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"He's the smartphone we deserve, but not the one we need right now."

Pokemon aren't things, jerk! Expect to hear from PETP's lawyers within the day! Hmph!

I really like the Necro-Machine.

The Groundskeeper is a clear winner, though I will say the candy goblin has a lot of charm. I liked that a lot too. But yeah, 8.

I went with 9. That horse is nice.

Fly Man got my vote. It pulls off its look very effectively, especially the eyes.

I love that chair a lot, but the witch just really impressed me. This is the first time I've seen it and I love everything about it. It's not as unique or eerie as the dentist chair, but it's so good. I wish I could vote for both, but I had to go with the witch.

Not really, activity books never have anything new. Plus we've known about this for months. Several of them.

Rey's figure looks surprisingly good. Finn's on the other hand...it's a figure. Phasma looks cool, but she also looks to be identical to the Stormtrooper, down to the weapon. Kinda. Boring. It makes sense, but...yeah. A somewhat different weapon at least would have been nice. At least she has a cape. Also, a wave of constraction figures in which 2/3 are female. Pretty cool. I'm kinda wondering how Kylo Ren's lightsaber works. Are the ones on the sides minifig lightsabers? They kinda look like it...

Hm so, over the last few weeks... I finished the Gargantia ovas. I don't like Gargantia in general, but it's mostly indifference. The first of the (long) ovas was just so terribly written it disgusted me a little, though. I hated it so much I honestly just played with some figuarts while watching the second one, so I do not remember that at all. And I am fine with this. I finished El Cazador de la Bruja. It was pretty nice! Definitely something of a slow burner...I have no idea when exactly I started enjoying it, but at some point I started getting really into the characters. It was pretty good. The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls finally ended, it was ok. I really liked a bunch of episodes of the second season, especially the ones with Uzuki. All in all this series wasn't anything special, but it was alright. The second Kyoukai no Kanata movie finally got subbed, so I watched both of them. The first is a decent enough refresher I guess but it was a pretty dang recap and an even worse movie. The sequel was eh-kay I guess. Mostly mediocre, kinda pretty, blehrg ending? Kyoukai no Kanata, basically. Started reading Tokyo Ghoul, roughly halfway through. I can see why the first season was so disliked, now. I expect reading the second half will only show me new ways to hate Root A, though. Started watching Hidamari Sketch, almost done with the first season. I was surprised by how enjoyable it is. It's a lot of fun, it's very Shaft-y, voice acting's good, humor is nice, ending theme is great...I'm having way more fun with it than I expected. It's nice. RGZ+ ended, I don't really have much to say about it. I watched Gokicha. I don't know what I was expecting, and I still don't...know. Anyway I finished reading Elfen Lied yesterday. It was certainly better than the anime. Had some pretty good characters (Nana and Arakawa are the beeeest) and was just kinda decent. A lot of stuff in the last part was kind of haphazard, though, I feel. Antagonists and characters just started coming out of the woodwork with little buildup or purpose... And really just in general I think the series was a couple of non-creepy relationships and a non- protagonist short of being good. Kouta is just a boring, sucky, whiny dude with little real relation to the "plot." The entire Inn stuff could have been cut down on considerably. Nozomi, was just, so useless. And completely unnecessary. Wannabe harem stuff just...bleh. Art did improve considerably by the end though...

Woo, it's back. I vote Great Furnace as well.

I bought the Protectors of Ice and Jungle at the same time, and I believe I opened PoI first, so him, I guess.

tell us about your uncle, mr. memes

What did Ehrye and Piruk ever do to you that you would break their masks like that. And paint them bright green too I guess.

Sunday. It comes out on Sundays.

Good seems like an exaggeration. I'd at most grant the first half being "passable." The second half mostly just sucked...pacing, interactions, story cohesiveness or lack thereof...it disappointed me on every front. Which is sad, since I was so strongly in favor of giving these animations a chance. I haven't been so disappointed in a new theme's story since Chima, and at least that got decent-ish towards the end of its first year. Bionicle offered no real positive qualities for me to care about. But then, I suppose that I can not fully blame them for the lacking result. The format meant they were doomed from the start. If there's something I've learned well over this year, it's that 90 second shows suck as a rule. But whatever the reason or however I want to rationalize it, they were still pretty bad. Meh.

Yes, Pohatu has been shown to be able to fly around on his sand tornadoes. I mean, it's on his box art.

Yeah, I built a Scorpio mock-up back in February or something after Toy Fair and the main thing I found is that the function is a lot of fun, really sort of the selling point. It's not that terrible a set, really.

