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I'm enjoying Kaya-Chan isn't Scary.

Kaya herself feels pretty authentic. She's a little kid. Even though she can see and fight ghosts, she is still a little kid. She can't tell people cause they will think she is lying, so the only way to protect the other kids is simply Stop them doing things.
No...you can't use the Swing. Tape all the books shut so no one can read them. She's doing her best but it just looks mean to other kids. She sulks and she pouts cause she knows she's doing good but no one listens.

So important to get that one teacher who believes in her

That said. Something is going on in this town cause there are a LOT of hostile ghosts.
Kaya is not infallible. She almost got tricked in the 2nd episode and the issues with her mother are definitely a weak point for her. She needs more than an understanding teacher. She needs someone who can teach her how to use the power she's got.

If you are a fan of Ghost stories give this one a shot.

Kaya-Chan looks neat. To outside perspective you have a little girl who sometimes lashes out violently, but the reality is she is smashing things other people can't see.

Kind of puts me in mind of Dark Gathering, another show about creepy cute little girl fighting ghosts. Was a good show but I stopped because one story arc gave me the heeby jeebies.

Well...that was unexpected. Tojima wants to be Kamen Rider, has a crossover with Air Master. Apparently they were done by the same author.

Airmaster is kind of a lesser known street fighting series from...must be like 20 years ago. Basic plot is you have a young girl who's mother trained her to be an Olympic Gymnast. As she got older however she inherited her father's physique. IE: She got HUGE, not great for being a Gymnast.
Turns out she got something else from her father, a love of beating the crap out of people. So she took her gymnastics training and turned it into a street fighting style.
Was a fun anime, although there was one character who's voice was Nails on a chalkboard bad.

Apparently after her own series she went on to become a Cop....then got fired for crushing an entire Yakuza gang single handedly. Now she teaches martial arts to children.

That gruff older Captain is something of an Archetype I think. Tends to show up in a lot of places.
variations of Team Grandis show up a lot too. (hell if someone told me Jessie from Team Rocket was her daughter I would half believe it)

After something like 10 years
Saga of Tanya the Evil, Season 2 is coming.

The music really is something. Great job capturing the mood of the scenes

Kinda meh on the last episode. Wouldn't be bad if there werent years between seasons but for right now.. meh.

I was kind of expecting an epilogue episode that set stuff up for later and I got that. On that front I'm satisfied but the main problem I had with it was they clearly padded it out with basically cheap music videos.

I liked season 1 better but overall I think season 2 was solid.

Honestly not nearly as fun as Absolute DC or even Ultimate Marvel. ESPECIALLY with the new Absolute "Justice" League.

I think Brainiac is about to make a Significant Mistake

welp, that confirms that

Getting a chance to watch this now. Grabbed a Free Week of City TV and this is available there.
Just finished episode 5.

Show isn't bad got some interesting new ideas and I am all in favour of having some new critters

The idea of the Ticks makes me squirm but the Eyeball probably scares me the most. That thing is horrifying and it is clearly smart. Plus there is the Zombie factor as we have clearly seen it doesn't matter if the body is alive or dead when it takes over.

Still two critters to reveal for me though.

Galaxy is a terrible place full of horrible things. This reinforces that quite nicely.

Welp, I have a reason to pick up Disney+ again

My first childhood Anime Crush is back

New Cat's Eye series

Is it just me or are there a lot of Record stores in the alternate universe?

Still trying to process calling up your buddy to help dismember your own corpse so it will fit in the extra-dimensional cat incinerator.

and to have Vigilante be ridiculously happy about doing so.

and again Eagly...hardcore.
and the strut back inside when he was done with those guys.

DandaDan the Hayasii performance went above and beyond. great song and then I discover who they got to perform the english version.

I hope they make both versions available as Singles.

after 15 years a 2nd season of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt

Show is high speed chaos and WTF....

still trying to process the Fast and the Furious parody

Feel like I've out grown this show (15 years is a long time) but I think the younger fans will have a blast with it.

.... and then they did the Jack Kirby style episode. Oh my that was great to watch.

after 15 years a 2nd season of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt

Show is high speed chaos and WTF....

still trying to process the Fast and the Furious parody

Feel like I've out grown this show (15 years is a long time) but I think the younger fans will have a blast with it.

Nyaight of the Living Cat: Take all the tropes of a Zombie movie...but it's Cats. Also seems to include various Cat facts.

For fans of Bakarina, the "My Next Life as a Villainess, All routes lead to doom" movie just dropped on Crunchyroll.

Catarina finds herself caught up in the plot of a different story and must save someone else from Doom flags.

