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Historical drama film review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II

Throw a Shin Megami Tensei in the front and Raidou Kuzunoha vs. Whoever on the back of that post title. But no other title works, because after rewatching Kenneth Branagh’s…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Collision

Even more legendary heroes of the future galaxy. If Legend of the Galactic Heroes is the actual future, maybe it’s better that we don’t have one — only a shitty…

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A few not quite free games from itch.io

Man, I have a huge pile of games on itch.io I haven’t played. That pile might stand as tall as a modest house if they were all in…

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Historical drama film review: Henry V (1989)

No, I wasn’t kidding about the Shakespeare last post. But is it wrong to call a film adaptation of a Shakespeare play a historical drama? I don’t think…

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Anime short review: Magical Play

Back to the anime shorts, and what a short this one is. After covering brain-expanding political philosophy in Legend of the Galactic Heroes twice, I thought I should…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Stellar War

More thoughts on the new LOGH, now covering the second season subtitled Stellar War. Even though the whole series is a stellar war, or an interstellar war, but…

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Games for broke people: Comfortable edition

It’s a long weekend for us Americans, and it’s time to be comfortable, or at least less uncomfortable, since I still have fucking work to do this weekend.…

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Anime short review: Wonder Momo

Have you ever imagined what an anime written by an AI would look like? The 2014 anime short Wonder Momo was somehow not written by an ancient version…

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Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Encounter

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I wrote about Legend of the Galactic Heroes way back in 2014 or whenever it was, being then and now one of…

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Anime short review: Vampire Holmes

How could I take on a set of terrible anime and skip Vampire Holmes? This short (thankfully) comedy series from 2015 has miserable ratings and is generally considered…

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Ten years later, throwing memories away

What a dramatic title, but I hope I can justify it today. This month marks ten years of my writing on this site. I think I’ve gone through…

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Anime short review: Hacka Doll

More anime shorts, but this time it’s not one I expected to hate before watching. I don’t even remember how I found this one, since it’s been in…

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Anime short review: Ragnastrike Angels

Already it’s time for part three (or four maybe) of my “worst anime ever” run. You might have noticed that they’ve all been shorts so far, and there’s…

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Summer game haul (or, games I might never finish)

Since I have less and less free time. And yet the sales don’t end, and what am I supposed to do? As much as I hate Valve and…

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OVA review: Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven

Or the latest in my unofficial “is it really that bad?” review series of anime. I sought out Pupa exactly because it was so poorly rated and watched…

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Anime OVA review: Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven

Or the latest in my unofficial “is it really that bad?” review series of anime. I sought out Pupa exactly because it was so poorly rated and watched…

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Criticism and nostalgia: My look back at The Simpsons

I know I said I probably wouldn’t ever cover western animation again, but this is an exception I have to make. A while back, I found an interesting…

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Historical drama series review, part 4: I, Claudius

Reviving another old post format? Sure, may as well, since this post is different from the usual fare. When I wrote about live-action series I’ve enjoyed over the…

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Games for broke people: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

I think out of all the first-rate video game mascots, Sonic has had by far the strangest journey. He was created to compete with Mario, starred in a…

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Key changes, dramatic endings, and “Shoujo Rei”

Lately I’ve been cycling through a few different songs and albums. This is the usual thing for me — even though I’d say I have a pretty eclectic…

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A review of K-On! The Movie

What a change. When I watched the first season of K-On! a while back, it hit a sour note with me, though there was plenty of nice sweetness…

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Demo mode: A few demos for Next Fest

It’s yet another big event on Steam. Thanks to Valve for bringing us demos of a wide variety of indie games set to be released in the next…

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Literary vs. genre fiction: should we care?

