Neo Shin Disagreeable Zen Module Skibidi Ohio version 67
Sometimes I'm plain wrong. And you're purely rightly so. And that's OK.
Spoken For
August 13th~14th, 2026
Originally, I was writing up a blog entry at work back in July; might've been by the 18th or even the 11th. It was pretty early in the morning, actually the rare piss of downpour so maybe it was about the 18th; I got a few chunky paragraphs in and promptly forgot about it. Incidentally that was the same day my new GM was in and he nearly saw me on my phone, but luckily he didn't see it.
It alway leaves me with a bit of a worry how much I want to space these updates out. I remember a year ago these pages got pretty long and then it turned into a chore so it got Moonlight Butterfly'd. I feel like I came a long way since relying on template and trying to fiddle with them. Then there was that period I had used some way well-made professional templates with some of the really neat commission as the header, but something about it felt off, the site felt too sterilized. It was too professional on neocities but it wasn't in my spirit. What I always did want to do was always a win98 or XP desktop, and after my recent experience dealing with that css style format I had for the site, I think I can do it now. I don't know. Maybe there might be a version of that one day. But for now, what's wrong with simplicity and limited innovation?
But anyway, a lot of happened and I'll have to remember secondhand half of it since I kind of neglected writing while it was still fresh in my mind. I was just reading a passage in War and Peace where soldiers recounted differently what happened during a battle and it made the protag and I reflect on that. So, sometime after the June 6th post, my bike got a flat. So, that was a unfortunte start to June.
But the better reflection of those days. I did end up going to go see the Amazing Circus at the theaters as planned. The movie was good and I was happy of the way it concluded. I'd be shocked if they try to continue this series if the other series don't do as well.
Frankly, it was a movie, but not the kind of indie storytelling Glitch was able of transfering to the big screen. It was just another indie flash in the pan such as uh... Homestuck, and probably a few other instances, but I feel like already Digital Circus has run its course, I guess maybe gone are the days when a decade could be defined by something like Tumblr like Homestuck or MLP or whatever. To me, it feels like Bowesette was the last real icon of the 2010s immediately prior to some guy eating bat soup at a Chinese food stall one fine Christmas 2019 evening.
But I'm getting off track here. I still got my enjoyment out of it and I wish I had joined the fandom earlier for a sense of belonging but like always I missed the train and time to make like tofu and adapt to the next shiny thing, soak in its flavoring to make it my personality. Oh well.
June was actually surprisingly mild for the temperature. Even into July, it wasn't bad. May was somehow surprisingly hotter over all. Then August approached, and it became hotter again. But so far, it seems it isn't as awful as last year or the year before.
I went to go see Backrooms not long after since the weather was so nice. It too was a good film in my eyes and subsistanically better than Glitch as a director. According to the wikipedia page (I like reading the Production parts of movies on their wikipedia pages) and he apparently came fully prepared as a director which the people he worked with were impressed by. And for his debut it wasn't bad and I remember being puzzled why my younger zoomer co-workers thought it was a slow movie with pacingissues. I didn't see it at all. I didn't go see its rescreening that I haven't thought about until now so its likely too late.
I'm eager to see where this director goes going forward. Like the funny Palpentine pic, I will watch his career with great interest.
I never did bother with going to see the Odyssey, but I think I should before it leaves theaters. I guess there's two chief reasons: since the nearby bike rack I used to go there got walled off, I can't use my bike, and since its often 40C or 109F, I kinda can't walk when there's a deadly cosmic laser melting me like a ant. Surprisingly, it's going to be sub 100 for once, so it's a now-or-never chance.
mmm yush master gimmie the slop mmmm yussh
Post update from the future the day after on this fine not so sunny, cloudy Friday: I ended up not going; chiefly I overslept a hour before the first day's screening and I wanted to focus on this update later when I did wake up. There's always a next time.
[Back to the back-then present:] I've been toiling away slowly, slowler than I hoped, on reading through Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. I've reached up to the chapter where Rostov just finished creaming his pants like a fangirl seeing the Russian emperor in the flesh and blood and just having a grand old romantic time fantasizing about the empeor ordering him, him alone, him personally, to jump into the burning fires. And how him and everyone were captured in a snow globe of optimism about their steel confidence of winning the battle that was just as toxicating to get drunk on as if they just won two victories.
