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The year is over, and I am currently enjoying some paid time off.
Manga
I am still reading GTO and Shibuya Near Family, which are both good.
I have discovered Wasteful Days of High School Girls has someone working on translations of new chapters these days, so that's neat. It's definitely one of the most underrated slice of life comedies I have encountered.
Are You A Landmine, Chihara-San? is one of those manga that keeps showing up in r/manga, so I assume it's not too interesting. However, I have recently seen an interesting video on the Jirai-Kei subculture, so I'm willing to check it out. Maybe it's good, but I am not that many chapters in.
Anime
I have finished Eureka Seven. It is at its core a romance show, and does very few things wrong. Solid overall, but not excelling in anything. I'd definitely say go check it out, even if it perhaps a bit overrated. B+
I have also finished Season 1 of Black Lagoon (and the gag manga DVD-Bonus OVA, as seen in the thumbnail), and it is very good. Its plot structure is basically the same as those late 80s OVAs that are divided into a bunch of movies. It is one of the most western-culture-influenced anime I have ever seen, and an unusually international in scope too. After the ol' reliable first major arc that feels like a Lupin III movie (I love those), we surprisingly get a lot of melancholia about the fall of the Soviet Union and the End of History. The author's a liberal to my knowledge, and such Fukuyama style sentiment of "this is the world we live in. It sucks, but it we can't do anything about it" is interesting to witness. I am definitely interested to see what Season 2 can bring. Oh, and the music is good. A+
I've been watching the original Space Battleship Yamato, after having seen the remake a few years ago and I have been hooked once again. I might even enjoy it more than the remake. Undoubtedly thanks to the very retro charm it has, and the iconic OP and ED. A+
Tokimeki Tonight is a 1982 romcom. Add supernatural themes drawing inspiration from horror tropes, contemporary pop culture (that's not other anime), fantastic stylistic choices and two chaotic evil main characters / rivals? It's very fun. Supposedly, it was an inspiration for Sailor Moon. A
Another fun one is Cardcaptor Sakura. Quality episodic magical girl shenanigans. I'm still too early into the show to judge it.
Monogatari: Second Season is good. SHAFT at its best, and even the highly questionable nonsense from seasons past has been toned down. And when Araragi isn't on screen, it's even better. B+
Why does Ranma ½ (the original) have so much Happosai?
Donghua
I have started The Legend of Princess Chang-Ge yesterday. A historical drama set in a period of turmoil in the Tang dynasty. Episode 1 was good, and I am interested to see if the rest also is. The 3D animation looks very good.
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There was a lot of Maison Ikkoku and Tokyo Mew Mew, some standout episodes of those I saw in December are the one where everybody fell into the well (Maison ep 29) and Mew Pudding missing her mom (TMM ep 20).
I finally finished Futari wa PreCure just before New Year's. I was kinda surprised that the last episode had a next episode preview for the beginning of Max Heart. Am I gonna be stuck in Cure Hell forever? (Said as if PreCure DIDN'T rock)
I saw one episode of Aria the Natural and two episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I've been reading Kemono Friends à la Carte and The World of Narue. I also got a few more comics for Christmas, including Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle (featuring an alternate version of Sakura Kinomoto!), another bilingual volume of Yotsuba&! and a local Norwegian comic I liked as a kid called Felina: Spreke Påfunn, about a cat furry. I'm yet to really crack these open, though.
Animation on Blorptube
The Leader — a donghua (Chinese animation) about the life of Karl Marx — was one I'd wanted to see for a long time, so I'm glad I got the opportunity. It was a good 'un.
I didn't manage to catch all of Interstella 5555 and My Life as a Teenage Robot but the parts I managed to catch were fun.
Garg is still showing Cardcaptor Sakura, as Aer mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Aggretsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas was one I'd apparently forgotten to mark that I'd already seen, but it was nice to rewatch. It's rare that we watch dubbed anime on the blorps but I have nothing against it. Tokyo Godfathers was also dubbed, and that was the first time I'd managed to watch that movie in full. Good movie! My first Satoshi Kon work. I'm looking forward to future Kon blorps.
As for myself, I'm still showing My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic — we're now midway through the ninth and final season. I've finished showing the Equestria Girls specials and the Rainbow Roadtrip special, and tomorrow I'll be showing the Friendship is Magic shorts.
I'm also still showing Fireman Sam, and I started showing Once Upon a Time… The Discoverers. It's weaker than Once Upon a Time… The Americas but still a good time. I'm thinking of blorping Squirrel & Hedgehog after it's over.
I held a 2000s fanime potpourri of Twinkle Girls, Guilderland Mew Mew, Alfea Chronicles, Gothic Fuzzles, Sakura Ai, Illusions Dreams, Akuji Tavarious, and Strawberry Moon. See my tier list.
I made an incredibly rudimentary 14 minute animation titled "A Blorpy New Year" as a New Year's Eve special. People responded really well to it, which warmed my heart. Otherwise, I'm making slow progress on my main fanime project (still writing the second draft of the first episode's script), and my Norwegian dub of The Memories of Phantasm (still writing the ADR script for the first episode), but progress is progress, right?
Animation with others otherwise
I saw the first episode of The Secret of Cerulean Sand with my aunt. I really enjoyed it; I'm looking forward to blorping it.
It's been over a month now since I last watched New Game with Aer. I've been meaning to ask if she wants to get back to that soon.
I'm still watching The Boondocks season 4 with my mom (we're very close to the end now!), as well as Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Sailor Moon R, Ojamajo Doremi, and CITY The Animation. I showed her the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, too, and I think she's interested in seeing where it goes? But also doesn't seem to usually be in the mood for those sorts of heavy themes. We've started watching the newest season of Bob's Burgers together, too. It's been ages since I last saw BB, it's a good 'un.
Tesagure! Bukatsumono and Milky Subway are still in a bit of a limbo where I don't know whether she wants to watch them with me. No progress on Steins;Gate since October, nor progress on Ranma ½ reboot season 2 since November.
I finished making my chart of anime I watched with my mom in 2025; I'm also gonna make a tier list of it with her input. I'll make a chart and tier list of anime I watched without her in 2025 at a later point when I've got the energy for it.
Fun fact: There's an industrial pop cover from 2010.
Maison Ikkoku is very good, but for me it has the same issue as the original Ranma 1/2. Too much mediocre filler.
Ranma and Uruyatsu got reboots this decade, makes me wonder if there will ever be one for Maison…
Edit: Actually, apropos reboots, did you hear there's gonna be a friggin Minky Momo 50th anniversary OVA?!
No, I hadn't.
If they insist on remakes, they should finally make The Irresponsible Captain Tylor S2 or a new Slayers anime
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