So, the third season of this show is out, but it poses more questions than it answers and whatever charm was in the first two season has gotten washed away, as the show moves in a different direction for “Ascendance of a Bookworm” (“Honzuki no Gekokujō: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen”, …
Historical drama in anime is few and far between, as there is always some kind of twist to it. You want real history? Go to the History Channel, OK? “Samurai Champloo” certainly is the king of AUHD (Alternative Universe Historical Drama) in that it takes modern sensibilities and imposes it on, in their case, the …
Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch [Review code provided by WayForward] The girls are back in town for another round of brawling beat-’em-up action in River City – and this time they’ve brought some new friends. Following up on the 2019 original, River City Girls 2 sets out to do things bigger and better than …
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch [Review code provided] There are some that say that turn-based RPGs peaked in the 90s, when the SNES brought us classics like Chrono Trigger, Earthbound and Super Mario RPG. Whether you agree or not, it’s hard to deny that those years were, at the same time, very …
The zombie genre has been dead awhile, and by looking at Highschool of the Dead, maybe we can find out just what put the last nail in the coffin. SHIRTS AND POSTERS FOR SALE HERE
Something I’ve been considering almost since the start of Bocchi the Rock! is the central source of the show’s comedy and how that intersects with a compassionate understanding of mental health. Whenever you have a story that wants to mine a character’s struggles (in whatever form) for laughs, inevitably it raises the question of whether …
