The Official Blog of Indie Author Ahmed Al-Sheikh

Indie Author. Award nominated. Martial Arts enthusiast. Freelance geek journalist. Come play in my world for a bit.

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With the help of Masaki Kajishima, Toru Miura, Hiroshi Negishi, and fans from around the world, Armiger Entertainment is proud to present the spiritual sequel of Tenchi Universe: TENCHI GALAXY! TENCHI GALAXY follows the Tenchi gang as they travel to the planet of the space pirates, MIKUNI, in search of an artifact that was stolen from Jurai. In order to get it back, they must face NIIMI, the queen of the space pirates. What dangers await them? What connection does Niimi have to Ryoko? And whose side is Nagi on? Tenchi, the girls, and Ryo-Ohki return to the screen just as you remember them. Detective Kiyone will be appearing in anime form for the first time since 1999, along with Nagi and Ken-Ohki for the first time since 1995! We personally reached out to the classic English voices of Tenchi Muyo! to see if they would be interested in reprising their iconic roles for another adventure...and they enthusiastically agreed! Cristina Vee is also stepping into the role of the one and only Princess Ayeka! Please click “Notify me on launch” to follow this pre-launch page before the campaign goes live! Thank you all for your continued support.

Coming soon: Tenchi Galaxy Anime Pilot

The anime pilot for the spiritual sequel to the Tenchi Muyo! TV series.

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Ahmed Ranks: Top 15 Dragonball Sagas

Like many anime fans who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, I was obsessed with Akira Toriyama’s legendary franchise Dragonball. The mix of…

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Ahmed Ranks the Tenchi Muyo franchise

It must have been around 1994. Thanks to one of my best friends, I had started getting into anime, and like many folks around the…

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Ahmed Rates: The Guyver Adaptions

Sometimes, it’s difficult being a fan of something, particularly if you want to introduce people to what you enjoy. This is especially hard…

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I refuse to believe this bit in DC x Sonic #3 is anything other than an absolutely diabolical Archie reference on Ian's part

Sure, there's the quip where Beast Boy calls Knuckles an otter so that he can write it off as merely a joke about the ultra-obscure fake Sonic character Rankles the Otter. Gives him plausible deniability with Ken's copyright bullshit, since it takes so little for him to threaten litigation. But come on. Come oooonnnnnn. Where is a Sonic comic reader's mind going to go when there's a joke about green Knuckles?

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Considering how often Ken liked to crowbar in Superman stuff to his Knuckles comics, I refuse to believe Knux being Superman in this crossover wasn’t also a dig at him.

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The Best Devilman Adaptations

Warning: This blog post will be filled with major spoilers for the Devilman franchise, especially the original manga of Devilman by Go…

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The 10 Best Conan the Barbarian Stories by Robert E. Howard

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and…

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Ahmed Ranks the Animated Adaptations of Sonic the Hedgehog

I am a Sonic the Hedgehog fan. I’ve been one since 1991 when I played the original game on the Sega Genesis (aka the Sega Mega Drive…

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fuck trump and fuck everyone who voted for him

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This is basically the perfect summary of how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise shows love to fans of all its iterations, and how the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise could learn to do so instead of constantly trying brand unity. Note, I didn’t write these, I just screenshot them.

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The cleanest and simplest expression of this perspective that we saw goes like this: "I don't support the things that led to Charlie Kirk's death. But Charlie Kirk did."

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“Under the American constitutional order, states and localities are entitled to local control of civil policing, administration of elections and various other features of state and local government. President Trump is trying to upend that part of the federal order not because he thinks he can run this or that local government service or administration any better, but to deprive those states and localities of their liberty and right to self-government. Because he wants that power for himself. […] Most Americans intuitively know this isn’t the deal on which our government is based and they don’t like it. Again, it’s deeply woven into the fabric of the country’s civic tradition. It wouldn’t become fine just become some dork at the Claremont Institute came up with some over-clever interpretation of law or the Constitution that made it fine. All that is beside the point. In this sense Trump and his degenerate advisors are doing us a favor by making face masks a part of the standard ICE and CBP uniform. It marks them out as something different. They’re not soldiers precisely. But they are occupiers. They function in the same way. Masks are for secret police and criminal gangs. They have no place in any kind of legitimate policing authority.”

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No Kings, No Occupations — Toward a Democratic Opposition Politics

I’ve been reading TPM since the very beginning. I became a lifetime subscriber within about an hour of Josh announcing it. 

He’s really smart, and consistently surrounds himself with smart people. They break important stories.Talking Points Memo does the kind of journalism that makes a difference, and if you can afford it, I encourage you to become a subscriber.

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