If you’re a watcher of anime or reader of manga, you are more than likely aware of their hyper, over the top characters, and ridiculous scenarios. Where some can be playful and innocent like Pokemon or My Hero Academia, while others can be dark and downright twisted like the Neo Sci-fi film Akira or Ghost…
Spring Training with Ace of Diamond (Diamond no Ace)
I know Superbowl LI is this weekend (damn, they’re right, it does look Asian), but my favorite team is out of the running, so my attention is now toward my favorite sport, baseball. Spring training starts this month, so to satisfy my need to watch baseball (outside of ESPN reruns and YouTube replays), I found…
Brotherhood in Arms – Final Fantasy XV (Anime)
The folks at Square Enix must have felt that their next release was going to be just as big as their seventh installment, which is considered one of the best RPGs of all time and spawned not only a full length animated feature years after it’s release, but a spin off game, and a remake,…
Plate Up Some Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma)
Food network may have cornered the market on cooking battles, but they have not won the war. At least, it doesn’t seem the case when it comes to manga/anime versions anyway. Shokugeki no Soma, aka Food Wars, a manga turned anime series, originally released in 2015, proves that food battling can be as intense as…
Gyakuten Saiban aka Ace Attorney Animated Series
I’m a big nerd for Phoenix Wright, so I may come off as a bit bias, so be warned. If you don’t know, Phoenix Wright is one of the main characters in the adventure/visual novel video game series entitled “Ace Attorney”, published by Capcom. The title has been around since 2001. Primarily a Nintendo handheld game…
To Serve Pokemon – It’s a Cookbook
A few days ago, my TMI compatriot, Pedro and I recorded our first podcast revolving around pokemon. Part of the conversation involved pokemon cannon and then the question came up: What do you eat in the pokemon world? In the anime and in the Nintendo games, pokemon generally ate berries and food mixtures that would either give them powers…