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I Just Can't Seem to Gel with "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth"

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON BLOGGER, MAY 13th, 2024     This blog contains heavy spoilers for Remake, Rebirth, and the original Final Fantasy VII. You have been warned.         I actually really wanted to like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. No, really, I did. I did not particularly enjoy its predecessor, Final Fantasy VII Remake.

Personal Memories of Final Fantasy (NES)

When I was a teenager, I dove head-first into the Final Fantasy franchise after a classmate brought her PlayStation over to my house and shared her games with myself and another friend who was also staying over that night. I'd had minimal personal interaction with Final Fantasy or

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Game Review: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The following is a re-post of a review originally posted to Letterboxd during the brief amount of time the platform had this game listed. The listing of course has since been deleted, as Letterboxd does not actually specialize in video game reviews. It has now been posted here for posterity.

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Movie Review: A Samurai in Time

In early October 2024, I was visiting Japan on a week-long solo trip. While I was there, a Japanese friend of mine whom I hadn't communicated with in a while saw that I had been making social media posts indicating I was in Tokyo and invited me to

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Visit the Forums

That's right. MarzGurl.com now has an associated message board. It is entirely possible that I will be the only person who ever uses it, but I am personally glad to have it, to have some semblance of an older style of Internet community in my ecosystem. The

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Manga Review: DeadAss

One of my most unexpectedly enjoyable manga reads thus far this year has been a story about a man with a ghost haunting the hemorrhoids in his butt.  That sounds like a joke, but much like the way DeadAss rounds out its narrative, I mean it in the most serious

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Manga Review: Look Back

Tatsuki Fujimoto is well known for his phenomenally popular ongoing manga series Chainsaw Man, but he's also published a handful of one-shots. One such one-shot is Look Back, which recently received an anime film adaptation. As of yet, I have not watched the film. Since it was based

I’m Watching “Futari wa Pretty Cure”, Episode 7

Episode 7 — “A Bitter Lacrosse Battle! A Maiden's Heart is So Delicate!” — original air date, March 14th, 2004 We're thankfully reaching a point in Futari wa Pretty Cure where the English dub is generally doing a pretty good job of giving an equivalent experience to the

Manga Review: Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono

Written and published in 2020, the creators behind The Promised Neverland are back again with yet another one-shot. I wrote a previous article about DC3—another one-shot manga by writer Kaiu Shirai and art by Posuka Demizi—and I think I may even prefer this one shot over that last

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Manga Review: Yugen's All-Ghouls Homeroom

I know several people who really like Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma. I haven't personally read it, but it's one I've heard nothing but good things about. Writer Yūto Tsukuda and artist Shun Saeki took some time in 2020 to create a new special

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I’m Watching “Futari wa Pretty Cure”, Episode 6

Episode 6 — “A New Darkness! The Bear in the Dangerous Forest” — original airdate, March 7th, 2004 What's pretty neat about this episode is that, actually, the English dub is not tremendously different from it's original Japanese counterpart. There's nothing about it that was so

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I’m Watching “Futari wa Pretty Cure”, Episode 5

Some of you may be new here, and that's fine. Allow me to introduce myself once again. Hello, my name is Kaylyn, and two years ago I had started trying to write recaps of episodes of the anime series Futari wa Pretty Cure. It was a show I

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Manga Review: F-Ken

After trying a small number of one-shots to make into articles for this website, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I ran into one that finally kinda turned me off. The one to score that first point turns out to be F-Ken, a manga by Assassination

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Manga Review: Science vs. Magic

One-shot manga are fascinating, because you get a glimpse of something that could have easily been worthy of a long-running feature, yet somehow it seems like they exist in a small bubble in an alternate universe where we witness something that could have been but never was. This feels true

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MarzGurl.com is Now Hosted by Ghost

Welcome back to MarzGurl.com, the website where I, Kaylyn Saucedo, write about whatever I feel good about writing about, and hopefully some of you dig the same things I do. I had previously hosted my site on Blogger/Blogspot. However, given the state of, well, pretty much everything right

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Manga Review: DC3

I just finished this one-shot manga titled DC3, released in 2021 by author Kaiu Shirai and artist Posuka Demizu, both known for their work on the manga series The Promised Neverland.

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VIDEO: The Entire Vic Mignogna Story - The Face of Anime's Dumbest Culture War

Perhaps the closest thing you'll ever get to a documentary on the subject of Vic Mignogna, his sexual harassment allegations, his lawsuit, and the culture war that sprung up around him. A history of a subculture within millennial-aged anime fandom. My final word on the topic. This is it.

K-pop

JYP's Formation of the Girl Group "Vcha" was Always a Problem

I am only a casual K-pop consumer. After all, I'm nearly 39 years old, far outside the target demographic for K-pop. But I'll casually listen to a fairly broad variety of music, maybe never delving super deep into any of it. Similarly, with K-pop, I'

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Solo Trip to Japan, 2024

I just returned from a solo trip to Japan last week. It was by no means my first time. I've gone maybe five other times previously, making this my sixth trip. Originally, it was not my intention to go alone. I was looking at flights and prices to

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Movie Review: "Transformers One"

This review may contain mild spoilers. Deep plot pertinent story elements will be avoided, but your mileage may vary when it comes to minor spoilers of other interesting elements. Proceed with consideration for what is best for your own enjoyment.     I have consumed what I consider to be a fair

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Re-Acquiring Old CDs: Smash Mouth's "Astro Lounge"

Coming hot off the heels of my blogs about musical artists at the turn of the century with really weird sideburns, it's time to revisit what was probably Smash Mouth's most successful album.     Smash Mouth's "Astro Lounge" Although there is most definitely

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Re-Acquiring Old CDs: "Music from the Motion Picture Titan A.E."

In my last blog, I had mentioned that the band Lit had followed up their album "A Place in the Sun" with their third album, which I admittedly don't know anything about, aside from the fact that one of the songs off that third album ended

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Re-Acquiring Old CDs: Lit's "A Place in the Sun"

In my previous "Re-Acquiring Old CDs" post, I had off-handedly referenced the lead singer of Lit, Ajay Popoff, who at one point around the turn of the millennium had these wild sideburns that were sharpened into triangles on his cheeks. With that, perhaps that makes for a good

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Re-Acquiring Old CDs: SR-71's "Now You See Inside"

In a previous blog entry, I described the incredibly unfortunate car accident that caused me to lose all of the CDs I had owned from childhood into young adulthood. If you're interested in reading about that, please take a look at that entry, and then come back to

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Re-Acquiring Old CDs: Elton John's "Something About The Way You Look Tonight"/"Candle In The Wind 1997"

About ten years ago, I got into a pretty gnarly car accident. In attempting to drive from Texas to Colorado to attend a funeral, on a dark stretch of road with no lights to illuminate the way, a large deer with a huge antler rack wandered into the road, with