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Time Drops #144: Month Of May, 2026

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Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 3, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. You may have been expecting to see my review of Godzilla vs Megalon drop yesterday, and I did start writing it on Thursday after a grueling day of misinformation, missed connections, and mass transit, but I decided to put it off for a week and give my brain a few days of rest in preparation for the month when I get older, which it now is, so I have to come up with a plan for the content to come in the weeks ahead. As for the month gone by, according to the following image, Just the Ticket finished April nearly three hundred views short of my goal of ten thousand, as of 5pm Pacific Standard Time on April 30. But that figure is nothing to sneeze at (seasonal allergy pun not intended, but I'll take it), and my reading/sharing audience continues to be the best pseudo-silent minority on the internet, so thank you all for doing what you do. All I can do at this point is reset my goal for a n...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #56: Angel & Gods

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. As of this writing, Just the Ticket is roughly 1,000 views away from my monthly goal of ten thousand, which I haven't hit, let alone surpassed, in two years. But whether or not guardian angels and magic get involved, I think we can totally pull it off, so I'm bringing back the doubled call to action in hopes that you  Stay Tuned  and 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 onward, and follow me on  BlueSky ,  Tumblr ,  Facebook ,  Instagram ,  Pinterest ,  YouTube , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see, receive the latest news on my content, and get me closer to that goal. Getting into today's content, I'd also like to preface this review/summary/ Retrospective thing by noting that there is no such collection of Zenescope comics from the 201...
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Anime Spotlight #76: Re-Birth/Verse

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. You know I love a good pun , Ticketholders; especially puns that work on multiple levels, because it takes more than a simple homophone to create. For example, the title of today's isekai getting the Anime Spotlight treatment for the month of April takes advantage of the interchangeable phoenetics of katakana to make a bilingual pun out of its English subtitle ("birth" and "verse" are spelled with the same characters in Japanese). Unfortunately, the anime itself ended up as a double- entendre of trying too hard and not trying hard enough. Heh; trying.... Onmyō Kaiten Re:Bāsu ( Re-birth / Reverse ) is a rare case of a Japanese property starting as an anime and being adapted into manga form later. Created by Fujiko Sakuno (who also writes the manga ) and series director Hideya Takahashi with animation by David Production ( Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ), it follows Narihira Takeru (a loud...
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Just the Ticket #216: Godzilla vs Gigan

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I was not alive yet, but the 70s were a strange time, if these last two  Goj -Year- ra  selections (and A Clockwork Orange ) are anything to go by. The architecture (before it's kicked over, smashed, cut through, and/or exploded), the hair and fashion that looks androgynous (feathered bangs! Dracula collars! Even the pant-legs are dresses!) and either over-patterned with intense primary colors or monochromatic with pastels (fittingly for the latter this month) like the designers were trying to blind you with Easter , and the...enhanced thinking it takes to come up with a plot where alien cockroaches try to conquer Earth with a cyborg buzzsaw chicken while two monsters talk to each other with see-through speech bubbles and rewinding tape noises. Directed by former franchise black sheep (before Yoshimitsu Banno "ruined" it with last week's entry )  Jun Fukuda  ( Ebirah and Son Of Godzilla ), Godzilla vs Gigan (pref...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #55: Myths & Legends Volume Four (Hansel & Gretel)

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. Now that we're sufficiently afflicted with the munchies after Monday's events , it's time to get lost in the woods and eat a magic candy house! And maybe get a little disappointed and uncomfortable with the contents of the Trade I'm reviewing today. Now that I know about the Myths & Legends Omnibus on ComiXology, I'll be pulling assets from it, the Volume Four Trade (because, yes, we're jumping backward to the penultimate arc of the series from Volume Five to Volume Four, like I mentioned last week ), and...other sources. But as I always do, let's first look at the original issue, which was included as one of the bonus materials for Volume Four. GFT #3: Hansel & Gretel This issue is very on-the-nose with its character names and framing scenario, which was generally the case with early Grimm Fairy Tales , though some issues got more creative with the derivations than we see here. A brother and sister...
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Anime Spotlight #75: I Was Reincarnated As the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (2026 Update)

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. High, Ticketholders! Today is important for getting stoned (and for no other reason), and it's my second week of isekai anime in April, so I decided to cover the second season of I Was Reincarnated As the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (for some reason), the first season of which I reviewed on July 15, 2024, prefaced by a tangent on the awkward linguistics and social stigma of being sibling-deficient, the cultural importance of long-winded names, and the number of nickels I'd have for anime about throne-distant isekai protagonists. Here's the review copy of that before I get into the second season, with a few edits: I Was Reincarnated As the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (thank this series' one angel for predictive text) is obviously your usual novel/light-novel/ manga franchise publication salad, this time written by the awesomely named Kenkyo na Circ...
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Just the Ticket #215: Godzilla vs Hedorah

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. This is what I've been waiting for, Ticketholders! Like, I wasn't waiting to get to this specific movie in the Goj -Year- ra lineup, but I swiped away my media player with an incredible sense of hype and emotional disturbance that I hadn't felt since Minus One or the original Godzilla . Emitted into the world in 1971 as a visceral and blatant commentary piece the likes of which the franchise hadn't attempted in nearly a generation, Godzilla vs Hedorah ( Godzilla vs the Smog Monster in the U.S.) was directed and co-written by franchise first-timer Yoshimitsu Banno , with Haruo Nakajima returning as Godzilla, and Gigan and Heisei era Godzilla suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma as Hedorah. None of the human actors here are recognizable to Godzilla fans, nor have any notable roles outside the franchise, so I'll just be referring to them by name or archetype going forward. Between the epic Bond -alike banger of a them...
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