Azure Flame Reloaded

This week, Haseo finally realises that he can no longer deny his drug problem, but can his new counsellors Tabby and Phyllo help him on the road to recovery? Tabby tells Kuhn that she must take a week off performing in order to work at her new part-time job.

Through fourteen episodes of suffering, it has come to my attention that .hack//Roots isn’t much good, or, to be brutally honest, it is a tedious pile of crap. In that vein, I have upheld my resolution not to watch any more of the series, however, to ease the pain of those who are, I shall [...]

Don’t be too concerned about the tone of this rant, I will be posting screencap-based parodies of episodes 15+ from tomorrow. So, the time has finally come; I’ve had enough, I’m throwing in the towel. No, I’m not about to stop writing rants, but I have made the long overdue decision to stop subjecting myself [...]

The weeks come and go, but Roots remains a static, never changing universe- at least until today, when something happened. That’s not to say that what happened was particularly interesting and unexpected, in fact, it’s what we’d all been expecting ever since we first learned of the existence of this anime. Yes, today was the [...]

For the last few weeks, I’ve tried to spice up the dull monotony of .hack//Roots by resorting to cooking and band parodies, but this time around only a more ‘classic’ rant format will do the episode justice. Yes, the unthinkable has happened- .hack//Roots has somehow become even more boring. Be it misplaced optimism or a [...]

Phyllo A powerful force at the heart of the music industry, Phyllo dispenses advice to those wise enough to seek him out (i.e. anyone crossing a bridge in The World:r2’s root town). Gourd consults Phyllo about his future in the industry.

The band arc begins The cooking competition is over, but Ovan’s troubles are only just beginning. Once he and Naobi played in a band together, but now they have gone their separate ways and formed their own groups. Who will earn the most success, and who will flounder in The World:r2 of music?

Every week, I swear that I’ve written all I need to on Roots; that next week I won’t have anything more to say, and yet every week, I cannot help myself, even if it means having over 20 documents of complaints by the end (assuming I survive that long). It was at this point that [...]

Given my newfound propensity for constructing rants, I had better make it clear here that this won’t be following the pattern of my previous disillusioned moaning about .hack//Roots. Instead, this will be less of an outright rant, and more of a hybrid with the now-infamous “Ovan arm cooking” approach. First off, I have to admit [...]

Given how little happens in any given episode of Roots, it seems almost inconceivable that I could find enough material to write a whole new rant a scant week after I created the last. And yet, whilst I was alternately watching and falling asleep during the seventh instalment of .hack//Roots, I decided that if anything [...]