During Tokyo Game Show 2024, Square Enix revealed details of the first major patch following the release of Dawntrail, the fifth expansion of the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV. Titled “Crossroads”, the version 7.1 patch will introduce the long awaited alliance raid that will crossover a classic Final Fantasy MMORPG, as well as continue the story following the events of the base Dawntrail expansion.
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If you’ve never seen a Japanese drama, then let me say there are often 3 key elements to each series: brevity, “trendiness”, and melodrama. 1) Each series is usually 10 or 12 episodes max, unless incredibly popular in which case a follow-up movie will be made, or special as it’s called. Only rarely does a show, even a popular show, get a second full season. This means most series are essentially like American/British mini-series, and are more serial than episodic. 2) The brevity of these shows plays into component 2, which is J-Drama’s “trendiness” or perhaps a better word would be relevance to their audience.
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Dragon Ball Daima is a new and upcoming entry in the Dragon Ball anime universe that tells us the story of Goku and the gang from a different point of view. It is the last Dragon Ball anime to be directly supervised by Akira Toriyama who passed away this past March, and gives fans all the more reason to be excited for more Dragon Ball to honor the late creator this fall.
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It’s not every day you are granted an interview with a celebrity. Especially when one of those celebrities does not exist, but only within the media we consume: be it anime or gaming content. This is one of those interviews I’m lucky to be a part of with the world-famous Chief Prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney.
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In this episode: Sanjo bids everyone a happy mid-season break as we talk about details surrounding Bandai Namco’s recently revealed Gundam: Witch from Mercury anime, yet more details on FFXIV 6.1 patch, and BIGBANG’s April 2022 return along with an interview with T.O.P on his thoughts about the K-Pop industry.
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In the past, I’ve been very vocal about my appreciation of the Gundam franchise. I was even invited to run a panel for our anime club back in 2009, inspiring a conversion into a three-part blog series on the how and why of Gundam; with recommendations of which Gundam TV anime to divulge into first, in a sea of multiple universes.
In an attempt to rekindle the passion of blogging again, I have remastered all the parts of the Gundam Crash Course series, originally targeted for the 40th anniversary of the franchise. However, for those who are short on time to read all three parts, I present an interesting topic of “5 Reasons Gundam is Serious Business”.
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The following post was originally written in April 2009 as a First Impression post. However, it has been republished as a Channel Surfing post that fits into the brand of the blog series. Enjoy!
I recently finished watching the first episode of another series that is on the Spring 2009 Anime Lineup. This anime is based on a video game of the same name from good old Sega for the Playstation 3, Valkyria Chronicles. Just like Fullmetal Alchemist, this series takes place at the turn of the century. And just like FMA, there’s a war involved–without the Alchemy. Here, it’s just old fashioned strategic fighting.
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When there is nothing to talk about on this blog, you can watch what’s going on by checking out the Centaku Media channel on Twitch! With another game completed, we’re going to go in another game that been on my mind for a long time from the Persona game series.
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