I've been reading Elfen Lied recently. The art truly is laughably atrocious. Quite possibly the worst manga art I've seen in an officially published work, if not completely. So bad. I thought Gokukoku no Brynhildr was just decent art-wise, but after seeing, this, I have to say Okamoto Lynn improved by a factor of about ten thousand percent...probably. In more anime news, the Nihon Animator Mihonichi shorts seemingly finally came to a close. I wouldn't have minded if they went on indefinitely for a while longer, but it's as good a time to cut it as any I guess. I'm glad that at least it went long enough for I'm a Girl to come out, since it was great. All in all an eclectic mix of shorts ranging from fantastic to forgettable. Fun, though. And Ninja Slayer ended. Yippee.

It makes you beware.

Holy christ, it's alive. Kizu is alive. Part 1, though? It takes them four, five years to announce a release date, and they're gonna stretch it out? Come on Shaft. And not just two parts, but three. Just terrible. Not to even mention that waiting for it to be subtitled is going to add even more time to the waiting period... Really makes me wonder if I should read Kizu in the meantime, though. Novel's coming out next month. If it was just going to be the movie coming out early next year and say a bunch of months later I can see it, meh, I'd just wait to experience it fresh. Do not know if I can hold off on reading it for however long it takes all three parts to come out. Jeez. Quite the predicament. Even worse, Bake doesn't have a release date yet even though Kizu is already close to coming out, so I can't even count on that to hold me over. Anyway. World Trigger "ended," as it were. The part I cared (kinda) about, anyway. They're jumping straight to the filler and I couldn't care less, though the new opening looks really good. But eh, it was an anime all right. And all the new shows I'm watching this season with one exception have started. Some thoughts, from worst to best: Komori-san Can't Decline wasn't awful, but it also wasn't good, and more importantly, it was 2 minutes. Two minute anime are the worst; you can't do anything with them, and this was no different. Just kinda unremarkable. Attack on Titan: Junior High had a cool op and was generally sort of amusing but it's going to take more to get me to care. Comet Lucifer was pretty decent, putting the "eeek a lizard i as a woman am frightened and must cuddle up to you, the male lead, and then become embarrassed; is this stupid and formulaic forced sexual tension interesting yet?????????????????????????????????????" scene aside. (The Biggest Sigh Of All). Fight scene was pretty neat though. One Punch Man didn't wow me, to my great sadness. I think that's mostly because I have read this part of the manga several times already and the magic is gone a little bit (and i like manga over anime in general so that doesn't help) though. It was cool, well done, and the action scenes were pretty rad. Decent start, hope it gets me more excited when it gets to the stuff I haven't read. Owarimonogatari was pretty great. It's one of the smallest Monogatari series we've had, in pure terms of the scope and number of characters involved, and I think it definitely worked in its favor. Seeing more Ougi was very interesting and I'm all down for this character searching for Koyomi. If I have any complaints (and I don't) it's probably just that the twist was pretty obvious from the second you know who was mentioned. Though I also get the feeling it wasn't really meant to be much of a twist, I dunno. Really good stuff though. I get the feeling I'm going to be skipping Owari next week though. Kinda feel like just waiting until each of the stories is over to watch them all at once. It probably helps that Riddle and Lost are very short...may just watch Mail as it airs, though, because who even has the patience for that. Fall season so far: kinda ok.

Well would you look at that, Ekimu's eyes are still yellow even after putting on the MoCr, that solves that mystery that no one thought was a mystery. Cool. Well, an underwhelming end to an underwhelming year of episodes. Here's to hoping next year is better.

Most Netflix shows just release all the episodes at once. That's how it worked pretty much always until recently...I guess Bionicle could be in the group that releases over an extended period of time. House of Cards has all episodes of a season go up at once, and I think Daredevil did as well. No reason to think this will be any different. Yes, only a couple of Netflix shows have been released weekly, it's a pretty new and special thing from what little I know. And yes, there is no reason to think Bionicle will be any different, but I mean, these 4 are quite likely to have to cover the entire first half year of 2016 (if not the entire year), Lego may request that they be released periodically instead of all at once simply to fill the time. Or they may not. I dunno!

Is there any way to find it on YouTube ?..., i'm very interested to see what this is about but sadly i live in a country in Europe where Netflix refuses to shine. The series won't be available until next year. It's a Netflix Original, meaning that when it is released, it won't be available for viewing anywhere besides Netflix. I'm pretty sure it will eventually be bootlegged. What I'm going to do is wait for all four episodes to be released and sign up for a free trial of Netflix for a month, then cancel it after I've seen the show. Yes, I will have to wait forever and it will suck, but better than missing the show entirely or having a subscription service going on that bleeds money. Most Netflix shows just release all the episodes at once. That's how it worked pretty much always until recently...I guess Bionicle could be in the group that releases over an extended period of time.

More metallics is all I want.