April 27, 2025
Bailing out - Yandere Dark Elf
I read the Manga, and it had some interesting character bits. The anime so far, not so much. Bog standard "Comedy of Manners"stuff. Puny male lead, gigantic in all regards disruptive outsider female, shy girl from his class. We have seen this ad nauseum.
The lingerie shopping segment just killed it for me. When the human love interest looked at Bell's boobs and wondered if Hinata (the guy) preferred big ones - as if she was flat, which she is not. She's basically the same shape as Bell only scaled down to normal height.
They do throw one wrinkle at the end of the third episode where the two other party members from the other world come saying they're there to take Mariabell back. I don't think I care enough to find out what's next. It's probably just an excuse to get the entire party living in his apartment (No parents, what is it with Japanese high schoolers having their own apartments?)
But nah, I'm out.
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April 12, 2025
Finished - Kabushikigaisha Magilumiere
The folder for last season is just too intimidating! But Fall 2024 is almost caught up, so I watched the last four episodes of Kabushikigaisha Magilumiere, AKA Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
I know I've commented on the show before. It definitely held together through the end with a typical big finish. Although the background plot didn't conclude, there was an announcement for a second season at the end.
Honestly, when they introduced a new character, a loan-in Magical Girl from another company that was looking to adopt Magilumiere's system, I was skeptical how they were going to wrap things up in the last two episodes, but it worked to help illustrate Kana's growth into her role. Sometimes it takes an outsider to put that into relief.
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April 05, 2025
*sob*
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March 20, 2025
Really amazing paper puppets
Hard to pick one video. Here's the channel:
Okay, one video, the one that led me there.
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March 02, 2025
It's not Anime Time
So two of the shows I haven't gotten around to watching this season (Okay, I haven't been watching any of them) were being released by a group called "Anime Time" which, at the beginning of February stopped putting them up on nyaaTorrents. Maybe they were still releasing them on their own site or something, I don't know. I was trying to give other groups a shot, instead of relying entirely on Erai or SubsPlease. But this was a bad choice. I finally deleted their copies and snagged the current run from Erai (which tend to be a bit bloated with many language subs I don't need, and no signs or lyrics, and very low compression). This after they came back and listed the latest episodes on Nyaa, without back-filling the four episodes they skipped.
So they go on the Untrusted list, along with the unironically named Judas, who would hold the final episode of a show hostage for their batch, and delete the individual torrents when it came out.
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March 01, 2025
Lewd Anime Memes
So when I do a meme post on Substack, for some reason rather than doing a dump, I organize and comment and curate them. Makes it a bit more interesting, I hope.
And man, I threw in damn near everything in this one: Lewd Anime Memes
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January 25, 2025
WTF Dan da Dan?
Ending the season in the middle of a cliffhanger, and no news that I've heard of a second season? That's just evil!
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January 04, 2025
UPS UPSing again.
Maybe it just needed to hard reset itself.
Interesting thing, and I may be jinxing it, but my UPS hasn't shut me down in over a week since I reconnected the battery.
Maybe it just needed to hard reset itself.
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December 31, 2024
Well...
Well, 59 laps around the sun, and what do I have to show for it?
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December 29, 2024
Completed - Fall 2024
Trying to knock out these before the new season starts in earnest.
Akro Trip. I enjoyed this send-up of Magical Girls. Not satirical, not exactly a love letter. But a fun little romp where the world isn't really in danger from the least competent villain matched up with the least competent magical girl, and the ordinary girl who gets wrapped up in the madness.
Hitoribocchi no Isekai Kouryaku: Kinda Meh, and aimed below my grade level. Bloodless monster killing, a stat system that isn't explained very well would be okay if there were at least logic to it, OTOH, they didn't dwell on it too much so that was good. The cast was SO large there wasn't really much in the way of individuation, call them crew-served archetypes. No elves or other demi-humans.
Update 1/1/25:
Party kara Tsuihou sareta Sono Chiyushi, Jitsu wa Saikyou ni Tsuki:Finishing this just after Hitoribocchi is unfortunate, because they both turn out to have the same end plot. The local dungeon is overloaded, and vomits forth all its monsters to attack the city, and the only way to stop it is to find the dungeon master and defeat him. Some details may differ, but they are essentially the same. There's also the matter of the bloodless killing of monsters and their magic rock drops. The main difference is they play their skills straight in this show. No Cheat skills, no isekai, it's just a straight gamish fantasy adventure.
Update 1/12/25:
Finally actually finished Party kara Tsuihou sareta Sono Chiyushi, Jitsu wa Saikyou ni Tsuki: The very end of the final boss battle is astoundingly weak, especially with all the world-building about the end of the world being at stake. But other than that, it was still a pretty solid fantasy adventure, with decently realized characters compared to much of the isekai/fantasy slop out there. But the story wraps up tidily, leaves a few hooks for a sequel that will never come, I'm sure, but it's satisfying.
More to come
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