And that was just the most hypest shit ever. Then I sat down on the toilet and it cuts to Boris tryting to fit in and realized he's just another run of the mill soldier to the average civillian and how in his mind how lame his rizz is compared to even the other officers. I stopped there since I was shitting on the toilet and it felt anticlimatic to follow up on the review. Not that it was bad or it left a bad taste in my mouth or that I was bored, I just finished my business and would read later. Now that I finished Crow and the Rabbit I can read W&P faster.
Speaking of which, I had binged that over the week out of half interest and because it was a work by a fellow writer in my writing sphere.
Here's a quick overview of it.
And here's a bit of a mini-review of it that I haven't made on RR yet:
I felt it was a solid story overall, it's not representative of what Royal Road has to offer, as it has no typical LitRPG or Isekai elements to the story. It's a dark fantasy where there's no real magic beside the self-healing of certain speices, and a grimdark universe at first. I really liked Ferene as a character didn't have heart for the side characters, so when the author began to shift povs to them, I skipped them, on that note, I have to agree with the review that pointed this out, and it starts to show up more frequently in part 2 and then common in part 3. I felt dismayed because the writing is good overall albeit with the abuse of the expression "frowned/frowning", and I felt it would've done better overall to just focus here on Ferene or split the pov shifts in the same chapter to different chapters. Either way, I had to skip a lot, and used seach function for Ferene more times than I'd want to admit. It's made me self-conscious about my own writing as a result, which I haven't really written since July at this point.
Since the last update, I did finally get the final cover art for volume 2 of A Game of Cosmic Titans.
Isn't she just wonderful? The artist gie__s really delivered and I still have one piece of her and Lawrence in mind that I want done and I know he can deliver on it.
Well... I actually had a whole paragraph here at this point, but in this html-viewer I used that was recommended to me in the mailbox, I foolishily did the thing again where I refreshed and wounded up with all of it wiped, and now I don't remember what I was transcribing about originally. Foolish as I was, and utterly complacement, I did not think just in case to copy it for the very specific case of this happening.
And enter, for the dramatic realization. Oh yeah, I hit a wall with the writing output after the Churchill shadow chapter because I realized originally I was beginning to write the next few chapters to better develop Yuri as a character, and to do so I felt I should've snuck in a character that I wanted to rescue from Saga of the Cosmic Heroes, who was set to appear in that about a chapter or two away before I axed it. But I had to stop myself, and this was something around the time I was also diving into Crow and the Rabbit: why am I writing all of this for this character? It's not moving the story forward and it's not particularly important for this character to exist,and the whole concept of these chapters is its Lawrence testing the new 13th MT members... but why would he? What would be the point of that? Even for Lawrence that's just plain unreasonable, they all just survived Azincourt—as Mobile Troopers in the vanguard. They have nothing to prove. So I had to scrap the chapters and was going to start using the base of what I had written for moving the story forward instead...
Or so I hoped. It wouldn't hurt to reuse what I had intended for something new entirely. Somethng like Gundam Thunderbolt scenario: what happens when there's dudes left behind? I had this subject matter on my mind but had shelved it, but now that I think about it, I can progress the story and still show off that Yuri has grown in the past 6 years since she first trained to become a Mobile Trooper.
Anyway, that's where I am in the story right now. I put a prolonged cap on it to play vidya instead. And boy did I play a few. I likely won't go into indepth into each one, since I mostly playted were the first-hour first impressions. So, I tried the sci-fi lesbian puzzle game Signalis. I was convinced on playing it because of this animation.
Well, second third time writing this segment because of fuckery with this html-viewer site. Gmrmrmrmr. Anyway, it just wasn't my cup of tea. I bought it on a whim one day and played it, getting more shit-faced as I did. I nearly found myself dozing off and ended the stream and refunded it I think that night or the morning after.
In any case, the fanart and animation for this game is really cool. It's probably a really good series but I just couldn't do it.
So moving on like the looper I am having to rewrite this like Sisyphean. So, I went through the troubles of installing BF1942. It was a grand old time, but like this html viewer, it was janky, it was overwhelmingly crusty. It amused me that 2000s era of pc gaming was simply so crude yet were simple and were straightforward, unless you were a north european game developer, more on that in a second.
It was fun, sure, but it just emptied out and wasn't all that populated in the first place. I eventually got stuck on a landing craft on the beach and gave up and never looked back. I thought cs1.6 was crusty, boy BF1942 took it up a ante! It makes me want to try out mp for BF2. So far, I only tried singleplayer and it provided a jolly good hour of fun for a while. I still have my og box of BF2 somewhere I just need to find it but I think finding the serial number mightbe impossible.
