Author Archives: Merlin
Bon Appetit? What’s With All the Fantasy Food Anime Lately?
The other day, I happened to catch the preview for a new anime titled, Delicious in Dungeon. And my first reaction to the idea of adventurers in a fantasy world cooking and eating the creatures they slay in dungeons was… “Another … Continue reading
Anime Review: Gatchaman Crowds
It took me a little while to realize that this was an addition to a franchise which, in my youth, I knew as G-Force. It was something about the flying paper birds which tipped me off, and the motion the characters … Continue reading
Sunday’s Wisdom #446: There’s Always Something
“There’s always an alien battlecruiser, or a Corellian death ray, or a galactic plague that’s about to wipe out life on this miserable little planet.” – K, Men in Black K says this to drive home his own point, that … Continue reading
Magi’s Magic Could Have Been More Magical
In a world of magic and kingdoms, one may find great labyrinths filled with untold perils, which promise fortune, glory, and the power of kings to those who conquer them. To choose these kings, to guide and teach them, is the … Continue reading
The Original Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
I saw the movie when I was a kid, much to the later amusement of my mother as she would recount, so many times, how my candy went flying to the other side of the theater when I experienced my … Continue reading
Sunday’s Wisdom #445: Remember Them
“Our armed forces have turned the tide of world wars. Young men and women from our great country’s four corners have humbled history’s worst tyrants. We carve our thanks in stone. We stamp it into medals. We carefully tend to … Continue reading
The Eminence in Shadow is Barking Mad!
He was once a Japanese high school student, but after dying and being reincarnated in a fantasy world, he is now Cid Kagenou, a young man who takes pains to seem like an ordinary background character while he is, in … Continue reading
Sunday’s Wisdom #444: Become More
“You claim to be a scholar, but where are your discoveries?” – Gavilar Kholin, The Rhythm of War The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson The exact circumstances surrounding this quote are a bit complex. Suffice to say that the man … Continue reading
The Outstanding Villains of One Piece
After watching One Piece Film: Red, and my subsequent binge of the One Piece movies and specials, I found myself dwelling on the villains of this modern epic. Most of them are petty brutes and thugs with about as much depth as … Continue reading
The Malcontents, by Larry Correia
Going through my To Read pile often goes alphabetically according to the author. Thus, not long after reading Gun Runner, I read Larry Correia’s duology, The Malcontents, consisting of Into the Storm and Into the Wild. The first one might have been better … Continue reading
Merlin's Musings 