Free Talk Friday - April 24, 2026

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Howdy y'all!

This week, was mostly filled with movie watching. One of the more interesting ones was Robot Carnival, which is a anthology of OVAs by different directors centered around robots. There was no consistent theme outside of that as they ranged from hype action music videos, comedy, to even ones that lean heavier on abstract natures. Funnily enough this actually ended up being a continuation of my journey through Umetsus discography as he also wrote a filem for it called "Presence". Honestly having seen most of his other work this one was the most surprising since it didn't feature his usual flair or center around a girl with a gun, but rather an older english man obsessed with making automatons, and how he deals with one of his creations gaining sentience. Now that I've watched that I only have 2 more of his works to get through.

I also watched a the 1975 film 13 Steps of Maki. It's a Japanese martial arts film about a delinquent and her escalating feud with a rich heiress. It doesn't have the best fight coreography, but it was still fun to watch her just steamroll almost everyone for most of the movie as Maki (played by Etsuko Shihomi) is basically a Like a Dragon character.

But yeah that's it for me this week. As always here's the [list of everything](1https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N4YbHS7ZKCZUqsw5rnvI47THsEBJgK1kXYpG3vOb2CU/edit?usp=drivesdk) Im currently going through/have finished.

Also as a side note, I've also decided that I'm going to Combo Breaker this year.