I’m still hoping the extended time allows for a proper ending. Some endings, like Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Hikaru no Go, and Gantz, feel too abrupt, despite sticking to a scheduled serialization.

Cheesy voice acting is a lost art. Resident Evil 1's original B-movie class voice acting, coupled with the live-action opening and ending sequences still make it my favorite in the series. I wish Capcom kept that level of voice-overs. Street Fighter 1 and Strider arcade’s intermission dialogues are among my all-time…

Spectre was so-so. Entertaining to watch, high-budget. Brilliant videography on the opening sequence. The silly, but fun couch gag foreshadows the direction of the actual plot, which suspends belief. The stuff of day-time soap operas and telenovelas. Compared to some of the brilliant writing for Casino Royale and…

Well, I think you would know better, first hand as someone who grew up in 1990's Germany. I would have to agree that “romanticized” version of Germany would be more correct. Romanticized is the feeling I get, while reading through Billy Bat, as it takes place from 1950's~1960's, even through to the 1990's and the…

The problem with FF XV is that it originally started as FF XIII:Versus that plodded along in development hell for the worst part of a decade. Tetsuya Nomura originally was directing the series, until he switched to other projects and Hajime Tabata took over.

Classical Naoki Urasawa. There’s a brilliant sense of suspense, mystery, and tension. It does follow the manga rather closely, as such, it can feel a bit protracted at times.

This is pretty much how I feel about Genso Suikoden 1.  Succinct, straightforward. Sophisticated, but not overly complicated.  Brilliant characters you can love.  Excellent soundtrack, this side of Yoko Shimomura; and probably the most recognizable music outside of her work on the likes of Parasite Eve, Kingdom…

Nerd Dad - Don’t rush into dating. Prioritize your daughter. As your marketability as a single father goes, it’s a hurdle, but not a deal breaker. I have 2 clients who I see regularly. One was a single a dad (of 3 kids). He has been married twice. Then he married a good friend of mind; she was single, no kids, and a…

A good friend of mine has been mostly driving a Prius Prime.  Every night he is back home, the car is charging.  He tells me he is much happier that he only needs to visit the gas station once a month, if at all.  You would be too, as gas stations here in southern California can getting annoyingly busy, not to mention…

Tsuchiya Keiichi. His early years, where he practiced driving on the touge, crashing out in the amateur race series, racing for Kurata Jidosha and Advan Works, to eventually dominating the race series in the AE86, including the moment at Fuji Speedway where the senior editor at Car Boy titled Tsuchiya as the “Drift…

Pity Nissan, Honda, etc, couldn’t just produce more of their back-catalogue of cars. Porsche has certainly demonstrated that it can reproduce a brand new 993 Turbo, while Venice Crew are on a new run of making brand new 1965 Shelby GT350 Competitions.

I wouldn’t know. Both the Popeye’s and the Church’s Chicken my neighborhood are 95% frequented by some combination of hispanic or Chinese folks.

Cute ad. Feels very much like a J-drama short. Cute subtle wink-wink nods, like the Knights of (the) Round dialogue scene at the 7th Heaven Bar. I like how the guy at the bar referred to the FF7 guidebook as his “bible.”  

For now, the car is a bit of a hard sell. Anyone I know that would actually buy the new Supra are too broke to do so. A few other friends are taking the wait and see approach — skip the zenki Supra models, and wait for what gets improved and upgraded for the kouki models (ie- more horsepower, improved suspension,…

Really miss how prolific Ayu was.  A song on Inuyasha, Thousand Arms. Tons of remixes.  Ayu-ready?

I guess this re-invention of Mitsubishi is another kind of Evolution.  Just not the Evolution XI we all wanted.  

Maybe try replacing your existing shelf with this KALLAX shelf unit from Ikea.

Extreme Behemoth is harder. Taking down Rajang, solo, is much more doable.

Interesting take, yes, but I don’t buy it. I would say the main reason mecha anime didn’t take hold was availability. It needs to be broadcast on many networks, at a viable time. And not just mecha anime, but majority of adapted anime in the 1980's were only shown at odd times. Voltron got tons more exposure than…

Coffee is for closers.