Okay, so I just had to ask this: Did ANYONE “get” the tagline this week? Kabitzin’s tags are sometimes easy pickings and sometimes rather obscure, but this one had me stumped. When I finally found out the answer, I immediately rolled my eyes and prophesized that no one would ever make that [...]
Author Archives: Ender
Persona 3 (PS2): This Time It’s Personal!
1/18/2008 – 1:11 pm
With the new Persona anime looking up this season, I thought it would be a good time to give props to Persona 3, the game that loosely provides the setting for the show. I’m actually glad that the anime has very little relevance to the game, since VG adaptations tend to chafe at [...]
What’s all the Baccano! about?
1/12/2008 – 11:54 pm
So I came down with the tag team combo of stomach flu and upper respiratory flu over the holidays, which meant it was time to bust out the to-watch list and marathon some anime to ease the pain. Baccano! was at the top of the list after I saw the intriguing first episode [...]
Time Wasters
1/4/2008 – 2:09 am
I have a confession to make; I was never able to master the “simple” art of pen-spinning, which seems to be quite popular. Certainly not for lack of effort; I’ve spent countless lectures fruitlessly flipping my pen into the face of the person sitting next to me, which I suppose was remarkable in its [...]
My Angel is a Centerfold?
12/15/2007 – 1:35 am
I was reading Bateszi’s latest post about how older shows seen in the springtime of youth are glorified in your memory, a topic waxed upon many-a-time by Jeff Lawson. Indeed, upon a second viewing in modern times, many of my favorite older shows seem to have aged quite poorly, revealing heretofore unnoticed [...]
Ender’s November 2007 List
12/6/2007 – 12:40 am
Of note is that I finally finished up Seirei no Moribito, which was completely awesome. Also finished Portal in one sitting, and came away extremely impressed. In fact, it’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Top Picks:
Kimikiss Pure Rouge: It’s been a long time since I’ve watched a solid romance series [...]
Soul Nomad (PS2) - All Soul’d Out
10/26/2007 – 3:11 am
First things first - I can’t believe the numbnuts at NIS America decided to ditch the ethereal cover art of the JP version and go with a much more cartoony NA cover. What a waste. Maybe it was an American ‘Nice Boat’ effect, what with the piles of dead bodies and [...]
Gundam 00 2
10/18/2007 – 1:35 pm
The second episode continues to impress. The cinematography is oodles better than anything GS/GSD had to offer, and this episode is full of neat angle shots, zoom tricks, and tight action scenes. The action scenes in Seed/Destiny felt very generic and mass-produced for the most part, as if the producers went to the local [...]
GunGrave Overdose (PS2) Review
10/17/2007 – 9:00 am
Star Ocean EX, Shining Tears x Wind, Tales of Eternia, Xenosaga…the list goes on. Game-to-anime adaptations have a history of major suckage, which was why the anime version of Gungrave was a odd exception. Bateszi’s review reminded me how awesome that show was…[cries manly tears].
The original game’s storyline ends differently [...]
Gundam 00 1
10/14/2007 – 9:59 pm
Finally, the new Gundam is out! Time for another season of trashy plot twists, angsty pilots, and melodramatic death scenes. Gundam 00 opens in a war-torn Middle-eastern city, where the child Setsuna is waging a fruitless resistance against Mechwarrior-style walking tanks. When all hope is lost, a Gundam with sparkly exhaust wings [...]
