Review: Battle Girls: Time Paradox
In the preface, I gave you a rundown on pachinko and its popularity. One of the long-running franchises of pachinko and pachisuro/pachislot machines (Japanese slot machines descended from pachinko) is Senguko Otome (Warring States Maidens), manufactured by Heiwa Corporation. The franchise just celebrated its 10th anniversary and there was even a variation called “Otome Masters” with the characters playing golf because Heiwa has a division that runs golf courses.
Heiwa took the events of Oda Nobunaga’s attempt to unify Japan in the late 16th century and used it as the basis for the first game, changing each person into a woman, giving some of them armor that makes it clear they are women (the trope known as “chainmail bikinis”), oversized/fant…
Review: Battle Girls: Time Paradox — preface
Every so often, I'll write movie reviews on a different website and I've recently expanded it into doing reviews of TV shows for series that have been completed so I can look at the entire storyline as a whole. I'll repost the ones for anime series here in my blog.
I will give everyone fair warning. I don't write reviews as soundbytes or provide TL;DR summaries. Some of them are the same length as articles you'd read in a newspaper or magazine.
Each word is carefully considered and I think it will be worth your time and interest if you see it through. There's maybe one more I might post here because it's on a related subject. The rest will be in my blog over on the Animanga Wiki.
When I was in middle school, I had a friend whose dad owned his…