Serial Experiments Lain E4: “Religion”
We open on Lain, still crouching over her open Navi and leafing through a computer science textbook as she works. Jury-rigging in the Psyche chip looks like a more difficult process than the imp-kid-thing at Cyberia made it sound.
Serial Experiments Lain E3: “Psyche”
Last time on Serial Experiments Lane, our heroine or something acting through her diffused a situation with a mad shooter by making him turn the weapon on himself. This episode starts with the police arriving in force at Club Cyberia, where the event took place. Lain's friend helps her out of the club; Lain herself still has a zombie-like expression, and sees like she'd just be standing in place and staring at the wall if she wasn't being walked.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S1E25: “Doorway of Darkness”
Edward sloshes through the dark, cluttered world of Gluttony's extradimensional stomach, wondering where he is, how he got here, and if "that dumb prince" also got sent here. He calls out for Yao, and eventually the two find each other.
Astro City: “The Nearness of You”
This will be my first comic book liveblog. I was requested to go into Astro City as blind as possible, which should be easy since I'd never heard of it. In fact, I only just learned that it's a superhero story anthology and that it was published through DC comics in the last ten minutes.
Street Sharks S1E1: “Shark Bait”
Perhaps you think that the modern videogame and ebook industries have issues with imitators and copycats running unchecked. If so then you must have been born after the early 1990's, because they have nothing on the toy-driven children's cartoons of the eighties and nineties.
Fullmetal Alchemist S1E24: “Inside the Belly”
Suggestive title, given the cliffhanger ending. has Gluttony sucked everyone into a pocket dimension hidden inside his stomach-mouth-eyeball? I had a friend back in high school who could do that. Let's see!
Garden of Sinners 3: “A Remaining Sense of Pain” (part two)
So yeah, this conversation was a mess.
Fullmetal Alchemist S1E23: “Girl on the Battlefield”
Girl on the battlefield? I feel like we've had a few of those, already. I guess there's always room for another.
Garden of Sinners: A Study In Murder: The Light Novel: The Anime: The Review: Part 1: Part Two
The next time Shiki approaches Mikiya at school, Frisk is in control, and she's not happy at being approached by him. Downright angry, in fact, that he's kept meeting up with Chara even after she herself warned him that Frisk wouldn't like it.
Garden of Sinners: A Study In Murder: The Light Novel: The Anime: The Review: Part 1: Part One
This is the second Garden of Sinners movie, and the first story to take place chronologically. Given the previous title's time travel-adjacent shenanigans, I can only assume that the story is being told out of order for related reasons. Other than that, and the title being a sort of lazy Sherlock Holmes allusion, I don't know what to expect.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S1E22: “Backs in the Distance.”
The episode proper begins with the aftermath of Wrath's strike on Ninjette. He didn't use a sword blade, but that might be sort of academic considering how high up she was when she got punched in the face with haemonculus strength.
Garden of Sinners E1: “Overlooking View” (part two)
Shiki returns to the building through a torrent of rain. As she walks, there's a brief flashback to her getting a voice message from Mikiya telling her about the bizarre string of suicides that boss lady wants them to help investigate.
Garden of Sinners E1: “Overlooking View” (part one)
Garden of Sinners, or Kara no Kyoukai in Japanese, was the first light novel series by author Nasu Fate Moon that paved the way for the rest of the Typeverse. Rather than getting a TV anime series adaptation like Stay/Night or Zero, these got turned into a series of hour length movies. All I know about them is that they were written previously to the other Fate stuff I've seen so far, and I believe they're set earlier as well though I'm not sure about that.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Advent of the Red Comet (E1)
Unlike most of the things I've reviewed until now, Mobile Suit Gundam is a title I have some familiarity with. I say "some" because this is one of those sprawling franchises that's been added to for decades, and from that angle I've seen a very small percentage of the whole thing. On the other hand, Gundam has also had multiple...I guess you could call them reboots? Alternate timelines? Sub-franchises? That makes it somewhat more manageable, since you have multiple self-contained blocks of it.
Fullmetal Alchemist S1E21: “Advance of the Fool”
Mustang, Hawkeye, and Havoc are in the hospital. Havoc managed to survive that, somehow. Maybe Mustang took a moment to cauterize his lust-punctures as well before running off to save Hawkeye and Al? I'm starting to feel downright embarrassed for Lust. She didn't even manage to kill the one-step-above-canon-fodder minor character in that fight? It's almost cruel.
Fate/Zero E1: Summoning Ancient Heroes (conclusion)
Alright, let's resume this extremely long, dense, and complicated pilot!
Fate/Zero S1E1: Summoning Ancient Heroes (part one)
It's been a while, but we're back to the world of Fate...Nasu?...Moon? This franchise has way too many names.
Dr. Stone S1E2: “The King of the Stone World”
The second and last episode of Dr. Stone that XHurt commissioned. The pilot wasn't my cup of tea, but I didn't hate it either, so let's see how this goes.