I’ve been trying desperately to catch up on some more recent series, and one I’ve been particularly interested in was this one. After all the talk of MHA, it’s refreshing to see a VERY different take on hero society.
BUT IS IT ANY GOOD? Find out below, and as always, SPOILERS AHEAD.
Continue readingGood evening! I am tired.
Enough of that though, I wanted to update everyone on my ongoing struggle with the disease called “life”. It’s been a bit since I talked about life things, so I figured an update was due, especially since I haven’t been posting anything but Hell/Dolls stuff recently.
Health-wise, I’m fluctuating between “healthy” and “dead”, but not as badly as I would’ve expected by this point in my life. I visit a mental health doctor, family medicine doctor, dentist, and eye doctor regularly compared to how I was the past decade. Teeth are still in my head, blood pressure and cholesterol could be better, and sleep is what it has been since high school.
My right eye, however, possibly has something called keratoconus, which basically means my eye is distending at a rate that could cause partial blindness if left untreated. I’m seeing someone in September to confirm I have it, then I get the surgery if I do, hopefully before the end of the year.
I have kept hold of my current job, now making it the longest career I’ve ever held (just passed five years), and I still enjoy the people, coworkers, and the work. If I end up moving out of my current state, I will definitely look for a similar job. Unfortunately, a lot of my favorite coworkers (including my direct boss), have either left the company indefinitely or prepared themselves to leave, so there’s a lot of shuffling positions right now, which is a little stressful, especially considering I don’t know who’s going to be filling the holes. New bosses can always be a hard thing to get used to, more so if they have a different leading style than you’re used to. Still, I’m holding my breath.
Aside from that, as y’all are (painfully) aware, I’ve been writing a lot more than before in my spare time, mostly Hell/Dolls and supplementary material for it. I am still greatly enjoying building the world beyond its original design, and redesigning and building new characters and pieces of the world. I haven’t had this much freedom with my passions in a long time, mostly due to being pressed for time – work, stress, and duties to school and family were always preventing me from committing my thoughts to paper. Nowadays, I feel like my scheduled interactions with others are more clear, well-placed, and fit with my pace and needs.
I’ve been looking into Fiverr for some high-quality art for my story (mainly for the cover, world map, and possibly a map of the main city), and a couple artists have stood out to me. If I can at least get a commissioned world map with the details I want, I will be much more likely to release art with the chapters, as I originally wanted. I may release the first designs I had, but I’m still on the fence.
The last thing I wanted to talk about today was my reviews. I haven’t really been posting many anime reviews lately, and I haven’t posted a game review since I came back, as much as I want to write them. I’ve been watching full cours of anime recently, so I’m not lacking review material, but I need to buckle down and think hard to write those reviews in a way that doesn’t sound too repetitive, which I felt was happening with the last few I wrote.
To be honest, I have a few reviews started right now (Metallic Rouge, The Wrong Way TO Use Healing Magic, and a couple of other fun ones), but for me, reviews have to be written after binging the series or while watching episodes. Otherwise, the details get fuzzy, the episodes blend together, and I forget key points or confuse characters or meanings. I have never deemed myself a professional reviewer, and I won’t deign to be one now.
That’s all for now, I just wanted to give y’all a quick update on my life. I hope you all enjoyed my rant today. I’ll try to get some more content posted.
Thanks for listening!
-Marcosias Isif
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an anime review, so I figured I’d pad my site with a fairly recent series! Sengoku Youko is an emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, and I’d love to spoil it for you.
In case you didn’t get it, spoilers ahead.
Continue readingAnime review time, y’all! And a doozy at that: a fanservice-y, action-moe-comedy adventure, that is Yozakura Quartet (the later episodes, not the original series)!
I decided to review these three arcs together, since they are meant to be part of the same continuity (the original series deviates a bit compared to these ones, which is why we’ll be ignoring it for now).
Here is a brief synopsis from MAL (this one’s hard for me to explain for some reason):
The world of Yozakura Quartet is actually not one, but two worlds: one of humans, and one of youkai. Despite appearing mostly human, youkai may have animal like physical traits, along with a number of special abilities. Normally youkai are confined to their world, but some have found their way into the realm of humanity. As a symbol of peace, and a bridge between the two realms, a city was constructed within the protective barrier of seven magical trees, otherwise known as the Seven Pillars. This city of Sakurashin is home to both humans and youkai, with the peace between them maintained by the Hizumi Life Counseling Office.
The director of this office is Akina Hiizumi, a teenager with the inherited family ability to perform “tuning,” which can send harmful youkai back to their world permanently. He is aided by a group of girls, including the town’s 16 year old youkai mayor, Hime Yarizakura, their town’s announcer and resident telepath, Ao Nanami, and Kotoha Isone, a half-youkai who can summon objects just by stating the object’s name.
As new residents enter and mysterious events begin to take place, this quartet of protectors and their closest friends must continue to guard the city of Sakurashin, and maintain the fragile balance of peace between humans and youkai.
This show is one of my favorites, though as I rewatched this particular series, I realized it may be a bit… much for people just getting into anime. Some of the fanservice and jokes may not have aged well, also.
So take everything I say with a grain of salt, and as always, spoilers ahead!
Continue readingGood morrow!
Today, we will be taking a look at a show that tackles a specific future: AI and the destruction of humanity. Did you guess right? It’s “Vivy ~Fluorite Eye’s Song~, a series that has one hell of an opening scene, and even more hell of a story!
A little look at the plot synopsis, created from my own mind:
The story follows the beginning of artificial intelligence’s rise to commonplace, as AI begins to grow in both popularity and usefulness. Specifically, a musical-type AI named “Diva” struggles to gain an audience, though she is “encouraged” by a human child to aim for the big stage. Her coding is suddenly intruded on by another AI named “Matsumoto”, that tells her she is the key to preventing an AI apocalypse. As she tries to ignore him / get rid of him, she becomes more aware of how true his mission is – for better and for worse.
And for once, I will ACTUALLY be spoiling some major points, so SPOILERS AHEAD!
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