Category: Visual Novels

Fate/Stay Night: Back to the Future

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hisui_icon_4040 When the news broke that there was going to be a new Fate/Stay Night anime in 2014 the speculation was fast and furious. The original Fate/Stay Night anime sits in place between the infamous meme spawning Lunar Legend Tsukihime and the critically acclaimed Kara no Kyoukai anime. It is not utterly reviled in a way that still makes Arcueid fans salty today but not really that popular either. Firmly in the mediocre middle. The Unlimited Blade Works movie is a bit shinier but the plot is a threadbare attempt to cram the whole story into 105 minutes. So when ufotable was announced to be doing a new Fate/Stay Night anime the crowd went wild. But the immediate question was what exactly was it going to be about.

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2 Guys & a Mic and the Dread of the Grave

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hisui_icon_4040 I proclaim that Alain Mendez (aka Hisui) is the detective. The detective is not the culprit. No proof is needed to show this.

I recently listened to the podcast review on the 2 Guys and a Mic podcast of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni anime. It was a good review but Jahmere and Mike only watched the anime. That is not a crime. An anime should be able to stand on its audience needing to lean on supplemental material or the original source product. The anime leaves out some major plot points and explanations so it makes sense they were a bit confused at points.

There is a distinct reason that the anime has the bad reputation it does.

In hopes of shedding a little light on the situation I decided to throw out some blue and red statements to clear up some things.

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Stryker While The Iron is Hot

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Sometimes it takes a real hero to talk about a visual novel. And sometimes it just takes and ordinary person who has traded his memories to amoral spirits for super powers. But that is besides the point. In this case I will be talking about MangaGamer’s Dengeki Stryker on the Eroge Bus podcast with the Digital Bug. Once again I will be talking about the surprisingly melancholy hot-blooded tokusatsu visual novel. As with all the other Eroge Bus episodes there will be visual novel news at the front, new game announcements at the end, and a spoiler free and spoiler filled discussion of the game in the middle.  I will probably talk about this game again if MangaGamer picks up Chou Dengeki Stryker but until then consider this the last word on it for a while.

A a side note, apparently there is a visual novel using the concept of Maxwell’s demon. Can’t say I saw that coming.

Eroge Bus Episode 15 – Dengeki Stryker