Search results

Wow that's a brilliant post, Rui! Definitely sums up some of what I was sort of feeling but not able to articulate. Man it also made me feel nostalgic, especially for that 90s boom I was just about old enough to feel at least the tail end of and be impacted by as a child who'd visit a lot of...

Wow that's nice to hear Forbidden Planet and others have upped their manga and anime stock. I recently went into Foyles but it seemed like they'd cut down on their manga stock considerably if anything. I haven't been to FP in yonks, although to give them credit they've been pushing a...

Monster (might be a bit of a SPOILERY review, and obviously Monster isn't something you want SPOILERED even a little bit) Set in a relatively realistic depiction of 90s Germany and all tangled up in scraps of cold war history (though I can't comment on the veracity of these aspects). Monster is...

Monster 1-30 Really enjoying this quite a bit, my first time watching Monster. It's a little more comic-booky than the Satoshi Kon-esque psychological horror I always imagined it being for some reason ( it is based on a comic after all!), but there's a lot of depth to all the characters who...

FF15 doesn't seem to get an awful lot of love, but I can't lie I do kind of love it. It's still probably my least favourite FF game if I was forced to pick one, but I appreciate them all in different ways and I appreciate 15 for the wacky fun relaxing thing it is. There's no really great tension...

this is going to be a pretty spoilery review, so probably best not to read at all if you haven't seen this and have any intention of doing so! Edge of Darkness (1985) This is a complex thriller murky with cold war-era political and especially nuclear paranoia, and probably one of the best...

I don't think I've seen a game to anime adaptation I've actually liked much apart from SFII which I watched a ridiculous number of times as a kid, it really captured the feel of the game and had great quality animation from what I remember. Well, I also really enjoyed Tekken too but it didn't...

Trigun: Stampede ep 1 Well what a roller coaster the last few days have been, out of the blue I discover there's a new Trigun series, what a surprise, and check my username I'm a BIG Trigun fan. To this day two of my biggest role models are Vash The Stampede and Milly Thompson. I'm not sure if...

I mean, I agree with much of this, but Harry just clearly doesn't have that level of brutal self awareness, unsurprisingly for someone brought up as a prince and who still claims to believe in the monarchy. But to me, it does seem like what Harry is really trying to fight is the nastier elements...

I hate to admit it, but I've gone from having ZERO interest in the Harry and Meghan drama, to finding myself sort of rooting for them despite myself. I mean yes they probably are daft as a pair of brushes, but at the same time anyone who is having literal army generals come out and say...

@ayase I just want to apologise in the case that my message came across as in any way insulting to you. That wasn't the intention at all. I just assumed you know me well enough to know that I think you're a 10/10 person despite our different approaches to hoping for change. I am absolutely...

@ayase No apologies needed man, take your time. Equally, I could ask you how waiting for your huge societal collapse that will shock people into action is coming along? I mean, it might well come along, but people still will need to take action, right, there will need to actually be some of...

The contrast of Demelza 's positivity to Rui's brutality about the season made me laugh! Wonderful diversity of taste amongst the AUKN staff! It does seem a little sad to me how the anime industry seems to have devolved into an orgy of lowest common denominator isekai. I hear that anime and...

I don't know, ayase, I get where your sentiments come from, but are you actually hoping that voting for the most chaotic choice on the ballot will by some off chance lead to any positive changes or are you just looking for the thrill of watching things blow up for a bit? It takes more than just...

haha I actually googled that thinking it was a real show. But yeah, I agree.

I haven't played Nier (though it's definitley high on my want to play list!), but I suspect it will be impossible to convey the experience of the game in any other medium, just as it is with all other game adaptations. It's the actual playing that makes experiences like Nier so strong. I know...

Damn, this is very sad news and hits hard. Poor guy. An absolute legend to say the least. I never got seriously into Yu-Gi-Oh but used to be delighted to catch episodes of the anime when it was on sky, it was great fun and Yu Gi is a great character with an unforgettable design. I also had a...

This sounds and looks pretty cool. Nice to get some depictions of the great wen that aren't all fantasy Victorian silliness (not that that there's anything wrong with that!), I like the title too. The author also seems to have another series called Gusty Gritty Girl which is also a real corker...

Poor fella.

Blood Blockade Battlefront I enjoyed this quite a bit. Based on the manga by Trigun author Yasuhiro Nightow. New York has inexplicably merged with the fantastical 'alter-world' three years ago and Leo a young boy with the all seeing eyes of god has fallen into a job at a secret agency that...