Ranma ½ Short Synopsis: A teenage martial artist with the ability to change sexes moves into a dojo with three beautiful sisters. Lenlo: I feel the need to preface this saying that I’ve never seen Ranma before. This is my first experience with the series. And I have to say, my initial reaction is… mixed? …
Fall 2024 Impressions: SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians, Kimi wa Meido-sama
SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online II Short Synopsis: Season 2 of Gun Gale Online, where a little girl plays a gun-based VR MMO and kicks butt. Lenlo: GGO continues to be the most fun I’ve had with SAO. Screw the high fantasy shit, gimme all the same MMO trappings but with guns. While the production …
Warhammer: 40,000 – The Horus Heresy – False Gods by Graham McNeill
Welcome all, to book 2 of my Horus Heresy book club, False Gods by Graham McNeill! Where our previous book setup the 31st Millennium, the Empire, and Horus Lupercal himself, this one takes us through the fall itself, how and why it happens, and the beginnings of what comes next. Overall, False God’s felt like …
Fall 2024 Impressions: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, Blue Lock S2
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Short Synopsis: A gifted orphan with a knack for astronomy comes into contact with a heliocentric heretic. Wooper: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth has yet another of this season’s dual episode premieres, and the first of those two episodes is slow enough that you really ought …
Fall 2024 Impressions: Trillion Game, Goodbye Dragon Life, Mecha-Ude
Trillion Game Short Synopsis: A charismatic corporate applicant befriends an anxious computer nerd with plans to become a trillionaire. Wooper: At the time of this writing, there have been four fall shows to premiere their first two episodes simultaneously. Trillion Game happens to be one of them, but I didn’t watch its second episode to …
Fall 2024 Impressions: 365 Days to the Wedding, NegaPosi Angler, DanMachi S5
365 Days to the Wedding Short Synopsis: Two awkward co-workers decide to pretend to be married to avoid having to move to Alaska. Amun: This was certainly a premiere. There was definitely about 15 minutes of characters and talking and a slipshod engagement party. You know what? I think once per season, each of us …