What I Watched in August (Recommendations and Reviews for anime and manga)

Welcome back to yet another "what I watched", I'm going to recommend you some anime and manga that I read this month now! Ponpoko This film is about talking raccoons fighting against humans to protect their home, and as soon as I heard that premise I immediately started watching! What I got wasn't that exactly …

Which One Of Us Is The Killer – A Story Trope I Tend To Hate

Recently I've been reading this crazy messed up manga called dead tube which I was really enjoying until it introduced a story trope which I hate: Which one of us is the killer? This story tends to take place on a place where everyone knows each other and nobody can escape. Often a ship in …

Soul Survivor – Holy Spirit or Crowd Manipulation?

So I went on holiday recently and thought I'd talk about it! The place I went to was Peterborough for Soul Survivor week B. It's essentially a field in the middle of nowhere where people go with their churches to pitch up tents and learn about/worship Jesus. Before you immediately vomit and leave I want …

What if People Thought You Were the Messiah? – Life Of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian is such a funny and hilarious film that follows Brian, a person who many people confuse with the messiah in the same time period of Jesus. The moment that the people thought he was a messiah was so funny that it caused me to laugh so loudly that everyone in …

The Last Jedi Ruined Everything, was good though

I recently got the chance to watch the last jedi for free so I took up that chance and watched it on a huge projector type screen, with many other people, in a field in the middle of nowhere. I went in sort of knowing I would enjoy it, because I had watched a lot …

Top 7 Flawed Anime Characters!

I really like flawed characters, there is something so sad and relatable about them that you just can't help but love them! Honorable mentions - Killua, Griffith, Caska and Killua 7. Guts - Berserk The only reason why Guts is on the bottom of this list is because I already talked about him in the …

Perfection IS Boring – Good and Bad Anime Characters

Wait hold on a minute, haven't you been writing constantly about how boring is the worst thing ever? How can it be perfect and vice versa? Well in the very specific example of anime characters perfection is boring in my opinion of course. I would like you now to think of your favorite anime character, …

Boring IS the worst

What is the worst thing an anime can be? Well I guess the worst thing an anime could be is something that brainwashes you, drives you to suicide or hypnotizes you into doing terrible acts of violence. That should be obvious, but assuming the anime doesn't do that (like 100% of all anime (hopefully and …

See you later!

Hey guys Ross here, I'm off on holiday for like a week or something! I'll be in the middle of nowhere with a group of friends at a festival in the UK which is where I live. I'm sure it will be a great time! But the internet signal and battery life tends to be …

What Even is A Bad or Boring Anime?

Oh yeah we're continuing this line of discussion from my fairly controversial post Don't watch bad anime! These followups need to continue because there have been points that I've taken for granted that people would get when in retrospect that wasn't really clear at all. So what even is a bad or boring anime? If …

A Huge Relief

Today was the results day for those A-level exams I talked about ages ago. It was extremely nerve-wracking. I did something that maybe wasn't such a good idea which was only apply to universities with a really high grade requirement. My first choice was AAB and second was ABB. So yeah. Anyway results day came …

I’M IN THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WORLD! (AWARD)

That's right I am now in the brotherhood of the world! Thank you to a nerdy perspective for nominating me! She has an amazing blog which I greatly recommend! (Pointless fake backstory which you should only read if you know what the dark brotherhood is) So what the hell happened that I became a part …

Don’t Watch Boring Anime, Watch Anime You Enjoy Watching

This post is a response to the previous which can be found here. You should read that first to understand what's going on in this post. Yesterday I said don't watch bad anime and to that I got a mixed response but on the whole the majority agreed with a few exceptions which they told …

Do Not Watch Bad Anime

But what anime is bad anime? Well as far as this post goes an anime is bad if you don't like it, so when I say bad anime I just mean a show you don't like.   Also I want to thank TimeForWriting11 for this post idea in my comments, while we may disagree on …

Liar Game Musical Chairs Arc Review

I've already talked about what the game of this arc is so if you've missed that or want a refresh of the rules you can find that here. In that post I talk more about how to make a really interesting game from a very basic concept and why it works so well, I don't …

Followers 2 – The Broken Tournament – Chapter 20

If you’re new to this story then you can catch up here with the prelude. Our Story so Far: Our adventurers have been following people to their tents so that they can burn them down and eliminate the competition. All the people they are following have entered the tournament illegally and need to be removed. We've …

How A Simple Game Can Be Made So Tense and Terrifying In Anime and Manga – Musical Chairs (Liar Game)

In a lot of my favorite manga there is often a game involved which the protagonist will play against villains, and it would surprise you just how often these games come from simple origins. By adding extra rules it achieves two great things. It becomes easier to understand since everyone already knows the basic rules …

Followers – The Broken Tournament – Chapter 19

If you’re new to this story then you can catch up here with the prelude. Our story so far: Now persuaded that something needs to be done about this rigged tournament our group of characters Maron, Rick, Kil and Rob are planning their next move so that they can win the entire tournament! “I say we …

Friendship and Betrayal in Kaiji and Liar Game

(This post features spoilers for both Kaiji and Liar game, but if you haven't seen any of these by now what are you doing? I've been writing about this stuff for ages!) Both Kaiji and Liar game are very similar shows in the fact that they feature gambling however the nature of the characters and …

Crunchyroulette Lv 2 – Lychee Light Club/SENGOKUCHOJYUGIGA/Space Brothers

Here we are back at it again with watching random shows from Crunchy Roll! Yeah! Everything here will be entirely random and all shows are randomly selected using CR's random button. Then I talk about the random shows I saw and probably dropped immediately because I have no patience any anime at all at this …

Very Short Story – “I Want A Friend”

Thanks to a nerdy perspective for tagging me for the create a story tag. I've already done the tag however her post (which you should check out) gave me a fun idea for a new story of my own that I could write. So here is that story! When the sun shone beautifully on a relaxing …

Crunchyroulette Round 1 – PUNCHIM@S/Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi/Taboo Tatoo

Pressing random on CrunchyRoll can bring up some pretty funny results. So I thought that I might try writing a post about random titles that I found through pressing the random button! PUNCHIM@S I dropped this after one very short two minute episodes. Basically these two girls try and convince their older brother to buy …

Using Magic – The Broken Tournament – Chapter 18

If you’re new to this story then you can catch up here with the prelude. Our story so far: Rob has just revealed that he knows magic and can use it to help Rick, Maron and Kil to win the competition. However only one spell can be cast at one time, and if Rick is to …

Rob Reveals All – The Broken Tournament – Chapter 17

If you’re new to this story then you can catch up here with the prelude. Sorry for not updating this story in a while, theirs been a lot of other stuff I wanted to talk about instead! Our story so far: Maron has just finished her fight where she won by crushing her opponent brutally. Now …

Liar Game – Pandemic Game Arc Review (Round IV Qualifier Round)

That's right I' m back with reviewing Liar Game arcs! The contraband game was too confusing for me to comment on (though I really did enjoy it) and I didn't want to review the second revival game arc because it was too similar to the live action version which I had already reviewed. The sad …

New Keyboard/How To Touch Type/ Updates/Ebook/bonus story/The Stone of The Conqueror/ADB Finishing/Broken Tournament Thoughts/Random Typing On Many Subjects For The Sake of It/Ramble

I am a touch-typer so every time I change to a new keyboard everything feels a little bit different and takes a while getting used to so I thought that I would just have a long post where I typed about anything just so that I can feel ok quickly using the keyboard. For the …