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Neptune Frost: Bless the Hackers Down in Africa
I have sworn off live action movies for a number of reasons, well really just one reason: the mainstream. In my experience as a consumer, you do not…
Top Seven Videogames I Like But Haven’t Finished for No Reason
You can’t finish every game, unless you’re a true MLG gamer who has videogames as a career. That’s part of the fallacy of the gaming market, because they’re…
Random Thoughts on the Current State of the Pokémon Games
This is just a kind of stream-of-consciousness post. I just want to add my two cents into the endlessly toxic world of people complaining about Pokémon, and hopefully…
Bonus Post: First Impressions of Sailor Moon Idol Group SG5
PREFACE: I know I don’t normally post on this day, but since this is just a short blurb, I’m doing it now. Think of it as a bonus!…
Mack’s Music Highlights: 2022 Stragglers
If you’re reading this post, it’s because—surprise, surprise—too much music exists these days. The highlights for the second half of the year was LONG, and that was from…
Xenoblade Chronicles 3: The One Where They Pull a Steven Universe
Lately, I’ve decided to only follow three types of RPG no matter what: Pokémon, indie titles, and Xenoblade Chronicles. While X was… something, the two main installments of…
SEASON: a letter to the future is a Bicycle Ride of Emotions
If you’ve read my review of Spiritfarer, then you’d know that it takes a LOT for a videogame to make me cry. SEASON: a letter to the future…
Clock Striker (Volume 1): Saturday AM’s Biggest Gambit Yet
Let me tell you how obsessed we are with skin these days. In manga, there is a simple technique where stuff is applied with different shades of gray,…
The Movie that Told Us to Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo 20th Anniversary Retrospective
This movie turns twenty this year. Holy crap, we are so OLD. I still remember watching this religiously when I was a kid. However, I haven’t actually watched…
Inu-Oh: A Japanese History Musical
Man, I really hate seeing adaptations of stuff before reading the source material. The phrase “the book is better than the film” cannot be truer in the anime…
STILL Heavy and Colorful: More Diversity in Metal
I know that the National Day of Racial Healing was four days ago, but… well, I have no excuse. That’s just what happens when you only do one…
My Final, Definite Top Ten Favorite Japanese Music Artists List
I’ve done at least eighty iterations of this post, because I keep finding new artists and my tastes keep getting more insane. Back in the day, I only…
Pompo the Cinephile: A 2D Movie About a 3D Movie
I always have to specify when I’m reviewing an adaptation of something without consulting the source material… mainly so I don’t look like some normie who just watches…
Mack’s Music Highlights: Second Half of 2022
This was supposed to be a good year. I was planning to start this paragraph where I say 2022 was turning out to be one of the best…
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Is The Series Great Again?
The Pokémon series has suffered ever since its transition to the 3DS. With the exception of some spinoffs, opinions have gotten more and more divisive. It wasn’t until…
Shy (Volume 1): Introverts Can Be Heroes Too
Bukumi Miki’s Shy could be one of the most hyped and controversial upcoming anime, potentially warranting comparisons to My Hero Academia, and according to RiseFromAshes, people getting obses…
Wolfwalkers: An Example of Peak Animated Cinema
Is COVID STILL ongoing right now? Holy crap… that thing is immortal. Anyway, I’m bringing it up because today’s review is of a 2020 film: Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers,…
Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen is as Macabre as it Gets (Full Series Review)
I literally said I was never covering light novels again, yet here I am talking about Keishi Ayasato’s Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen again. Because I can never be…
Strange World: Disney’s Most Family-Savvy Movie
Here we go again, time to see another Disney movie on opening day (well, I know this post isn’t coming out on opening day… but you know what…
The Dragon Prince is FINALLY Back! (Season 4 Review with SPOILERS)
It’s been a long time coming for The Dragon Prince: one pandemic later. In any case, Netflix has given the show four more seasons; four more seasons of…
Oni: Thunder God’s Tale is Baby’s First Crash Course in Shinto
I’ve known about Netflix and Tonko House’s project, Oni: Thunder God’s Tale, since its initial announcement in November 2019. Over the course of the three years it took…
Song of the Sea: This Time WithOUT Feeling?