So anyway moving on. I tried Angels Fall First since that hit 1.0 after a decade of EA. Wasn't right after 1942 when I played it, in fact it was more recent so I'm going alittle out of order here. Anyway, I hadn't heard of it until now, but it was fun for a bit but it quickly became apparent how dated it was once I actually got into a ground combat lobby. I dicked around for about 2 lifes before I refunded it. My friends were telling me a bout Planetside 2 so maybe I ought to give that a tray eventually, despite how dated it is now.
Mostly, I stuck to CS2 with and without queueing my friend. But there was a longer period from about mid July to even now where we just didn't play at all. I don't have any more footage of CS2 to post with funny music since I hadactually deleted most of my gameplay footage. My friend told me that Nvidia wasn't good for recording because of their filesizes, which is true, so unless youreally care about 4k, 8k quality, don't bother just use OBS. So I stopped using Nvidia Instant Replay, and did setup OBS for the last 30 second function... but I just forget to launch obs as we play, so I never get to capture my sick epic gamer unc moments.
These days when I do play, I don't sweat the sweaty tryhard stuff like counterstrafing or worrying about ultil usage. I had deleted my cs2 skills account (forgot name of it top of my head) since I felt it would be bad for my mental health. I'm just here to fuck around and clown around man. I Just do my best and if we get shitter teammates or trolls it's whatever. I can't ragebaited anymore, so it's all in good fun.
A part of me wishes I should've saved those clips to make content ofbut there wasn't nearly as much interesting content compared to the og video. I wasn't getting nearly as thristed after.
For a while, I vented frustration lightheaterdly to play Fortnite with me, so we did, and we won about 2 games before he called it quits, it's kind of interesting going to a strafing spam game like CS2 to a jump around like a ... maniac (original word choice omitted), that was about the Jax/Pomni crossover. I got him to invite me into Deadlock, because as I had typed out in grand frustration how everyone seems to be playing Deadlock but me, I finally played it, dicked around in the tutortial it forces on you and didn't really look back on giving it more thought until present. I ended up unistalling The Finals despite dropping whimisically some dollars on skins. It just didn't suit my cup of tea anyway. I wonder what does suit my cup of tea then? I had a bad episode one night in TF2 on one of my favorite servers to people watch in and got banned, but since been unbanned but haven't been able to bring myself to play on it.
Well, this next part will be about the second time I'm writing about it partly because of this site's slight inconvinence and today out of no fault of its own but in fact because of a windows update happening outside of normal hours. When I saw my bf off in VR this Friday morning, I quit out of VR and went to sleep, and when I did so, the update occured. See, around 3am last night I was working on finishing this part of the blog and starting on anime impressions for this season, but it was 3am so I'm like, oh, I'll just finish it in the morning or when I wake up... and didn't at the very least paste that version onto my offline notepad++ docu, so even if I didn't save-save it, even the pc turned off at that very moment I won't work progress. So I wake up confused why I'm seeing my locked screen, and I'm groaning like oh no it didn't save. Thankfully, I had a slightly newer version... but it was right after I was talking about Signalis.
Anyways.
On a whim, I decided to buy and play the standalone Europa Universalis 2 (two) fanmod turned game For the Glory. I played it out of curiousity, to see where Paradox had come from since their Heir to the Throne days.
Boy, it was an ugly experience from beginning to end. Similar to Medieval2 total war, units don't replenish automatically, infact they don't replenish at all. You have to manually and constantly cycle in new units to restore numbers. There's actually a lot of QoL features you'd take for granted as even a EU3 veteran that don't exist here, and there's some interesting ones that Paradox would drop concepts of that they never again reintroduced into the Paradox formula.
One of the elements I thought was interesting was the supply system. You couldn't carpet bomb as easy in 2 as easily because there's one notable difference between 2 onwards: infantry garrison sizes go up to 20k and more. So, yeah, it's not fun trying to seize that much when supply lines are usually 10k supply limit. Yet, when the ai sieges you they have no problem making you roll out and die. So it's the Dark Souls of the Paradox family of games. I won't deny I'm not a genius at these games. It's only recently after getting back into them as rituals to play once or twice a year that I started to get good enough where I didn't need to rely on cheating money or pov switching to delete armies or make provinces occupied. I would say that was maybe my first experience ever with game modding. For paradox games in general I used to fiddle a lot in the game files to adjust stuff (if to cheat) and even made some events for myself in Vic2 at some point.
