Apologies: I’ve been bad about making timely news recaps this year. 2020 has been terrible, and the general stresses of the world combined with some personal life situations/tragedies have ma…
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News recap for the end of November
It’s been a wild few weeks with Thanksgiving and year-end festivities, but this previous weekend I made it out to Anime NYC, where I learned that: The English-dubbed…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 47: Symphogear
After a long hiatus, it’s time for another episode of the Maser Patrol podcast. This time, we take a look at a show with a valuable life lesson:…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 62: A Typhoon of Sushi
New panel recording up on YouTube, this one is from Anime NJ++ this year. This one covers the Sushi Typhoon imprint and some general history of Japanese splatter…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 39: Wolf Guy
In honor of Halloween, author John LeMay stops by the podcast to talk about the Wolf Guy werewolf franchise from Kazumasa Hirai. We discuss the novel, manga, Toho, Toei,…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 53: Error 4444
In this episode, Kevin sits down for an interview with the team behind Error 4444, an exciting new home video label that’s specializing in Asian genre film. We…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 35: Unstructured Ultraman
Windows updates were the Zetton to my computer’s Ultraman this Sunday, so I didn’t have any of my slides for the Ultraman panel at Anime Central. Fortunately, the…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 52: Ultraman Trigger
On this episode, Kevin is joined by Alex (Control All Monsters, 13AM Games, Seismic Toys), Connor (Easter’s Kaiju Kompendium), and Mike (Vintage Henshin) to discuss the latest entry…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 40A: Gridman (part 1)
In this episode, Kevin, Justin, Connor (earning our explicit tag), and Matt (of Kaiju Transmissions) sit down for a long round-table about the awesome recent anime series SSSS…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 40B: Gridman (part 2)
The second part of our Gridman podcast episode gets into the main focus: reviewing the new series SSSS Gridman. Spoiler: we liked it. Also, spoilers for the rest…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 41: Alita – Battle Angel
In this episode, Kevin, Benji, and Josh sit down for a spoiler-laden review of the long, long, long-awaited new Hollywood quasi-hit Alita: Battle Angel! We jump right into…
News recap to ring in the new year!
Happy new year! As a send-off to 2017, here’s a recap of last week’s Japanese genre-fiction goings on: Remember how one of the first posts on this blog…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 34: Casting a wide Netflix
On this episode, Kevin, Josh, Andy, and Justin completely sell out to a huge corporation as we discuss a handful of programs we’ve been following from the same…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 42: A Legendary Double Feature
In this episode, Kevin, Andy, Josh, Justin, and Matt sit down to chat about Legendary’s new monster movie, co-produced with Toho, that hit theaters last month. The one…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 51: Covid and Con-troversy
On this episode, Kevin is joined by artist John Bellotti Jr of Robo 7 to discuss recent developments of the convention scene from the Artist Alley perspective. Topics…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 49: Otaku Life in Germany
Grüß Gott! In this episode, I’m joined by Henning Strauß (not “Straub”!) to discuss the history of kaiju (and also of other tokusatsu, anime, and manga) in Germany,…
First news recap of 2019!
