Reviews… Anime Review: My Hero Academia, Season 5 25 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 Season 5 of My Hero Academia is a swingy season. It swings between playful experimentation, grounded superhero storytelling, and some of the darkest, most ambitious villain‑focused material the show has…
Reviews… Anime Review: My Hero Academia, Season 4 7 Jul 20267 Jul 2026 Season 4 of My Hero Academia is a strange, ambitious mix of arcs that swing between the intense, the heartfelt, and the slightly filler‑adjacent. It’s a season defined by contrasts:…
Reviews… Anime Review: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Season 2 5 Jul 20267 Jul 2026 Frieren is not a loud show, but it got bigger towards the end of season 1. We saw an expanded cast during the first class mage exam, and big, set-piece…
Reviews… Anime Review: My Hero Academia, Season 3 23 Jun 202619 May 2026 Season 3 is where My Hero Academia stops being something I’m evaluating from a distance and becomes something I’m genuinely invested in. The earlier seasons laid the groundwork, setting out…
RPGs… Your Nan vs the Supernatural: Running RPGs in the Style of The Boroughs 16 Jun 20265 Jun 2026 There’s a particular pleasure in stories that don’t try to outrun themselves. The Boroughs sits in that space. It's a show that keeps its feet planted firmly in the everyday,…
Reviews… TV Review: The Boroughs 14 Jun 20265 Jun 2026 We see, from time to time, a show that feels like it slipped through a crack in the current TV landscape. It might be something quieter, smaller, and strangely self‑assured.…
Reviews… Anime Review: My Hero Academia, Season 2 13 Jun 202617 May 2026 Season 2 has a confidence that Season 1 never quite had. The show no longer feels like it’s tiptoeing around its own premise or waiting for permission to take itself…
Reviews… Anime Review: My Hero Academia, Season 1 2 Jun 202617 May 2026 Season 1 of My Hero Academia doesn’t rush to impress you. It starts with a kind of narrative shyness, as if the show is still figuring out how loudly it…
Reviews… Anime Review: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Season 1 17 May 202616 May 2026 Frieren opens with an ending. Frieren begins where most fantasy stories end: the hero’s party has already defeated the Demon King, the world is saved, and the celebrations are over.…
Pop Culture… TV Review: The Capture, Season 2 16 May 202615 May 2026 Ben Chanan’s The Capture returned recently for a third season. I really enjoyed season 1 of this show, so I thought I'd better watch season 2 before digging into the…
Reviews… Anime Review: The Promised Neverland, Season 2 19 Apr 202619 Apr 2026 Season 2 of The Promised Neverland is disappointing. Let's just get that out of the way from the start, shall we? They took the immaculate tension of Season 1 and…
RPGs… Finding Inspiration: Playing The Promised Neverland 7 Apr 20264 Apr 2026 Some shows entertain you, and then some shows crawl under your ribs and start rearranging the furniture. The Promised Neverland’s first season is the latter. It's a tightly wound thriller…
