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Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, ZEN, and the Tea Ceremony

Hector Garcia

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For every fan of manga, anime, J-pop, or Zen, A Geek in Japan is a hip, smart and concise guide to...

Mission Alert: Lab 101

Benjamin Hulme-Cross

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When the only way to get at a target is by using a child, MI5 bring in special agents Tom and Zilla...

Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to See, Hear, and Feel Your World

Tom Igoe

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The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers,...

David McK (3734 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies

Jul 12, 2020

I don't know why, but for some reason Asia (and Japan in particular) seems to have a thing for Giant Monsters (think Godzilla) and for Giant Robots (think BattleTech).

Or, as they're called in this series (and elsewhere? I don't know) Kaiju and Jaegers respectively.

This is a sequel to the best non-Godzilla Godzilla movie (in all but name), this time starring Star Wars own John Boyega as its reluctant hero, as the son of the "we're cancelling the apocalypse" hero from the first move, and who gets drawn back into the whole military training around the Jaegers 10 years after the events of that last movie.

Just in time, then, for him to be in place as the undersea breaches reopen and more of those Kaiju to come through ...

Dumb fun, but seemingly lacking something (although you can actually see what's happening in the battles this time around!) compared to the original, or to the various 'official' Godzilla/King Kong/etc movies.