JoelF847 wrote:

Well, the trailer towards the end has Peacemaker meet himself, so maybe he goes to a different Earth? That could explain how he (and possibly some of his friends) get to the Gunnverse. Or, it could be that the Argus adjacent characters are basically about the same in both universes.

Good point. Although I dread the thought of more multiverse stuff.

hmmm....if you went through a Multiverse Door and found a version of yourself that is doing much better than you. How would you handle that?

How would Peacemaker handle that?

Maybe he kills and takes the place of his Gunnverse double.

Our cycle of streaming service has brought us back to Disney+ and finally getting a chance to check this out.

1 episode in

First Impression
It's a "Kids on Bikes" show
I love that

Planet seems a bit weird
Great Work? Kids getting aimed at the bureaucracy by 10?
Something feels off?

Space Pirates

Oh this is going to be fun

Couple of Konosuba OVA episodes just dropped on Crunchyroll. Couple of fun little side stories

First Episode of Anne Sherley did a nice job of capturing the characters. The style of it looks very traditional but I am curious to see how people who don't know the story react to it.

"Red Ranger in another world" just added a new bit of fun.
Following up on rumours of Elves with a mysterious magic our heroes are confronted by....an Egyptian Themed Kamen Rider. a power inherited from a previous visitor from another world.

Might be hard to find but

Crest of the Stars is a good older style Space Opera
and if you want some good fantasy Guin Saga and Moribito: Guardian of the spirit are two of my favourites.

oh and if you have an urge for a bit of life lessons comedy with a side of yakuza, try The Gokusen

also give you 50/50 odds on enjoying Outlaw Star

maybe Ergo Proxie or Psychopass

oh my goodness. I just stumbled across the Live Action movie of the Guycer on Amazon Prime.

Finally, Season 4 of Thunderbolt Fantasy finally shows up on Crunchyroll.
never been so excited for a puppet show

"From bureaucrat to villainess: Dad's been reincarnated."

I enjoyed this so much.
I'm 50+ myself and I relate to so many of Kozaburou's inner monologue. The bit about switching to short and long distance without having to change glasses hit me hard

"Hey want to see something cool" is the right approach to a trailer. Don't spoil the whole plot for us just show us enough to know you're trying to get it right.

Some very cool moments in that and more than enough to get me excited for the movie.

Every season we get two or three isekai these days, so I tend to look for the ones that have an interesting twist

Next month we get "The Red Ranger becomes an adventurer in another world"

A Power Ranger gets Isekaied. Complete with his transformation, Ranger weapons and freaking Giant Robot.

I love me a good Genre Clash so I'm going to check this out

From what I was reading it's the last season for Arcane but that they plan on doing other things for other parts of the world. Different characters, different setting, different story.
No idea if they will use the same style of animation or try something else though

ok...so all the classics are getting new versions.
They are doing a new anime of Anne of Green Gables. comes out in april next year.

Haven't read a lot of his work but I still hold a grudge for what he did to Wally

So my Night Below game is taking a break while one players has stepped away the rest of the group decided they wanted to wait till he comes back. Meanwhile they want to play something a little different

"We all want to be Kobolds" they said

So I have 1 week to get an Episodic Kobold campaign ready to go.

It is a fine excuse to bust out the Savage Company books that I kickstartered ages ago.

I'm a big fan of the manga and anime and honestly the Live action did a great job. Yes they changed some stuff and skipped some stuff but the Important beats of the story are all there and the heart of the series is there.

It is probably one of the best Live action adaptations I've seen

I won't go into too many details but yes, Usopp becomes useful. Sharpshooter and Tech expert, in fact he invents the weapon Nami will be using in the future.

With my Night Below Campaign, The group is getting closer to the City of the Glass Pool. After sitting out a Month in a Dwarf Mining town making magic items, they started hitting the Derro caverns.

I used the Unchained Simple Monster creation rules to make some Mind Flayers to add into the mix. Might adjust the Stun Blast so that there is a Save each round. Very nearly had a TPK when the Druid and his Badger were the only ones still up after the Flayer blasted them. The Stonelord Paladin even had to get his Earth Elemental involved (normally only uses him for scouting, cause it's only a Medium Elemental and not that tough)

That one is pretty good

another good one to check out is Sweet Home....not exactly a Zombie story but ....more like Zombie story on Acid

New season of Thunder Bolt Fantasy coming in October

If you have never seen it, Give it a chance. Gen Urobuchi writing and Studio Pili puppet theatre action

Tyrant's Grasp, I got eaten by a giant flytrap and realized I still had not replaced my lost dagger. So here is me in the gullet with a Warhammer and a Heavy Flail

And a Tree Feather Token

It worked but it hurt a lot...and then I fell out of the tree which hurt more.

