Persona is one of my favorite game franchises to ever exist, and the reason for that isn’t as simple as one might assume. Sure, having brilliant characters to fall in love with and an immaculately …
Mar 24, 2020 • Subscribe
More like this
What Your Piofiore Fave Says About You
Variety is the spice of life, and in otome games we literally have our fill of hotties to choose from! Whether your type is the cool aloof guy…
What Your Favourite YURI Says About You
maybe yuri is gacha Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedJoker0808?s=09 Stream Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UC484Bx-gC-kDFOrER6hjlHw Credits: BoKita thumbnail: https://www.reddit.com/r/BocchiTheRock/comments/11h22g2/bokita/ ChisaTaki kiss: https://www.reddit.com/r/LycorisRecoil/comments/ymx4gk/chisato_and_takina_kissing/ Hibike hug: https://twitter.com/aleos696/status/1681786265715474432 RyoKita: https://x.com/Takocyu_343/status/1640300525978808321 TakaMori: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/85733963 #yuri #anime #bocchi #lycorisrecoil #bocchi_the_rock
What Your Top 5 List Says About You
Have you ever wondered what a top 5 list says about the person who wrote it? Come here, I'll tell you! I drink and watch anime
What Platinum End Says About My Past and Present
(TW for discussion of death, suicide, suicide ideation and trauma.)
What the Historical Silence of Japanese Women Says
By the title you may be expecting me to write about the patriarchy in history. You’re right to a degree. After all, the patriarchy has hurt women, but…
What Odd Taxi Says About Society | GITM Podcast Ep. 98
Odd Taxi was a beautiful anime that got me thinking a lot about ‘society’. What exactly makes a society? What is it that we all share as people?…
Don’t forget about reality.
I’m back with another one of these lifey blog posts. Last time I wrote about how we need to make a conceited effort to improve our lives, that…
ViVid Strike! The Tagline Says What, Now?
It was the tagline that got me. The thumbnail looked a little too bubblegum bright, the animation a tad old-fashioned, and to top it all, it was apparently…
Chants of Sennaar Demo Gameplay
Dad Needs To Talk checks out new puzzle adventure game Chants of Sennaar. Series uses deciphering of glyphs as part of the puzzle elements.
The Best Game of the Decade Has Zero Gameplay
An explanation of Seabed's place as my game of the decade.
Gunbrella Demo Gameplay
Dad Needs To Talk checks out the demo for Gunbrella. A new noir action adventure game from developer Doinksoft.
What about Luce?
I’d like to congratulate all of the Trump supporters who helped their candidate achieve one of the greatest political comebacks in American history. Now, a second U.S. president…
Under the Waves First Hour Gameplay
Dad Needs To Talk dives into Under the Waves. A narrative focused deep sea adventure following Stan, as he navigates loss and the waves.
Elden Ring Gameplay Preview
So, this may come as a shock to some people, but I like the Souls series, from Demon Souls to Bloodborne. Specifically, I like the worldbuilding and lore…
Bayonetta 3 Validates Every Insecurity About My Life, Relationships, and Sexuality
Between my feelings about the ending of the third game, the drama surrounding its production, and the series’ long-standing controversies, I just felt drained as I watched Bayonetta…
10 LGBT Isekai Anime About Same-Sex Relationships in Another World
That said, isekai is firmly entering a phase where it covers not just being sent to another world, but being sent there with a twist, like being a…
Otherside Picnic, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, The Executioner and Her Way of Life, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
What Did I Think About The Summer 2021 Anime Season? What about Fall 2021?
The Summer 2021 anime season was a season that, at first glance, felt like an easy skip. There were four anime on my radar. Two are sequels to…
The Dark Reality of Japanese Voice Acting
We all love Japan and their voice actors for their amazing performance in anime, but the seiyuu industry is not the bright place you may imagine it to…
Chainsaw Man’s beautiful depiction of platonic relationships
Chainsaw Man, a Shonen Jump series by Fujimoto Tatsuki, has its main character, Denji, realize the value in having a strictly platonic relationship with the leading female protagonist,…
MAMORU OSHII analysis: WHAT ARE THE LYRICS OF UTAI ABOUT?
I think that the lyrics of this iconic anime song tend to be misunderstood. Here are my thoughts on the lyrics. The original lyrics 吾が舞へば麗し女 酔ひにけり 吾が舞へば照る月 響むなり…
What the Passing of Berserk’s Author Taught Me About Life
Guest post by Firebrand relating his relationship to author Kentaro Miura and his work.
Chainsaw Man – 01 (First Impressions) – Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Denji has almost nothing. I say “almost” because he does have a couple of things. He has over 38 million yen (US$260K) in debt inherited from his dead…
The shark says a: Exploring the appeal of VTubers
VTubers. These 2D streamers have been all over the place the last few months. If you don’t know what any of this is about that you’ve been seeing…
HBO Max Says Goodbye, Max Says Hello
Since Discovery’s purchase of WarnerMedia, there has been a lot of clamor of the future of its flagship streaming services Discovery+ and HBO Max. While Warner Bros. Discovery…
Perception and Reality of Evangelion
Some would have you believe that Neon Genesis Evangelion is an psychological masterpiece, but there is another side to that coin.
