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I Actually Watched K-pop Demon Hunters
As someone who doesn’t swim with the mainstream, I tend to feel pressure from all sides to consume media that passes a certain threshold of global success. I…
Reevaluating My Loyalty as a Walt Disney Company Consumer
Several years ago, I made a post where I reflected on the good and bad of the Walt Disney Company, generally leaning toward positive. However, I was a…
A “Better Zootopia” Doesn’t Even Begin to Describe How Amazing BEASTARS Is
For years, I wanted to sink my teeth into Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS, and I refused to watch the anime because I have more respect for mangaka as artists…
(DNF Review) Bandai Namco’s Knock-off of Atlus Disguised as a Digimon Game
I talked about my minute experiences with Digimon a while back, and despite the amount of vocal fans who insist it is far superior to Pokémon, I didn’t…
Octopath Traveler 0 is Much More Than Just “The First Game Again”
Okay, I gotta preface this by saying that I’m relying on an extreme technicality by posting a review of Octopath Traveler 0 now. I know for a fact…
2026 Blog Update
Happy New Year (your mileage may vary regarding that first word)! I seem to have a habit of posting about the blog and my mental health, but I’m…
Mack’s Music Highlights: Quarter 4 of 2025
Before beginning, I have to admit to something I did unannounced, and that’s my deletion of every iteration of “Top 10 Japanese Music Artists” lists on the blog.…
Tokyo Godfathers Rereview: Thoughts on the Film Five Years Later
It’s rare for me to delete old posts; yes, they are cringe to look back on, but I delete them if I feel like the thoughts on there…
Pokémon Legends Z-A is What the Hardcore Fans Wanted (For the Most Part)
After the lukewarm reception of Gen 9, GameFreak clearly learned that the Legends games are what the fans enjoy nowadays (well, at least when it comes to official…
Ryza’s Deluxe Thighs: My First Real Atelier Experience
Despite being an RPG fan and a fan of niche stuff, I’ve always been an Atelier virgin. Can you blame anyone when that series is so huge at…
Final Thoughts on Genshin Impact after Eight Hundred Hours
After publishing my uncharacteristically positive First Impressions of Genshin Impact—which I now deleted for this post—I intended to eventually publish a full review of the completed game, since—s…
Naiad: 2024’s Most Hidden Gem
I’ve had Naiad at the back of my mind while it was in development. It looked cute and beautiful, but those short and artsy games that exist “to…
Mack’s Music Highlights: Quarter 1 2025
Now that I’m doing four of these posts a year, it should be easier to fit everything I care about each time. However, as you can see from…
Rewatching an Obscure Winnie the Pooh Movie for the First Time in TWENTY YEARS
How long did they have Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin on Disney+?! I remember obsessively renting it from Blockbuster, which is a now-defunct shop where…
Watching Cowboy Bebop FOR THE FIRST TIME in 2025
It doesn’t matter how much you know about anime—whether you’ve watched a ton or none—you MUST have heard the name of the household classic series, Cowboy Bebop, and…
(First Impressions, Volumes 1-3) The Summer Hikaru Died Raises the Bar for BL Manga
I have always avoided the BL subgenre of manga, mainly because I heard horror stories about them. And no, I didn’t hear anything from people who stigmatize LGBTQ+…
Watching Akira Kurosawa Movies for the First time!
Rashomon If you like movies and/or Japanese culture, it’s impossible to not hear the name Akira Kurosawa, the most culturally significant filmmaker in Japan’s existence. He made a…
Zombieland Saga: Undead Idols Teach us the Value of Community
I tend to have a good track record for remembering certain anime after they air, but Zombieland Saga was not one of them. It was when I went…
Echoes of Wisdom is a Zelda Game You Play in Debug Mode
How long has it been since we had a classic 2D Zelda game? With Link’s Awakening being a remake, that would mean… since A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS?! Well,…
Sonny Boy: Lord of the Flies on Acid
Isekai is currently universally known to be among the lowest common denominators when it comes to entertainment from Japan. The most generic characters, the least interesting worldbuilding, titles…
(NSFW WARNING) Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Fifteen Years, Still Exceptionally Naughty
I returned to the anime fold by watching two god-awful episodes of Studio GoHands’ Momentary Lily. However, I didn’t give up what little hope I had left in…
Undead Unluck: Shounen Jump’s Most Wicked Sick Manga
Realism is one of the get-out-of-jail-free cards played by the critics of battle shounen, and spectacle-driven franchises in general. While in-universe logic is good (i.e. a magic system…
Give the Bradys Superpowers, and you End up with the Yozakura Family
Spy X Family is a manga about a spy who makes a fake family, and that’s all well and good. But they’re not the only ones on the…
Hauntii: One of 2024’s Most Underrated Games is an Artsy Twin-Stick Shooter
I am a twin-stick shooter virgin. I could get used to the control scheme of them, where you move with one stick while using the other for full…
I Return to the World of Anime… and I Drop the First Show I Watch after Two Episodes
I once made a post decreeing that I was abandoning the anime industry as a source of entertainment. While I have maintained a habit of watching standalone anime…
New Year’s Resolution: Never Read a Book Again(?!)
