203 - Welcome, welcome! We're back to our regular schedule and already we find ourselves halfway through the newest anime season. The fall season is way better than summer, in fact it's so good that Lindsay is dying to talk about six shows! But we only let her talk about three. Covered on this episode: "A Girl and Her Guard Dog", "Migi and Dali", "Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and the Inexperienced Me", "Under Ninja" and "Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions". Also we have a new logo, because why not!
Read MoreLet's Movie: Christine (1983)
Welcome, welcome! It's our Halloween episode! We're going with a horror classic from the mind of Stephen King and the direction of John Carpenter, it's Christine! That's right, the killer car movie. Buckle up and protect your dick from getting pinched!
Read MoreLet's Anime 202 - First Day You Creep
202 - Welcome, welcome! We're back with more first episodes. This episode we're a bit faster and we cover the following: "The 100 Girlfriends Who Reall, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You", "Butareba - The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig", "KamiErabi GOD.app", "MF Ghost", Migi & Dali", "My New Boss is Goofy", "A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life", "Power of Hope - Precure Full Bloom", "A Returner's Magic Should Be Special", "Stardust Telepath", "Tearmoon Empire", "Undead Unluck", "The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess" and "The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons".
Read MoreLet's Anime 201 - Oh Yeah 96 On The Neck
201 - Welcome, welcome to a new season of Let's Anime! That's right, we're on season 4 now just because. Dustin has officially been put back on hosting duties. Today the duo is covering the first episodes of the fall season.
"16-Bit Sensation: Another Layer", "Berserk of Gluttony", "Bullbuster", "The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy", "The Eminence of Shadow", The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch", "Firefighter Daigo Rescuer in Orange", "A Girl & Her Guard Dog", "Girlfriend, Girlfriend", "Goblin Slayer", "I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness", "The Kingdoms of Ruin", Let Me Check The Walkthrough First", "My Daughter Left The Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer", "Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and the Inexperienced Me", "Ragna Crimson", "Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions", "Shangri-La Frontier", "Shy" and "Under Ninja".
Read MoreLet's Anime - Episode 200
200 - Youkoso, Youkoso!! It's our 200 hundredth episode and frankly we just hope it doesn't suck. Dustin never thought of his idea for the episode that he lost and so we just did Trivia. It's terrible and so we did a few Kill, Marry, Bangs at the end just to leave you with something humorous.
Read MoreLet's Movie 137 - Meg 2 The Trench
137 - Welcome, welcome to our coverage of Meg 2 The Trench. If you're wondering why this movie was made and how the hell The Meg managed to get a sequel, wonder no more. This episode provides that answer for you along with why this is one of the best of 2023. You read that right, best of 2023. Dive in chum and let's get to the movie.
Read MoreLet's Anime 199 - Grotesquerie
199 - Well, well, well... if it ain't Lindsay's last day as host before she switches from Host Prime to co-host. That's right we're annoying and switching roles again after 100 episodes. Join us for the fun on episode 200, but in the meantime, we're wrapping up the summer shows as we head to fall.
We cover the following shows with spoilers: "Am I Actually The Strongest?", "Dark Gathering", "Jujutsu Kaisen", The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again, Today!", "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander The Dungeon", Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence", "TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness" and "Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead".
Read MoreLet's Anime 198 - Million Faces
198 - Youkoso, Youkoso!! It's part one of our two-part summer wrap up episode! Forgive us, we were tired and talked to long, but hopefully it's an enjoyable episode. This is also the final countdown for Lindsay as host as it has become customary to switch hosting duties every 100 episodes. I will not explain that joke. Enjoy us talking about, "Classroom for Heroes", "Liar, Liar", "The Dreaming Boy is a Realist", "Helck", "Horimiya: The Missing Pieces", "Jobless Reincarnation", "My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1", "Rent-a-Girlfriend" and "Rurouni Kenshin".
Read MoreLet's Movie 136 - A Haunting in Venice
136 - Welcome to Let's Movie! We're going back to the theaters this week with the third movie in Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot series "A Haunting in Venice" which once again teams him up with an all-star cast. Let's get haunted!
