A Canceled "High School Anime" Game's Character Selection

An unspecified number of sun cycles ago (about two years), yours truly and fellow Internet weeby friendo Ross Faries attempted to construct a bizarre hybrid between a board game and a table-top RPG themed after anime with a high school setting. The basic premise of said game had a fun gimmick I concocted during a stormy night of unbridled inspiration - or, as the doctor called it, a psychotic episode. In essence: there are twenty available classes for players' selection, all of which based off the most well-known and obnoxiously omnipresent stereotypes in the history of the Japan-originated medium; each class is assigned to a number on the traditional twenty-sided die which the potential players would have to roll in order to randomly pick a character. As for the content of the game itself, that's where we hit the proverbial snag. The project didn't really move beyond the pre-pre-pre-alpha phase and, in the end, we just ended up playing a single throwaway session along our group of friends with made-up rules and story. According to my fellow weeby friendo Ross Faries, the various blurbs for the character selection of this hypothetical board/RPG abomination are some of my most funny and witty writing to date. In light of that, I've decided to share them publicly for your reading enjoyment. May this supposedly “hysterical” and “satirical” descriptions of thrashy, overused high school anime stereotypes elate your day.

Hetalia Axis Powers: An Italian Perspective

This rant in the guise of a review was originally written all the way back in 2012, on a dare. Some minor aspects of it have been modified ever so slightly to reflect my current feelings for this series.

Humour is a thoroughly subjective matter. Its functionality depends on several factors such as personal tastes, current mood, specific settings, styles, pay-offs and the charismatic endeavour of its igniting devices - which is to say, the comedians and/or props involved. There are shows, animated series to be exact, out there that are usually considered funny and entertaining by a general audience (like the first season of “Adventure Time!”, to give you a random example) but that, quite frankly, don’t really appeal to my tastes, mostly because they try too hard to be nonsensical and weird for the sake of being nonsensical and weird or maybe just because something about the main characters’ behavior annoys me to death.

Bite Size Review: "Happy Sugar Life"

This short review is the second half of the original transcript for the Master Presentations episode already mentioned in this article.

   Year: 2018  
   Original author (manga): Tomiyaki Kagisora

   Directed by: Keizō Kusakawa and Nobuyoshi Nagayama

   Animation by: Studio Ezo'la

"Happy Sugar Life" is what happens when somebody takes the premise of an especially disgusting, borderline illegal hentai pornography (without the actual sex), deconstructs it and repackages it as a straight-up horrific, intentionally disturbing, unapologetically gut-churning, psychological horror.