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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Animeister. If you recall from last month's GFT Retrospective posts, I got to a point where I didn't like how much I was repeating myself week-to-week, and decided to change up my scheduling to avoid falling into that pattern any further. As much as I still like Dragon Ball DAIMA , I've unfortunately gotten to a similar point with that series as well, so please  give me your energy and grant my wish by  clicking the Follow button to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, commenting at the bottom of this post, helping out my ad revenue as you read so I don't have to deal with Third Demon World problems, and following me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest news on my content. After having done the modern, "overlay title on episode animation" thing for a few more episodes, DAIMA  once again has a title card for its sixth episode, "Lightning," whi

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster No Hours November continues, Ticketholders! I don't have anything new of importance to say, so unless you'd like a weekly reminder of what I'm going to eventually do next year, go ahead and skip to the content calendar. With winter cuts to working hours going into effect here, I'm going to slow things down for this month in terms of content intake, start preparing in earnest for next year, and use my increased time at home to polish up my job hunting documents in hopes that I can make a late-stage pivot into a career that I love. I have the first part of my new  Dragon  Blog  Z  What If finished and scheduled for release next April, with a second concept kicking around in my brain, and my other projects still floating in the pipeline, including a work of original fiction, multiple   Anime Spotlight  and  Anime-BAWklog  updates, including  Natsume's Book Of Friends ( which not only dropped its sixth season dub all at

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Usual Ticketmaster. When choosing movies to review for the List Lookback series and which movie should go in each month, I mostly made sense without stretching logic too much. But when it came to November, I handed logic over to the cuckoo and let it fly off into the sunset. And no - to those of you who didn't pay attention to the title of this post - I'm not doing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ...this year. I'm just being random and meta for the sake of having an intro. Instead, I thought which movie would give me the most to talk about, and concocted a threadbare justification to tie it to Thanksgiving: an awkward gathering of weird and uncomfortable characters; and unfortunately, the passage of time has made nothing so weird, uncomfortable, and awkward as the rounding up of The Usual Suspects  by Bryan Singer and Kevin Spacey . So as I talk about how good and influential this movie is despite its perverse pedigree, please rem

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Omnibuster I was all set to start re-reading The Dream Eater Saga for this week's review, but when I looked at Volume One's table of contents (the Saga  is split into two Volumes), I saw that one of the issues was a Myths & Legends issue as well, so I pivoted hard into that series (itself spanning five Volumes of varying lengths) instead. Myths & Legends is, at first, a "where are they now?"/soft reboot/retcon of several popular early Zenescope issues and characters, kind of like what was done with Cinderella Revisited before it. It also serves as kind of an apology series for the premature cancelation of Grimm Tales  (the announced Samantha Darren-focused series that would have spun out of The Good Witch if not for her clumsy handling as Sela's replacement amidst the original leading lady's equally clumsily handled resurrection). I had some...conflicted feelings about Myths & Legends on first read, which I w

Article By Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Animeister The gang's all here, Ticketholders! Or rather, the main half of the gang is all here. Which is also the case for my experience with the new Vampire Survivors DLC. I did not play Castlevania growing up, so the bulk of my knowledge of the franchise comes from watching lore and gameplay videos on YouTube. But the scope of this content and the heart and production value behind it (particularly the concept of the final? boss) is insane. Finding and unlocking everything so far has felt incredibly satisfying. But now I'm in the "the map has nothing left to reveal so let's make the player do things twice and figure out cryptic bullshit to unlock character skins and low-tier playable enemies" phase where the game (the mobile version, at least) is starting to show its seams. Powerful passive items are blocked off by erroneous invisible walls, unlock conditions sometimes fail to trigger, getting a build that fits conditions

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster No Hours November continues, Ticketholders! And it's going pretty well for a content-dry month. I've still yet to match the monthly all-time viewership high that I hit in March and April, but I still love what I do here. With winter cuts to working hours going into effect here, I'm going to slow things down for this month in terms of content intake, start preparing in earnest for next year, and use my increased time at home to polish up my job hunting documents in hopes that I can make a late-stage pivot into a career that I love. I have the first part of my new  Dragon  Blog  Z  What If finished and scheduled for release next April, with a second concept kicking around in my brain, and my other projects still floating in the pipeline, including a work of original fiction, multiple   Anime Spotlight  and  Anime-BAWklog  updates, including  Natsume's Book Of Friends ( which not only dropped its sixth season dub all at on