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Content Calendar Announcement, Week of January 11, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Decisive Ticketmaster. It is with a heavy heart and the discarding of many a sunk cost that I have elected to terminate my over three-year partnership with the paid SEO service provider, BlogPros. They were a big contributor to my analytics boom throughout 2024 , but beginning late in that year, I started to see diminishing returns that continued through the new year, and as you may recall from a few of my posts in late 2025 , my BlogPros Dashboard had not updated since the last week of November, and my attempts to contact their service department went unanswered to this day despite my account still being charged for their services. I may seek out an alternative, or try my luck without a SEO provider for awhile. We shall see.... The future of the  Gachiakuta  review remains uncertain because the dub season hasn't finished airing yet, but I did finally watch the second season of Kaiju No...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets. After all of my planning, procrastination, crunch, burnout, and delays (you can remind yourselves of the details by reading the State Of the Ticketverse 2025 and the most recent edition of Time Drops ), I'm glad it worked out that I'm starting off Goj-Year-ra by reviewing the 1954 classic as my two hundredth Just the Ticket post. Directed and co-written by kaiju genre legend Ishirō Honda , 1954's Gojira was a statement piece about the trauma inflicted upon the Japanese people by the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, as well as the potential for global annihilation should the nuclear arms race escalate further. Somewhere off the coast of Odo (the maintenance island attacked by Godzilla at the beginning of Minus One , but here, it's home to a fishing village because Gojira is set in its year of release, rather than during the end of the war), several ships are sunk a...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, A Wild Omnibuster Has Appeared! Welcome to the Jungle , Ticketholders! Take a look around while you're here. It won't bring you to your shananana-knees and you're not gonna die, because I've taken this Limp Bizkit / Guns 'n' Roses gimmick as far as it can go without crashing around to the tune of "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" like Jim Carrey forgetting his lines. Yeah; my Wonderland madness hasn't worn off yet, so I'm still kinda random right now. When I originally talked about Zenescope comics in Cover Charge #3: Grimm Fairy Tales  (FROM June 8, 2014) , I briefly summarized it and its sequel (I will be covering that next week) as follows: "I don't yet see how it's connected to the Grimm Universe. The story is decent and the action is easy enough to follow, but all they did was make Mowgli a girl so there would be an excuse to write an unrequited lesbian romance between her and a human mongoose." ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. New year, New Saga , Ticketholders! Also, let's get the meme crap out of the way because I know some of you are thinking about it. Yes, this is  the sixty-seventh Anime Spotlight . And yes, I chose to review today's anime for the first Monday of the year before I even watched an episode, solely because it has the word "New" in the title. New Saga (literally translated from Japanese as Be Stronger! New Saga , or New Saga Plus ) is a one-season promotional anime (so far, there are no plans for a continuation, so that's what I'm calling it, even though the print sources have also concluded) for a novel, light-novel, and manga  series written by Masayuki Abe  (with different artists for each medium) and published on Shōsetsuka ni Narō  (who have handled so many properties I've reviewed that I'd be here listing them all day) and by AlphaPolis ( Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy ). In a fantasy world where land ma...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of January 4, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Fresh Ticketmaster. 2026 is here, Ticketholders! I said pretty much everything that I wanted to say about 2025 in my State Of the Ticketverse post on Thursday, including my big plan for this year, so go read that if you haven't done so yet. As for why I skipped out on reviewing Gojira  (1954) yesterday, the short answer is that I'm in a bad place and I needed to breathe. Working on and consuming so much content has "required" a lot of caffeine (basically making myself an energy debtor), distanced me from my family, cost me valuable sleep, and turned me into someone I don't like being. Dealing with other people I don't like is one thing; trying to cope with not liking myself as a result of doing something I enjoy is an entirely different, more serious matter that can present itself in unpleasant ways. And while I am not of a mind to send myself Down the Rabbit Hole , so to...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Resolute Ticketmaster. Happy New Year, Ticketholders! And I'm not just saying that as a stock holiday greeting; 2025 left much to be desired from a real-world perspective, to be polite and non-specific about things, and I want everyone (who isn't a delusional sociopath, a sex criminal, a greedy asshole billionaire, a political assassin, a rage-baiting grifter, or any combination or supporter thereof) to make something new and happy out of this year that lies ahead. For me personally, 2025 was full of mixed blessings. I got a new phone, my employer finally recognized and rewarded me for my contributions and loyalty, I have a co-worker who's worth a damn (but the two who aren't decided to quit, and bodies are bodies at the very least), and I made some long-needed renovations to my personal space that helped me feel more productive than I had in awhile. As a result of my improved finances, I was able to contribute to my family more, an...