Aug 012012
 

Greetings internet fiends, my name is Travis, and it would seem that I am joining this community of writers. Without diving into an elongated introduction, all I’ll say for now is that I look forward to a long lasting, fruitful relationship centered around shared interests and passion for thoughtful discussion and the occasional nerd rage. Without further ado, it is my pleasure to write the first episode of a series I call “Point of Contention”, an opinion column that will cover a range of topics.

Let’s talk Playstation Vita.

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Aug 012012
 

Taking a little break from Metroid this week (and possibly a few weeks, I’m a little burnt out). Plus those games take a while to beat. Back to anime for now, with Jormungand. Honestly, I was going to do a spring 2012 recap for all the spring shows I watched but I got way too far behind and have just recently finished the spring season… Haven’t even started summer yet. Anyway, back to Jormungand. It aired from April to June of this year, for a total of twelve episodes. While the show ended fairly cleanly (it’d be hard for a show like this not to, I guess), there IS a second season slated for I believe the fall anime season, so look forward to that if you like what you read (and consequently see) here. The studio behind this show is White Fox, whom I’ve honestly never heard of. They’ve done Katanagatari and Steins;Gate though, and those are some pretty big projects, so their pedigree is okay. So let’s get into the meat of this show.

They put the katakana on top of the English text, it looks kind of… cluttered

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