Summer 2024 – Week 3 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has been a productive one on a variety of fronts, as I’ve been clearing out the last of my outstanding essay projects while also catching up on anime of both recent and venerable vintage. My viewing party just finished season one of the excellent Delicious in Dungeon, which now stands proudly beside Edgerunners among my favorite Trigger properties. Given my distaste for Imaishi’s dramatic preferences, I suppose it’s little surprise that I most enjoy Trigger’s more far-flung adaptations, but I nonetheless had a fantastic time with Laois and his crew. I’ve also been continuing my Gundam journey with Victory Gundam, which so far has proven one of the most tightly composed and altogether satisfying Gundams since the original series. And then of course, there have been The Films, a wandering collection of features spurred by idle whimsy, recommendations on Twitter, or just whatever happens to show up on Netflix. Let’s get to it!

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Winter 2022 – Week 7 in Review

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week, my housemates and I have been reveling in the delayed bounty of the 2021 holiday release schedule, gorging ourselves on Pokemon Arceus and Dying Light 2. After twenty years of waiting, Game Freak have at last delivered the Pokemon game I’ve been craving since childhood: a largely open-world adventure, where you can just ramble around and catch pokemon to your heart’s content. The instinct to fill a pokedex is one of my most powerful lizard-brain itches, and so I’ve been happily catching critters by the dozens, all while awaiting the imminent and world-shifting release of Elden Ring.

Don’t worry though, we also found time for plenty of movies. Let’s rumble through the week’s finest selections, as we explore one more Week in Review!

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