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Tying the knot deculture!

So, I got married yesterday. 47 days after our first proper meeting, 45 days after falling in love and 11 days after proposing to her, we’re finally husband & wife. This, dear readers, is what’s been keeping me so busy these last few weeks that I couldn’t even write up a proper post. Anime, games, [...]

Highschool of the Dead, the beginning deculture!

The day it all came to an end, he killed his best friend and got the love of his life. That’s as poetic as it is fucked up, which is awesome! Also, I’m ashamed at myself for actually not watching this earlier, what is easily the best first episode to an anime this year! Summary [...]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the end deculture!

Finally! And I mean that for more than one reason, the most obvious being the wrap up between Ed and Winry. So, I’m not gonna go into an episodic summary here, given that I haven’t blogged about the series for the past 2 or 3 episodes. Instead, I’ll go ahead with my… Thoughts I must [...]

Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail deculture!

The Bloodhound of Florencia returns. So after experiencing the longest, most excruciatingly boring 22 minutes of my life watching K-On!! 13, I decided to watch Black Lagoon. Specifically, the new OVA: Roberta’s Blood Trail. It’s genuinely an awe inspiring experience, going from something so cute and useless that I can feel my life slip away [...]

Angel Beats the end deculture!

Sad, but sweet. I won’t bother with a summary of the final episode, nor the whole series. Just talk about it and mention some events as they come and go, so spoilers abound. What started out as another typical high school anime with slapstick comedy in obscure settings just for the sake of plot progression, [...]

K-ON!! 12 deculture!

Summer time = fun time. Summary All the girls go for a Summer Rock Festival along with Sawako sensei, instead of their usual sea side trips. Thoughts This was a standard K-ON!! episode, with the girls just chilling out and having a good time, nothing significant. Just the typical happenings of a typical Summer Rock [...]

E3 2010 press conferences deculture!

Just some useful info for those who want to watch the livestreams of the major press conferences for this year’s E3 which starts today, ending on Thursday. I’ll start off with the big three: Microsoft - on Monday, June 14th 10:30am PDT [World Clock] @ Xbox, GameSpot, IGN, 1UP Nintendo - on Tuesday, June 15th, [...]

Podcast deculture! 27

This week we talk about some new movies in the cinema that are worth watching, the lack of games coming this summer and a cult classic that maybe doesn’t deserve that status. deculture_podcast_27 Hosts Taimoor & Mihir What we’ve been watching - The A Team (must watch) - The Ghost Writer (must watch) - Kill [...]

Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind deculture!

Burn it with fire! Wow, I haven’t seen an anime so full of fail since Heroman. Before I begin the hate… Summary Taking place just before the events of SF IV, the anime shows famous martial artists around the world being kidnapped. These fighters are experimented upon by an organisation known as S.I.N. whose CEO [...]

FMA: Brotherhood 60 deculture!

Everybody dies! Psyche! Only God dies. Summary Scar fights Bradley, revealing his right arm covered in tattoos that reconstruct broken objects, thus bringing about a close to his brother’s research. As May, Ed, Al, Izumi and even Greed (at the last second) fight Father, he bitch slaps them all and starts the country wide transmutation. [...]

Podcast deculture! 26

This week we look at some old Korean cinema, listen to why the Rebuild of Evangelion movies are so awesome, and a bunch of games old and new. deculture_podcast_26 Hosts Taimoor, Mihir & Arafaat What we’ve been watching - The Host (must watch) - Oldboy (must watch) - Nightmare on Elm Street – remake (meh) [...]

Revisiting Death Note deculture!

Going back to one of the Golden Years of anime. Honestly, 2006 was one hell of a year for anime. We had Haruhi, Eureka 7, Black Lagoon, Higurashi, Mushishi, Ouran and Noein. It’s disturbing to see that the last few season in the last year or two have had such lacklustre animes. There’s a few [...]

Durarara!! 20 deculture!

So now what? Summary Kida discusses the matter of the Slasher and the Dollars working together with Kadota and the rest of the gang in the mini-van over a cup of tea and some sushi. Kadota clears up the growing misunderstanding that the Slasher is in no way associated with the Dollars, and upon further [...]

FMA: Brotherhood 59

Stuff happened. Summary Mustang acted smart (as usual) and didn’t give into the gold toothed doctors plans. Instead he got help from his chimera buddies, one of whom scooped the doc up into the ceiling. Soon the rest of the gang overcomes the other King Bradley project rejects. Doesn’t really matter though, as the real [...]

Stealth Armoring the iPad

Not talking about Solid Snake level of stealth here, but something just as cool. One of the (many, many) reasons I didn’t post for 4 days last week was because I was trying out something new. A friend of mine recently provided me with a front and rear skin for my iPad. The front cover [...]

Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance deculture!

Mind blown! OK not really, but I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Since it’s been out for almost a year now, I’m not even gonna bother warning about spoilers or have a summary laid down before I start. Thoughts Evangelion 2.22 had everything I could have asked from a sequel. Hideaki Anno lived up [...]

FMA: Brotherhood 58 deculture!

I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Summary Buccaneer requests Lin to defend the main gate as a final favour, for attacking King Bradley. Lin is already pissed at what King Bradley managed to do, and after throwing him off in the canal below, he takes the help of Greed and goes nuts on the [...]

Podcast deculture! 25

Inbetween all of our call dropouts, we manage to talk about Jake Gyllenhaal’s greatness in Prince of Persia, Split/Second’s shocking multiplayer, Red Dead Redemptions confusing duels, and Blur’s lacklustre singleplayer. And apparently Katanagatari is the best anime ever created. Show More Summary

Plantes, the end deculture!

26 episodes in a week. Not too shabby at all. So I finished Planetes yesterday evening, and since I’ve already covered some of the aspects of the series already, I’ll just talk a bit about the end. Expect spoilers. As the final four episodes played out, I could see Hachimaki being an extremely irritating person [...]