• Doctor Who Season Five: The Peak

    Doctor Who Season Five: The Peak

    Hope you’ve got some time on your hands. Cause this one is gonna be long. Season five marked a dramatic turning point for Doctor Who. Pretty much everything in this season was new! New Doctor, new companion, new Tardis, new Sonic Screwdriver, new show-runner, new (better) music, even a new opening credit sequence! Everything was brand…

  • Revisiting Bleach: Going Round and Round in Circles

    Revisiting Bleach: Going Round and Round in Circles

    Why is it called Bleach, anyways? Is it because they need to wash all the blood out of their clothes after every fight? I don’t get it. It still feels weird to me that the days of the Big Three are over. One Piece has survived, but it isn’t as influential as it used to…

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

    Rise of the Tomb Raider: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

    Fun fact: this was the first Tomb Raider game I played. I borrowed it from a roommate a while back. And by borrowed, I mean she basically forced it upon me. That was the closest thing to a nice deed she ever did for me. Rise of the Tomb Raider is an odd game. It…

  • Why Hinata Shoyo is the Best Shounen Protagonist

    Why Hinata Shoyo is the Best Shounen Protagonist

    When it comes to Shounen protagonists, they’re all pretty cookie-cutter. Just take Goku’s personality, come up with a different but distinct design and power set, and you’re pretty much done. Luffy, Naruto, Tanjiro, all of these characters are similar in many ways. Haikyu!!’s Hinata Shoyo is yet another of these characters. He’s a friendly kid…

  • Visual Novels: Video Games and Books, Except Not Really

    I’ve debated with myself for a long time whether to talk about these as books or as video games. Ultimately, I decided they’d be best placed in the Wednesday slot. Cause in my experience, these things can hardly be considered video games. Visual novels are like the cockroaches of my Steam page. No matter how…