Just the Ticket

Crossover by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster×Pagemaster To be legal and clear for just a moment, I have based/taken many of my "most famous" bits of brand identity from across the entertainment spectrum. Before it was Just the Ticket , my "column" (as I called it in the defunct message board space that was Yahoo! Groups) was known as SWAT Ticket (l@er abbrevi@ed to SW@ Ticket ), rhyming off of the old Leonard Maltin review show, Hot Ticket . My old sign-off combo was borrowed from Ryan Seacrest (I still use the "Out" line to end my posts to this day) and the Stephen King & Peter Straub sequel, Black House ("Chew it up, eat it up, or wash it down, it all comes out the same place!"). My byline a.k.a. for most of my non- anime posts is obviously borrowed from Ticketmaster . And for today's crossover (that I didn't know would be a crossover until I started reading the first story in the issue up for review), I'm adding ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, I May Be The Animeister, But I'll Do AniMonday On A Tuesday To Clear My BAWklog On Time. Yesterday, I reviewed an anime with a long title that happened before the anime started, where a middle-aged male guild receptionist dreamed of punching a mythical beast really hard , and today, I'm reviewing an anime with a long title that's the running joke of the anime where a young female guild receptionist beats monsters into fountains of blood and viscera with a giant bunny-girl hammer because she dreams of not being stuck at work her entire life. I May Be A Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss To Clock Out On Time  is the latter anime, based on a still-ongoing light-novel-turned-manga by Mato Kosaka and illustrated by Gaou and Suzu Yūki , and animated by Rascal and Shadows' House studio  Clover Works . In the static JRPG world of Girumasu (as it is known to those who don't want to say the entire title more than once), Adventurers...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Middle-Aged Newbie Digital Marketer, Schooled and Gambled To Debt, Became An Animeister. The new trend in Japanese fantasy media this year seems to be guild receptionists who'd rather kill monsters than push papers, and I drafted this review in early 2025 when I was still doing the call to action twice in my posts, so please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, leave a comment at the bottom of this post and any others you have opinions about, help out my ad revenue as you read because I would also rather do cool stuff than work in customer service, and follow me on BlueSky , Tumblr , Reddit , Facebook , Instagram , Pinterest , YouTube , and LinkedIn to like what you see and receive the latest news on my content. And read on as I review an anime with a long title where the long title happened before the anime started. The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death By the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible is...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 10, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The first week of  Anime August , went surprisingly well, Ticketholders! We're still not up to the viewing numbers I had last year, but I'm incredibly happy with the results nonetheless, and I still intend to squeeze in as many  Anime Spotlight  issues and Japanese or anime-inspired film reviews as possible, including two of the former and a live-action movie for this week. Unfortunately, I still haven't touched Dexter: Resurrection yet, so that review won't be coming for quite some time. Keep reading after the calendar for more on my future content plans, and please remember to comment at the bottom of my Blogger posts, Become A Ticketholder because I know you haven't already, help out my ad revenue as you read because I may still end up needing that five dollars, and follow me on social media at the links below to like what you see and to receive the latest news o...

Crossover by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster×Animeister. Today's movie up for review is considered to be one of the best, most influential anime of all time...and I've never seen it. I know some things about it from secondary sources (particularly the mild copyright infringement that took place when SNK created the King Of Fighters character, K'9999 , right down to having Tetsuo's Japanese voice actor record lines for the 2001 and 2002 entries in the series, leading to a twenty-plus-year absence of the character for legal reasons, at which point he was redesigned and renamed as Khronen for KOF XV ), but that's about it. So imagine my surprise when My Hero Academia would give the Villain Tomura Shigaraki (real name: Tenko Shimura) a red cape and a body horror arm in Seasons Six and Seven, respectively. It's Anime August , so I took that as a sign that I should finally watch Akira . Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo and based on his 1982 manga of the sa...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The August Animeister. Anime August rolls on, Ticketholders, and although the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective and Anime Spotlight don't intersect on the Time Drop Publications Venn diagram very much, nothing says "anime" like a pseudo-canonical beach episode full of fanservice and waifus using their powers to turn a simple summer game into a fight to the death for reasons that Sigmund Freud would have a field day with. And speaking of things Freud would have a field day with, that immediately reminded me of the time I watched competitive beach volleyball and there was a player with the last name of Hooker (I don't remember what year or if it was the Summer Olympics or not, so I'm not sure if it was Destinee or Chloe ). So of course there was a male sports commentator talking about her ball-handling skills, and saying things like "Hooker goes to her knees!" and other such phrases that made my inner thirteen-year-ol...