One thing that I like about going to conventions is that I always have my retinue of fellow Anime Jam Session staff and crew rolling with me. It’s always nice and always comforting to have them along, even if the best laid plans of mice and otaku can blow up in a goddamn instant. But […]
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Double Dragon NEON – Any More ‘80s and It’d Be Steeped in Cocaine
Publisher WayForward / Majesco Games System Xbox 360 and PS3 Genre Action/Beat ‘em Up Release Date September 12th, 2012 Rating T Review by Ari Rockefeller Double Dragon is a strange case as far as old video game franchises go. Everyone remembers the first two games—at least, their home counterparts on the NES—but other […]
Ari Rockefeller presents Otakon 2012 — Have a Drink on Me, or The Agony of the Feet
For those of you who are familiar with my personal life, you’ll know of my martial arts background and accomplishments—the long story short is that I’m a second-degree black belt. Though that’s objectively a high rank, it doesn’t mean I know everything about martial arts…not even close. Even a true master believes that he or […]
Lollipop Chainsaw
When you think of your typical zombie apocalypse scenario, you generally tend to think of the world going to hell, the main protagonists fighting just to keep themselves sane and/or as long as they can before they’re overrun by zombies, and whatever few survivors having the thousand-mile stares of shell-shocked veterans of war. Well, […]
Ari Rockefeller presents AnimeNEXT 2012 — The Con! The Con! The Con is On Fire!
One thing that has to be understood about anime conventions and the like is that the people who frequent them will bend, reshuffle and/or manipulate their schedules however necessary to clear time and acquire funds to get there. This can and will involve calling out from work (or at the very least hope a con […]