Read MoreLet's Anime 197 - Great Concerns About Snake City
197 - Youkoso, Youkoso!! Let's get to the anime! Today we're covering five shows currently airing during the summer season or cour for you Otaku nerds out there. Lindsay has a quick update on "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon", "The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses", "The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again, Today", "Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence", "Jujutsu Kaisen" season 2 and the movie and lastly "Sugar Apple Fairy".
Read MoreLet's Movie 135 - The Portable Door
135 - Welcome back to Let's Movie. This week we've found a movie flying under the radar in the form of The Portable Door! A movie based on a book that was bought up by Sky and MGM+. One of us loved it, one of us, not so much! And don't forget to vote in the poll.
Read MoreReview: Kali
By Dustin Cabeal
“Kali” is a title I read and sat on for review because it left a bittersweet taste in my mouth. Revenge stories aren’t supposed to have a happy ending, which is true of “Kali’s” ending, but they typically have a main character that you care for. Kali the character is never likable. There’s no sympathy for her plight and frankly the story moves too fast for you to feel anything other than violence. While I liked the comic, I found myself drawn to the visuals more than I was the story.
The story beings with Kali on a chain gang, that is instantly cooler because of her. The rest of the soldiers looked worn out and shitty but not Kali. She has a fucking knife sticking out of her shoulder, black leather chaps on her tight ass jeans and a rib cage skeleton shirt. She’s cool as ice as none of the kids say. For some reason, these captured prisoners of war are being interviewed to join the army that captured them. This is where Kali becomes unlikable as she rattles off a slew of exposition that stops being relevant to the story. The second she sees her former gang members. The ones that betrayed and left her for dead. Cue the beautiful violence.
Read MoreLet's Anime 196 - Dispenses Hot Water
196 - Youkoso, Youkoso!! On this episode, we're covering a total of four shows! Lindsay finally watches that infamous vending machine show, which means we all get to hear about "That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Vending Machine" or "Reincarnated as a Vending Machine in Another World"... none of those are quite right, but they're so close. It's actually "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon," and she also covers "ZOM 100: Bucket List of the Dead." Meanwhile, Dustin watches a few more episodes of the painful series "Synduality Noir" and has a lengthy rant about Part 1 of "Baki Hanma" Season 2.
Read MoreReview: Cat Fight #1
By Dustin Cabeal
I wasn’t expecting a lot from “Cat Fight” when I started reading it. Based on the silly name, the extremely busy cover and the sheer number of actual cats illustrated, I began by lowering my expectations. Which was probably the right move considering it ended up impressing me in the end. I will say that the cat gimmick is heavy handed so if you can’t stomach what’s on the cover, then you will not make it through this first issue.
The story follows a thief as he’s lifting a very expensive ruby and being chased by some Italian police. He is in Venice after all. He then jets straight over to a fancy dinner party to hand off the jewel. We’re given the information that the fencer is his ex-girlfriend, the cops chasing him were not actually Italian or cops and that he comes from a rich family that’s he’s been kicked out of. It’s a lot of exposition and there was very little reason to inform the audience of the fake Italian cops. It seems likely that they’ll return to the story in some capacity or another, but otherwise it was just there to show that our main criminal character is smart. Not getting caught at all also shows us that they’re smart. A slew of cat themed thieves from DC and Marvel how shown us that much.
Read MoreReview: The Ribbon Queen #1 and 2
By Dustin Cabeal
One can only imagine what the toxic side of the comic fanbase describes this Garth Ennis story as when complaining that “he’s lost a step” or some such crap. I’m sure “woke” and “broke” are thrown around, but I have no personal interest in tracking down what people are saying about comics and stories. I’m here to put out my thoughts on the lure and see what I can reel back in. That and otherwise, I would spend this entire review fighting against some opinion I saw somewhere instead of reviewing the comic.
The Ribbon Queen is a socially aware story. It’s not unusual for Garth Ennis to write a story like this; it’s just that so many people have been lost in his ultra-violent stories that they forget the underlying connection to the world events at the time of the stories' release. It’s something that he’s done throughout his entire career, be it with mixed results of course. No one nails it 100% of the time. In the case of The Ribbon Queen, a great deal of time is spent including these real-world events and subjects that have populated the news, social media, and society at large for the past several years. The main problem being that it’s not attempting to answer or solve any of these problems/subjects; it’s just stating them and using them to dive into fantasy horror.
