Cutscenes tend to receive mixed reception among the gaming community. On the one hand, they provide a break from the gameplay by allowing the player to kick back and enjoy storytime, but on the other, they rip control from the player and force them to watch their character pull off the baddest ass stunts and … Continue reading Valkyria Chronicles’s Juxtaposing Approach to Killer Cutscenes
It's that most glorious time of the year, summer vacation, and Fumiya Tomozaki's life councilor Aoi Hinami has given him his harshest challenges yet: befriending dudes and scoring himself a babe. The Cringe: Something this series has pulled off well is Tomozaki's dialogue, but not because he speaks with the most wondrous Shakespearean prose. Quite … Continue reading Flash Review – Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Vol. 3)
For the most part, my main topic of discussion on this blog is light novels, with a foray into the occasional video game, but those are just booty calls. My one true passion in life is Pokémon, and aside from a falling out during the Sixth Generation, the series has always had a place in … Continue reading Reworking Sword & Shield’s Gym Challenge
The teenage blues has plagued Natsuo Fuji like it's 14th century Europe. He's hot for teacher, he loses his virginity to some girl he barely knows, and then his dad gets married to the mother of the teacher he's got it bad for and the human-shaped robot he submitted his V card to, turning the … Continue reading Flash Review – Domestic Girlfriend
There're two types of people in this world: those who become demon chow and those who take revenge for their families by joining the Demon Slayer Corps. Tanjiro Kamado falls into this latter category when he comes home one day and finds his entire family chewed up and spit out by some random passing demon, … Continue reading Flash Review – Demon Slayer
We all have our down days when we just wanna lock ourselves up in our rooms, but some people have super down days when they lock themselves in their rooms because they've been possessed by a haunt. It's the job of Yugen Tojinbo to exorcise these malevolent spirits, and he comes to the Falbion Private … Continue reading Flash Review – Yugen’s All-Ghouls Homeroom
When it comes to telling a story, the ending is universally the most delicate part to handle. A bad or less than impressive ending can make the journey leading up feel like a cross-country vacation over the most beautiful snow-capped mountains and verdant forests only for the road to end at a post office. I've … Continue reading Food Wars! What Happened With Its Ending, and Why Isn’t It the Greatest?
Welp, Willem's a Beast, Elq's gone missing, and Nephren has to put up with a chatty flying fish. Things can't get much worse, except that in a series whose parable is Murphy's Law, they can. Feelin' Like A God: Barring something inspired by Lovecraft, gods in stories tend to just be humans who can whip … Continue reading Flash Review – World End (Vol. 5)
Seiji Sawamura has one desire in life, and that's a girlfriend. Only problem is that the entire female population is terrified of a guy who was one-punching dudes before Saitama was a poorly drawn egghead. One girl, Midori Kasugano, does admire his strength and his responsibility wielding it and crushes on him so hard that … Continue reading Flash Review – Midori Days
There was a brief period in my life when I tried the craft of manga-making. I was atrocious at it, and it wasn't long before the revelation that I abhor drawing slapped me in the visage, but until that facial walloping, I was looking to the manga professionals for technical guidance. However, the artwork rarely … Continue reading You Oughta Read Akira
