR. Even knowing some of the more famous images from the film beforehand, I still found this tough viewing, with seemingly any respite poor...

Apparently she was only 61 as well, it’s very sad to hear.

Having long had a slightly perverse interest in brutalist architecture, I was quite chuffed to finally get a look at the Barbican Centre in person today.

The Devil Lady ep3-5 Perhaps I’ve just become so used to anime series framing characters in such a way as to fuel fan shipping without seriously intending to follow through on it, but it struck me as a bit out of nowhere that one of the villains taunts protagonist Jun about being sexually...

The Fable ep14-18 I was a bit apprehensive about whether this series might outstay its welcome by moving straight into a second cour, but it’s actually been remarkably consistent - I enjoyed Sato’s outdoor survival adventure and Yoko continues to steal the show whenever she gets the stage to...

Mapplethorpe (2018) Matt Smith does his best (under a distractingly bad wig) in the story of iconic New York subculture photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but there is a definite feeling of the Microsoft Paperclip spotting that they were making a ‘tortured artist biopic’ and asking if they...

I have time for the third one, but I think it loses its way a bit in the second half (I guess ‘Mad Max: We’ll Just Stop in Thunderdome’ doesn’t have the same ring to it) There’s a lot to be said for Fury Road, especially if you can see it on the big screen, but the second one is still my favourite.

Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction ep0 Even being aware of how divisive the choice to open the series with a flash forward has been, I expected to enjoy this more than I did. Really did not care for that at all; perhaps I wasn’t in the mood for a snapshot of society in its death throes, but...

Funnily enough, old Duke was hired to stage an assassination attempt on Trump in one of his adventures four years ago:

Years ago, I remember reading a review of the first Mad Max that described it as interesting to see how Max got to be so mad in the first place, but not much else. I think that’s a little harsh maybe, but would agree that the second film is infinitely better.

My Deer Friend Nokotan ep1 Seen some quite divided opinions on this one, but having gone into it with no great expectations, I thought it was endearingly (sorry) daft. There’s not much else this season that appeals to me, so I’ll likely stick with it. Cleopatra DC (1989) Not to be confused...