Media

Categorized.

Games

General JRPGs:

• Chrono Trigger
• Final Fantasy IX => XII
• Kingdom Hearts
• Tales of Symphonia => Graces F
• Paper Mario / The Thousand Year Door
• Fire Emblem 7 (The Blazing Blade) => Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

More Story-Focused JRPGs:

• Chrono Cross
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Xenogears
• Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
• Front Mission (1 => 2 => 5)
• Mother 3
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky trilogy (+ rest of the Trails games after this)
• Nier Automata
• Tactics Ogre: Reborn

WRPGs:

• Planescape: Torment
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
• Fallout New Vegas
• Disco Elysium
• Baldur's Gate 3

Visual Novels:

• Fate/Stay Night
• Ace Attorney (series)
• Uchikoshi's Games: Ever17, Remember11, 999
• Umineko
• 428: Shibuya Scramble

Adventure Games:

• Humongous Entertainment (Putt Putt / Spy Fox)
• Day of the Tentacle
• Grim Fandango
• The Longest Journey
• Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
• Gemini Rue / The Blackwell Epiphany
• The Outer Wilds
• Case of the Golden Idol
• Pentiment

Other Games:

• Pokemon Blue, Silver/Soul Silver, Platinum
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Mario Kart 64
• Starcraft: Brood War / Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
• Theme Hospital
• Inscryption

Reads

All Time Books:

• The Sound and the Fury
• To The Lighthouse
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
• Franny and Zooey
• Pale Fire
• David Copperfield
• Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Series
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• Wolf Hall

Recent Reads:

• Piranesi
• Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• Skippy Dies
• Under the Volcano
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels / Press Reset
• Hyperbole and a Half / Solutions and Other Problems
• Three Body Problem Trilogy

Early Manga Influences:

• Naruto
• Hunter x Hunter
• Berserk
• Urasawa (Monster / 20th Century Boys / Pluto)
• Planetes
• Narutaru / Bokurano
• Freesia
• Uzumaki
• Nijigahara Holograph

Favorite Manga:

• One Piece
• 20th Century Boys
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
• Delicious in Dungeon
• The World is Mine
• Dorohedoro
• Chainsaw Man

Comic Superheroes (I'm a DC Fanboy):

• DC: The New Frontier
• Batman: The Long Halloween / Dark Victory
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Superman For All Seasons / All Star Superman
• Watchmen

Watches

Recent Cartoons:

• Ducktales (2017, moreso than the original now)
• The Venture Bros.
• Bojack Horseman
• Gravity Falls
• Steven Universe Future
• Justice League Unlimited
• Invincible

Childhood Cartoons:

• Rugrats
• The Magic School Bus
• Peanuts
• The Adventures of Tintin
• World of Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit / Benjamin Bunny)
• Madeline
• Babar
• Maurice Sendak's Little Bear
• Rupert

TV Shows:

• The Wire
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Arrested Development
• Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
• The Goes Wrong Show
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Movies:

• Clue
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• The Godfather
• Yi Yi
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Philadelphia Story
• Hitchcock:
• Vertigo
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Strangers on a Train
• High and Low
• Airplane!
• Knives Out

Cartoon Movies:

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• The Venture Bros: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
• The Little Mermaid / The Great Mouse Detective
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Coco
• Batman: Under the Red Hood

Early Anime:

• Sailor Moon (90's)
• Dragon Ball Z
• Tenchi Muyo (OVA)
• Digimon Adventure

Favorite Anime:

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes
• The Tatami Galaxy
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
• March Comes in Like a Lion
• Boogiepop and Others
• Durarara
• Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Anime Films:

• Princess Mononoke
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
• Your Name
• Pokemon the Movie 2000

YouTube:

• Lindsay Ellis
• Tim Rogers
• MrBTongue
• Folding Ideas
• Brian David Gilbert

Comedians:

• Matteo Lane
• Taylor Tomlinson
• Gianmarco Soresi
• Atsuko Okatsuka