Spot Reviews 04/18/25
Apr 18 2025
May It Please the Court #1.1 to #1.6 (2022) [/] After a scandal top lawyer Noh Chak-hee (Jung Ryeo-won) is suspended for a year from her big firm and ends up getting a position in a small city’s public defender’s office where she clashes with more principled co-worker Jwa Si-baek (Lee Kyu-hyung). As she takes on unusual cases (the series is based on a book by a public defender where he relates various cases he’s seen/heard about) Chak-hee starts to thaw out and find some compassion in her soul. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting a group of powerful people who did something bad a long time ago and both Chak-hee and Si-baek have ties to that event. There’s also maybe something going on between the two but this is a K-Drama not a K-Romance series… After six episodes lost access to this Disney+ series and it was starting to get interesting.
Music Girls (2018) [/] 12-episode anime about a Japanese idol group. Yamadagi Hanako (Seria Fukagawa) is a talented musician and choreographer who falls in love with girls group Music Girls. Unfortunately she has no singing talent so instead she hangs out as assistant manager helping them with chores and organization whilst also solving their various problems of being idols and part of a dozen-plus member group. Has good animation, songs and fan service. Each episode tends to focus on different girls so you kind of get to know them all and it has a nice culmination when the Music Girls have to perform at a big festival and bring in 10k people into the audience or their record label will drop them.
Prune+ (2022) [/] Apple Arcade version of Prune. A minimalist 2D game. A tree starts growing and you prune the branches (using swipes) to make the tree grow the opposite way. Maneuver around obstacles, pick up items, get to the light before you stop growing. I played a few levels and there are obstacles like wind and black spheres that block out the sun. Surprisingly not easy to prune if you're trying to be tricky. Interesting concept.
Badland Party (2022) [/] Online multiplayer version of Badland. You and up to three other players try to get your little fluffy pets (and their many clones) through the level triggering buttons, pushing blocks, avoiding death traps. Simple controls (fly left and fly right, let go to start falling, and kind of keep on a straight horizontal by tapping left or right) which work well on a touch screen. A little like Lemmings in that there are a lot of clones and most will die but as long as you get the minimum to the end you pass the level. Left Apple Arcade Apr 17th but I guess it will go to the normal store.
Banh Mi & Bowl, Santa Clara [/] Vietnamese restaurant in a small strip mall and a bit run down. But food is cheap (for the area) and tastes fine. Combination is nice as it's any pho (small or large) plus any drink for like $18.
Music Girls (2018) [/] 12-episode anime about a Japanese idol group. Yamadagi Hanako (Seria Fukagawa) is a talented musician and choreographer who falls in love with girls group Music Girls. Unfortunately she has no singing talent so instead she hangs out as assistant manager helping them with chores and organization whilst also solving their various problems of being idols and part of a dozen-plus member group. Has good animation, songs and fan service. Each episode tends to focus on different girls so you kind of get to know them all and it has a nice culmination when the Music Girls have to perform at a big festival and bring in 10k people into the audience or their record label will drop them.
Prune+ (2022) [/] Apple Arcade version of Prune. A minimalist 2D game. A tree starts growing and you prune the branches (using swipes) to make the tree grow the opposite way. Maneuver around obstacles, pick up items, get to the light before you stop growing. I played a few levels and there are obstacles like wind and black spheres that block out the sun. Surprisingly not easy to prune if you're trying to be tricky. Interesting concept.
Badland Party (2022) [/] Online multiplayer version of Badland. You and up to three other players try to get your little fluffy pets (and their many clones) through the level triggering buttons, pushing blocks, avoiding death traps. Simple controls (fly left and fly right, let go to start falling, and kind of keep on a straight horizontal by tapping left or right) which work well on a touch screen. A little like Lemmings in that there are a lot of clones and most will die but as long as you get the minimum to the end you pass the level. Left Apple Arcade Apr 17th but I guess it will go to the normal store.
Banh Mi & Bowl, Santa Clara [/] Vietnamese restaurant in a small strip mall and a bit run down. But food is cheap (for the area) and tastes fine. Combination is nice as it's any pho (small or large) plus any drink for like $18.