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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...

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...