The Three Best Anime Series of 2009
Why 2009? I’m always a few seasons behind. See what I did there? Could my post order be any more strategic? If you’re not satisfied with that explanation, consider this: if this post only contained...
View ArticleShiki isn’t Perfect
Final Grade: ++ Now lets talk about everything that sucked. Spoilers abound. The vampires are sparkly and have feelings. Nice cleavage Natsuno looks too much like a girl, even for anime. His...
View ArticleGrouching about Oscar
Some say Rose of Versailles is as good as it gets. I say it has been better gotten. There’s one huge objective flaw that should keep anyone from giving RoV a perfect score. Most of the RoV characters...
View ArticleYume wo Kanaeru Zou: Sacrilicious
Although I’ve never cared about anime seasons, I do occasionally get bored enough to take quick glance at season preview charts. A few years ago, a peculiar title in the top right caught my eye....
View ArticleSunred outdoes its Premise
I’ve seen way too many comedies try to get by on premise alone. This kind of crap is all over Adult Swim. There’s no creativity to keep you interested once the novelty of the premise wears off. The...
View ArticleShingeki no Kyojin = (Shadow of the Colossus + Evangelion) / 2
Well played, Shinobu Kaitani, well played. Bringing Liar Game back from hiatus as soon as it got the Baka-Raptor Bump. A brilliant strategy befitting the creator of Liar Game. Or so I thought. Liar...
View ArticleUnlimited Blade Works = Unlimited Action
There are many things that visual novels, light novels, manga, and other non-animated works can do better than anime. Action is not one of them. Action is meant to be watched, not interpreted. Nobody...
View ArticleDrop Something and Watch City Hunter
City Hunter is an episodic action–comedy about a man named Ryo Saeba. Let me stress that Ryo is a man. I don’t mean this simply in the sense of man vs. woman. I’m talking man vs. boy, man vs. male, and...
View ArticleAn Unbiased Review of Ōkami
Five things that sucked: 1. Load Times Count up to 90. But Baka-Raptor, that’s a horrible waste of time! That’s how long it takes to turn on your PS2 and load up a saved game in Okami. One minute and...
View ArticleTalk-A-Raptor 11: An Unbiased Review of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Bonus Comments: Just wanted to add a few comments I didn’t get around to making in the video. These will be added whenever I feel like it. Also, possible bonus comic coming. I criticized the magnifying...
View ArticlePost Goes Here: Steins;Gate
Stupid title;Great show Back in high school, my brother would look down on me for watching anime instead of joining him for a riveting episode of T.R.L. or whatever other crap was on MTV at the time....
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Uncharted 1–3: Fortune Among Deception
The Uncharted series follows the adventures of world pull-up champion Nathan Drake as he travels around the world doing pull-ups until he finds forbidden treasure. When Drake isn’t doing pull-ups,...
View ArticleAudiobook Rundown
1Q84 — 0:09 President Me — 2:17 Skin Game — 3:33 1984 — 4:40 Lord of the Flies — 6:18
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