Hope everyone is having a good April so far. Weather’s been clearing up in my neighborhood and I hope your area hasn’t gone underwater yet via snow or rain! As someone politely pointed out, I’m an unfortunate citizen paying California prices for Seattle weather as of late. In any case, the Fallout TV series recently launched, and I thought it relevant to briefly talk about it. I don’t consider myself a fan of many franchises (Fallout is not on the list), but that’s because I feel being a fan of something means you accept the good and the bad of it. So, with a rather level head I jumped into the Fallout TV series not expecting anything and left pleasantly surprised how good it was. I can recommend it as a good show if you just like sci-fi post-apocalyptic stuff and roll with the punches. Devils in the details and slight spoilers in the audio blog, so be forewarned! (Skip to 9:13 in the audio blog if you want to avoid)
Continuing my tradition of suggesting spooky Halloween stuff early in the year for no reason, our good friend Wendigoon dropped a recent video talking about the works of Junji Ito. If you’re a fan of anime / manga stuff in general, there’s a chance you’ve come across something strange and disturbing. There’s a higher chance it was a direct copy of or reference to something Junji Ito produced. Similar to works of H.R. Giger that would forever influence monster / alien designs in pop culture, Junji would be the influence of all the extremely strange stuff down the road for Japan in pop culture. It’s a long video and worth a watch if you need to go down a rabbit hole you probably didn’t know existed.
Another video from Stix for gacha gaming news, and as I’ve said before - he’s really good at it. I like tier list videos not for the ranking aspect (subjectivity is extreme in them), but for the fact that they let you know what is out there on the market currently. So take this video with a huge grain of salt in terms of what is good or bad, but appreciate the fact that it’s an excellent source of information on what you can play right now.
Artist is ZinFyu
Artist of the week is ZinFyu for all your Pokémon turned waifu designs! As always comments and questions welcome in the comments below, and I’ll see you next week.