Showing posts with label It Came From Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It Came From Japan. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015

Erik's Favorite Things: Koudelka

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Okay, I've  mentioned   Koudelka  before.  In fact, I think I spoke pretty highly of it.  If I was to keep talking about it, I might men...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Danganronpa 2

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Yesterday I discussed a video game that I think might have had one of the most profound emotional impacts on me since the time I tried to fo...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 15: Search For The Castle's Treasure!

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Okay.  I have a frosty drink (root beer), some snapea crisps (truly the food of kings) and I'm ready to work with you, series. Sure, y...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 14:The Man Who Controls The Whips Of Darkness!

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After a brief reprieve I'm back in the thick of watching cartoons about superheroes!  You know, for writing purposes.  It gives me somet...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Review: Shining Hearts

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Some time ago  I did a review of a game for the Playstation 2 called Shining Tears .  It was a simple Japanese role-playing game that I felt...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 13: Gravity Control! Graviton!

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It must stink to be a construction company in a comic book universe.  On the one hand, you always have work available to you since heroes an...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Erik's Favorite Things: eX-Driver

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I am not a car person.  I have only the most basic understanding of how a car even works (key goes in hole, pedals and stick determines if c...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 12: The Unstoppable Force, Juggernaut!

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Okay, admittedly, it's been a while since I've done one of these, but the last few weeks have been rather... interesting, to put it ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Moribito

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For a long time, anime drove me bonkers. I loved it, and I watched a lot of it, but there were certain things that I kept seeing all the t...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Phantom of Inferno

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Years ago, I was in a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store (remember those?) and I stumbled upon a DVD.  I was neck deep in my fixation wit...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Sword Art Online

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It is a sad fact of life that video games portrayed in other media will always beat the video games we actually have in real life. The gra...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 11: A Present From Tony!

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Japanese cartoons can be a bit weird about story flow.  Say you have a manga (a fancy term for "comic book") that's really pop...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 10:Showdown! The Silver-Donned Samurai!

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The last time we did one of these, we got through a huge confrontation between the Avengers and Loki's forces, and the plot moved on to ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers - Episode 9: Spider-Man Is Missing!

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It's been leading up to this, folks.  Ever since the beginning, our heroes have been divided, torn apart by Loki's machinations.  S....
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode 7: Hulk VS. Captain!

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Man, it's been a while since I've done one of these.  That cold I had (possible pneumonia, I'm not sure, really) really laid me ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode 6: Hulk's Great Rampage!

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A lot of the cartoons that Marvel put out over the years can be linked to very specific times in the history of the series.  The 1990s X-Men...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode 5: The Mighty Thor Descends!

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Something I think I've come to realize as time goes on is that while many "executive" decisions might be made for completely c...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode Three: Iron Man, Reborn!

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Marvel Comics always had mixed luck when it comes to animation.  While they've never had anything that compares to the glory days of DC ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode Two: All Heroes Exterminated?!

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When I heard that Japan was doing a show about the Avengers, all I could really picture was their classic show about Spider-Man. For t...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Marvel Disk Wars The Avengers - Episode One: The Mightiest Heroes!

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If I told you that toilet-centered video games were going to be the second  most bizarre thing I'd be describing that came out of Japan ...