Dragon Ball Super Manga – Chapter 78: Gas’s Wish

This, what I assume to be the climactic battle of this arc, seems pretty predictable to me all things being considered. Which isn’t always a bad thing, but I’m really of two minds with Dragon Ball Super and how by the book it wants to end up being. Toriyama was traditionally a pretty subversive storyteller. But when it comes to the climax of his more recent story arcs, the later in life he gets, the more it feels like we can see it coming.

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Demon Slayer: Season 2 – Episode 5: Move Forward!

After complaining about having to wait a week for an episode, now it feels like this one just came along before I even knew it. This last really week has just flown by. Shame it ended on a really depressing note for me personally. But I’m not going to get into my personal stuff on here. And I’ll do my best not to let it impact my review of this episode of Demon Slayer.

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Marvel’s Eternals: Great Lore; Weak Characters

The further we get away from Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, the more I retroactively find myself to be disappointed with it. It was a movie that started off very strong, with that martial arts fight aboard a San Francisco bus and ended up as just another one of those messy action sequences where almost everything happening was CGI. Plus, with how good the series have been on Disney Plus, by comparison, the movies I’ve seen this year have been a little underwhelming.

Is that also the case for the latest MCU release: Eternals…

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