“No Johnny! What are you doing!” Then the pain hits you… You start to lose consciousness as you realise that your childhood friend is now eating your brains! Sometime later… “Grrrrrrrrr…” You start to get up… “Grrrrrrr…” (what did I just say?) “Grrrrrrrrrr…” (Why am I saying Grrrrr?) “Grrrrrrrrr” (The last thing I remember… Johnny! He was eating my Brains…) “BRRRAAAIIIINNNNSSS…” (Mmmmmm I’m hungry) “Grrrrrrr” (I’m soooo… very… hungry!)“BRRRRAAAAIIIINNNNNSSSS!” (hold up… am I hungry for brains? Am… I?) You get up and look around… everything’s in a sunny haze; everything is so bright and colourful! You try to think of the last time you have seen something so amazing. But it’s…
Corpse Party: Blood Covered
A stormy night. A harmless ghost story. A silly pact intended to symbolize their friendship. I first discovered Corpse Party on Youtube when one of my favorite Let’s Players (Cryaotic) decided to do a walkthrough of the game. Yes this a manga review, but the story of Corpse Party goes way back to 1996. Initially beginning as a horror-survival game developed by Team GrisGris on RPG Maker, receiving a remake named ‘Corpse Party: Blood Covered’ in 2008, which was followed up by numerous sequels including ‘Corpse Party: Book of Shadows’ for more up-to-date gaming platforms. It is the Blood Covered remake which this manga is based upon. The gameplay itself…
Will you survive?
You look around…you start to think…where has everyone gone? How did I get here? Just moments ago you where confident that you could survive this…now you find yourself laying on the ground covered in mud, hoping that they cannot see you…but you can hear them… They start to get closer to you… You dare not move… Moreover, you cannot breathe for fear of them finding you…but they’re close now… so very… close. A foot lands right next to your head! Do not move! You keep telling yourself, just don’t move. After what seems like forever, the footsteps start to move away, further and further away. Finally there is silence, and…
Darling in the Franxx anime review
Darling in the Franxx As original story lines go Darling in the Franxx ticks the boxes for science fiction and mecha lovers right off the bat. In episodes 1 and 2 we get the general setup for the world and the characters with some epic mecha fighting action and even the foundations of a love triangle to boot. The show starts off showing you the post apocalyptic world where humanity is dependent on huge self-sufficient bastions of science and technology called plantations, and just to make things even more uncertain and desperate for human kind, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of children named parasites raised specifically to…
Dr Stone Manga review
Well I’m currently encoding the Anime for this years Tokonatsu but in the “Looks” 2 hours I have before the encoding is done I thought I would try my first Manga Review… I know… So for my first Manga Review I’m going to start with… Dr Stone. The story is by Inagaki, Riichiro “Eyeshield 21” With the Art done by the amazing Boichi. “Sun Ken Rock!” The story starts like any other slice of life Manga with a school scene. The boy “Ooki, Taiju” is trying to get the girl “Ogawa, Yuzuriha” with the help of his scientific friend “Senkuu” when a world changing event happens. This event petrifies…
Whats coming?
It’s you and your team in a fight of survival to the bitter end… You plan your strategy and you’re off! But things don’t always go to plan… you try to survive the ever increasing onslaught but more and more of your team have been turned and… now they’re coming for you! You see little Johnny that you went to school with… you call out! ….but its to late… You see he looks odd and he starts muttering the word BRRrraaaiiiinnnssss… Now he’s after you! You hold back the tears as you try to get away but you can’t stop thinking back to when you use to go out on…
2018! All new!
So Toko 2018 draws closer and closer and I have decided that the site needed updating with a newer look. It IS a work in progress, so the logo may change from time to time 😉 As well as a new look the new site also has a nice feature that also brings up older articles that you may have missed over time. As we are now awake for the year.. expect more updates and news on what’s happening and what we will be doing this year. As well as what we will be showing in this years Toko R Cinema! Mike
Tokonatsu 2017 Nerf War footage
First of all, we’d like to thank all those at Tokonatsu last year that turned up to the event and made it the fun that it was. Without you it would have been nothing, and as it was, it was awesome! We actually ran at max capacity for the eye protection we had, which, considering that it was such a last minute event, is REALLY good. The event was a Tokonatsu/Toko-Retreat collaboration, with help from the Events team to get it off the ground, and run and mostly organized by ED-SKaR, a first time attendee that pushed to make this happen. He provided the vast majority of the guns, and…
Heckle Rezal
Time for some shameless self-promoting! As some of you probably know (especially those in the Toko Hype Group ^.^) I have started my own youtube channel about two months back and have been publishing at least two videos a week. I thought I’d take the time now to explain a little about what it is I and my hecklers do, and what we aim for in the future. Heckle Rezal For those that don’t know, we have chosen to adopt a format which essentially is a let’s play, but instead of just me playing a game, and responding to those on a Twitch feed, I invite a bunch of mates…
Hibanacon 2017 – First thoughts
Hello all! It’s been a couple of weeks now since Hibanacon launched their first convention at the Jury’s Inn, Milton Keynes! We at Toko-Retreat were unfortunately not in full attendance, but we did pop down to say hi to friends outside, and were lucky enough to be invited to be shown around the venue, got to see the Games room, and hung out in the bar area with a lot of the attendees, which was a free access area outside of the convention. The Games Room is virtually fully kitted out by Captain Tyler, and his collection of retro to modern consoles. Needless to say though, there was plenty to…
