Bonus: Fire Punch is a numbing onslaught of atrocities
Chainsaw Man is the normal one
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Bonus: Tournament Report - Riichi Nomi Open 2025 but mostly it's about how 1500 point honba are a stupid rule
"I'm not worried about winning stuff from two opposing business rivals. That just means I'm decorated."
A Virtua Fighter nerd explains the New Virtua Fighter EVO teaser at length
After months of buildup, the Virtua Fighter staff came up on stage at Evo this weekend, dropped about a minute of actual gameplay footage, updated us on continued support for VF5 Revo, and went on their way. This is a clever way of handling things; we’ve started to expect
The thing where you watch a bunch of first anime episodes and talk about them - Summer 2025
I haven’t done one of these in a long time, and I don’t want to commit myself to it on a regular basis because it often takes time I could be talking about more interesting stuff— like actual finished series which I could give a proper review to—
What, specifically, looks so bad about the new Fist of the North Star TV series?
I had been quietly excited about the upcoming TV series revival of one of my all-time favorites, the post-apocalyptic kung-fu melodrama Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken). It’s certainly been long enough— the original Toei TV series is over 40 years old!— and with a high-end production