anime
This anime is shallow pulp, utterly confident that it’s an art film. By the time this season ends— by copying the “congratulations” scene from Evangelion, infuriatingly satisfied with itself— I was yelling at the screen. “This isn’t profound!”
arcade games
I saw Yoko Kanno in Brooklyn One thing about getting into middle age is that the culture starts targeting you. The pop music of your childhood starts playing at the pharmacy and in car commercials. The old-guy references on TV shows start to be about stuff your old ass actually
Akanebanashi anime premiere came with Actual Rakugo I was pretty busy this past week; all my plans turned out to be for this particular week in April. Any other week this would have been the highlight: I got to see a pre-broadcast premiere of the new anime adaptation of the
I found I actually did have room for some shorts this week; here they are. Rave Racer I don’t think I’ll get as obsessive about grinding out Rave Racer (the first true Ridge Racer sequel, out for consoles for the first time in the Arcade Archives series) as
The whole fighting game community has been talking about online ranked match lately, because the more you grind ranked match, the more you come to hate it. We’ll all eagerly tell you so; probably too eagerly for our own good. After the dopamine rush of rising through the ranks
anime
YOU NEED HEART TO PLAY THIS GAME 気持ちがレイムじゃモノホンプレイヤーになれねえ
manga
I’m not sure I can really call it a criticism that these guys don’t act like any guys I’ve ever met, gay or straight. But I also suspect that this is one of those things you can file under “feature, not flaw” for the actual target reader.
manga
It’s pure mood and style, with no interest whatsoever in explaining to the viewer what the hell is supposed to be happening as the characters dance and mope and play football.
I've been a niche guy since the Playstation 2; I hardly play anything Relevant anymore, so I'm not the dude to ask for Game of the Year. Which is why I know what the game of the year was. The Gamesoft Robo Fun Club is a
ultraman
I can’t deny that Ultraman Live was a pretend superhero show for little tiny babies. It was also the coolest shit I ever saw in my life.
(My Switch says it's been 10+ hours, but I feel like it's been 40+. This could just be the time dilation of practice.) Like I've said, I’ve been really stuck on this year’s release of Ridge Racer in the Arcade Archives series.
I kind of forget that things are coming up, or that they happened two weeks ago, or indeed my position in space and time. So it was a last-minute thing when I asked my buddies if I could tag along with them to Anime NJ++, a very small convention run