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.
Incidentally, I was thinking about how I sort of missed watching YUA when I was watching the Squid Girl OVA, because of the policewoman character.
Once again I hit the max comment length, so once again I'll write a very abridged comment here and wait until someone (I think I know who) asks me to yap about my opinions on what I've seen in the past month.
Reading
I read two chapters of Handa-kun volume 1, and up to chapter 16 of The Catcher In The Rye.
I have not made any progress in Crime & Punishment. My theory studies have also fallen behind for many months now. Alas!
Watching
Alone, I finished watching Tesagure! Bukatsumono, except I skipped episode 2. I'm continuing Tokyo Mew Mew and Maison Ikkoku. May or may not have watched some more Avatar: The Last Airbender in the past month but I'm not really keeping track.
With my mom I saw the Evangelion 30th anniversary special and finished the Squid Girl OVA. We've made no progress in Steins;Gate. We're continuing Sailor Moon R, Serial Experiments Lain, Ojamajo Doremi, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Furuhata Ninzaburô, and Kodocha.
With @AernaLingus@hexbear.net I finished New Game!! and tried Watamote. I had mixed feelings about Watamote so we're going to try The Idolmaster next and see if it's a bigger hit.
Blorping
I'm still showing Fireman Sam, Turnabout Storm and Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors. I also showed My Little Pony: A New Generation and the MLP:FiM x PPG fan crossover "Double Rainboom", and the Dagian Drupe fanime Welcome to the Panties Warfront and Rebels Against The School (RATS).
Clara is still showing Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Cuban showed Cybersix, but I only caught parts of it. Garg is still showing Magic Knight Rayearth but I'm giving up on it. Garg and Cuban also presented the Cuban animated short "Nvula" which was a good thing to see. Stalin is showing Spawn: The Animated Series but I only saw a few minutes of it. Lemgra showed the first half of Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 earlier tonight, and although I skipped the fourth episode for gore reasons, I'm still going to join the blorpers next Sunday to catch the episode "Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome".