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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...

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...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Dark Ticket-Ripper. It's going to happen tonight. I don't know what it is, But it's going to happen. Or maybe it's going to happen in two weeks. Anyway, that's my segue from a Dexter reference to me bringing a meme back from the dead so I can beat a dead horse with it. I'm not the only one who's tried and failed to beat the Annoying Orange to death with dead horse memes, but it hasn't worked yet and it doesn't hurt to try (it just drives you insane). Also, it's still April, and Easter was last week, so I'm reviewing Dexter: Resurrection today. We didn't get a second season of Original Sin (probably for a good reason), but we did get a return to, and escalation of, formula with Dexter: Resurrection , which is getting a second season at an unspecified point, with Brian Cox taking a break from narrating McDonald's commercials to play the forthcoming season's main villain, though, whether ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re:AN1M315T3R. It's April, the month of pranks thwarting a Lovecraftian apocalypse , pagan fertility symbolism that defies animal classification (rabbits laying eggs‽), Judeo-Christian rebirth (though whether that means the tomb is supposed to re-open for His Only Begotten Son to walk the Earth again like a magic zombie hippie or His soul is supposed to isekai into a newborn baby remains a subject up for secular debate), and getting stoned on Hitler's birthday. So these last three weeks will feature isekai anime, starting with today's series. My original review of Re:ZER0 FROM June 7, 2021 ( Isekai " Quartet " #1: Re: Zero: Starting Life In Another World : SD::SUV:: ) —but I forgot to make a reference to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie —asked a lot of relevant and stupid questions about number-words, poorly named punctuation, and other topics of existence, and was the beginning of my coverage of the series featured in the fir...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re-Ticketmaster. Over the past two years of Just the Ticket 's history, there have been many recurring elements to my reviews, like my sarcasm, the Jaws beach-closure joke, subtlety, and unorthodox cops. But the two that come to mind as we conclude Wester Week are H.P. Lovecraft and the moon. And by the moon, I mean Full Moon , and by Full Moon, I mean Charles Band , and by Charles Band, I mean your internal organs. Yes, I know Charles Band isn't Tom Cruise , but I had to go there because you really don't want Herbert West (or Tom Cruise) anywhere near your internal organs. Given life a year after me, in 1985, Re-Animator is a loose adaptation of the "Plague-Dæmon" (if you count the first chapter recap as well), "Horror From the Shadows" (in part), and "Tomb-Legions" chapters of Lovecraft's original story, directed by Stuart Gordon ( Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ) based on a script he co-wrote with frequent coll...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster Wester Week  continues, Ticketholders! Yes, that's what I'm going with, two days into a three-part theme week where I'm celebrating Easter by looking at three versions of the Reanimator story, beginning with yesterday's review of H.P. Lovecraft 's original, Herbert West: Reanimator . That's why Easter Week is now  Wester Week , get it? Anyway, today, I'll be setting fresh eyes on the discontinued corpse (but according to the Wikipedia article on Lovecraft's story , it's just on an almost twenty-year hiatus, which is hilarious) of Zenescope Entertainment 's The Chronicles Of Dr. Herbert West . First referenced in Retrospective continuity as a film that Tracy Russell is watching in the first Wonderland Annual , Chronicles was meant to be a six-issue miniseries that began releasing in September 2008. Only three issues were published before the series was canceled (or put on indefinite yatus, if a...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Pagemaster. It's the week of Easter , and since I kind of got into Lovecraft last year (pseudo-academically, not necessarily as a fan, as you'll see if you check out my other reviews of his writings), I decided to make a theme week of it, starting with Lovecraft's original, serialized novella, Herbert West: Reanimator . First published episodically throughout the first half of 1922, H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator was written as an intentional parody and homage of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , and I like it more than its long-winded inspiration. But, as it is a serial narrative, an irritating aspect of reading it, even in my modern, audiobook fashion of doing so (the Gates Of Imagination reading got hidden, so I had to start over with the audiobook I linked above, read by Mike Bennett , though as I write this, I've discovered a reading by West himself, Jeffrey Combs , that I'm kicking myself for not noticing...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of March 29, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It doesn't benefit me to repeat myself about how the last two weeks of March have gone, so all I'm going to say here is that because April is when we have the day of fools and Easter, most of the content this month will be related to that, so expect some more Lovecraft, Dexter, and a few isekai reviews in the weeks to come. Weekly  TBT '26  pushes will still be a thing on my socials as I promote my old posts one Thursday at a time (as life permits) because you seem to really like that, but aside from this post containing the April calendar, I'll most likely not do weekly  Time Drops  this month (just like March) so I can slow the  Just the Ticket Countdown to One Thousand  and give myself more time to create with quality. Also, thank you again for all for your views and support (the Road to 10k Views per month is still a path I resolve to travel this year ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Rascally Animeister. Happy Easter AniMonday , Ticketholders! And please don't sue me, Warner Bros.! Animeister's Note:  I originally composed this review during my posting hiatus in January, months before I changed to only doing the call to action at the end of each post, and most importantly for the intro you are about to read, months before the announcement that HBO MAX (now just called MAX, and I'm not going to allow them the dignity of linking to the service here because that dignity is undeserved) had scrubbed all Looney Tunes content from their platform and that David Zaslav was going to have the legendary Termite Terrace building (where WB animation got its start) torn down. In my heart, this is the same, spiny, hemorrhagic species of doom I felt when Blockbuster Video went out of business, when Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington and Jason David Frank and Kevin Conroy died. When... my little, green bird-bro died . When things that d...