This review is part of a series of the best of the decade. You can read the other entries in the list by clicking this link. This review contains full spoilers for Antiporno as well as The Handmaiden and I recommend watching both before reading this. I seem to be doing a lot of double handers for this list, and …
I'd suggest watching Pale Flower before reading this. The film was released on the Criterion Collection, but you might be able to find it elsewhere. So, admittedly this one is a bit odd. I tend to write about a set number of subjects on this blog that I don’t really deviate from; JRPGs, Ace Attorney and …
Weapon Shop de Omasse is an interesting addition to the GUILD series because of who made it. While I’ve lauded the series as a way to give game creators space to make a small game with full creative control, Weapon Shop de Omasse gives that control to a Japanese comedian named Yoshiyuki Hirai. Hirai, who …
“This game contains no tutorials or explanations. Part of the experience is to discover things for yourself” - Disclaimer before starting The Starship Damrey. The last time I looked at the GUILD series was to wax lyrical about Attack of the Friday Monsters, a game I thought would never have been made in the way it …
In the 1950s, the prospering Japanese film industry reinvented the “monster movie.” The giant monsters of the era were “kaiju” that often symbolized the effects of pollution, such as radiation and hydrogen bomb experiments. In the 1960s and 70s, the “hero show” was born. Brave heroes challenged the kaiju on prime time television, and the …
This post contains spoilers for Fullmetal Alchemist, the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and won't make any sense if you haven't seen at least one of them. Perhaps a natural consequence of being a Japanese student at university, I have recently found myself drawn slowly back into the murky waters of anime. A big contributor to this …
This review contains major spoilers for Dai Gyakuten Saiban as well as other games in the Ace Attorney series In my review of Spirit of Justice, I said that I considered Dai Gyakuten Saiban ‘unfinished’, and for that reason I could not place it in my Ace Attorney game rankings. Because of this, I felt …
I recently worked my way through Hideo Yokoyama's crime thriller Six Four, which was just published in the UK after being a huge hit in Japan, and I just wanted to give some quick thoughts on it. For starters, it's worth qualifying what kind of mystery novel this is; it isn't a shinhonkaku mystery novel, although …
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