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Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! Usopp in One Piece  has gone on a huge journey, not just from Syrup Village in East Blue through the Grand Line insanity and being trapped on a giant carnivorous flower for two years , and now into the New World ; but from being a liar and coward to just a coward , to a strategic coward and makeshift shipwright who wants to be a Brave Warrior Of the Sea , to someone who can stand toe-to-toe with Luffy, to a revolution-igniting superhero who can befriend giants and emotionally scar ghosts , to a man driven by survival to become the peak physical version of himself . His cowardice has always been a part of his character, but as the story has gone on, it's become less of a "this is this person's one defining trait" situation, and more of a...power-dampener for Eiichiro Oda- sensei to figure out ways to write Usopp as a character who is powerful in ways that don't ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. As of this writing, I am exhausted and stressed out from work, and really wish people would stop being pyromaniac assholes because my job isn't the only reason I can't breathe or sleep or gather the energy to produce and promote content in a timely fashion lately. Regardless of how I feel, though, you all are still turning out the views, no paid SEO service required. So thank you. Let's get into this week's  Goj -Year- ra project review. Released theatrically in 2001 but set in 2004 (given that everyone says the events of Gojira took place fifty years ago), the mouthful of a title that is  Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack  (Miss GMK , if you're nasty) was directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko (on the heels of directing the Heisei Era Gamera Trilogy, and he would go on to direct the live-action Death Note films) in partnership with Keiichi Hasegawa (the Ultraman  franchise...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. Normally, when I'd review a miniseries like this that has lore behind it, the post would include reprints of my old reviews as well (particularly with things like Myths & Legends ). But in cases like my Dream Eater Saga reviews, some characters and IPs had so much lore behind them that I merely linked to my relevant reviews instead. Godstorm is one of these latter cases. So, here we go! Grimm Fairy Tales #54: The Grateful Beasts (first appearance of Ares, and Greco-Roman deities, in general, in the Grimm Universe) Goddess  (first appearance of Venus, and the final Short Story) Grimm Fairy Tales #58-62: Mother Nature (Druanna, a.k.a. the Titan Gaia, is introduced for the first time) Grimm Fairy Tales #68: The Immortals  (first bit of lore on the Greco-Roman pantheon in the Grimm Universe) Myths & Legends: The Gathering  (origin story of the sun Titan Helios in the Grimm Universe, Venus claims the Beast ) Grimm F...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! Just a friendly, hypothetical warning for you before we set sail for the Second Piece of the Dressrosa Arc: sometimes, being a team player means having to play as the team while they hide, complain, blame you for their failures, and act stupid (or are stupid) because they claim to have it harder than you, whatever "it" may be and whether or not "it" actually exists. Do what you can and what you know is right because regardless of the burden expected of you, that is really all you can do. Patience and right will prevail in the end. I hope. When we last left the Dressrosa Arc , twenty-four episodes had elapsed, setting up the world-building, important characters, and plot points that could be relevant going forward. One of the biggest was whether or not Doflamingo Donquixote is a Celestial Dragon, and it turns out that, yeah, he is. At least, by blood. And by acti...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Today, the  Goj -Year- ra  project ends the first week of August with the second film, and second continuity reboot, of the Millennium Era, which the fandom often ranks with Some Monsters Almost Attack , Godzilla Raids Again , Godzilla '98 , and Ebirah, Horror Of the Deep as among the franchise's worst entries. I'm not quite so severe on it, but in contrast to Godzilla 2000 (which I reviewed last week), it gave me a strong first impression and spun into a rapid decline from there, for numerous reasons I will get into later. Godzilla vs Megaguirus (released in 2000 under a Japanese title that translates as Godzilla×Megaguirus: The G Extermination Strategy , so I guess the multiplication symbol is a Millennium Era "versus" thing?) was the directorial debut of Masaaki Tezuka ( Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. , a.k.a. "the Kiryu Saga") and written by the team of  Hiroshi Kash...