Back to the Vaults: Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure デュアル!ぱられルンルン物語 Dyuaru! Parare Runrun Monogatari Having recently watched Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5, it put me into a mindset where I wanted to rewatch Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. That’s because characters from Dual! show up in OVA 5 (something explained in depth with the Tenchi Muyo! GXP
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“Karaage” is NOT “KFC”
August 1st, 2021 
AstroNerdBoy “Karaage” is NOT “KFC” As long time readers of my blog will know, I’ve LONG been an advocate of “accurate but readable” subtitles in anime, and adaptations in manga. I don’t like “localization” because adaptations made with this mindset make rewrites that change the tone or are just plain wrong. That said, I was made
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Tags: Dragon Goes House-Hunting, rant 
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 (Crunchyroll Release Review)
July 28th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Review 天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA 5 Review Ever since I watched Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 1 and OVA 2 (labeled by then Pioneer for Western audiences as Tenchi Muyo!), I have been a huge fan of the franchise, though primarily the canon side of it. When OVA 3 released, I never
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Episode 06 (Finale)
June 30th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Episode 06 天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA 5 Ep. 6 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Kenshi’s training continues. He’s now able to defeat the girls on Banjo Island, but still cannot do it quick enough. He’s still no where near good enough to hold his own on Geminar. As such, Seina’s harem takes over the
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Episode 05 (Stop! Harem Time!)
April 26th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Episode 05 天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA 5 Ep. 5 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: A few years after the events of episode 4, Washu gives a report to Seto on Kenshi’s progress. Meanwhile, Funaho, Misaki, Yuuzaki (Yuzaki), and Kuis plan to crash in Kenshi’s training. They rope Ringo in as well. Ringo’s first visit
Fate/Grand Carnival New Year’s Eve Special 2020 Review
February 3rd, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Fate/Grand Carnival New Year’s Eve Special 2020 Review Fate/Grand Carnival First Singular Party: The Carnival Olympia of Heroic Spirits- Flame of Mad Festival I’ve mentioned this before, but I loved Carnival Phantasm. It not only takes characters and situations from Fate/stay night and Tsukihime for comedic purposes, it also does a lot of general comedy
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Prisma Phantasm OVA Review
January 23rd, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Prisma Phantasm OAV Review I loved Carnival Phantasm, which did comedic and parody stuff, using characters and situations from Fate/stay night and Tsukihime. In one of my recent Twitch streams, I was informed about Fate/Grand Carnival, which is reportedly going to be the first in a string of such comedy-parody anime,
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 10 (Reused Foes)
January 21st, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 10 半妖の夜叉姫 10 Hanyou no Yashahime episode 10 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Moroha, Setsuna, and Towa are looking for some troublesome youkai. They find a charred cow and a young family who tells them of the battling youkai pair. A conjoined, youkai, naga twins emerge from the clouds, battling each other. Kinka uses fire
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