Manic Expression

"Epic"

By Madhog thy Master

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Backstory Derp

Somewhere over the Rainbow, between Sesame Street and Carmen Sandiego’s hideout, stood the magical land of Equestria, a peaceful realm ruled by princess Celestia, whose divine powers could bring the sun to rise every morning and the moon to shine at least once a month. It was also a remarkable tourist spot: the Laws of ...

This is just some terrible artwork.

"The Buzz on Maggie" was a 2004's animated series that was broadcast on Disney channel. It's about a young teenage fly who dreams to be a rockstar.

It's pretty good and I suggest you to give it a look.

In many ways, the “Clannad” anime represents the culmination of several bold achievements: it’s the third and arguably best series in the ideal trilogy of Key’s visual novels-based episodic renditions developed by Kyoto Animation (after “Air” and “Kanon”, which I’ve already covered), it’s possibly the smoothest transition between the two media (soft-core eroge and Japanimation, that is) and, in the long...

N/A: I could not help but notice this site has recently added to its blog roster a "Fan Fiction" related category. Funnily enough, that reminded me of the days I used to write horribly pretentious fanfics in the underwhelming attempt to deconstruct the very genre and give something "clever" to the world, for a change.

Now that I consider myself a "respectable" and "highly educated" critic (see what I did there with the air-quotes?), I think it's now time I...

A/N: This old review of mine might be the most confounding, befuddling and mindbumbling piece I have ever written. Enjoy.

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"Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel" is a game produced by Banpresto Co., LTD (a subsidiary of Namco Bandai) and Gust Incorporated (which is better known for the "Atelier"&...

From a conceptual viewpoint, Pendleton Ward’s animated crack-fest, “Adventure Time”, drowns itself in an ocean of bewilderingly ambitious and thought-provoking ideas. Finn the Human and Jake the Dog’s trippy, colourful setting of high fantasy galore is supposed to be, in fact, a post-apocalyptic world completely reshaped by a nuclear holocaust that wiped out all life as we know it - the one event cleverly referred to as t...

When Rarity, the fashion enthusiast unicorn of the pony-bunch, went to the big city of Canterlot in order to procure herself the finest materials for Twilight Sparkle’s birthday dress gift, she found herself swapped into a rather poignant satirical overview on the vain superficiality and alienating lack of self-awareness consuming every anachronistic facet of high society.

A/N: The following review serves as a continuation to a specific introduction video. Watch it here.

A recurring problem in visual media is the perennial conundrum of narration versus length. It’s often har...

Attention duelists! Before reading the following review, check the video introduction provided by Paradise and Faries.

Click on the image.

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Much like series like

Here’s a conundrum to wrap your mind with: what if H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” were to be reinterpreted in the form of a Harem-like comedic hi-jinks scenario? Light novel writer Manta Aisora and animation studio Xebec have the answer to that - and it will blow your mind.

“Haiyore! Nyaruko-san” is a massive, light-hear...

Much to his many fans' collective bemusement (I'm sure of it), Stan Lee's out-of-this-world creative mind seemed to have wavered far off in the ocean of new possibilities, only to take a decisive stop into the Land of the Rising Comic. The "Excelsior" writer (and master of totally expected movie cameos) has taken a liking into the anime/manga industry in the latest years of his life. In 2010 he delighted many of us by pulling out a dream co...

Humour is a thoroughly subjective matter. Its functionality depends on several factors such as personal tastes, current mood, specific settings, styles, pay-offs and the charismatic endeavour of its igniting devices - the comedians and/or props involved. There are shows (animated series to be exact) out there that are usually considered funny and entertaining by a general audience (like “Adventure Time!”, to make a random example) bu...

“Journey” is Art. It’s pure, emotionally-entangling, soul-flourishing Art. It’s not even a “game” from a strict, literal perspective: it’s an experience, a visual marvel that speaks and woes the traveller (player) with its unique language mostly made out of silent contemplations, sound effects or soft ambient music. From the very start, our cognitive senses get wrapped into the atmosphere, le...

Occasionally, not all that often (especially not in Western-developed ones), a videogame would feature somewhat of a peculiarly-put together animated or cinematic opening sequence right before the main menu's availability. Its purpose is to create an appealing mood to ease the player's mind into a possible catharsis towards the particular product it's trying to sell - much like anime intros or any good titl...

The other day, while entertaining myself in a three-way Skype conversation with fellow Team Yume member Ross Faries (of Paradise and Fairies) and our newly acquired recruit/mascot/intern/plaything,

More often than none, when a show, a franchise or an on-going series of any sort, starts to be fully aware of its audience, it would usually mark the first signs of its own downfall. A downfall brought upon partly because the people in charge of said product thought it was a good idea to woe their fans in any way possible, and partly because of the fandom itself making more and more buzzes and going hay-ware thanks to the...

If I ever get to achieve some sort of Internet celebrity status in my current life-time before reincarnating into a “Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania”, one of my goals would be to round up into one room all the most infamously renowned video-reviewers of the moment (such as Oancitizen, Phelous and JesuOtaku, to name a few), sit among them on a comfortable sofa and get them to watch a 2011’s Japanese...

The following document reports the final memoirs of a gamer who couldn’t survive the first hour of “Corpse Party” on his PSP:

It’s all over… I cannot escape.

I’m stuck in here. Stuck with them… eh eh eh eh eh eh eh… ha-ha…hahahahahahahaha…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I’m going… to die, ri...

It has become a common occurrence (or at least, a fairly popular conception among various kinds of niche audiences) to automatically associate the term Hentai with certain conventions belonging to Japanese animation - more specifically the kind of Japanimation that involves alien tentacle rape scenes, gangbanging and/or other forms of sexual exploitations normal, low-budget porn films shot insome undisclosed motel room wouldn&...