This week sees there new UK Blu-Ray releases from Crunchyroll, namely the (long-awaited) home video release of My Hero Academia: You’re Next, a Steelbook Blu-Ray re-release of Berserk: The Golden Age Arc and a standard edition Blu-Ray release for the first season of I’ll Become A Villainess Who Goes Down in History. Out This Week: …
Gachiakuta – 20
The other guy may be the one with the name, but Bundus is definitely a bro. Bro is a bro too, but he’s a good guy so that’s expected. A quality many great battle shounen share is the ability to deliver likeable and interesting antagonists. Those can overlap but they don’t have to – one …
Fall 2025 Check-In – Weeks 7-8
Wooper: It’s just me this time, I’m afraid, unless another writer edits their seasonal musings into this post from the future. I was fairly pleased with what I watched over the past two weeks, though, so my usual negativity should be at a minimum here. The third volume of Star Wars Visions has gotten the …
Alma Wants a Family #08 — Not Quite Supervillains
At least they thought about trying. Impressions: I’m mostly baffled by the structure of this episode, particularly the final segment. It abruptly jumps into a a media res of fighting an all-consuming kaiju they accidentally unleashed, only to flashback to explain that. Why not spend the first half of the episode instead building up to …
Sucky Vampire Sucks at Sucking #07 — Pre-Beach
Malls. Malls never change. Impressions: A bit into the episode and I was just resigned to the dumbness of making it an entire arc out of a fanservice beach episode, and somewhat distracted by the random catgirl they showed. Why aren’t we helping out other demihumans too if they exist in this world? Where’s …
Weekly Digest 11/23/25 – Spy X Family Season 3, Ranma ½ (2025)
Spy X Family Season 3 – 08 Let me start by saying that this two episode arc is better than average Spy X Family, no question. And indeed this season has been clearly better than the one before. As I’ve opined many times this show tends to be better when it’s about something, and when …






