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Synduality Noir ep1 Yeah, that was alright actually. The characters feel a bit run of the mill, but I like the squat, Sakura Wars-esque mech designs and it’s kind of fun so far. It’s refreshing to see a mecha series that’s a bit jaunty. Lupin III: Part 2 ep52 (English dub) Interesting setup...

Bullet in the Head (1990) The last major film of his great fertile period that I’d not seen, John Woo’s Vietnam-set action-drama follows three blue-collar friends (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jacky Cheung and Waisie Lee) on the run from a street gang in late 60s Hong Kong, who decide to seek their...

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Dream Hunter REM OVA 1-2 I've seen both of these before, but it's OVA 2 that really sticks with me. Despite the grue, the first OVA feels more tongue-in-cheek, closer in tone to something like the later instalments of the Elm Street series with its top-hatted, cape wearing boogieman, but the...

84 Charlie Mopic (1989) Unusual for being a found footage war film from before that narrative device exploded in popularity post-Blair Witch, Charlie Mopic follows a US army cameraman in Vietnam, tasked with filming a unit on patrol so that footage of their exploits may be used for training new...

Appare Ranman did the Wacky Races kind of racing as well, I think, but I never saw enough of that to see the actual race start :/

Ten Little Gall Force & Scramble Wars (rewatch) Not seen either of these spoof one-shots in a few years, but they're always fun to come back to. Wacky Races-alike Scramble Wars is the one I tend to like more as its comedy is less reliant on understanding specific references, but I think what...

Undead Murder Farce ep3-5 Still having slightly mixed feelings about this one. I think the ‘locked room’ mystery could have been a little shorter - the investigation wasn’t hugely engaging and I’d have liked a stronger emotional payoff - and the reveal that the villain Aya is chasing is came...

Zom100 ep3 My intent was really to watch this bi-weekly in two episode sittings, as it seemed like the sort of thing that wouldn’t have terribly good narrative progression in 20-minute chunks, but this one actually worked just fine. I kind of wanted to see more of what happened to the though...

Oh well, I’m glad I’m not coming down hard on the game unnecessarily. Even though I never owned it, I do have fond memories of playing the original on a friend’s Master System when were little. It does strike me now though that I don’t remember anything past the second level…

Having had it sitting for quite some time, I've finally gotten around to the remake of Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I'm not sure how it compares with playing the game on the original hardware (I've casually tried a few times to acquire the cart, but never been successful), but the remake takes a...

Ranma 1/2 ep33 As a character, diminutive letcher Happosai is slightly less grating than I expected, but he is already my least favourite addition to the series so far - why on earth Akane calls him cute is anyone‘s guess, maybe he had more development in the manga. Genma and Tendo attempting...

City Hunter ep26-28 It amused me that the second OP track makes its debut as music on the radio in legally-distinct McDonalds, an episode before it goes into regular use. I wonder if anyone picked up on that at the time? Fate / strange Fake: Whispers at Dawn ’s more Fate, innit? As a casual...

Me & Roboco ep1-3 Some of the gags are a bit eyewatering, but this is fun and doesn’t outstay it’s welcome, given the short format. Undead Murder Farce ep1-2 I wasn’t bowled over by this one, but it looks like being a solid mystery series with some style to it. I’ll likely stick with it...

More Hong Kong genre stuffs. Middle Man (1990) Hong Kong CID ‘tec Cynthia Khan finds herself in deep after her soldier cousin is wrongly accused of selling US army secrets to nefarious types in Korea. Difficult to follow and the main baddie isn’t very menacing, but the unusual (for HK film)...

Lupin III: Mystery of the Hemingway Papers (1990) After hearing rumours from an old man in Spain, Lupin tries to trace the manuscript of Hemingway’s lost final novel, which is said to reveal the location of untold riches hidden somewhere in the Mediterranean. The catch? The book is locked in...

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses ep1 The two or three shots with the egregious camera movement and the borked perspective seems to be really fuelling the discussion on social media right now, but memes notwithstanding, I think this seems like a perfectly competent, if unremarkable romance...

Final Run (1989) Honest Hong Kong cop Kwok-Keung Cheung flees to Thailand after being framed for murder, following his refusal to accept a bribe from a powerful drugs gang who have infiltrated the HK police, in another above average HK crime/action piece. The plot gets awfully over-complicated...

Ooku: The Inner Chambers ep1 A period-piece positing an alternative 18th-century Japan in which an epidemic has decimated the male population, leading to a matriarchal society lead by a female shogun, this didn’t really do anything I wasn’t expecting, but it was perfectly engaging. It...

Ranma 1/2 ep30-32 It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if, with Mousse being a Chinese character, his name is intended to be a pun on Moo Shu? Skip and Loafer ep11-12 [end] Yeah, that was nice. I think it handled the characterisation well overall, but as others have remarked, it would have...