Same, girl, same. Anime is so relatable.
Wash It All Away Ep. 10
The women in this show are all busty and always ready to shed their clothes at a moment’s notice. It’s so ridiculous that it’s almost funny. Anyway, in the first half of the episode, Wakana uses rice to remove a particularly nasty stain. I’ve never heard of such a trick. I would normally look it up, but… yeah, I don’t really care that much. You guys should try it out and let me know if it truly gets rid of ink stains.
In the second half of the episode, Uka, the shy girl who did the photoshoot with Wakana two episodes ago, invites our heroine over for a home-cooked meal. Of all the dishes she could have made, she decided to go with paella. Hm, her paella looks rather pale. Did she skim on the saffron? I know saffron can be pricy, but it just looks tepid. Well, it turns out she made it in a rice cooker. Sigh, don’t invite me over if that’s your idea of a home-cooked meal. Look, at the very least, paella needs that caramelized bottom. I’m not even going to talk about how the seafood was likely poached in the same rice cooker. What’s funny to me is that we see the dish in a typical paella pan in the previous screenshot, so she has the equipment. She just doesn’t wanna use them.
Anyways, Uka has two dogs that are super friendly with Wakana. Did they trigger an old memory in her? I couldn’t really tell for sure.
There was a Cute Girl in the Hero’s Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her Ep. 10
In the first half of the episode, the guardian gargoyle wants to start adventuring, because he thinks he’s been freeloading. Yoki and Cecily both decide to show him the ropes. For some reason, there’s always a quest to find a missing cat.
In the second half of the episode, Yoki goes on an A-Rank quest with Cecily tagging along. Why is she suddenly taking an interest? Well, an heir of a neighboring lord has requested her hand in marriage, and she’s being pressured to accept it. No doubt she wants to say no, but what kind of girl is Cecily? Is she adventuring with Yoki because she finally wants to speed up their slow-ass relationship? Or is this one final hurrah before she decides to be a good, compliant member of society and accept the marriage proposal? To be honest, I can’t really tell. I haven’t really paid much attention to Cecily, because she’s just so plain Jane boring.
Tune In to the Midnight Heart Ep. 10
The girls start getting jealous over Yamabuki. For example, because he’s been referring to Kirino by her first name, both Himekawa and Inohana start wanting him to call them by their first names as well. Uzuki is resistant to the idea, but only because she feels as though she hasn’t made as much progress towards achieving her dream as the other three. She’s also torn over the fact that moving forward means she might have to spend less one-on-one time with Yamabuki. Really? This generic harem protagonist has your heart in such a twist? Meh. Well, we’ve only got two or three episodes left, right? Perfect time to get Uzuki all caught up.
I guess if I had to pick one of these four girls, I’d go with Kirino just because I like her weird tubular cat form.
The Case Book of Arne Ep. 9 & 10
This time, the gang investigate a case where a father has stopped talking ever since he fell down the stairs. We get a lot of information like how the wife might be cheating, and how the sons (from a different mother) are all fuck-ups in their own way. For example, the youngest has a gambling issue. Meanwhile, oldest is literally too damn dumb to inherit the family business, etc. By the way, the father and his sons are all invisible people. Arne thus deduces that the sons have been pulling a Weekend at Bernie’s with their father, i.e. he’s long dead. The wife never suspected a thing ’cause, y’know, the invisible thing. When the wife hears this, she runs off with a mad look on her face. But the gang later receives a letter from her claiming that Arne is wrong — that the father is alive. When Arne pays the family a visit, the brothers are prepared to ambush him with knives. They murdered their stepmom, didn’t they? I thought the next episode would resolve this conflict, but no, we’ve decided to move onto the next mystery. The hell? Sigh, I guess there’s nothing that a bunch of invisible men can do to a powerful vampire, so we can just assume that Aren came out of the incident unscathed.
In the tenth episode, the gang investigates the murder of a high strung trumpeter. The case initially presents itself as a locked-room mystery, which is kinda interesting when you think about it on a meta level. Locked-room mysteries present the reader (or viewers) with a seemingly impossible situation, so at first, you can’t help but think that maybe the killer has supernatural powers. There is, however, a rational explanation for everything. You just have to solve the puzzle. But this is The Case Book of Arne, where ghosts, ghouls, and all sorts of mythical creatures exist. As a result, there is still what you can call a rational explanation, except there truly were supernatural powers behind the murder. So whodunnit?
