Category: Features and/or Ranting:

For when I just want to dig into a topic or issue I have with basically anything. Complaining about a casting, a trend in video games or my hot take on a hotter button issue. I also rant about various “fat cats” and “bottom lines”

Super Dragon Ball Heroes – Would we just be better off with fan fiction?

I was kind of shocked the other day when YouTube recommended me some clips from the latest episode of Super Dragon Ball Heroes. It was less that I was shocked the miniseries was still going, more so I was shocked that I looked at it and didn’t feel this weird compulsion. That I wasn’t drawn to it like a moth to a flame like I used to be.

And believe me, I still spend an embarrassing amount of time thinking about Dragon Ball. This show should be like catnip to me. So why isn’t it? 

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The Hunters Guild: Red Hood and getting Meta when you get the Axe

A while back, I signed myself up for a Viz subscription so that I could go back and read the My Hero Academia Manga from the beginning. In the time since then, I’ve kind of just not bothered to cancel it, so I’ve found myself reading a few other new manga that have been getting published on there.

Helping me discover series like Kaiju No. 8 and Hunter’s Guild: Red Hood, the latter of which recently got the dropped by Shonen Jump. Something I never actually realised until I saw a big old “The End” label at the end of the last chapter.

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Is Nintendo lagging behind in 2021?

Like practically everyone else in the world, I’m playing Metroid Dread right now. At least, that’s what my specifically catered collection of people I follow on Twitter leads me to believe anyway. And whilst happily playing away I had the intrusive thought: It’s not exactly been a banger year for Nintendo has it.

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