It’s more pointless rambling today, sorry. Progress here has slowed a little, though I do have a few review posts I’m planning/working on. Between that, family/friend-related stuff, and…

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A look at Lackadaisy

Hey, you like me putting this one into the anime category? Well very strictly speaking it is, since the word anime in Japanese applies to our cartoons here…

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Delisting, copyright, and the public’s stake in art

Lately, the debate over the importance of the preservation of artistic works has heated up. This shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the continual shift away from physical…

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A review of Nekopara Vol. 4

Well my list of reviewed games is all screwed up now. For years, I’ve had a review of something called Nekopara Complete Edition listed, a bundle that included…

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A full run through the King Crimson discography: Part 18 (The ConstruKction of Light, 2000)

I’ve really slowed down on the full* King Crimson run since I started, haven’t I. It took me less than two months to get all the way through…

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A review of Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul

This return to Made in Abyss took a while. Last year, I watched the first season of this fantasy adventure series that quickly turns into a fantasy horror…

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Quantity over quality, product over art

A few days ago, one James Yu unveiled a new AI writing tool. Sudowrite, according to Mr. Yu, can give advice on and even write long-form stories. AI…

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A review of Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines

Corporate life is hell. For a long time, the only comic depiction of that hell that many people knew about was the strip Dilbert, drawn and written by…

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A review of Hidamari Sketch (S1/2)

Continuing my watch through a run of now-classic slice of life anime. Is 2007-8 considered retro now? I can’t say getting older is really that bad, but it…

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Games for broke people: Unlikely/impractical weapon edition

Despite being an American, I’m no expert on real-life weapons. However, like many others of my generation, I have used all sorts of weapons in games. And so…

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Write what you feel

Another sleepless night. Not for no reason, though — I had absolutely no weekend, pulled off to work on a new case. It’s impossible to avoid that sometimes…

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A review of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie

Oh, my heart. How it’s still functioning properly I can’t say, not after watching last year’s Teasing Master Takagi-san film, simply subtitled The Movie (aka Eiga Karakai Jouzu…

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A full run through the King Crimson discography: Part 17 (THRaKaTTaK, 1996)

Oh no, it’s THRaKaTTaK. This album seems to be a bit obscure these days — as with a few of Crimson’s more minor releases and certain old live albums,…

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A look at Kizuna no Allele

Not a “currently watching” this time as it usually would be for a running anime, no, and for a reason. I just remembered that I’d planned to check…

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A review of K-On! (S2)

I said I might, and I finally have: I recently finished the entire 39-episode run of the highly regarded slice-of-life anime K-On! While I liked the first season…

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A full run through the King Crimson discography: Part 16 (VROOOM VROOOM, 1995/6, 2001)

I’m really tired of posting about these live albums I have and not being able to provide links like I can with the studio albums. B’Boom: Live in Argentina…

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Easy love

These days, there’s naturally a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and how it’s going to change the future by either making our lives free of labor and…

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A review of Aggretsuko (S1)

Another series I’m late to. I should just stop saying that, since it’s so often the case. But then I’m not that concerned with keeping current — these…

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A full run through the King Crimson discography: Part 15 (THRAK, 1995)

Now I’m in an awkward position. I wonder if fans felt this way around 1995 when THRAK came out, because it absolutely makes the previous year’s EP VROOOM…

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Currently watching: KyoAni backlog edition (Hyouka, K-On! S2)

Yeah, it’s a “currently watching” post about two decade-plus-old anime series made by the rightfully popular studio Kyoto Animation. Why write something like this? I wouldn’…

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Six live-action TV series I like

Yes, shocking but true: I’ve watched live-action TV series in the past. I almost never write about them, because what can I really add? But since I haven’t…

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Final thoughts on Outer Wilds (from midway to the end)

Finally, finally. After writing that initial thoughts on Outer Wilds post ten months ago, I set the game aside. I didn’t drop it — as I wrote then,…

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OVA/spinoff review: Girls und Panzer

How many new post features can I cram onto the site? As many as it will take. Several of the anime series I’ve watched so far have come…

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The Florida state government’s attack on bloggers

Another unexpected subject, yeah, but I do write about writing online here on occasion. This subject affects every writer, after all, whether they address political issues or not.…

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A look at an assortment of stuff I bought recently

Or a “haul” as the kids say. Look, I have to make these lower-effort posts every so often; I just hope they’re entertaining or informative somehow. I think…

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A full run through the King Crimson discography: Part 14 (VROOOM EP, 1994)

Note: VROOOM seems difficult to track down either online or in physical form. But given that most of it’s already on the following full-length album, it might be…

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SimTower revisited

My working days are full of stress, and those are almost all my days. So what to do? I’ve come to appreciate a certain kind of game —…

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New feeling

The name of this song is New Feeling, and that’s what it’s about. Lately I’ve been feeling pretty up. Not happy, never happy, but energetic at least. It’s…

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