Review by Matt S. Through almost every page of Sakyo Komatsu’s Virus drips a sheer hatred for the political and social thinking of western nations. Remembering that Komatsu wrote this in 1964, at the height of the Cold War, Virus represents a very real fear that populations throughout the world…
Read MorePreview by Trent P. If Habitat had an opening sequence implemented at this stage, I imagine it would go along the lines of the following: There’s a collision above Earth with a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream, the Black Knight Satellite, and like hitting a piñata, objects lost in time clutter…
Read MoreReview by Rob P. January, 2107. We are the ecologists of the Terra Salvum. Escaping the confines of a dying Earth, we have journeyed to Pandora to give Mankind a fresh start. Here is a new planet, rich with opportunity. A chance to avoid the mistakes of the past. This…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Robotics;Notes goes weird places halfway through its first season. It’s almost like some anime company noticed that the slice of life genre is popular, and decided to trick people into thinking this anime is also an example of slice of life, only to swap over to…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s nearly upon us; Japanese cultural icon, Doraemon, is finally hitting America with Doraemon Gadget Cat from the Future. The English dub is courtesy of distributor, Viz Media. A previous incarnation of the show was once slated for an…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Disappointed that the second season of Date a Live only ran for ten episodes? Don’t despair just yet. Coinciding with the conclusion of the show’s second season (which just finished airing this week), it was announced via Date a Live’s official Twitter page that the show…
Read MoreAnime report by Clark A. The Kagerou Project is a series of Vocaloid songs that conveys narratives musically, be it through very literal lyrics or abstract, metaphorical means. It was accompanied by several light novels before their popularity allowed enabled a transition into a manga series and, now, an anime…
Read MoreAnime report by Clark A. Black Bullet takes place in a near future in which humanity is on the verge of extinction, courtesy of a parasitic race called Gastrea. Earth’s remaining occupants gather in an area surrounded by a wall that repels the alien forces to prevent further damage, though…
Read MoreThe Starship Damrey kicks off with a promise that it will not tell you how to play it. We’re explicitly told as players that that game is not going to guide us; no tutorials, no guides, no glitter on the floor pointing us to the next destination. Within the small…
Read MoreIgnoring the silly tantrum that many people threw over the ending of the game, Mass Effect 3 is going to go down as one of the generation’s finest games. It’s also a game in a series that people who have stuck exclusively to Nintendo’s hardware have yet to experience. In…
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