That sounds like the sort of adventure I would love to participate in (either as the DM or one of the players). Definitely a great story to keep telling XD

These are awesome. Mignola’s style is quite distinctive, so the influence is quite clear here, but it still leads to utterly fantastic looking creatures. Matsuura is definitely an artist I’ll be keeping an eye on.

So did I. Other than some basics, I went in pretty much blind to the events of Castlevania 3 that they were adapting. So, I can say for sure that I was hoping for more Drac too.

Now that the series is out of the introductory portion of the story, I’m hoping that we’ll get a more compelling series than the first season. I struggled to stay engrossed in the first hour and a bit of the show, until the last portion where things finally picked up just before ending.

The cost for PvE Fortnite vs the free factor of Battle Royale doesn’t help either. I find the base game to be more fun in many ways (I like Co-op PvE more than competitive), but I’m just a small drop in a bucket that is defined by the people who are only playing the free PvP version of the game.

Girls’ Last Tour was definitely my AOTY for 2017. It was fantastically comforting and intellectually stimulating in equal measure. The fact that it has been so overlooked has been criminal and is probably the worst thing that Amazon Prime/Anime Strike has done for the anime community in 2017.

That would be a glorious route to go if they were willing to do that. I just don’t have total faith in Ubisoft to do the idea justice if they were to go that route.

Anime films are usually where I can convince people to give the format a try, because there is so much genuinely high quality content out there.

Hopefully, but we’ll just have to wait and see. I’m not going to write anything off yet though. That last episode had the best of everything that the series had offered at that point and I’m interested to see if it could continue into the next season.

Streaming is always going to be a problem on that front. I won’t try to sugar coat it or hide that fact. So, I don’t blame anyone who pirates instead of watching legally.

The streaming service “conflict” was probably the biggest thing to happen to anime in its entirety over the past year. With the competition appearing in force after Crunchyroll and Funimation announced their partnership, it has been a mess for anime fans as everyone’s been going through growing pains from these…

It was pretty bad: yes. There was a lot of potential for it, but the four episode run, and the pacing of said run, were not to its benefit at all. I’m willing to see what the next season does for it, but I don’t have much hope for anything really outstanding here.

Good to know. That does temper some of my interest as seeing Kojima do a more modern take on the Snatcher style would have been pretty cool.

I’m definitely confused about what this game is going to be, so my levels of excitement are quite tempered, but I am excited to keep learning more as the details slowly trickle out.

That’s fair. I just wasn’t expecting to see something like that in BOTW. It threw me for a loop as I’ve never seen Zelda as a fanservice series.

Totally understandable. And while there was a lot of garbage in the past too, we were mostly spared that by selective fan subbers for sure.

It most definitely could be. I’m not trying to hold up the Fate franchise as a paragon, it was mostly just a reference to the fact that it was not so loli centric until recently.

This is one of those tropes that always becomes a huge sticking point when trying to introduce people to anime. It’s that one that hovers, no matter how well you avoid it, and makes a surprise appearance whenever possible due to the way that many of these shows and stories are constructed nowadays.

I was totally thrown for a loop when Breath of the Wild did that. I was not too pleased to discover that they had decided to squeeze that trope into Zelda in that way.

I can totally understand and respect that. There’s a lot of great content out there, but it’s not necessarily worth wading through the garbage to get to it.