The stubbornness of Lois Lane vs. the Black Mercy AI for the Mind of Clark Kent

Meanwhile Kara defends Earth from Brainiac while fending off Luthor's army of Metallos and Task Force X

I am really glad to hear that a Season 3 has been approved already cause they have done a great job with this series. There may be a lot of weird twists on a lot of classic Superman lore but they really do have the spirit down right.

Oh my
This is a bit of News I was not expecting.

New Magic Knights Rayearth project

Season had it's ups and downs but overall I think the ups outnumbered the downs. The good episodes were really good

The big question now is Ms. Flood. Clearly she's the one who has been making it snow around Ruby, probably to set up Sutehk but there could be something more to it then that.

Gonna have to wait for the Christmas special I think

When I was a Kid the local game store had a regular "Game Day" that I would go to when I got started in D&D. This one time I got pulled into some game I had never heard of. Made a Lizardman, had a Spirit Node for magic in my Tail. Can't remember anything more than that and the impression that I had a lot of fun with it. Only got to play it the one time but I always wanted to try it again. I'd think about it every so often for close to 40 years now, just a casual "Oh yeah that...I wonder what that game was. Ah well" and then out of mind and on to other things.

Well turned out the game was Swordbearer, and I bought it last night off Drivethrough RPG

I doubt I'm going to ever get to play it with my group but it's nice to get my hands on it and I will probably plunder it for ideas

Night Below
Our heroes descend into the catacombs below the Ice Hive in search of Diamonds they need to resurrect the dead wizards they discovered.

Unfortunately the Armiger got pulped by an Ice Elemental fairly early and they retreated. Left with no other options they went to the Temple of the Insectoid Krik Where the Undead priests of their dead god offered the group a choice. they could attempt the difficult and expensive ritual that might return their friend to life or they could do the fair simpler (and cheaper) option of turning him into an undead. They discussed the options and realized the party Druid could cast Reincarnate on the dead wizards (because who cares if they don't come back in the same bodies).
They had the Undead priests cast a Raise dead on their friend, but as they did the Necromantic arm graft he has went berserk attacking everything around them. The Stonelord held the arm down long enough for the newly resurrected Armiger to get control of it.
After a day of recovering they returned to the Catacombs, battled numerous undead and returned to the Frozen city with a sizable amount of treasure and a crown of diamonds.

They set out now for the Deep Gnome Settlement to Reincarnate the dead wizards (who's bodies are being kept there under Gentle Repose spells)

Greylurker, do you happen to use Hero Lab or VTT maps for your Night Below campaign?

I'm considering running a PF 1st edition for my online PF1 group in the future, and was wondering if you (or anyone) knew of any HL or VTT-ready jpgs of the maps?

No it's a face to face game, although for mapping out the Underdark I'm not really using a map...More of a Corkboard with index cards and string.

The string being open connections between regions. PCs make a series of tests to navigate from one to another, I throw a few challenges and such along the way. Sometimes something like a Cave in happens and I cut one of the strings, other times a new passage is discovered and I connect two locations with a new string. Discovering Rumors about a location lets them put up a new index card and the more rumors they have for a location the easier it is to get to

It's a modified version of something I got on DrivetrhuRPG called "Downcrawl"

Night Below

With the corpses of two dead wizards the group decides not to pursue the dragon and instead returns to the Gnome city to see about a Raise dead for them. The main obstacle, the need for 5000 gp worth of diamonds for each raise dead. Rumours tell of a Smooth Cavern with numerous gemstones but with a strange gnome repelling magic. The group sets out and unfortunately gets themselves lost in the dark tunnels of the Deep Below. After more than a week trying to find their way Ohmar spots some familiar tunnels and they manage to make their way back to the Gnome town.

After some discussion they head back to the Ice Hive in hopes of buying Diamonds from the markets there. No such luck unfortunately but there is one more chance, in the frozen city at the centre of the glacier there may be gems to be found, if the group is brave enough to face the frozen undead

Got to see The Marvels today and it was a lot of fun.

but somehow I doubt all of those Kittens are accounted for at the end.

Today's Lesson
If you are not a Magical Girl and you are attacked by a Monster, a Brick can be just as effective as a Magic Wand.

Tyrant's Grasp

We are making our way back to the world of the living and reached the 2nd waypoint in our trip. A creepy mansion full of Blood themed monsters that hit like a damn truck.

We move up to the 2nd floor next week.

ok wow....I checked out that Magical Girls show....can't help but feel I'm on a watch list of some sort now. That was ....a lot