posted by Michael in Reviews on 10:00, Jun 29, 2009 | no comments
From the Unwound archives. When Jesse said we were watching Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, I was like, “Oh, yeah, it’s on my hard drive, but I only watched the first episode and it didn’t seem like much.” He told me, “You have to watch the second episode. Trust me, man.”
In the summer of 2008, J.C. Staff, the prolific studio that brought us crazy comedy series Excel Saga and Hayate: The Combat Butler, hopes to reinvigorate the rom-com genre with the insanely popular manga series (and a title that is a pain in the ass to type), ToLOVEru. Did J.C. Staff succeed? (Spoiler Alert: No.)
From the Unwound archives. Suzuka was simply a disappointment all around. One of the most frustrating aspects of reviewing anime for this show is the fact that we cannot just turn it off after two or three episodes; no, we must sit down and take in the whole thing, be it good or bad.
As a general rule I try to finish a game to completion before I write up the review. Sometimes a game can start off a little slow, but eventually lead up to an epic experience. However, just like certain anime series, if the early parts of the game are such a test of your patience, [...]
I’m revisiting the second Old School show back in 2004 which was the first hour long program before we broke for JTAF2. Both Jesse and I were working as senior staff for that convention, so we decided we needed to concentrate on our duties and put the anime-watching on hold for a few weeks. Since we were covering Macross, we had none other than Mr. Macross himself, Egan Loo, as our guest on the show.
Hay guise, sorry about the lack of posts in the past week. I had absolutely zero time this past week to write about anything, including last week’s “What We Didn’t Report” segment. Anyway, while Joe was holding down the fort, I was scouring through the interwebs during my downtime at work and found quite a few goodies to share with you all. Without further ado, here’s this week’s stuff we didn’t report.
Things got derailed a bit and we are JUST NOW posting last week’s news that we didn’t report. Not only are we giving you OLD news, but old news with an edge! Okay maybe not, but we’re trying to make up for it. Anyway, it’s the second week and this is our HUEG Gundam edition of “What We Didn’t Report.” This week, we second-handedly report a Gundam, a fake protest, a seiyuu making music history, and Jimmy Fallon losing his shiz on national TV.
From the Unwound archives. It seems that in the course of the history of fansubbing, sometimes you have groups that take it a little too far. I remember back in the old days, watching Fushigi Yuugi for the first time fan subbed by a group called Tomodachi Anime.
E3 has come and gone (last week). We still have one more article to write about E3, so Joe and I decided we should write this article together in a chat-style format. Since we don’t have our own equipment to do podcasting, nor did we have any time to get together during the week, we’re doing this the ol’ ghetto way. Joe coined the term chatcasting(TM) and we hope this will take off and slowly rid of liveblogging, much like how podcasting is taking over live talk radio. (Okay maybe not, lulz)
My final look at Best in Show evaluates the RPG’s that were represented at E3. There is one thing you may immediately notice about the games in my list, none of them contain the words Final or Fantasy in them. While Final Fantasy XIII did look amazing and I myself am looking forward to it, I feel the RPG’s below offer a fresh perspective on the RPG genre. Did your favorites make the list?
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posted by Joe in Real News on 14:50, Jun 30, 2009 | no comments
What has been rumored for awhile now appears to be coming true. The LA Times report Hayao Miyazaki is slated to appear at Comic Con 2009 to promote his newest film, Ponyo.
posted by Joe in Real News on 11:00, Jun 24, 2009 | no comments
It seems that JRPG’s just aren’t content to stay on one system nowadays. Joining the ever growing list of RPG’s going multi-platform is former PS3 exclusive Cross Edge.
posted by Jesse in Unfurled on 20:00, Jun 23, 2009 | no comments
Did I get your attention with that headline? Good. Sankaku Complex today has blogged about the recent Draconian censorship regulations imposed by the Ethics Organization of Computer Software or EOCS, in response to the recent rape game epidemic and outrage.
posted by Jesse in Site Updates on 16:40, Jun 21, 2009 | no comments
Just a friendly reminder - the Unwound show will broadcast tonight at 5pm Pacific on Japan-A-Radio. Tonight’s show is a rerun of one of our memorable episodes.
posted by Joe in Other Stuff on 16:50, Jun 19, 2009 | no comments
For those excited about how Street Fighter IV has revived the fighting game scene, you are probably looking forward to a few summer releases, with The King of Fighters XII being one of them. But for theuninitiated, KOF gameplay can feel extremely foreign compared to its cousin over at Capcom. How does a gamer catch up on over 10 years of KOF gameplay? Why by watching these two movies of course!
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