It was a cat-sith. It snuck in through a vent and murdered the trumpeter before the man could murder the local strays. Welp.
This painting might play a role in next week’s episode, but you can’t really bet on anything with this anime. It might just move onto a mystery that is completely unrelated.
Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None Ep. 10
Men writing women: if they’re not talking about the main character, then they’re getting jealous over their breast size.
This episode is all about Orhun training the three newbies and thus getting to know their backstory, but it’s all pretty basic. Sophia is actually an affair child, so the rest of the family spurns her. Good thing Selma doesn’t. Logan wants to help out his hometown. Last but not least, Caroline was once imprisoned by an evil JRPG Church hellbent on reviving an equally evil god! So like I said, pretty basic backstories. Is the plot ever going to get going? I guess not.
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord Ep. 9
The first half of the episode is all about Arte and her puppetry talent. Unlike Van’s talent, which is simply considered useless, puppetry is feared. Yeah, most people find dolls pretty creepy. But it’s more than that, because I guess you can assassinate people with puppetry magic. So to give the girl some much needed confidence, Van has Arte “perform” in front of the entire village. Or is it a town now? Bah, it doesn’t matter. I would’ve started with a smaller audience, then worked my way up. But we all know anime shotas are infallible. If he says it’ll work, then it’ll work. Naturally, the audience cheers and sobs afterwards. It was that beautiful, y’all. These people were starving and destitute before Van arrived, so a dancing puppet is probably like v-bucks to a 5 year old kid on Christmas morning.
In the second half of the episode, the king pays Seatoh a visit, so Van proceeds to blow his mind. Not much to say here. Just the story heaping praise on the main character over and over. I almost mistook it for a Noble Reincarnation episode. Right before the credits roll, a dragon conveniently attacks the village. So if the king still had any doubts about Van being a dragonslayer, he’s about to see the light in… yawn, sorry, it’s just so damn boring.
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife Ep. 9
Tonome says he can’t do public baths, because naked ojisans will start inadvertently rubbing their asses on him. I mean, that’s Tonome’s fault for not wearing a huge ass sombrero (honestly, any large hat will do). There are plenty of ways to make yourself noticeable.
A local inn has been losing customers, because people think it’s haunted. The crab proprietress thus hires Tonome to look into the situation and hopefully restore her inn’s reputation. Alternatively, she could just lean into it and turn her inn into a tourist destination of a different sort. Some people will pay top bucks to visit a haunted location and do one of those bullshit ghost hunts. Y’know, the ones with spirit boxes, EMP mumbo jumbo, and what not. The fact that you can relax in the hot springs afterwards is the cherry on top. As you can probably tell, I don’t believe in the supernatural. There’s nothing paranormal going on at the inn either. In the end, there’s a rational explanation for everything.
Lately, Tonome has been physically pulling away from Yako, so she starts feeling insecure. This forces Tonome to finally admit what’s been troubling him. Apparently, the guy is just one trauma stacked on top of another trauma. What’s his grief this time, you ask? It turns out one of his past lovers couldn’t handle having sex with an invisible person. I guess it could seem kinda weird being felt up by someone you can’t see. But again, a sombrero…
In all seriousness, Tonome could’ve talked this out with Yako a long time ago. What was even his plan before she confronted him? Just never be physically intimate with his girlfriend ever again? Plus, she’s blind! She literally can’t have the same issues as his last girlfriend! The two of them end up canoodling in bed together, so I guess you could say all’s well that ends well. But I dunno, I just find it kinda pathetic that he couldn’t communicate this problem with her until she had to cry about it. Hell, he’s been kinda pathetic in general. “Durr, let’s live together, but I’ll go sleep in the living room!” I was pretty positive on this show at the start, but Tonome has just been a consistent letdown over the past few episodes. I won’t root against him and Yako as a couple, but I don’t feel like rooting for them either.
