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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster×Animeister Believe it or not, today's ambitious crossover was the result of some cerebral flatulence I had while watching Godzilla Minus One a few weeks ago. In my mind, I kept referring to the Oxygen Destroyer from the original Godzilla as the Airborne Element Fixing Device (which is the name of the Kisaragi cyborg's transformation choker in the Cutie Honey franchise). So, once I made that connection and correction in my brain, I figured that since I already knew about the Cutie Honey live-action movie from one of Bob Chipman's YouTube videos  (where he gets a few minor details wrong and basically gives away the plot and bizarre highlights of the entire movie, so I'm glad I hadn't watched it in five years until after I saw the movie first), I'd review it for myself. But then I saw that there was a second live-action Cutie Honey movie , and here we are with a Sunday Double-Feature , which I have done a num...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 31, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The month of  Anime August  is basically over, and it's been exhausting trying to fit all of these  Anime Spotlight  issues and Japanese or anime-inspired film reviews into a single week (including tomorrow's Cutie Honey Double-Feature , of which I've only watched one movie and written less than one review). The other thing that's exhausting is the pressure that comes with being  Employee Of the Month  and trusting other people to do my job when I'm needed elsewhere or trying to enjoy my days off (which aren't usually days off because I have to do things like Adult and Be Needed and Care when I mostly just want to be a shut-in vegetable who over-eats and sweats into his bedsheets while watching anime and movies and writing until he passes out, like a normal person). As such, I haven't made any further progress on  Dexter: Resurrection , bu...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Brilliant Animeister. I'm also incredibly humble, Ticketholders! And  I've never made that joke before . At least the stream of repetitive harem trash with a protagonist who's really good at curing people has dried up, right? Right‽ I mean, it's not like he's an alchemist adventurer or an apothecary alchemist ; he's an ex-adventurer healer this time. And his hair isn't silver, so that's something different, isn't it? I promise, this last week of Anime August does not have a theme! And I'm definitely not "coping," either! The Brilliant Healer's New Life In the Shadows began its life at both the best and worst possible time (November 2020) as a novel series by Sakaku Hishikawa , who also writes the light-novel, webtoon, and manga adaptations, all four of which are still ongoing. If you know what 2020 means, you know what I mean about the worst possible time. But as for the best possible time...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Aware Animeister. As you can probably tell from the above image, I'm putting about as much effort into this post as the creator of today's anime put into making it an original product, and why not start with its similarities to yesterday's selection in the month of Anime August , Possibly The Greatest Alchemist Of All Time . To say nothing of the similar title designs (right down to color choices, font, and the appearance of diamond shapes in each), both anime feature a silver-haired male protagonist who makes superior potions, weapons, clothing, etc. compared to the norm, and garners female attention by being a bland, happy, kind, clueless dork. The Unaware Atelier Meister  is an anime based on the expected holy trinity of Japanese print media (all ongoing and published by  AlphaPolis , who also distribute Greatest Alchemist —hence those similarities, I guess—and Tsukimichi ), written by Yōsuke Tokino , with Zounoze illustrating the l...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Possibly The Greatest Animeister Of All Time. It's AniMonday every day in the final week of Anime August , Ticketholders, and if you've made note of the above banner image, today's anime up for review is definitely an anime I'm reviewing this week.  Unlike Solo Leveling or Tower Of God , there isn't much to say about it in terms of animation quality, credits music, or writing so far (assuming it continues, and if isekai slop like By the Grace Of the Gods and I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level can get two seasons...), but I found enough to say that it justifies me writing this post for your reading pleasure. Possibly the Greatest Alchemist Of All Time sounds like something you'd say in the late 2000s after interrupting Taylor Swift at an awards show , but it's actually an isekai anime based on an ongoing novel/light-novel/ manga series ( The Simpsons ' belt-onion of Japanese print media mod...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Irregularly Ranked Animeister. That byline has less to do with fluctuating analytics than with terms used in today's anime up for review in Anime August (and Tower Of God certainly has no shortage of "YA novel words that mean things," let me tell you). I seriously mean it; I'd like you to let me tell you (though as is the case in 2025, I'm saving that call to action until the end). And that starts with edited reprints of my Spotlightning Round blurbs on the series, which starts with Anime-BAWklog #7: Spotlightning Round (Part II) FROM May 29, 2023 : Tower Of God  is based on an ongoing South Korean web comic by S.I.U. (real name, Lee Jong-hui) on the Naver and Line Webtoon platforms. This series (the one and only season we got at the time) is beautiful, surreal, has one of the best magic systems in  shōnen , and its characters (except for one, and if you've watched this, you know who I mean) are likeable and creati...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Animeister My original Solo Leveling Spotlight marked the six hundredth post I ever published on Blogger, and it's kind of a fitting coincidence that I'm now starting the final week of Anime August (a month that I began by celebrating my fiftieth Anime Spotlight and my eight hundredth Blogger post with a massive look at My Hero Academia ) with a second season update on Solo Leveling . As a reminder,  Solo Leveling  began its English-language life as a web novel on  Webnovel  (duh) titled  Only I Level Up , which proved popular enough to receive a web comic adaptation of the same title on the same platform (written by  Chugong  and illustrated by the late  Dubu ), and I managed to read all of it (with the exception of the side stories and the Ragnarok  sequel series that were published after the main story concluded) before Webnovel's subscription and  gacha -based customization mechanics started...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 24, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It's been awhile since I've had anything personal to talk about, and this is going to sound like a pathetic ego flex (because it kind of is), but earlier this week, I was chosen as Employee Of the Month at my store. I've been doing a lot of random tasks around the store in addition to working in the deli (where my attitude is mostly improved compared to previous stints in the department), throwing grocery and frozen freight (the latter of which also involves separating out the meat and deli freight and dropping it off in those departments), and this week, counting inventory. So, I suppose I've earned the honor (even if it is by random draw) with all that I've contributed, even though I know my attitude isn't always the best and I butt heads with my manager on days that end in "-day" and start with letters. It's kind of unbelievable. Like, I'm p...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Nearly forty issues of Just the Ticket and one year ago, I reviewed Last Man Standing , wherein I gave a first hour (or so I thought, until I realized that I didn't remember anything past the thirty-minute mark) first impression of the movie that it and Sergio Leone 's A Fistful Of Dollars were adapted from. And seeing as how I have some unfinished business with Yojimbo , I knew immediately that it should be the Friday feature for Samurai Week in the month of Anime August , even before I replaced my regular New Comic Book Day and Throwback Thursday content with a Snow White mockbuster and Seven Samurai , respectively. The timing was practically fated to be; chosen by the tossing of a stick or the spin of a bottle. I will attempt to edit the following reprint of Just the Ticket #154: Last Man Standing (List Lookback) FROM August 30, 2024  to separate my opinions of Yojimbo from the lesser context of its later adaptation b...