Azure Flame Reloaded

Romeo and Juliet encounter an abandoned village.

Juliet: Looks like this village hasn’t been populated with NPCs yet- we should rest and hope that there are no events to trigger.

Romeo and Juliet enter a house.

Romeo: I’m sorry it’s so sparse in here- the interior designers haven’t even finished this place.

Juliet: I don’t mind; it has a bed for STRAIGHT- what more do we need?

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(For some reason, the anime blog scene has been overtaken with ideas about how to find love (in the 3D sense), and so I will impart a small bit of advice to the guys- go to dance lessons. I know you’ll now be thinking how much less appealing this is than some MANLY team sport, but let’s just think for a moment about which sounds more HARD GAY- getting into a close hold with a (hopefully) beautiful woman, or getting naked in the locker room showers with ten other guys?

Anyway, the advantages of attending dance lessons are as follows-

• Women will always, always outnumber men at the lessons. That means you get your pick of single ladies (note: do not try to compete with the good looking male instructor).
• Women will be impressed if you can dance, since it’s a rare skill among men.
• If all goes well, you’ll know how to dance in plenty of time for your wedding.

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Romeo and Juliet fly over the city, having HORSE.

Romeo: We must fly far away, to a place where HORSE and STRAIGHT are acceptable.

Juliet: Who needs HORSE when we have STRAIGHT?

Romeo: Good point- ever since I met you, I have felt less and less interested in HORSE. Continue Reading »

OVA: Three more episodes of Nobue and co.
Post TV-series OVAs tend to come in two forms- either they pick up where their predecessor left off and fit quite naturally into the franchise, or they cover a new and generally quite uninspired storyline that makes you wish they’d just left well alone. Fortunately, the Ichigo Mashimaro falls into the former category, and indeed, if you didn’t know it was an OVA, you might just think what you were watching were episodes 13-15 of the TV series.

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Interested in yuri manga and other obscure titles? Since I don’t have much to say about the vast majority of the Comic-Con licenses, just make your way over to ANN instead.

This week, we are joined in the newsroom by El Cazador’s LA, who takes time out from talking Ellis to offer his unstable and often quite disturbing opinion on the events of the week. Continue Reading »

Juliet and Antonio enter the Sewer map and meet up with Tybalt.

Tybalt: Antonio, I must replace you in the active party and lead Juliet to safety before she gets into battle with any enemies capable of draining all her HP in one hit.

Juliet: But everyone else up there is fighting- and the opponents are only level three!

Tybalt: Fine, go back up there and die- that way I can become the main character.

Antonio: You’d better go, Juliet- look, even I can push you over.

Antonio lightly pushes Juliet, scoring a critical hit. Tybalt takes her away for some HORSE. Continue Reading »

The BI revolution is spreading, but whilst our characters begin to try it out through various groupings, some of them decide to hold onto their HARD GAY ways, with Eigetsu rebuffing Kourin and Kokujun choosing to stick with Ryuuren. Is this the latest battle in the war between preferences?

“That’s it, generics- bow down to us and we might just give you one of these warm winter outfits- the height of fashion this season in Sa Province!” Continue Reading »

Reviewed this week: Cazador 15-16, Darker than Black 15-16, Doujin Work 3, Higurashi Kai 3, Mushi-Uta 1-2, RxJ 15, SaiMono II 15, Seirei no Moribito 15, Tetsuko no Tabi 1

…and in manga: Homunculus volume 8, Spiral 41, Tsubasa 161, Yotsuba&! 48

Zombie-Loan has been unceremoniously dropped, much like Liu Bei’s son was after Zhao Yun risked his life to rescue him. Continue Reading »

Hello and welcome to another episode of Amigo Tacos Uncovered! Today, we spend a day in the lives of two new Amigo Taco workers, Nadie and Ellis, as they undergo basic taco training. Continue Reading »

Sometimes it’s hard to remember why you bought a game in the first place. Alundra 2 is one such game, and whilst I don’t even own it anymore, it felt as if the time had come to explain to everyone just how bad this game was.

Despite nominally being a sequel to the original Adventures of Alundra, Alundra 2 has basically nothing to do with the first game other than being an action RPG with some shared healing items. You take on the role of pirate hunter Flint, a silent young man who finds himself battling sorcerer Mephisto and his army of clockwork monsters. Aside from the quite sinister practice of inserting wind-up keys into people and thus turning them to clockwork, the tone of the game is generally light and comedic, a far cry from the depressing “one character dies every arc” style of the original.

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