Category: Anime
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My Review Academia S3 E21: The End of the Exam

Holy balls, this cliffhanger is the most killer the show has ever presented. Aside from one minor issue, I thought this episode was fantastic. We got some intense action, some good character moments (especially for Todoroki and Inasa the Wind Boy) and a simple but interesting backstory. Also, to briefly reiterate: that cliffhanger. Jesus, it actually…
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ARCHIVE Persona 5 The Review E2: Thou Art… A Hefty Step Down…

Original Release: 4/14/18 Good god this episode was disappointing. This sequence was one of my favorite parts of the game, and they handled it pretty poorly. Allow me to explain. Episode two picks up right where the first left off: with Ren using his new Persona, Arsene, to escape Komoshida’s cell with Ryuji. He slaughters…
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ARCHIVE My Review Academia S3 E2: Wild Wild Action Montages!

Original Release: 4/14/18 It’s Saturday, and you know what that means! It’s time for the newest episode of My Hero Academia! Let’s get right to it! At the top of the episode, we see Shigurake Tomura stacking a house of cards, planning something with the smoker-dude villain from the end of season two. They talk…
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Day 169 (heh): The Villains of Dragon Ball Finale: Super

I can’t just stop at Z and call it a series, can I? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the villains of the Dragon Ball series are my favorite characters. They’re all sinister, twisted, and lovable. On top of that, they each do a fantastic job of pushing the heroes to the…
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Day 168: The Villains of Dragon Ball Part 2: Z

Continuing on from yesterday’s post, it’s time to talk about the Dragon Ball villains that all fans know: the DBZ villains. While the bad guys of the original series were all somewhat grounded (aside from the demons, androids and… whatever the fuck Pilaf was), Z was the series that blew the lid off of everything. Their…