May 27, 2024
Musically....
Of all the shows I've been watching this season, Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? has had the most memorable theme music. Urusei Yatsura traditionally has a few bangers in their soundtrack as well, but I'm not up to the current season yet.
MediaHuman has a free YouTube to MP3 utility (As well as a video player that lets you avoid the ads, and a non-free video downloader). I fired it up on these videos, which are nice in that they have translated lyrics:
Or is that TRAINSlated? :-)
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Trying to catch up...
Elf Bride has reached a part of the story where it seems kind of aimless, because the new boss antagonist they brought in doesn't seem to be antagonizing as hard as he could.
Tonari no Youkai-san continues to be pretty and introspective, and a little maudlin, as Buchio has concerns about the relative lifespan of his form of Youkai and his beloved family. But that's not universal, as some of his Youkai friends have lifespans similar to humans. Mu-chan has a similar issue from the opposite perspective when she learns that Jiro and her great-grandmother were friends when she was little.
That will cover it for tonight.
I really should have dropped Re:Monster a long time ago. If you want a show where the protagonist gets buried under a waterfall of new skills that don't even make sense every time he so much as sneezes, this is the one for you. Where everything works out in his favor with no effort, you've got it. Wait, now that he's evolved so far and brought his entire tribe and those others he's picked up along the way into a "Mercenary Company" he's managed to wipe out three bands of the human army, over 3500 troops, all in plate armor, with almost no casualties until the end - at best two dozen.
Maybe the point was taking nine episodes to introduce these other 8 or 9 supreme warriors, one step below legendary heroes. He fights one and he gets away. That's as close to a loss as I've ever seen in this show. Which means eventually he's gonna steamroll them all. He also finds out the root cause of why the Humans are after the Elves (They have a sick princess betrothed to the adjoining emperor, the elves have a cure-all medicine that they won't give up to them) and makes an end-run around it.
If I were the protagonist, I'd be dying of boredom. And it hasn't even been three months since he was reincarnated.
Elf Bride has reached a part of the story where it seems kind of aimless, because the new boss antagonist they brought in doesn't seem to be antagonizing as hard as he could.
Tonari no Youkai-san continues to be pretty and introspective, and a little maudlin, as Buchio has concerns about the relative lifespan of his form of Youkai and his beloved family. But that's not universal, as some of his Youkai friends have lifespans similar to humans. Mu-chan has a similar issue from the opposite perspective when she learns that Jiro and her great-grandmother were friends when she was little.
Episode 8 drops some interesting tidbits about things like the Magic in England, and how it's used for all the movie special effects. The power there is so pervasive that anyone can learn to do magic. But it also goes deeper into the relationship between Jiro and Mu-chan's great grandmother, and it's not happy.
That will cover it for tonight.
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May 16, 2024
Ugh
Got a taste of why Wonderduck hated hospitals so much, having spent the last two nights in one.
Fortunately, a clean bill of health, except for my BP. Especially since the precipitating incident was a Transient Ischemic Attack (stroke). Transient enough that I was completely over it in a day. But everyone insisted I get checked out anyway.
The Everett Clinic (where I usually go) had shut down their imaging for the day, and they sent me to Providence/Swedish in North Everett. What I though would be a drop in turned into one overnight stay, and then a second.
But, CT scan, Echocardiogram, and MRI all came up clean, so bullet dodged. For now.
Now I'm so far behind on my anime....
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May 12, 2024
Tonari no Youkai-san Ep.06
This show continues to surprise, mainly due to the mixed-bag of plot threads in it. Some are healing, some are sad, and some are downright spooky.
There are some interesting little details, like the difference between the time the Manga is written and the show is made, which the producers decided to remain faithful to. For example, Buchio's new driver's license is shown, which says he was reborn and the license issued in 2017, and it expires in 2020.
The scary story at the end had a twist. Some of the boys in class are telling one of the school's ghost stories: That the taxidermied tanuki in the science room is actually a bakedanuki who was killed by someone who mistook it for a regular tanuki, and now it wanders the halls after hours looking for revenge on whoever killed it. Now, given how much supernatural stuff is real in this world, it seems kind of dumb to go looking for this kind of stuff, but they do. Forunately before they can get into too much trouble, they get interrupted in their quest by a couple of the girls, who quite sensibly suggest they ask Yusuke-kun about it.
If anyone would know, he would... because he's the science room's anatomic model, who has come to life. He tells them that it's just a regular tanuki, but warns them about kotodama, the spiritual energy in words, and how repeating rumors can make them true if they gather enough to form a spirit. He points to himself as an example of this.
As the kids walk home from school, they suddenly realize that one of their number is gone, a kid with a buzz cut that none of them remembers knowing. Who was he? Nobody even knows his name!
And back in the science room, Yusuke-kun notices a green light flow into the tanuki's eyes, and intones, "There's nothing as scary as a dangerous rumor."
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May 10, 2024
Substack
By the way, given what a hostile environment DeviantArt is for writing, I'm going to start putting a lot of my stuff up on Substack as well. Three guesses as to what I named it, and the first two don't count.
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Late late late....
So many shows are coming out late this season, it's really frustrating. Either that or the circle I chose can't seem to keep a schedule.
Loser Ranger skipped a week. Ember normally gets out Elf Wife on Thursday and it's still not out (Except by other groups, and I hate switching mid-season, totally screws up my filing system). Several other shows have had late entries.
I know, you shouldn't bitch about free, quasi-legal stuff, but supposedly these guys build a reputation this way.
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May 04, 2024
Tonari no Youkai-san ep.05
Okay, that was TOTALLY not was I was expecting from this show. Parallel universes.
The news on TV shows a shot from the International Space Station (and of course, there's a Youkai on the crew) and a discussion is had about the probe they're going to be sending into a wormhole they've discovered. Turns out there's a whole Time and Space ministry, and they also investigate terrestrial incidents as well. Of which there have been a few in town lately.
As an example, Railway workers are startled by an unscheduled train blowing through their work area. It turns out to be empty when it stops at the station, but a human worker finds a woman is on the platform, confused about how she got there. Then she's terrified when one of the Youkai workmen comes up to them, and she runs off down the track, followed by the driverless train.
But it's not a ghost story.
The Kitsune, Yuri, has a brief encounter with her doppelganger from the alternate world at her front door, and they both pass out. Taira and Buchio arrive to visit at just that instant, and the version of Yuri they find seems off, and she thinks that Buchio is a ventriloquist's trick. Or perhaps she's dreaming, but how odd, she thinks, that she'd be aware of that while dreaming. But being introduced to Jiro and his father, the Tengu, turns that into a nightmare. Fortunately the science team is on site as well (They were meeting with Jiro) and they have a gadget that will let them exchange the girls back.
The experience in the all-human world helps Yuri face a familial problem that was introduced in the first act.
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May 03, 2024
Re:Monster-05
They're So Close, almost, to having a plot. Five whole episodes of leveling, and finally, next episode, they go to war.
I expect, like everything else so far in this show, it will be a cakewalk.
I was expecting more babes, but they barely get any screen time.
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