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Tired.

Manga

Same as usual, I have been very slowly continuing GTO, Inari Konkon, and keeping up with Shibuya Near Family. Something I like about GTO is how Vice Principal Uchiyamada is frequently the butt of the joke, the subject of Onizuka's accidental torment; and the mangaka goes out of the way to show that he is absolutely a terrible person with very few redeeming features.

Anime

I am almost done with The Twelve Kingdoms, and yet it feels nowhere near done. It's good.

Sailor Moon S is a step forward compared to the previous seasons, and that is largely because of the more eccentric villains. It's good.

Cardcaptor Sakura is a cozy, and so far low stakes show. It is something I did not know I wanted to watch. Very good.

Space Battleship Yamato holds up very well to this day, and the very 70s soundtrack makes it better. It was extremely ambitious back in 1974, and it is significantly grander in scape than like 95% of slop airing these days.

You're Under Arrest is episodic (copaganda) fun with an ensemble cast, and basically a very slightly worse Patlabor with no mecha. The show's biggest strength lie in the world created. The authors are good at not only creating memorable side characters, but also not forgetting about them.

I have started Overman King Gainer today. The OP is iconic from the moment you witness (or hear) it. The show has a good start, but I am waiting for Tomino to explain the setting more.

Live Action

I have started a project of a Martin Scorsese filmography dive. Who's That Knocking at My Door was mid. Boxcar Bertha wasn't that good of a movie, but the topic was unusual (it's an adaptation of a novel by an anarchist, and union struggles in 1930s America are the core of the story). Mean Streets was fun. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore was a major surprise, and an excellent movie with a perhaps somewhat lacking ending. Taxi Driver deserves its reputation. It is a very interesting movie.

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I'm on chapter 121 of the manga and getting a little bored. I like Asa, but Denji feels like the same guy in part 1, dense and horny. I guess his schtick is getting old for me and I was hoping for more growth since part 1.

On the other hand, I remember getting bored partway through part 1, and then there was a huge change and excitement. I'm not sure if it will have the same effect though, because now

spoilerI just see the trick of a bunch of the characters dying coming. So even if it does pull the same trick as part 1, I don't think that would hit the same, either.

Idk, what do people think now that Chainsaw Man is done? Others who have seen where everything is going can tell me if it's worth pushing through these last 100 chapters.

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Can't believe they've done it again.

This is even worse than Stone Ocean. There is no OP and ED, only one episode and the next episode nowhere in sight.

Netflix is the death of good content.

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Manga:

As usual, GTO and Inari Konkon. I have reached another Tomoko arc in GTO, which were always the worst in the anime, because of how mean spirited, and outright ableist it was to her. On the other hand, I am starting to approach the stuff that the Anime didn't include.

Also my God is it terrible to look for interesting manga. r/manga is a place that vastly prefers horny generic slop to actually good writing, and the lack of alternative spaces for nerds baffles me.

Anime:

I have finished The Twelve Kingdoms. It was good. Space Battleship Yamato is a show I have already seen the remake of, and is good in its original version too.

Sailor Moon S is very gay. I knew it had a bit of a reputation, but it's more than I expected. Slightly less gay is Cardcaptor Sakura, another very good magical girl show.

I am almost done with Season 1 of You're Under Arrest!. The most recent arc was a romance one between one of the main cast characters and a newcomer written basically only for the role of being appealing to that one character. Disappointing, but maybe it'll improve now. I'm looking forward to see what the later seasons will bring. I expect the 2001 season to be decent too, at least.

Monogatari: The more Koyomi Araragi is on screen, the worse it gets. Otherwise, it's good or even very good lol

Upcoming Anime

Surprisingly, it looks promising. Witch Hat Atelier has a really highly regarded manga, from what I know. Yomi no Tsugai is by the FMA author, and the manga was okay when I kept up with it. Kinda slow paced. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun has a new season. That manga was fun, even though I fell behind like 70 chapters. Liar Game is a mid 2000s gambling manga, and is said to be good. I need my Kaiji fix. Akane Banashi is gonna be good. Mao isn't about the Chinese revolution, but is a Rumiko Takahashi manga adaptation. It's probably gonna be decent at least. There's a Fist of the North Star remake. Maybe I'll finally check it out... and eventually go watch the original. Nippon Sangoku has the potential to be toxic slop a la GATE.

and there's bound to be at least one good show I didn't pay attention to, or something promising that bombs hard.

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It was in our faces all along doggirl-smart !

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Sorry i don't make the rules

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he made a 'release schedule' so trash dumpster-fire kiryu-pain even his binge watchers 'clowned' on him cruelty-desolate clown wowee

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Kawaii squirrel hammer bonk

What did you think of this week's chapter?

No break next week luffy-pog

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