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Category Archives: Entertainment
Love Live! School Idol Project (Review)
Love Live! is a hugely popular series, which has spawned multiple spin-offs. With its blend of happy music and cute girls, it’s not hard to see why this would easily develop a large fan base. The story concerns a group … Continue reading
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Tagged Love Live!, School Idols
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Girls’ Last Tour Episode 7 (Review)
Labyrinth / Cooking The view from Igirisu: This is probably the most slice-of-life episode so far, but that doesn’t mean it’s devoid of jeopardy. Chi and Yuu are travelling through a maze of pipes, and in the opening sequence the … Continue reading
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Tagged Girls' Last Tour, Labyrinth / Cooking, Post Apocalypse, Slice of Life
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Superhot (VR)
What’s black and white and red all over? A mauled penguin? A nun having fallen out a window? A newspaper? A Grendel graphic novel? Damn these puzzles are tricky. OH, what about Superhot Team’s Superhot? Yes, that is the name … Continue reading
The Outer Limits: A Feasibility Study
Magnificent recovery! For a few episodes, I had been wondering why I loved this series as a kid. There were simply too many in a row that we predictable and dated. A Feasibility Study brings back the awe and mystery … Continue reading
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Tagged A Feasibility Study
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Top of the Docs: Series 12 (2020)
Jodie’s first season was not exactly what I’d call a resounding success. In fact, for the first time in my life, having watched the show for nearly 4 decades, I wasn’t particularly excited to see it return. Could it bring … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Science Fiction, Top of the Docs, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Top of the Docs
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Yu-Sibu (Anime Review)
Yu-Sibu, also known as Yu-Shibu, or to give it its absurdly long full title I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, is an anime series set in a fantasy world, with some entertaining similarities … Continue reading
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Tagged Fanservice, Fantasy, Yu-Shibu, Yu-Sibu
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Girls’ Last Tour Episode 6 (Review)
Accident / Technology / Takeoff The view from Igirisu: A plane flying behind Chi signals the arrival of only the second human being the girls have met in six episodes. Ishii is similar to Kanazawa in many ways, with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident / Technology / Takeoff, Girls' Last Tour, Post Apocalypse, Slice of Life
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Horizon: Zero Dawn
There’s a game that kept popping up on Steam that I would look at and think: why?!? The game, Horizon: Zero Dawn, appears to be about prehistoric people fighting against robotic dinosaurs. Huh?! Every time I’d look at it, because … Continue reading
The Outer Limits: The Special One
I nearly fell off the couch when I realized this episode didn’t have a preview of what’s to come. Just one episode ago, I skipped the spoiling effect without checking. Now I wonder if that was a mistake. (I checked; … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, The Outer Limits
Tagged The Special One
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Top of the Docs: Series 11 (2018)
Capaldi’s last season ended on such a high note, I couldn’t have been happier. There was some trepidation about how the new showrunner, Chris Chibnall, was going to work out but, like a certain ant, I had high hopes. Was … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Science Fiction, Top of the Docs, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Top of the Docs
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Patema Inverted (Anime Review)
It might not be fashionable to criticise scientists at the moment, but I’ve long held the view that eventually they will go one step too far with their messing around with things and do some real damage to the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Films, Patema Inverted
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Girls’ Last Tour Episode 5 (Review)
House / Nap / The Sound of Rain The view from Igirisu: This episode has three very distinct chapters, two of which are magnificent in a very melancholy way, but let’s get the middle of the three out the way … Continue reading
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Tagged Girls' Last Tour, House / Nap / The Sound of Rain, Post Apocalypse, Slice of Life
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been discussing adventure games and one of the things I’ve noticed is the lack of violence in most of them. This thought popped into my head and was almost immediately disproved by the other … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure Games, Crimes and Punishment, Frogwares, Sherlock Holmes
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The Outer Limits: Fun and Games
Visitors to the Junkyard may recall September of 2020 when we reviewed Star Trek’s Arena where I mentioned that it was based on an idea from The Outer Limits. “You will meet in the Arena!” Yep, this is that episode. … Continue reading
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Tagged Fun and Games
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Top of the Docs: Series 10 (2017)
Peter Capaldi’s final season saw both characterization and story come together to give us one of my favorite seasons of Doctor Who since the classic era, rising Capaldi to one of my all time favorite Doctors. It’s not perfect, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Top of the Docs
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Spice and Wolf (Season One Review)
Many anime series take place in fantasy worlds that take inspiration from Europe of the Middle Ages, but they tend to go no further than copying the look of the period, and use that as a starting point for creating … Continue reading
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Tagged Fanservice, Medieval Europe, Middle Ages, Spice and Wolf
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Girls’ Last Tour Episode 4 (Review)
Photograph / Temple The view from Igirisu: The fourth episode of Girls’ Last Tour feels like the most slice-of-life episode so far, lacking one of those big shocking moments that have characterised the series so far. Having said that, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Girls' Last Tour, Photograph / Temple, Post Apocalypse, Slice of Life
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Voyage
Last week I mentioned that Return to Mysterious Island was my second favorite adventure game and it only seems right to share some thoughts on the one that gets top billing in my book. In 2005, just one year after their … Continue reading
The Outer Limits: The Guests
It’s funny because when I played Westmark Manor, something about it seemed familiar. I admit, I thought little of it at the time, figuring the horror setting of an old house and twisting hallways was just a trope. But when … Continue reading
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Top of the Docs: Series 9 (2015)
Peter Capaldi’s first season left something to be desired but for me, it was in the characterization that was truly off. The stories were, by and large, good, but written for a non-Doctor. For some strange reason, as if to … Continue reading
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