What's New
20 Apr 25
There are a couple surprises for this week's reviews (for me as much as for you). We kick off our Winter 2025 anime coverage a week earlier than I expected with a holdover from last year's fall season, Season 2 of Shangri-La Frontier. I also happened to finish reading Volume 5 of The Eminence in Shadow, so you get a review of that. We then go on to manga with Volume 5 of Dandadan and Interviews with Monster Girls. We're also launching coverage of a new series with Volume 1 of The Apothecary Diaries. Depending on how much catching up I can get done, we should have two or three Winter 2025 anime to toss onto the pile next week. I'll also be making a sincere effort to get the next chapter of WttW out. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 15:47:33
19 Apr 25
This has been a rough week, but I've managed to stick to my deadline, so here's Chapter 5 of CoP, which introduces a new set of players to the field. We'll have reviews out tomorrow, so be looking for that. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 10:59:04
13 Apr 25
It's a funny thing that we started last week's reviews with a film from 1990 because we're going to do so again this week with Gremlins 2: The New Batch. We also have another, far less silly film from 1959, Green Mansions. Next, it's time for manga with Volume 4 of Dandadan, Too Many Losing Heroines! and Interviews with Monster Girls. I'm now caught up on the Makeine manga, so I need to come up with something else to fill that slot. I'm thinking The Apothecary Diaries. Also, not next week but the week after I should start releasing reviews for the Winter 2025 anime season (and we've got the spring season already underway, so that's going to keep me busy). Coming up sooner (hopefully) is the next chapter of CoP, so be looking for that. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 11:38:18
12 Apr 25
Behold the last boss perched upon her throne. It's time to raise the curtain on the final battle with Chapter 26 of TWH. I've been doing good to stay on schedule so far, so hopefully I can continue to do so to get us to the end on time. In other news, look for reviews tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 13:20:23
06 Apr 25
We start the day off with some clowns here to amuse you in 1990's Goodfellas and if that's not enough, you can listen to Sandra Bullock grunting in space for two hours in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity. For manga coverage, we have Volume 3 of Dandadan, Too Many Losing Heroines! and Interviews with Monster Girls. Next week is going to have Gremlins 2, so I'm looking forward to that. I will try very hard to scrape together the time to get the next chapter of TWH out, so fingers crossed applesauce. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 11:37:17
05 Apr 25
My colleague's elbow had to put the work in to keep me awake during the opening ceremony today, but I'm at least happy to say that Chapter 12 of RttW is ready for you. Reviews will be up tomorrow, so be looking for that. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 11:08:32
30 Mar 25
We kick off today's movie reviews with the Colossal Titan of the film world, the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind and then something more along the lines of a 3-meter Titan yet with its own charm (you know, like the Peering Titan) in the somewhat less classic Gods of Egypt. We then continue our manga coverage with Volume 2 of Dandadan, Too Many Losing Heroines! and Interviews with Monster Girls respectively. We've got two more weeks before something needs to take Makeine's place. I'll have to figure that one out later. Look for the next chapter of WttW1 as well. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 13:08:05
29 Mar 25
I'm taking a break from my continued work on the demographics of Korush V to bring you Chapter 4 of CoP. Look for reviews tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 11:50:04
23 Mar 25
We've only got a couple films this week because manga is back on the menu. Let's get those movie reviews out of the way first. First we have the excellent stage-to-film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross, for which I have to bite my tongue not to make comments about certain members of the cast. Then we have the far less excellent but still decently funny 2008 film remake of Get Smart. For our manga, rather than resuming old coverage (which has been so long that I actually need to go back and reread it all), we're going to start covering three new series that I've read more recently. We kick things off with the first volume of Dandadan, Too Many Losing Heroines! and Interviews with Monster Girls. Picking the old stuff back up is going to take a little time, so it'll be quicker for now to move forward with the new stuff then circle back to get the rest later. Hopefully I can keep this going for a while as the comics section is in much need of some love. Be looking for more CoP as well next week. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 12:14:34
22 Mar 25
I actually finished this week's chapter back on Monday. For this book, that's a rare feat and it's put me in a pretty good mood. I've been making respectable progress on the next chapter as well, so things bode well for the future. The finale is getting split into at least two parts, so that'll stretch out the release schedule a bit more, but an extension with actual content sure as punch beats delays with nothing to show for it. Anyway, we gear up for the big showdown in Chapter 25 of TWH. In other news, there are actually going to be manga reviews again for the first time in a good long while, so be looking forward to that. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 10:53:00
16 Mar 25
We start this week's reviews with the story of a media mogul who looked across the pond and saw some promising stuff that he wanted to promote here at home, so he commissioned a little film called Gabriel Over the White House. Next, possibly not unrelated, we gin up support for this dandy new idea called the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the James Cagney film "G" Men. Now let's lighten the mood a bit with cats in France in Gay Purr-ee. Next, we have the late great Gene Hackman with John Travolta and Danny DeVito in 1995's Get Shorty and then Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law in the now not-so fantastical look at the near future in Gattaca. We get Thursday off for the vernal equinox, so I'm going to try to get some manga reviews written and I'll be taking some time off before the new school year starts, so I hope to further work down this giant pile of manga that's been sitting around all this time. If I'm as productive as I'm hoping, we'll get back to having a regular mixed media selection for a good while. Be looking for the next chapter of TWH as well. (And I'm really going to have to start thinking about what I want to take its place.) Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 11:47:31
15 Mar 25
It feels good to actually get things done on time. I should try doing it more often. Anyway, here's Chapter 11 of RttW. I'll be getting reviews to you tomorrow, so be looking for that. Stay tuned.
Posted by: JamesUTC 12:33:34