I am not savvy enough in anime/manga, particularly titles that stay mostly in Japan, to tell for certain, but it seems Re: Creators uses archetypal anime characters rather than including actual licensed characters. The premise sounds neat, but I would dig it more if it featured the actual Sailor Moon, Clare from…

Didn’t she also do a show for Muammar Gaddafi a while back? She was blasted in popular media for that and tried to make amends by donating the money to charity (which to be fair seems like the best move for her in that case). Still, you’d think after that she would learn to pay better attention to who is hiring her.

Obviously staged, but still pretty impressive. Those stuntmen were risking some very serious injury.

Trigun. These two pics pretty much summarize why I like this anime so much. On the one hand, it is an epic action adventure with a badass hero, a compelling setting, and an intriguing plot. But it also has a ton of humor, owing largely to that same badass’s silly obfuscating stupidity persona (and it is never entirely…

I won’t spoil anything from manga (plus there is always the chance that the anime story might deviate from the manga), but I will say that if you are waiting for a complete story from the anime, you are likely in for a very long wait. Unless the anime deviates pretty substantially and makes its own ending. But if the…

With that plot device of one guy messing with other people’s cryosleep pods for his own purposes, I am reminded of the film Pandorum. I doubt there is any direct connection, but it is interesting to see how that premise can be spun in different ways

One time I created a character who was a Halfing Cleric of Looove (the extra “o’s” were always voiced). Originally I wanted to make a dwarf cleric of love inspired by Pratchett’s character Casanunda. But I couldn’t deal with the charisma ding so picked a Halfing instead. Anyway, he was played for comedy for the most…

Yep, I was having pretty much the same thought. What we see in the video is just the culmination of this teacher’s crap. The fact a student thought to pull out a phone to video her suggests to me that this is not the first time she lost her shit in the class. I can imagine that in the past she said similarly…

As I recall, that one was just a pilot and never got picked up for series. Not sure if there was any circumstance other than the pilot simply didn’t generate enough interest to continue with a series.

John Harrison

For sure, especially if Wil Wheaton is playing and I get to pull one of these:

When I was a kid, I really bought into that line, “just stand up to the bullies, they will back down.” I also bought into the narrative instilled by kids’ martial arts movies that a smaller good guy can always beat a bigger bad guy, and skill always trumps size and strength. As a result of these two dubious lessons, I…

Vs. H Clinton Gundam!

There is a straight to video animated film where he teams up (reluctantly) with Black Widow and SHEILD to investigate some supervillain plot, blah, blah. It was certainly in the style of the live action MCU in some of the character designs and costumes, but I am certain is not part of MCU canon. It was okay for a DtoV…

I was really impressed with the manual for Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. The art was great, and the layout and prose, mostly written in an in-world tone, really did a great job capturing the texture and feel of the game’s world. The game itself was sort of meh, but that manual was fantastic!

Or super parts or bat parts depending on one’s desires.

Is that a Stormtrooper on the upper right actually surviving a shot to his armor? How crazy would that be, armor that actually worked!

I am not sure if Mr. Ashcraft interprets the term “urban legend” the same that I do. I wouldn’t consider an interpretation of a film an “urban legend” even if that interpretation seemed pretty far off. That would just be “a pretty out-there interpretation.” I mean, I come from a philosophy of narrative interpretation…

Congratulations on your upcoming little one!