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.
Manga
Read a bit more Greatest Estate Developer, it's pretty fun. Lloyd's faces are a good bit.
Chainsaw Man is over and the ending definitely doesn't land for me, but hey, if Fujimoto was bored I say let him move on. His best works are his one-shots (Goodbye Eri especially) anyway.
Other than that, keeping up with the usual, I think Kagurabachi had a pretty good month.
Anime
Finished Kaiji, holy shit season 2 suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. The pa-removed-o arc is horrendous and takes way, way, WAY too long.
Frieren S2 never hits the highs of S1 (and in particular, the first three episodes), but I've more or less given up hope it ever will. For a fantasy thing, it's fine.
Oshi No Ko S3 was pretty weak until the last episode which was very good, and I'm looking forward to the next season as well.
Golden Kamuy's Final Season is a banger week after week, and probably what I'm most looking forward to. All the setups from seasons ago are getting their payoffs, and it looks like they're going to nail the ending. Fingers crossed.
Oh yeah, also watched the Eva 30 year anniversary short. It's fine.
Other
Sadly the guy I had convinced to read Umineko stalled out in episode 3
. He didn't even meet the dolphin.
Watched S2 of Star Wars Visions with some friends and it was generally very bad, with the only real highlight being the episode done by Aardman (the Wallace and Gromit studio). I feel bad for the studio that did the claymation-inspired episode that was right before the W&G one in the order though, they got mogged.
haha -- for some reason, the paremovedo arc in Kaiji is really funny to me. Apparently that guy (mangaka) hangs out with some questionable dudes though.