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Month: October 2016

  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

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    As I mentioned in my fall 2016 post, the second season of this Gundam series started this month, and that got me wanting to check out the series from the start. I’ve gotten into Gundam this year in a big way, but have been sticking so far with shows that take place in the Universal…

  • Occultic Nine

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    One of the series I mentioned wanting to watch in my fall 2016 anime post was Occultic Nine —  it finally launched and I got to watch the first episode. What I wrote then pretty much stands. The one aspect of the show that really turns me off is the inclusion of a character with ridiculously…

  • All Your Anime Are Belong to Us

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    The next few posts are going to be about anime series I’ve been watching over the past few days. Some of them are new series for this fall season that just started — and that I mentioned in this post, which I’ll update to add links to my thoughts on the shows I was interested…

  • Website Plumage

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    As I continue to go through and fix my archives — I didn’t do much over the past couple of weeks, but yesterday managed to get through a few more months in 2006 — I find it interesting to get glimpses of the various themes I used on the website over the years (courtesy of the Wayback…

  • Utada in the Clouds

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    Another great shot by my friend Tatsuo, taken in Shibuya. I love the framing of that Hikaru Utada billboard.

  • Pavilion

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    Pavilion is a puzzle-based game I remember seeing a few times over the years at events in Japan — one third of the trio (Visiontrick Media) who made the game is based in Tokyo — and it’s just come out for PC/Mac. I’ll be waiting for the upcoming PS4 (and Vita) version before playing it, but if…

  • Bullet Hell Monday

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    I’ve been playing this new bullet hell shooter for iOS called Bullet Hell Monday, and having an absolute blast with it. It was created by Masayuki Ito, who has already created two other iOS shmups — .Decluster: Into the Bullet Hell and .Decluster Zero: Bullet Nocturne — but this is the first of his games that…

  • Fresh Eyes on Osaka

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    I point to yet another great piece about Japan from Said, this time this short guide of his favorite spots in Osaka, done for VSCO. The video montage made up of his photos is fun to watch.