Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. In my neck of the woods (a phrase that is biologically impossible, if not also psychologically scarring to imagine in a literal, body horror sense, especially if you take into account the arboreal hydra that would be given shape by multiple points of view, but I dye grass when I'm overcaffeinated), I can breathe the smoky flames of Canada as we speak. But I did not choose this Anime Spotlight update for July because of some future-sighted state I achieved by tapping into a parallel Hell dimension; rather, it was because July is the month of independent rebellion (in at least two countries), which we celebrate with fireworks. Fireworks, Fire Force ; it was as simple as that. And then I started watching the third (and final?) season of Fire Force , and was reminded of the rebel authority role that Company Eight has in the series and how the themes of the new season comment on modern government, politics, and culture. So Fire Force f...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Today, the Heisei Era of  Goj -Year- ra  comes to an end. And one question that had been going through my mind since Godzilla vs Mothra is "what's going to happen with the meteor?" It wasn't mentioned in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II , and even though the plot of Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla could have easily been altered so that SpaceGodzilla was the meteor, perhaps sent by an opportunistic alien race (or by the evil alternate future Japan from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah , or by the kaiju ruler of a supermassive sister planet to Earth that hid in Saturn's shadow or something) to kill Godzilla and conquer Earth, that wasn't the case, either. Nor, as I now understand, does Godzilla vs Destoroyah have anything to do with it. So again, what happened with the meteor? Well, apparently, some time between Godzilla vs Mothra and Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla , Mothra just...took care of it offscreen, I guess. But as di...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Lucky Retrospectre? Said "luck" is more like a fifty-fifty occurrence. Or rather, twenty-five percent and slowly rising. See, because of how Facebook and Instagram work, my promotions for these blog articles get pushed on Threads , too, and when a Thread gets popular enough (like my push of last Friday's Superman review ), I see notifications as it passes fifty or a hundred views (the last notification I received). That particular thread also got nine likes and a comment written in emojis. But can you guess how many views the actual review itself got in that time? Less than thirty. No likes. No comments. I appreciate the blind social media engagement, but maybe click the link to the post before you react to it? I don't even think you have to read anything of mine (but I hope you do) for the views to count. The internet (and the world) could do with a bit more literacy, reality, and truth. So let's talk about a fairy tale...