The Holy Grail of Eris Ep. 9
Even after hearing Duke Castiel’s explanation, there’s a lot that I don’t really understand. First, they acknowledged that Alienore was trouble, so why foster a relationship between the crown prince and Scarlett? Fine, maybe they didn’t see that far ahead. They didn’t think anything of two kids falling in love. They later realized that Scarlett was the key to Faris’s plans, because the conspirators needed her on the throne. But why was execution the only option? Why not exile Scarlett? Or fake a kidnapping? Or literally just break off the engagement? What makes it all worse is that in the past ten years since the execution, they still haven’t done shit to prevent The Holy Grail of Eris from happening. What the fuck did Scarlett die for then? Again, I don’t get it. It’s just stupidity upon stupidity. As a result, seeing Castiel grip the urn and cry does nothing for me. His grief rings hollow, because the narrative has failed to convince me that there truly was no other way. Well, I did feel one thing: disgust. I’m not even a father, and I’m utterly disgusted with this man. You certainly don’t need to be smart to be a noble.
We get some Constance x Randolph crumbs at the end of the episode, but like everything else in this series, the romance has been poorly developed.
Roll Over and Die Ep. 9
Flum has started feeling possessive over Milkit. This results in her feeling pangs of jealousy when Ink hugs Milkit. Ma’am, it’s a child. C’mon, you’re not seriously competing with a child.
During one particular dinner, Sara talks about how Ed and Jonny are like brothers to her even though none of them are blood-related. Nevertheless, she finds it too embarrassing to tell them how much they mean to her. Welp, that just means they’re going to die. Whenever a fictional character has something really important they need to say to their loved ones, they almost never get the chance to say it.
So sure enough, those two soon meet their end. Sara heard that Dein and Kahnis would be fighting, so she and her brothers go to investigate the situation. By the time they arrive, however, shit has already hit the fan. Dein has cursed powers now, and eyeballs literally start raining from the sky. Why? Shrug. I guess someone from the evil Church is up to no good, but we still have no clue where they’re hiding. When the eyeballs touch you, you start mutating and eventually turn into those blobs of human flesh.
Sara, Ed, Jonny try to run away, but those eyeballs are super fast, yo. So of course, the guys take turn sacrificing themselves for Sara. What bugs me is when they stop in the middle of a rickety bridge just to chat. It’s one thing for fictional characters to die, but when they’re also stupid about it? That really gets my goat. Maybe the eyeballs would’ve caught up to them anyway, but don’t be a moron and start yapping outta nowhere.
Ed and Jonny barely got any screentime, so honestly, I’m not too choked up by their deaths.
Right before the credits roll, it looks like Sara is about to fall into a huge pile of eyeballs. I doubt she’s going to die, though. Or turn into a flesh blob. After all, she’s a cutie. You’re not allowed to kill cute anime characters, especially when there’s so much yuri in this show. Nah, someone’s going to swoop in and save her at the last second. I’m gonna be annoyed, however, if it’s that demon she met episodes ago. Some people seem hellbent on shipping Sara with said demon. Guys, Sara is a child. Fucking chill, you weirdos.
Dark Moon: The Blood Altar Ep. 9
Marge helps the boys out initially, but she gets taken out pretty quickly. Who knows if she’s still alive. Meanwhile, Sooha is still in Dardan’s clutches. She’s also unconscious, so we’re basically down to zero female characters. All Sooha can do at the moment is communicate with the vampy boys via dreams. She’s like a 90s video game princess, whose only role is to tell the heroes to take up the sword and accept their fate. But we have way too many vampy boys and equally way too many werewolves. I can only remember Heli. I don’t remember any of the other characters. Why did they make the cast so bloated if they’re not going to bother developing any of the characters? I don’t think you can really salvage this train wreck, but they should’ve just made it one vampy boy versus one furry boy. You would then have your classic love triangle, which eventually segues into Dardan’s re-emergence.
HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Ep. 9
At the start of the episode, a “murdergalsh” shows up and threatens to wreak havoc. I’m not sure what a “murdergalsh” is. I tried looking the word up, but it just gives me results for this anime. But hey, it has “murder” in the name, and we all know murder is bad. Maybe that’s all we need to know. Despite all the grinding that Allen has done thus far, however, he’s still no match for it. All he can do is kite the troll-like giant deep into the woods. It takes the kid three whole days to lose it. Um, devs, wanna tweak the leashing to be a little less annoying? No? Welp, we tried. Still, seeing this reminds me of the good ol’ Final Fantasy XI days. Instead of being a normal middle schooler, I wasted my summers kiting sky NMs for rare drops with Cartoon Network playing on TV in the background. If you have no clue what I’m saying, don’t worry about it.