I finally got to see Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells after years of buildup. I loved it, so naturally, I did the next logical step: also watch…
Dinkum (Early Access): A Farming Sim as Fresh as The Outback
One of the most contradictory genres in videogames is the farming/life sim. In theory, they are wholesome sandbox games with emphasis on relaxing and getting lost in their…
Usotoki Rhetoric Volume 1 (Advanced Review): Liar, Liar, Heard you Lie Sir
Aaaaah… shoujo. The manga term for romantic relationships, giant sparkling eyes, and hearts being set a-flutter. Every time I read a shoujo manga, I didn’t exactly like it,…
MANY Can Play at that Game: First Impressions of Saturday AM’s Global Manga Scene
I learned of this magazine thanks to my local library stocking the first tankobons from them. Saturday AM is one of several magazines by a small outfit called…
The Death Mage (Volume 1): I Don’t Think This was What they Meant by “Third Time’s the Charm”
This is a crucial post, for it is my second review of something that I have received an advanced copy of, and once again, it’s a One Peace…
CrossCode: Secret of Mana and 2D Zelda on Steroids
If there’s one variant of RPG I haven’t done much of, it’s the types like Secret of Mana, where you actually have to move and physically strike enemies…
Battle Dragons: City of Thieves is basically a Fusion of How to Train Your Dragon and Blade Runner
I’ve known about Alex London’s Battle Dragons franchise since it was new. However, because of the ruthless march of time, I’ve only just gotten around to checking it…
The Secret of Kells: Yes, I’ve Finally Watched it for the First Time
I’ve wanted to watch Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore movies for a good while, even more so after getting into European folk metal. COVID is the reason why I…
No. 5: Spectacularly Weird
If you’re an anime nerd, you’ve probably heard of Taiyo Matsumoto’s classic manga Tekkonkinkreet; it was made into a critically acclaimed movie after all. Of course, me being…
Ten Years of Changing Fate and Mending Bonds!: Brave Retrospective
Pixar’s Brave turns ten this year. Who’da thunk that’d ever happen? Since I’ve done many-a Disney movie retrospective, I thought it’d be time for me to tackle Brave!…
The Genesis Wars: It’s More Anime Than Its Predecessor, Therefore It’s Better
Holy crap… I forgot that YA novels don’t always have social undertones. Well, technically, Akemi Dawn Bowman’s The Infinity Courts asked questions about the self and smartphone A.I.,…
Atlas Shrugged: The Sci-Fi Dystopia Novel That’s Also a Self-Help Book
I have the longest story with this book. I’ve been battling serious depression over the past two years (longer than that by the time the post actually goes…
Still a Masterpiece JRPG: Xenoblade Chronicles Retrospective feat. The Definitive Edition
One of the most important YouTubers in my life is none other than Chuggaaconroy. I don’t just look up to him as a fellow autistic man, and as…
Monument Valleys 1 & 2: What If Fez and Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker had Kids?
I had an inkling to play the Monument Valley games, but I didn’t go through with it because they were mobile games. One hour on them would mean…
The Last Fallen Moon: The Main Protagonist Dies in this One
Graci Kim’s The Last Fallen Star was one of the better series openers from Rick Riordan Presents. It’s only natural that I would be anticipating the sequel, The…
Executive Action: When a WordPress Blogger Becomes a Published Author
Well, this is a first for me! I have never read an independently published book before, and Evolution’s Hand Book 1: Executive Action is by the very same…
Mack’s Music Highlights: First Half of 2022
Welcome to yet another new attempt at formatting my blog! In case you couldn’t tell from reading my music reviews, I struggle hard with them. For some reason,…
Lightyear: Pixar’s Simplest Movie
Well, aren’t we lucky this year? Pixar didn’t just give one movie; they gave us two! While Turning Red was great, all the hype was put into the…
Crystal Project: An Unexpected Marriage of Hollow Knight and Final Fantasy V
I got a long story with this Crystal Project. Basically, I haven’t actually beaten it. I have played the vast majority of it, though; enough that I feel…
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor: How is it Even MORE Anime than Iron Widow?!
One of the first things they teach you about the Internet is that anything you say on there is permanent. While I never made the mistake of giving…
The Owl House (Season 2): Now With More Plot (read as “Ships”)
The Owl House is a typical modern cartoon. It’s dumb and predicatble, but I like it just about as much as the next guy. Unlike a certain isekai…
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes: The Light Novel That Tries to be a Shinkai Movie But Ends up Being a Ghibli Movie
Okay, so I MAY have said once that light novels are a pain in the ass to invest in and that I would never cover them on my…
Ballad & Dagger: We Don’t Talk About San Madrigal
If you’re reading this post, then that means I have managed to complete the first YA novel published under Rick Riordan Presents: Daniel José Older’s Ballad & Dagger.…
RWBY Might Just be the Most Cynical Animated Program of All Time (Second Impressions, Volumes 1-8)
When I did my first review of Rooster Teeth’s RWBY, I watched the first five seasons and walked out of it pretty stoked to finish the series. It…
Eximius Blogger Award
Oh dear… it’s been a hot minute since this happened to me. Thank you, RiseFromAshes, for this tag! Without further ado, let’s dig into this thing! I’ll just…
The Pandava Novels: Rick Riordan Presents’ Wildly Inconsistent First Series
Rick Riordan’s new publishing imprint, Rick Riordan Presents, is a great chance for other cultures to shine in the arbitrarily all-important spotlight of American popular culture. It all…
Blood Scion: This Might be the Most Brutal YA Novel of All Time
Other than the amazing cover art, I honestly don’t know why I decided to read Deborah Falaye’s Blood Scion. Sure, I’ve read many books that deal with the…
Core Keeper (Early Access): This Game Could be the Next Big Timesink
Playing games in Early Access is a natural risk. What’s even riskier is playing a game in Early Access as soon as it drops; in its buggiest, most…
Top Five Upcoming Anime the Internet is Not Ready For
It’s been a while since I did an anime community-oriented post, on account of me abandoning said community. However, I still follow MyAnimeList on social media, mainly for…