In the year 2071, the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop, comprising former syndicate member Spike Spiegel, ex-cop Jet Black, con-artist Faye Valentine, hacker extraordinaire Radical Edward, and the hyper-intelligent corgi Ein, are pursuing a bounty on Mars. Faye is in the middle of tracking the bounty when a mysterious figure triggers a tanker […]
Month: August 2022
Unboxing anime soundtracks and vintage J-Pop records is fun
Time to catch up on some unboxing efforts! Last year to offset all the pandemic tomfoolery I made a couple of large bulk orders of records from Japan and decided to record the unboxing and excitement that ensued! This is the first of two videos, captured around a year ago with a focus on mostly […]
Review: Otherside Picnic – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Otherside Picnic posits the question – what would you do if you accidentally stumbled across a doorway to another dimension that wasn’t dominated by JRPG tropes and otaku power fantasies? Sorawo unwittingly finds herself travelling back and forth to a bizarre parallel dimension contemplating the value of her own existance when she crosses paths with […]
Review: Akudama Drive – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
An ordinary citizen becomes involved in a prison break when she unwittingly finds herself in the path of several Akudama – wanted criminals with particular skillsets and massive bounties on their heads. With nowhere to run, she pretends to be one of them to protect herself, donning the moniker Swindler. But “Swindler’s” quick thinking causes […]
Uncle From Another World is the best anime on streaming platforms right now
Uncle From Another World dropped onto Netflix last week, promising a somewhat unusual take on contemporary Isekai anime tropes by thrusting my Japanese doppleganger into the story. It is arguably the greatest new anime streaming on any platform right now, with scenes like this dominating the narrative: The above is from the opening episode where […]