Mean Girls DS Gameplay Footage
As promised, the gameplay footage featured in the lost media documentary without commentary! This was as far as I was able to get before the glitch. I'm going…
Dancing of Kings: What the Hunter King Taught Me about Thanksgiving
It’s not often I feel shown up by an anime—especially when it comes to my faith. But the Hunter King in Ranking of Kings episode 4 does just…
Talking About The Story of Magic: The Gathering…What I Know of It, Anyway
Anyone who has picked up a Magic: The Gathering card and given it a half-decent look can tell you about the richness of its art and flavor. Whether…
The Evolution Of Haikyuu’s Exceptional Production: Refining Reality
Haikyuu has been one of the greatest sports anime productions since its inception. Four seasons in, it’s about time we get not just into what makes its thoroughness…
What About Korea and China?
I make my allegiance to Asia pretty obvious on this blog, but God of High School makes it apparent the situation is a lot trickier than I make…
What I Love about RE:Zero
My favorite things about RE:Zero is theory crafting and watching Subaru suffer.
The World Ends With You(r Relationships)
For this post, I wanted to take a different tack to the other post, because that was so clearly done on a time limit, to the point the…
The BL genre’s problem with toxic relationships
Hey friends! I hope you’re all doing well! Today I wanted to cover a topic I’ve briefly hovered around on this blog and will likely garner lots of…
Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - The World's Greatest First Love, Fish in the Trap, The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
Reality “Bites”
Sometimes, you do not honestly know what you are getting into when you dial up any given anime. For many, the capsule description is either intentionally vague or…
What You Should Know About the Bastard!! Anime
Netflix announced it will be drop a brand new anime adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara's Bastard!! manga. Abhi from The Cartoon Cipher revisits the original anime adaptation to see…
What We Know About the Funimation-Crunchyroll Merger
Crunchyroll brand will takeover home video releases, company is working on streamlining sub, dub options
what i think about the fall 2022 season
I need to borrow 2,000 words– words that are abandoned or forgotten or worse. Find the nearest temple with the highest altitude, and reserve it. Also, I need…
Rill Says Nothing
Undead Unluck screams at the moon, Boruto imitates a much better conflict, and Doron Dororon has its best chapter yet! ... Or does it? 2:54 - My Hero Academia…
Naruto, Black Clover, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Dororo, Dororo
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Horimiya and Relationships of the Season
In episode 12 of Horimiya, the manifold relationships are bouncing in all different directions. Some are growing toward romance, some are in a weird in-between state, and some,…
What I talk about when I talk about RahXephon
I can still remember the first time I watched the final moments of RahXephon. I remember the dingy college apartment, the hand-me-down couch, the giant CRT television and…
Handyman Outcasts #02 — Inappropriate Relationships
I expected little from this season, and boy, did I get it. Impressions: I don't really care for either of these enough to continue on. Tale of…
The Bear, Bakuman & The Nightmarish Reality of Following Your Passions
With The Bear Season 3 having recently come out and having followed it for the past year for Seasons 1 and 2, I've found myself being reminded of…
Bunny Girl Senpai: Characters and the Pain of Reality
Delving into Bunny Girl Senpai's characters. Reviewing what make Sakuta, Mai, Kaede, and Koga some of the best anime characters of Fall 2018's season.
The Sad Reality of Made in Abyss's Sixth Layer
The sad reality of made in abyss's sixth layer. I can't believe Faputa got that much punishment, what did she do to deserve that? Made in Abyss season…
What Was Cowboy Bebop Really About?
So Netflix put out their live action Cowboy Bebop a couple weeks ago and, as expected, it was a colossal dumpster fire. Ember Reviews breaks down how the…
The Queen’s Gambit and what we talk about when we talk about “anime”
Prior to watching the latest Netflix thing that everyone is talking about, The Queen’s Gambit, it was pitched to me by several people as “basically an anime.” Half…
What Kazuo Oga Thinks About When He Thinks About Backgrounds
Plus: global news and UPA animation.
What Bridget’s Return has Taught Me About the Internet
I’m no stranger to Guilty Gear or the yo-yo wielding Bridget: I cut my teeth on the character’s debut game, Guilty GearXX, and I’ve seen both the unorthodox…
No Regrets: What Attack on Titan Shows Us About the Call of Christ
Attack on Titan is a brutal show, not only because of the amount of gore on display, but because of the characters’ absolute faith in a leader who…
Beyond Our Reality
A small amount of time ago, I wrote an article about how some shows build a believable world. You can read that post here. In the post in…