
Mr. Shark pretends to be a submarine while reviewing Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
It seems like the Blu-Ray release of Girls Und Panzer from Sentai Filmworks has put the fan-favorite series back into discussion lately, and it’s not difficult to see why. It has the sort of delightfully crazy premise that only anime could bring us, and show itself is surprisingly entertaining. It’s also not the only recent anime series to combine the [Read more…]
I’ll bet a lot of you are in a similar position right now: you just spent anywhere between 500 and 1,000 dollars on next-gen game consoles, games and accessories and now you have little to no disposable income left to buy Christmas presents for friends and family. You need cheap gifts for your fellow gamer friends, but nothing that’s of [Read more…]
Forza Motorsport 5 has been out for a while now, and chances are you’ve started to accumulate a decent stable of cars. So, what does your virtual garage say about your personality? Well, that depends a awful lot on what’s in it. Are you a brand loyalist? A vintage collector? Maybe a stingy credit miser? This list will hopefully shed [Read more…]
What a crazy week it has been in the world of television fandoms. The BBC aired its much-anticipated Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special, and on the same day the Bronies donned their pastel-colored shirts and costumes for the premiere of the fourth season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. With all this excitement, I doubt people also knew that [Read more…]
With last Sunday’s race, Formula One wraps up its 2013 season with a fourth consecutive title for Red Bull Racing and Sebastian Vettel. The year was an interesting mix of unpredictability and inevitability, as the winning team and driver marched their way to victory through a mire of tire-related mayhem. With massive changes to regulations and team lineups on the [Read more…]
Let’s Brew! In the last edition of SPP, we talked about the key ingredients in beer: water, barley, hops and yeast! Now, these are by no means the only ingredients that make up beer, but in its most basic form, those are all it takes. Ready to dig in and get dirty? Hang on! There’s one really important thing to [Read more…]
I’ve been keeping up with the simulcast of Non Non Biyori this season, and at first glance it’s a bit difficult to explain why. Like most shows in the “slice of life” genre, there isn’t really much of a plot to speak of, and any conflicts that arise among the characters are pretty mundane. If I had to summarize the [Read more…]