Sloth, Maybe?

On my last entry for Fate / Grand Order , I said I was 75% of the way through.   Having completed the series, I must say it is a bizarre fusion of Avengers Infinity War , Avengers Endgame , The Return of the King , and any pie throwing fight you’ve seen in a Three Stooges short. To start off, Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight are led by Ishtar in a journey to the Underworld.   Their twofold mission is to liberate the fallen Gilgamesh from the bonds of death and to recruit Ishtar’s estranged sister, Ereshkigal, in their battle against the primordial goddess Tiamat. Meanwhile, Tiamat and her son Kingu unleash a horde of fearsome creatures with talons for legs and grotesque grins where a head should be.   They are meant to be the successors of the human race and they literally tear through cities and their inhabitants on the way to the great city stronghold of Uruk.   There, Gilgamesh, Fujimaru, Mash, Ishtar and a host of champions will make their final stand before...

I find myself in familiar yet not so familiar surroundings.  I'm back in my home borough of the Bronx just across from Manhattan.  I descend into a subway for a train marked with a black letter in a yellow circle.  Anyone from the Bronx knows there are no lines in the Bronx signified with a black letter in a yellow circle.  The 2 line is a white number in a red circle, while the 4, 5, and 6 lines are white numbers in green circles. Where in the Bronx is this leading me? I descend into the station anyway and I board the train to which, according to my internal compass, is headed back into Manhattan.  However, when I exit from a station I arbitrarily decided to leave, I find myself in Hastings-on-Hudson, a town just north of Yonkers.  I'm at Warburton Avenue and Main Street, and the buildings look slightly different.  They're glass and steel instead of brick and mortar.  They are only two to five stories high.  The local record store is moving ...

I came across Fate / Grand Order in the most roundabout way.   A few months back, I was on Amazon looking for T-shirts bearing the Star of Ishtar as a symbol for my wardrobe.   A pesky algorithm directed me to an action figure of Ishtar bearing an oversized bow and arrow array.   My perception immediately recognized Ishtar’s face as the kind you’d find in an anime series.   As an otaku and amateur mythographer, I tracked down the series in which Ishtar is featured in the TV & Movies section. When Christmas drew close, Susan and I gave each other gifts we knew we’d enjoy.   I gave Susan the DVD of Cop Rock , which I will discuss in the next entry.   Presently, I will discuss her gift to me on BluRay:   Fate / Grand Order - Absolute Demon Front Babylonia (Vols. I and II). You’ll notice that the title of this anime series runs longer than Cop Rock .   I believe that’s because the Japanese still have better long term memories than we do.   F...