Anyway, Allen at least manages to save a noblewoman and her daughter, and that earns him enough money to buy himself a mithril sword. It’s just odd to see a summoner wield a bladed weapon. I consider that class another flavor of mage, so I would normally expect Allen to use a staff or magical tome for a weapon. But hey, I suppose not all games are the same.
The rest of episode has Allen conducting more experiments with his summons, which I don’t find particularly interesting. No point talking about any of it. The only bit I want to highlight is when Allen uses his new “Share” ability to fly one of his summons back home. He then checks in on his family and leaves them a gold coin. The kid promises to send something back every month. That’s sweet… but at some point, the family has to start asking questions, right? Yo, why do these gold coins keep appearing on this windowsill?
Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Ep. 9
At one point, the dragon protagonist could’ve taken zombie Doz out, but he refuses to. It’s the same ol “if I do this, then I also become a monster” bullshit. Yep, never kill the bad guy no matter how dangerous they are. Even if they’re about to kill everyone you know and love, nuh-uh, you can’t take a human life! As a result, zombie Doz “lives” on to take a kid hostage, then smashes the rock dragon egg. Obviously, this enrages the rock dragon, leading to an unavoidable fight that threatens to destroy the village. This pretty much confirms it for me: the dragon protagonist is a loser. The sad part is that you know he’s going to prevail in the end. His foolishness won’t have any consequences whatsoever. All we gotta do now is wait for him to pick a new form to evolve into and summarily defeat the rock dragon, win over the villagers, and become best mates with Myria. Boring. I don’t mind happy endings, but not if the protagonist takes the dumbest route to get there.
Scum of the Brave Ep. 9
Just more of Yashiro being scummy again, hence the name of the show. He hasn’t made much progress in avenging Ishino, but he thinks there’s a connection between the three girls he’s supposed to mentor and the Half Dragon. Ishino’s last message to him was to protect the girls. So what does he do instead? He drags all of them to a party full of Dark Lords. They also have to get wear fancy clothes that aren’t conducive to combat success. It’s training, Yashiro says. Uh huh. As soon as they enter, however, he picks a fight. As I’ve said before, I’m not inclined to root for this guy. Not only that, they never really developed his relationship with Ishino, so for him to go to this extent just to get revenge feels hollow to me. Like why is he so hellbent on this mission? Why is he endangering these girls just for one guy who stuck his nose where it didn’t belong? Most of all, why should I care? The story hasn’t done the proper legwork to get me invested in this story. All I see is a scummy bounty hunter using the three young girls who are relying on him. It feels shitty.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk Ep. 9
The gang has made it to Kobe, so we don’t have to worry about that homewrecker Ouji for now. Instead, Takiguchi realizes that she and Ichimura can’t flirt with each other with their friends constantly hovering around them, so she regrets inviting them along. Kinda. As a compromise, she and Ichimura end up going on a date to (of course) the aquarium all by their lonesome. Oh well, at least these two are finally communicating their feelings. I don’t know why we couldn’t do this from the start. Was all the build-up worth it? Meh.
Also, what is she wearing? Her dress is not flattering whatsoever. It looks like an ill-fitting hospital gown. For a show with such unrealistically attractive high schoolers, their fashion sense is anything but.
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Ep. 11
One of the teachers explains to Reyes that the students need to waste their time making money, because this will prepare them for the real world. Scummy people will take advantage of naive sorcerers, so they need to learn the tricks of the trade now. Something like that. Sure, I suppose that makes sense. The problem, however, is that I don’t see any of the instructors do any damn instructing. Who helped Reyes? Certainly not one of the adults. And in this week’s episode, we see Kunon practically mentor the other two advanced students without a single professor lifting a finger. This academy still feels like a scam. I want the Bobs from Office Space to come to this school and start grilling the staff, i.e. “What would you say you do here?”
Meanwhile, leaders from various factions are fighting over Kunon. Ho hum, the protagonist is awesome and everyone wants him. What else is new?
Hana-Kimi Ep. 11
We got all that build-up about how the other dorm was going to injure Mizuki, but it leads to nothing… for now. The story still want to milk this subplot, I guess. Instead, we get a tiff between Mizuki and Sano. Basically, the playboy gets rejected by his first love, so he asks our heroine for a hug as support. Sano sees this from a distance, so he doesn’t have the proper context to understand why it’s happening. As a result, he gets all moody and pretty much stays that way for most of the episode. Obviously, he likes Mizuki, but he doesn’t know it yet. Nor is he willing to communicate to her why he’s pissed off. Combine this with the fact that Mizuki is incredibly dense, it’s a pain to watch these two limp their way towards one day possibly dating. This is definitely one of those old school romance series where it’s all drama and no progress. I remember the first romance anime series I ever watched was Marmalade Boy, and that was definitely a chore to get through. I can’t imagine stomaching it nowadays. People used to like that shit. Judging by some reactions to Hana-Kimi, some people still do.
Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary Ep. 9
The first half is essentially Namu’s backstory. He’s a lot like Kaya in that he has the ability to perceive and exorcise ghosts. As a result, he was also ostracized by his peers, but the adults weren’t much better. There are two crucial differences between him and Kaya, though. First, Namu’s abilities seem more natural? He doesn’t have to turn into a specter like Kaya. Second, he didn’t meet a supporting adult until much later when he ran into the ojisan. Meanwhile, Kaya has had Chie in her corner for quite some time now. This does explain why Namu is so protective of the ojisan. The man is basically his first and only friend.
In the second half of the episode, Namu finally clues us in on what’s going on with Kaya. The Ebisumori women can apparently stick a specter inside the baby they’re carrying, which naturally gives the child amazing powers. Unfortunately, the specter will eventually take over, so Namu is trying to exorcise Kaya for good. Thanks to Chie’s love, however, she manages to bring the girl back from the brink, proving to Namu that Kaya is still human. As a result, he backs off for now, but how can we be sure that Kaya won’t lose control again? Just keep relying on the power of Chie’s love? And why is the specter in her unborn sibling so much more malevolent than she is? I mean, it has already gone after the grandmother, right? Also, is her mother deliberately creating these specter-powered babies even though she has been estranged from her family after all this time? Is she trying to get revenge on them? Maybe she is the big bad after all. And will somebody finally clue Kaya’s father in on what’s happening or is he just going to remain the clueless, overworked salaryman for the rest of the series?
Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I’ll Obtain Ultimate Power Ep. 10
Gilbert is finally found guilty of treason, but they execute him offscreen. All that build-up for nothing. What a bore. Instead, the emperor would rather talk about getting Noah hitched at the grand ol’ age of 12. For political reasons, he chooses his uncle’s granddaughter. So that would make her… what? Noah’s second cousin? I’m not good with these things. Naturally, the question must be asked: is this incest? I’d say borderline. Although royal families are known for their penchant for inbreeding, the risk of their babies having genetic defects should be low. Marrying your second cousin also happened a lot throughout history. Nevertheless, just because something used to be frequently practiced doesn’t mean it still isn’t unpalatable. So I’ll still say gross, ’cause it’s my prerogative.
Oh yeah, Noah earns himself another admirer by saving some wannabe knight from being raped, but what else is new?
The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor(ing) Kingdom Ep. 9
Imagine a wife too embarrassed to hand feed her husband a cookie. Pretty pathetic.
Anyway, the sea is acting up, because everyone there hates Tiararose for stealing Aquasteed away from Icilla. The fairies, however, think they’re bullying Tiararose by stealing her cookies. Right… well, the Sea Fairy “King” probably has something nastier in store for our heroine, but since this will be the final arc of the season, we’ll have to drag this out. For now, all she does is sit on her throne and glower.
Meanwhile, the Sky Fairy King pays Tiararose a visit, and he’s also trying to be smooth with her like Keith. Shameless. Any half-decent partner would make it clear to others that she won’t entertain their advances. But of course, that would ruin the harem fantasy so we can’t have that. Instead, we’ll just whine about cookies.
Everything else about everything else:
I finished up No Sleep For Kaname Date shortly after last week’s “Everything else” post. It’s pretty short, after all. The best thing I can say about the game is that Date seems relatively normal again. He was flanderized so hard in Nirvana Initiative. They pretty much destroyed his wholesome relationship with Mizuki that you worked so hard for in the first game. Luckily, Date and Mizuki are back to being a father/daughter duo in this game (even if she did lie to him about one big, major plot point).
I enjoyed the escape rooms and somniums despite their penchant for weird, obtuse logic at times. The story, however, is a letdown. Obviously, spoilers are incoming. This game wants to tie up a few loose ends, especially the ones concerning Pewter. I just really hated how it went about it. Because we can’t introduce too many new characters, all your closest friends have to play critical roles in the mystery. But they haven’t turned bad; because this is an interquel, they can’t turn bad. So instead, your closest friends have just decided to deceive you. Sure, everyone has good intentions, but after everything that Date has been through with these people, it just feels shitty. And because so much of this game is about resolving the issue with Pewter, the main threat involving the true culprit feels rushed and underdeveloped as a result.
