「それは愛じゃない．．．愛はそれじゃない．．．」
Those of you who can read Japanese probably see the cold open up there and have a guess at what this week’s topic is on about. If you don’t, this is the next big clue:
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Tag: reviews
Big Girls: Surprise Sex Comedy Animanga Hit
No shortage of surprises
First, BLACK TORCH returns from certain death, and now this manga gets an adaptation!
From what I remember, that single tit on his head should’ve cracked his skull >_>
Read More »Warriors~! Come Out to Play-ay~!
1979 cult classic film and… 2005 Rockstar published video game?
A low-budget gangster film from the late-1970s has gone on record to achieve the cult classic status it would enjoy some 20 to 40 years later.
The basic premise of The Warriors is that the largest and most powerful gang of hoods, the Gramercy Riffs, calls upon all the gangs in the five boroughs of New York. Gramercy Riffs’ gang leader Cyrus spends the early film urging peace amongst all the gangs, all of whom outnumber the NYPD 3 to 1. Whether this includes corrupt cops and mafiosi isn’t explained, but beating the piss out of one cop would come after first trying to bribe approximately four or five. Four cops take the cash and look elsewhere, the fifth needs knuckle persuasion.
Read More »Living Dark
Living After Midnight
Jet lag! Didn’t hit me as hard this week, but flying across two time zones is a sure-fire way to screw with the comprehension on this piece. Dying Light was promised and Dying Light is up for this week.
Chainsaw Chopping Chupa Chups Cheerleader
Yay alliteration
Jetlag is always fun >_>. A regular reader may know by now the entire shtick of this blog. Obscure, niche, underappreciated; this place is the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends of the entertainment world. And lucky that it is because I’m still discovering stuff that slipped past my radar or was unavailable to me at the time of release. Case in point:
Or more specifcally Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP on Steam
Read More »The Xbox “Like God of War But” Game
Veni, vidi, vici
In the research for this topic, by way of the magic coincidence, former developers at Crytek have sprang from the woodwork and the coffin to announce that Ryse: Sone of Rome was something of an experiment. Those who recall the Xbox One launch title might be thinking, “Well, it was supposed to show off the Xbox One’s stellar capabilities,” and you’re right. It was, and it did… adequately.
I’ve been on PC since the COVID pandemic was classified as an outbreak at first in late-November 2019, but even then I was lamenting the absence of disk drives in PCs and laptops well before then… (T^T)
Read More »Gokenin Zankuro
The story of the vassal with little to do about nobility
Let me ask you what comes to mind when you think of the word noble or some similar word. Aristocrat, vassal, bureaucrat, baron, or any other such title. If you’ve seen enough medieval media you might default to European nobles in their fancy castles with arguably too much bright light, too much orchestral music, and too many grand displays of grandeur…
Yeah, isekai ironically lost its luster for me.
Read More »Whodunit and Howcatchem: Max Payne and Frank Columbo
Working forwards and working backwards
Long time readers know by heart my love for Max “Painkiller” Payne is outdone only by that of Detective Frank “One more thing” Columbo. But for those who are checking in from an uncharted part of the world (or galaxy), here’s my piece on Max Payne and here’s my most recent piece (as of this writing) on Columbo. Short version: play Max Payne, it’s great; and watch Columbo, it’s great.
KanColle, Senran Kagura, iDOLM@STER: Japanese Multimedia Franchise Trifecta
A really long-time coming
Onto something now that I’d lightly touched on in this blog, but haven’t explored as thoroughly as my other talking points (“They were all dead. The final gunshot…” etc., etc.) due to regional exclusivity. Kantai Collection, Senran Kagura, and iDOLM@STER. Three pivotal and explosive multimedia franchises with libraries and treasure houses big enough for export to the colony of Mars… accessible to western fans by way of fanart, VPNs, piracy, and mastering Japanese enough to appease the organizers of the JLPT and the stalking green bird.
いいえ、やめろ！
Read More »The Other British Invasion of 1997-2003: A Culmination
Beatles and Stones out of the way
Take a look at some of the biggest games and entertainment products to release from 1997 to 2003, look at their country of origin, and count on your fingers how many of them are British. By my estimate, there’s a handful of the most famous ones that come straight to mind. Majority video games, but also film and TV. Regular readers and subscribers know what my go-to is and we’ll get to the video games in a moment, but let’s talk about British TV a little. The Brits reading this can name some of their favorites (excuse me, favourites), but let’s look at the one that successfully crossed over to the American TV world:
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