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Goats From a Small Island – Some Thoughts on Cucuruz Doan’s Island (that aren’t about its production history)
There is not much to say about the peculiar production history of Cucuruz Doan’s Island – the “missing episode” of Mobile Suit Gundam – that has not already…
Attack Of The Robot Dinosaurs From Outer Space (This is Not a Getter Robo Post)
I was really looking forward to writing a review of Horizon Forbidden West because I knew it would let me actually revisit even more exciting things, like the…
The Little Prince, A Little Princess, Fairytales, and The Galaxy Express is here too – Thoughts on “Ranking of Kings” and Some Other Things.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking “depressing fantasy series about how life is terrible for marginalised people in typical fantasy world” or “dark fairytale about how monsters aren’t…
11 Years before “Hackers” There Was “Video Warrior Laserion”
In the absence of much English-language popularity or information about Video Warrior Laserion I ended up with a wildly inaccurate picture of what sort of a series it…
There’s More to Gold Lightan than Killer Dolphins, Sexy Robots and Weird Fights.
There is something very interesting about Gold Lightan; it is a series that has clear past precedent and many, many interesting future derivatives and yet at the same…
Stronger than God or Devil, but Mostly God, is Daimajin
Arrow Films released a very nice collection of the Daimajin films in 2021, and I have since watched two of the three. They’re honestly extremely interesting entries into…
Take a Ride on the Galaxy Express, And Learn a Thing Or Two About The Working Class
Simply put, Galaxy Express 999 avoids the most common pitfall of socially conscious science fiction by not trying to disguise the point it is trying to make in…
The Divine Right of Kings Isn’t Much Fun in “The Twelve Kingdoms”
I’ve had many, many months to digest The Twelve Kingdoms because there’s a lot of it, it’s a very dense series, and it’s best looked at with that…
Bad Things Will Happen To People Who Mostly Deserve It In “Argento Soma”
Something I like a lot about Ultraman, among many other sci-fi serials, is it’s frequently willing to just have a very angry episode about scientific hubris and exploitation.…
We’re Back
I stopped writing this blog because I ran out of things I cared enough about to write about them, and realised I enjoyed things a lot more when…
“Gun sans Sword” – It’s Burst Angel
It’s somewhat rare for a series to be simply described as a solid throwback to the dubious “glory days” of the OVA boom, because that’s a big kind…
“My Large Adult Son Committed A Few Warcrimes” – It’s Trails of Cold Steel 3 (Again)
This is going to be a fairly comprehensive look at Trails of Cold Steel 3 and as a result is probably going to be best read if you…
“It Would Be Nice If These Damn Aliens Stopped Attacking Us So We Could Colonise This Planet” – It’s Dairugger XV
I was interested enough in Armoured Fleet Dairugger XV to keep watching past a point I’d usually give up a series that was not interesting me. It was…
“It’s Great to Hear From You Again, We Should Catch Up Some Time When Work Calms Down a Bit.” – Initial Thoughts on Trails of Cold Steel 3
For all, with distance, I can see the grain of some good ideas in Trails of Cold Steel 2 it is fundamentally a weirdly paced, unrewarding game which…
“My Choice In Friends Might Have Caused a Slight International Incident” – Schools, Politics and War in “Fire Emblem Three Houses” and “Trails of Cold Steel”
School-set RPGs are not uncommon as a concept and so do not, themselves, need much specific introduction or explanation. Nevertheless, there is a subset that I find somewhat…
Tabletop Game Review: Acceptable Loss
It’s been a while since I reviewed one of these narrative games, but a recent conversation about the RPG Dread and its use of a physical, inevitable death…
Tabletop Game Review: Laser Beams Like So Many Stars
This article was originally written for Who Dares Rolls (www.whodaresrolls.com) and is reproduced here with permission. Laser Beams… is by Taylor Smith (@whimsymachine) In the game’s own word…
“The Battle Warehouse is Even More On Fire Than In Winspector” – It’s FIRE FORCE
Quote, of course, from the inimitable @dril It is sadly possible that before long I will be intensely frustrated with Fire Force, because the things I liked about…
Tabletop Game Review – 6 Minutes of Power Remaining
This article was originally written for Who Dares Rolls (www.whodaresrolls.com) and is reproduced here with permission. Note: This article also includes some references to personal experiences of d…
Tabletop Game Review – Death Sentence
This article was originally written for Who Dares Rolls (www.whodaresrolls.com) and is reproduced here with permission. Note: This article also includes some references to personal experiences of d…