In the end, the game had no new assets outside of the escape rooms and somniums. We also only get a couple of new characters. Sure, I love this cast, and I love universe in general. Even so, this could’ve been a solid DLC instead of a disappointing game. I dunno why they went with the latter.
Right now, I’m playing Yakuza Kiwami 3, which is a bit difficult to assess as a whole. There’s no doubt that the game is still a blast to play. I’ve been beating up thugs to clean up the streets, taking photos, playing the various mini-games like pool/darts/shogi, putting together outfits to wear out on the town, delivering soba for a local food stall, adding NPC friends on my brand new flip phone, leading a gal gang as the male diversity hire, farming crops, making bentos for the orphans, so on and so forth. What is the main story even about? The man who was essentially my dad has supposedly come back from the dead. Not only that, he’s been assassinating important people left and right. But who the hell cares? I’ve got bugs to catch and spearfishing to do! It’s just funny, because the side activities in the Like a Dragon series have one simple function: show these sad, miserable men what their lives would be like if they could simply walk away from organized crime. Unfortunately, they never do.
But we can’t talk about YK3 without addressing the elephant in the room, which is RGG’s terrible decision to recast one of the characters with an actor guilty of sexual misconduct. The game’s director has tried to say with a straight face that the actor’s real life creepiness makes him perfect for the role. Well, there are two problems with that. First, we don’t cast actual killers to play fictional murderers. So why would you need an actual creep to play a creep? That’s what acting is for, is it not? Second, Hamazaki is undoubtedly a slimeball within the story — one of the many antagonists that Kiryu has to deal with — but he wasn’t a sexual slimeball. So the director’s argument makes no sense no matter how you look at it. If it was so important for the actor to be a sexual predator, then having him play Kanda would’ve made more sense. But we didn’t recast him! Hell, Hamazaki is supposed to undergo a bit of a redemption arc in a later game, but apparently this won’t happen anymore? YK3 has somehow diverged the timeline? Man, I don’t even know what RGG is thinking.
Beyond the unfortunate recast, the game has made significant changes to the game. Gone is the tedious hostess minigame. I certainly did not enjoy my time with it in the original game. But they’ve also made some dubious cuts to the story. For instance, Mitsuo, one of the orphans, is half African-American. He has a crush on Riona, one of the girls at the orphanage, but she rejects the idea of dating him due to several reasons. She has a scar from her home being burned down in the past, and kids at school has been bullying her for it. She’s internalized this bullying as “brown or black skin is unattractive,” so she rejects Mitsuo for his skin color. Is she racist? Not deliberately, but her comments about Mitsuo do feel racist. For some reason, this has left been left out of the remake completely. I could understand this omission if the original game’s take on the dilemma was problematic. But it wasn’t. It was a clear teaching moment for the young girl. You can’t solve racism by erasing it completely. And this is just one of the many changes that I find questionable. Overall, YK3 accomplishes its primary goal: solve the pacing issues that plagued the original story. But in doing so, it lost a bit of its soul. Making a game more fun to play won’t necessarily make it a better experience overall, just a different one.
Anyways, I’m looking forward to Monster Hunter Stories 3 next. My biggest problem with the MonHun series is that I’m never emotionally invested in slaying the creatures. I don’t want to fight Gore Magala just for the sake of killing it. Give me a good reason. And the various MonHun games have always tried to give you an excuse for allt he violence, but they’re never particularly compelling. Ah, nature must maintain its balance or whatever, blah blah blah, I’m bored as hell. Well, Monster Hunter Stories 3 promises to deliver the best MonHun story to date, but that’s not exactly a high bar, now is it? So we’ll see. I would love nothing more than to have yet another highly anticipated JRPG series to look forward to. But I won’t get my hopes up, because I’m not exactly the biggest Capcom fan.
This section keeps getting longer and longer. I should really spin it off into its own post. Like instead of covering Dead Account every Saturday, I could just ramble about games instead. But I have this weird issue where I feel like an anime blog should mainly focus on anime, so I’ve always been kinda reluctant to post about video games too often.
