Death Note 2017: A Savage Autopsy

It’s been damn near twenty years since Kenichi Matsuyama brought Ryuzaki — a.k.a. the pale, twitchy genius L — to writhing, sugar-chomping life. And don’t even get me started on Tatsuya Fujiwara’s portrayal of that egomaniacal wunderkind, Light Yagami. Sorry — Imagay, Freudian slip from the trenches of fan-rage. The neurons still twitch at the memory. Read more “Death Note 2017: A Savage Autopsy”

Rozé of the Recapture: A Nightmare of A Series

Ah, Rozé of the Recapture a 300-hour psychic mugging, an abomination upon the sacred grounds of mecha storytelling, a soulless cash grab masquerading as a continuation of one of the greatest anime ever made. If the original Code Geass was a grand symphony of political intrigue and bombastic spectacle, this atrocity is the equivalent of a toddler banging a tin can with a rusty spoon while screaming about how deep they are. Read more “Rozé of the Recapture: A Nightmare of A Series”