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Fujimi Orchestra (2012). Insane writing, tonal shifts, bad acting, and full of 90s BL tropes. It's a wild but not good ride. Also as far as they get adapting the 50+ novel series, what happesn is decidedly not a romance yet.
Tales of Phantasia, the JRPG where people poop. Tho legit, I always admired the attention to detail in this game. The house interiors are practically and lived in designed. Birds will fly by, flowers bend in the breeze, heat smoke coming off pots, curtains flutter in the wind...
Watching a compilation of first time reactors to movies really shows the media literacy crisis we are in. Because at least 75% of these people in their 20s will visibly struggle to keep up with the themes of a kid's movie.
BL: Boku no Kareshi wo Shokai Shimasu (2009). What I expected: An anthology of four short fluffy romances without much substance. What I got: An anthology of short fluffy romances, that's also a pink film, haha.
You know what, fuck it, we ball. 50 movies all with the same actor and (almost) under the same director. Time to dive into a Japanese popcultural milestone. One movie a week.
Half way through the original run of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo franchise. Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979) is a fish out of water story, having an American, who doesn't speak Japanese, stay with the Kurumas, which don't speak English.
Random Recs instead of actual Search Results, Shorts pushed over long form videos, and now AI Slop Playables cluttering up my sidebar. Soon Youtube will be absolutely unusable bc nothing it shows me is gonna be what I'm there to actually watch anymore.
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remaster done. The bigger, bolder sequel. Yet this one didn't click with me as well as the first one did. We'll see if that's a fluke in like five to six years when they drop a Remaster of the third game for me to play.
Hush! (2001) was an interesting movie about a gay couple and the woman that wants a baby from one of them. It's suprisingly hard to process my feelings on it. Did I like it? Sometimes its just nice to watch a movie that is challening you on some level.
Me: I feel like a fishing game, but it's also spooky month...
Magical Company: Well...
Me: A FUN fishing game
Black Salt Games: Do we have a game for you
I didn't expect much from Happy Game, but it was a fun 90 minutes of figuring out how to interact with stuff to progress through a kid's nightmare.
Love You Teacher was a pleasant surprise. Sounds like a whacky comedy, but offers very sensible portrayals of mental health issues. Like how OCD is not haha funny quirks but can be crippling in everday life, or how it is ok to be exhausted when you become your partner's caretaker
Oh, speaking of Konami, which published it in Europe, one more game I almost forgot. Last weekend, I replayed Hellnight. The PS1 horror game where you explore a weird underground labyrinth while an ever mutating monster chases you through the tunnels.
Lastly, Castlevania Legends. I'm too bad at games for Classicvania, unless it has an easy mode. And like Rebirth, Legends does! With the whip always upgraded, generous mid level checkpoints, and infinite continues, I did it. The music is really good!
I also replayed Innsmouth no Yakata, which takes like 30 minutes, since the passwords let you resume immediately at the stage you lost, so you never have to redo any. It's a horror themed shooter on the Virtual Boy, and honestly, I think it's one of its cooler and better games.
If you are into the mood for some quick horror fix, itchio is always a good library to peruse. I played The Mist, Neighbor, Bitterroot and The Melting Apartment this weekend. All done in 20-40 minutes of exploring some creepy incident in low-fi GB aesthetics.