Read MoreLet's Movie 134 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
134 - Welcome, welcome! Join Dustin and Justin as they run through the new TMNT movie from Seth Rogan and Nickelodeon Films. You'll want to watch the film first or if you have zero interest in ever seeing it, we might just convince you to give it a shot because much like the other TMNT movies this one is all about family... no wait, ninjas... no, it's about living with a suffocating parent that's disconnected from reality. Just kidding, it's an hour and a half origin story for Splinter!
Read MoreReview: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter #1
By Dustin Cabeal
I fucking hate hero versus hero titles. The one and only time that it was enjoyable was DC vs Marvel (flip it, I don’t care), and even then, it was a mess of shit. That’s what made it charming – seeing the rage of the fanbases and concessions that each company had to make to keep certain characters powerful and protected. Otherwise, it’s pretty much the same dumb storyline of one or both sides of heroes being mistaken as villains and fighting each other, meanwhile the actual villains are agreeable, cordial, and already working with each other. I’ve lost track of how many of these franchises versus franchises IDW has made, but they're just to sell covers. Go ahead, ask how many covers they have for this first issue.
Thirty-one.
They cutely put “Collect them all” at the back of the issue before showing you thirty-one covers. Kudos to all the artists who got paid for the covers – get that money – but to the poor soul who felt they needed all the covers and spent God knows how many hundreds of dollars to get all the store exclusives… I wish you wouldn’t have. That purchase behavior is irresponsible and damaging to the industry as they focus on sales of covers rather than telling a story worth reading.
Read MoreReview: Venba
By Dustin Cabeal
"Venba" is perhaps one of the simplest games that I have ever played. Its controls and directions are so straightforward that anyone could pick up the controller and easily finish the short two-to-three-hour game. By no means is that a negative aspect of the game; there is an intentional reason for the straightforward controls and simplicity. That’s because it’s an equal part video game and interactive story. It’s just that both of those things are viewed as dirty words. “Interactive story” is not a game, some would say, while book enthusiasts would similarly say “Moving pictures” are not a book. I’m of the mindset that a good story is a good story, and I love to see new and interesting ways for stories to be told. At the end of the day, all forms of media are just stories being told, and the one that "Venba" is telling resonated with me long after I finished playing it.
I played it twice, and I won’t sugarcoat it; it was to unlock all the achievements. Frankly, it’s an easy 1,000 if you’re looking for them. But on that journey to complete it, I discovered that by selecting the opposite answers than I had picked the first time, I got a very different story. It was a better story than my first playthrough, which caught me off guard. I tend to pick the answers that align with my view of the world. So, to have these alternative answers presented and to answer "what if I had chosen differently," well, it was a marvelous discovery that made the replay feel fresh and different. Again, it was very unexpected and left me delighted.
Read MoreReview: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
By Dustin Cabeal
As a lifelong fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, most people expect me to be tired of the franchise or, worse yet, hate every new iteration of the franchise. And while I have been that person for other franchises, I have found it to be a waste of energy and passion. There is, in fact, only one iteration of the TMNT that I have not enjoyed or consumed, and that was the terrible Michael Bay live-action films. There was no greater joy for me than the sequel succeeding in ending the live-action reboot. The one lasting effect that the Bay live-action films have had is the infusion of hip-hop into the franchise, or rather, a more mainstream approach to hip-hop/rap, having moved away from songs about the Turtles or Ninjas… for the most part.
To get it out of the way, I just love the Ninja Turtles. I love seeing what they’ll do with them, how they’ll tweak them and change them, and for some reason, it doesn't corrupt my childhood memories of the animated series and pretending to be Donatello with my three friends making out the rest of the Turtles. It was an amazing feeling to watch this new version with my sons and see them enjoy what’s already their second Ninja Turtle franchise.
Read MoreLet's Anime 195 - Suzume
195 - Youkoso, Youkoso!! This week we're covering a movie and it's Suzume. It's about a chair and a cat... I think a girl is involved and doors. Doors to the heart, the head, the motherfucking afterlife, or some shit. Anyway, we've been jamming out episodes during the summer, but we'll be going back to our actual schedule of bi-weekly going forward. Anyway, hope you watched the movie because we're going to spoil the hell out of it.
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