Long time, no post! It’s been hectic between holiday travels and computer malfunction, but now everything’s ready to take a quick gander at some of the latest happenings…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 57: A Decade(-ish?) of New Generation Ultraman
In this episode, Kevin is joined by Alex, Connor, and Jared as the gang look back on the decade since Ultraman Ginga debuted, recapping all of the mainline…
End of Year Update
29th of November, 2023.This morning, we had our first snowfall.The previous days had been dark and rainy. My kind of weather.I’ve always liked the rain, much more than…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 61: Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho show
In this episode, Kevin, Josh, and Lux sit down to discuss Netflix’s 2023 adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho. As three relatively hardcore fans of the source material, we…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 45: We’ve got the seasonal Blus…
On this episode of the podcast, Kevin, Justin, and Byrd sit down to discuss some of the exciting recent tokusatsu home video releases from Criterion, Mill Creek, Discotek,…
Quick news recap
I had a few spare minutes today, so here are some neat things that either came up in the previous week, or I simply neglected to mention last…
Quick news recap
Happy weekend! With the new year’s holidays, there’s not as much news as normally in a week, but there are a handful of doozies that snuck through while…
Giant news recap
It’s been over a month since the last news roundup, due to numerous mundane responsibilities of life. Some of them were more fun than others, though, as I…
Late news recap
It’s another light news week this week, and another late recap. Kicking things off with Godzilla, as I’m sure you’re aware, we got a new poster for The…
Quick news recap
Not a lot to discuss this weekend. As a reminder, the Tokyo Ghoul movie hits US theaters next week. Amanda saw it and, as a fan of the…
April news recap
Long time, no update, due to a relative shortage of stuff to talk about and general business. We’ll see how that holds up over the coming months; somehow…
February news recap
Procrastination and distraction has gotten the better of me again, but the inundation of kaiju news items in the past couple of days has made it impossible to…
Quick news recap
Not a whole lot to talk about this week, but here goes: Has it already been a decade since Kamen Rider Decade? Evidently so, as Toei is reusing…
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Maser Patrol podcast episode 58: A History of Marvel in Japan (Otakon 2023)
Last weekend was Otakon, where I got to give a panel detailing the wild intersection of Japanese pop culture and Marvel comics. This one details Marvel books based…
1.5 week’s worth of news recap
There was no news recap last weekend, for two reasons: The recap before that had come midweek. Netflix decided to blitz everyone with a new Cloverfield movie completely…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 44: Kevin and Amanda’s Bizarre Japan Adventure
On this episode of the podcast, Kevin’s in Japan, and with the help of local guide Amanda, we talk about all the neat pop-culturey stuff we got to…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 36: “Neon Reference Evangelion” at ACen 2018
I did a short panel presentation at Anime Central, running through some of the pop culture influences on the Evangelion TV franchise. Enjoy, and apologies in advance for…
End of Year Update: Aidos
Foreword: This post was written intermittently between September 2021 and December 2021. Traditionally my gamedev progress reports also double as personal updates. That is also true of this…
2 week news recap
Hi all, another late news recap. I got offered a new job recently that’s requiring a fairly major move, and as someone with a sizable library of stuff,…
Mid-March news recap
Apologies for the laziness in news recaps, lately. By the time I get around to posting, people have already said that Hideaki Anno is making an Ultraman, then…
Slow news week recap
There’s not a whole lot of interesting developments this week, but in lieu of that, I encourage kaiju fans to support the Howl from Beyond the Fog Kickstarter…
Slow news week recap
Not a whole lot to report for the past couple of weeks, but here goes nevertheless. Starting on a sad note, RIP Hiroshi Sagae. He had a lot…
New Year’s news recap
Happy new year (admittedly a couple weeks late)! I’ve been distracted from putting together news recaps for a while, but that just means a lot more things to…
Slow news week recap
Between the Gridman podcast recording and the guest spot on Kaijucast, I didn’t have much time last weekend to do a news recap, but there also wasn’t a…
Very late news recap
I had to work last weekend, and the one before that was sucked up in podcast editing (*insert self-deprecating joke here*), so there was no regular weekend news…
Godzilla’s Eve news recap
As of this writing, the first wave of public screenings for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is impending quickly, so it’s about time to discuss some of the…
Mid-February news recap
It’s been a busy few weeks for me, between work, conventions, and preparing to watch Alita: Battle Angel. Speaking of which, have you seen Yukito Kishiro’s new poster…
Mid-month news recap
Time for a quick recap of some of the interesting happenings in tokusatsu and anime in the past couple of weeks: Tsuburaya’s latest Ultra Fight series, Ultra Galaxy…
Split-second news recap
There really wasn’t much to cross the feed this week, but here’s a rundown: A new trailer for Promare looks about as Studio Trigger as it gets: Arrow is…
Actually weekly news recap
Hopefully this will mark a return to news recaps hitting on consecutive weekends (for a little while at least)! Not a whole lot to report, so let’s get…
Almost timely news recap
How was everyone’s Halloween? Did you have a chance to go to Universal Studios Osaka and get menaced by a zombie King Kong? (The page is gone now,…
Kaiju-fied news recap
In a rare event, there was actually so much kaiju-adjacent news in the past week that rather than posting at the standard biweekly rate, I’m opting to do…
Post-Godzilla news recap
Hope everyone enjoyed Godzilla:King of the Monsters! Now we’re in the lead-up to the next big event, G-Fest XXVI in Chicago July 11-14, which is now only a…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 60: Midnight Tokusatsu part 1 at G-Fest
This went up on YouTube back in September, but somehow I missed linking it on the blog: a presentation Mike Dent and I did at G-Fest 2023, covering…