PREFACE: Obviously, the word “books” does NOT include manga. Manga is peak literature, and while the industry has problems, I still keep on trucking in the manga world……
Bonus Post: Shouldn’t Vocaloid Music be More Mainstream?
“OH GOD HE’S DOING ANOTHER VOCALOID POST. UNFOLLOWED.” Yeah, I know I’ve been getting obsessed with it lately; a consequence of making up for lost time. However, I…
Mack’s Music Highlights: Second Half of 2024
It’s another end to another year, and for once, I’m not going to talk about the elephant in the room that everyone else is talking about. This post…
The Dragon Prince Season 7 Review and Series Final Thoughts
This is going to be the most unprofessional review I have ever written. Since I only watch three episodes per day, I’m literally posting this minutes after finishing…
Monument Valley 3: The Return of Mobile Gaming’s Most Beloved Franchise
I enjoyed the Monument Valley games a lot when they were released on PC in 2022. The third game has been in development for quite some time, and…
(Impressions of Version 1.0) Core Keeper has Grown a LOT Since Early Access
I’m gonna admit that I have played Core Keeper since its Early Access launch, but liked it less and less as time went on. While it has—mechanically—become perhaps…
Moana 2: Disney Comfort Food at its Finest
2024 seems to be the year of Disney only putting out sequels. First, we got a tearjerker sequel to Inside Out, and now we get a sequel to…
OU is China’s First Metal Band to Hit the Mainstream. But are They worth the Hype?
Before even clicking on this post, keep in mind that my use of the word “mainstream” should be taken with a grain of salt. I’m only saying that…
Oshi no Ko Rips the Entire Entertainment World Asunder
Perfect Blue, specifically Satoshi Kon’s classic anime adaptation of the novel that no one cares about because the film is always more famous, has been long considered the…
Dungeons of Hinterberg: An Urban Zelda-like about Fighting Capitalism
Fun, cringe-inducing fact: I’ve never played a true Legend of Zelda game. Fifteen-year-old me TRIED to play Skyward Sword at launch, but being a left-handed person in a…
Ten Great Manga I Cannot Finish
I know I already did a “Ten Great Manga with some weird gimmick” post, but I’ve considered this one for a while. I’m one of many who waited…
Eastward: Octopia! is a DLC Campaign That’s Better than the Base Game?!
So, long story. I actually played Eastward at launch in 2021. In the initial draft I had written of my unpublished review, I praised its Earthbound-inspired charm, but…
Ten Great Manga that Start with the Letters of My Name
I don’t actually know if you’re allowed to follow-up a tag without BEING tagged, but I wanna help out a fellow blogger (even though I’m many months too…
Baby Assassins: A Slice-of-Life with a Dash of Murder
Not gonna lie, syudou is the reason I ended up watching this. I started getting into his music right before a new TV spinoff of the Baby Assassin…
Making the Hard Decision to Drop DanMachi for Good
Fujino Omori’s Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (better known as DanMachi) is an interesting case. For all intents and purposes, it…
Dandadan: First Encounter is a Sneak Preview of the Most Unhinged Anime of the Year
The best part about reading manga over watching anime is getting to board hype trains before they take off, and indeed, Yukinobu Tatsu’s Dandadan is one of those…
(First Impressions) Visions of Mana’s Double-Edged Sword of Nostalgia
I’m probably not alone in saying I never touched a Mana game, mainly because there hasn’t been one in over a hot minute. I’ve always heard good things…
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the Franchise’s Magnum Opus
When I did a First Impressions of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, it had already exceeded expectations. However, that was only the beginning of how god-like of an…
shapez 2 (Early Access): This Could Become the Greatest Automation Game of All Time
A couple years ago, I played through and even wrote a review of the original shapez. That review ultimately never got published, but to sum up, I thoroughly…
Top Ten Favorite Vocaloid Producers
With how much Vocaloid music I listen to, I might as well make a post like this. The reason is because the Vocaloid scene is deep, and I…
My Hero Academia: 430 Chapters of Superhero Excellence
I’ve been known to royally hate mainstream stuff, but sometimes, there’s rare cases where something can be both mainstream, and really good. I started Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero…
Bonus Post: First Impressions of Ado’s Idol Group, Phantom Siita
I have said multiple times how I have mixed feelings of the music of Ado. While the J-pop juggernaut isn’t the only artist I listen to with music…
The Escalation is Real in The Dragon Prince’s Sixth Season
It’s that time again: more Dragon Prince! Nine more episodes of one of Netflix’s best original series… Well, I hope it stays one of Netflix’s best original series.…
Re:ZERO is a Test of Patience That I Ultimately Failed
I’ll have you know that it was a hard decision for me to quit Tappei Nagatsuki’s acclaimed Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-. This has been a series…
Fright Krewe: Dream(Work)s Come True in New Orleans
I am always willing to criticize Disney when necessary. However, that also goes for their rivals, and I generally criticize them more often. Studios like DreamWorks are panderous…