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Batman Eternal #51 Review

 

The villains are foul, Bruce loses his cowl, to Steph Harper scowls, someone’s going to need a towel, and surprise! The man who’s an owl! The penultimate issue of DC’s weekly Batman event sees a lot of revelations, an overconfident C-lister, Selina asserting her power, Jim Gordon’s return to form, and the villain anyone with two brain cells to rub together guessed it would be, turns up. With all the raw nerves exposed and Gotham crumbling and burning, can Batman and his team keep the city from becoming a mountain of ashes? Well, I’m guessing yes, but there’s bound to be even more blood spilled before the end of this story! read more

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Batman Eternal #50 Review

 

The city’s in flames, some villains are tamed, but one makes a claim, and is that C-lister to blame? DC’s weekly Batman affair is coming to a conclusion, but where is the great mastermind to this master crime? Damn it, writers, stop faking out the readers with these non-revelations so late in the game! But it’s a little easier to forgive the issue because when Batman hits his rogues again, he isn’t fucking around. But unfortunately all this action is dulling his endurance, and by the time he arrives in Beacon Tower, even a worthless loser can take advantage. But can the man with the name of the 16th US President and third month of the year appear before the audience loses interest? Well, he’d damn well better, the owl bastard. read more

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Cross Ange Episode 24 – Embryo confirmed for Interdimensional Chris-chan (Or: Supporter’s Medley Part III)

The face of a Nice Guy who just M’ladied his pantaloons.

M’ladying one’s pantaloons – The act of a Nice Guy soiling himself due to a realization that his object of affection (usually a woman) has had sex with another.

This must be a first for a Sunrise mecha show. Usually in these final battles most of the banter is about ideological divides or betrayals. Here, we have Tusk rubbing it in Embryo’s smug face that he did the nasty with Ange in wonderfully lurid detail. Oh no it is not just the fact that he had sex with her, it is how he now knows the number of moles on her body, the number of days the consummation lasted (although that may be exaggeration) and the way he describes the softest, warmest, part of Ange. It’s an awesome thing, and is so totally Cross Ange that I can’t help but want to clap my hands in delight. What a great way to rustle Embryo’s jimmies. read more

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Batman Eternal #49 Review

 

Blackgate erupts, Alfred shuts Hush up, Steph still disrupts, and this book’s time is almost up, all in this action-packed, and yet revelation-deprived forty-ninth installment to DC’s weekly Batman event. As the Bat family struggle with their various enemies, Stephanie rejects her father’s “We can rule the galaxy together!” offer, Jason Bard races to get to Jim Gordon in time to save him, and Batman makes a flashy, dangerous entrance. Meanwhile, the guy from Gotham Spoilers is hemorrhaging over a lack of main villain reveal (I think he’s ready to drop it by next week). Lincoln, Lincoln, I’ve been thinkin’, readers’ patience is a’shrinkin’! Are you dense? Are you ‘tarded? The big reveal has long been charted! read more

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Cross Ange Episode 23 – Is the Misurugi Empire’s Princess a serial skidder?

I think deep down that’s what all of us are thinking. In light of the final battle, of all the keepsakes Ange could give to Tusk as a good luck charm, she gives him a freshly worn pair of panties. To be sure, the only major keepsake she has is the ring but she needs to use it for the Vilkiss, but still. I’m betting if there was an alternate ending to the show (in the vein of Fukuda’s purported plan for SEED to end in a super murderfest), I would want it that Ange dies and Tusk in despair takes the panties out of his pocket and sees that the Princess needs some control in certain areas. read more

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Batman Eternal #48 Review

 

 

Batman crash lands, Jason Bard takes a stand, things go as Hush planned, and beatings are at hand in this forty-eighth chapter of DC’s weekly Batman scenic route. We discover that apparently all of the Bat Family’s equipment can apparently be shut down from the Batcave, Blackgate’s weekly prison riot has not inspired more rigorous security measures, Batman is the kind of guy who will leave a note on a dinged car, both Vicki and Stephanie are stupid, and Oswald Copplepot is friends with a diverse array of criminals. And, of course, we don’t seem any closer to the “big reveal” that everybody already figured out a long time ago. read more

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Cross Ange Episode 22 – For the empty, shallow, whore in all of us.

 

You and the rest of us watching this show, Pinky.

SPOILERS AWHORE!

Undeterred from being blowed up by Tusk, Embryo puts his world merging plan into action and finally rips his Nice God persona completely off. If it isn’t spanking Salia for her insubordination it’s casually brushing Ersha’s simple request of resurrecting dead preschoolers back to life. Unsurprisingly he does not care one whit about what they want, and only wants to groom them for his new world run by “Strong, intelligent, women”. However, his definition of strength and intelligence is markedly shallow in that it is defined by unquestioning loyalty to him, never mind is showcased by one of said women making him lunch wearing only an apron. Thank goodness Cross Ange is not a dating sim, or else this would all just be very very very uncomfortable when you have to “Press X to spank”. read more

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Otaku Evolution – If You Aren’t Watching My Crappy Anime Review Show, I’ll Cut You

 

Just a few episodes of Otaku Evolution I feel you should watch or revisit:

 

[UPDATED 5/29/15]

 

Episode 1 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 1): OFFLINE

Episode 2 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 2): OFFLINE

Episode 3 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 3): OFFLINE

Episode 4 (audio boosted "corrected edition") – Fullmetal Alchemist (Part 4): OFFLINE read more