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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...

Congratulations on the NHK interview - it’s a shame it ended up being such a small soundbyte in the programme, but that’s still really cool that they reached out to you!

16-Bit Sensation ep3 I'd have liked if Konoha had . That said, I'm definitely onboard with this now and curious to see where they're going to go with it. Having looked up a description of the original manga, the anime seems quite drastically different. Under Ninja ep3 I hope the survives...

Must confess that I’ve actually not seen much of Decode (even though it is something I’d like to go back to). Birdy’s Shion persona was kind of grating and I did like her OVA character design more, but other than that it seemed pretty solid - I remember the animation being really good.

SHY ep1-2 It slightly makes me wish I was watching Birdy the Mighty instead, but this seems pretty good - I assumed the point of reference was going to be American superheroes, but it’s a lot more tokusatsu-esque than I was expecting. 16-Bit Sensation ep2 This was a pleasant surprise, I...

Under Ninja ep2 I keep wanting to insert a ‘the’ in the middle of that title for some reason. That aside, I’m enjoying this one. I’d be curious to know if the jumps back and forwards in time were in the manga, it’s starting to feel a lot like what you’d get if Hanezawa wrote a volume of...

Shivers (1975) The doctor employed by an isolated, high-class housing development in Quebec finds the residents resorting to their base carnal instincts, as a man-made parasite sweeps through the building, in David Cronenberg's commercial filmmaking debut. While it features plenty of the body...

I guess Covid probably didn’t help matters, but yeah, I dunno. Hirano tends to characterise himself as a lazy bum, hopefully there’s nothing more to it than that.

I can’t remember how the first season compares with the manga, but one possible problem with any continuation of the Drifters anime is just that, even by Hirano’s standards, the manga seemed to be advancing the story very slowly relative to the length of time it’s been running.

Me & Roboco ep7-8 Mashle ep3-4 xxxHolic ep1 I’d wanted to see Holic for a number of years, but having only ever seen the promotional art for it, I found the actual show a bit plain looking, to be honest. The story is fine and the dynamic between the two main characters is quite engaging, but...

I have had it with these MF Ghosts on this MF Plane ep1 Welp. I mean, it’s only one episode, but this feels like it hasn’t even started yet - there‘s not much of a plot hook, there doesn’t seem to be anything at stake and we only get the briefest glimpse of any actual racing. There was a...

16-Bit Sensation ep1 The subject matter appeals to me greatly, but my initial reaction is that I want this to be either funnier or more informative. Most of the episode is devoted to setting things up, so it’s probably unfair to complain so quickly about not seeing PC-98 game design in action...

Eh, it depends a little on what you're looking for. I think Castle of Cagliostro and Mystery of Mamo are the best of the films, the former being pretty much perfect as a family-friendly adventure and the latter being the truest screen depiction of what Lupin was originally like in the manga...