BUt anyways, there was a certain charm to the Risk-like board game (that Europa Universalis was, originally, before Paradox ripped the creators off), and it's very evident in this iteration of the title game. This version I playe with the submod that forcibly railroads the game, there's even a whole event for a little one province minor like Saxony where they gain Silesila then lose it then gain it again. I didn't know it was scripted to play out like that so I had given myself Badboy for no reason. Badboy is literally what it is: infamy, but it's coded/written as Badboy funny enough.
Anyway, it was not exactly a thrilling experience, and having to recount this twice already is evident of that. In the end, I didn't expand as much as I had hoped and there isn't really a anti-blobbing mechanic like in 3 onwards, so if a country like Austria gets huge there's nothing you can do about it. Functionally, the HRE is acknlowledged as existing in the game and referenced in pop-up windows, but you can't interact like you can later in 3. I don't think HRE was even a thing until like In Nomime but it was there since Heir to the Throne at least. I tried not to cheat my badboy at all but I did have to savescum a lot, boy did I ever.
The game goes on until I think 1820 or 1830, but I decided I couldn't suffer the horror anymore. So, as a chance to heal, I did what any old-fashioned unc does in a situation like this and booted up MEIOU EU3. I gravitated once more to Saxony, and like true insansity, decided to do it all over again.
I had a lot more fun overall. Back then, when all I had was a pirated Heir to the Throne copy of Eu3 initially in about 2009 or 2010, my younger half-brother and I would take turns playing on the computer. EU3, Warband, Shogun 2, Star Wars Empire at War and Age of Empires and the Galactic Battleground games... we had so much fond time these games together. We would bond so much shouting 'Bungo! Bungooo!' at eachother whenever that Japanese province revolted. We were just little kids then, so it was just funny named to us.
I was never good at the game as a kid and always cheated in some form or another, either when I got bored or frustrated by not winning.Sometimes I'd do a new campaign as Golden Horde and make them annex the entire world and let the chaos unfold. But most of the time I'd cheat my inflation or edit the files to let me own certain provinces. Or just flatout delete armies lol.
But despite my Byanztine game or eve my Japanese, I still did some regular commands to wipe my infamy because it's such bullshit at times in the Saxony campaign. So, it wasn't truly legit, but it was never going to go down and if I played by the game's rules, I would've needed to disband the HRE as fast as possible if I wanted to avoid its crazy infamy system. So a little later on I did.
Snap back to reality!
This was probably the quickest I've ever (legitly) dismantled the HRE in a playthrough before, but I think the MEIOU timeframe helped a little too, which starts about 1340 or so. Even in the Roman Emperor game which I seldom ever used cheats like infamy clearing, it took me about 1812 to do it. I didn't expect to do it so soon in this campaign though. I figured I was in a good position for it and relying on the same warring startegy to declare on the emperor first, then the princes, I had a easier time, or it was something of that nature. I feel skillful enough with my skills as a god gamer to not rely on tag switching and deleting armies. It was done and then I was able to spend the rest of the campaign at my leisure. Eventually, I formed Germany after a great frustration of understanding the prequisties and proceeded to faceroll Europe. Also, if there's actually one thing I learne from playing EU2 is that literally nothing but Land tech matters. Literally, in EU2 if you don't just dump nearly every penny into land tech you're just in for a godaawful time. Also, that's another thing with 2, inflation is super insane and since there's no advisors you don't get mint productions until the very end of the game. I thought that was insane, and I always thought inflation outside of gold was awful anyway in 3.
The empire when I roughly started to slow down on playing. I got to about 1813 before I decided to finally call it quits. I was really hoping to end these final wars so I could start feeding Kiev (in purple right of Poland)every territory to make the map a little prettier. I jumped on a war to finish off Lithunina and give some of that territory to Kiev, too, and connect the territories in Prussia.Unfortuntely, things just didn't go well that way. I got way too annoyed with the infamy thinking it was triggering the nonsense wars which I thought was puzzling since norminally they'd just be docile and leave me alone. But it was proving too much so I stopped playing. By that point it was already 2am, approaching 3am so I got off and didn't get to finish posting this blog entry.
Up until that point, in the century after disbanding the HRE, I enjoyed arm wrestling with France every few decades and fighting campaigns in Flanders. It was really fun tactical fun.This is what I enjoyed EU3 for, that grand old fun of just beating everyone else down and winning. And sometimes larping as the ruler and fantasizing about the battles. A part of me wishes they kept the charm of the old battle sprites.
Unfortuntely, some of those typical wars turned into forever wars after 1795. The Turks declared on me beside I shared one enclave province with them after consuming remains of mega Poland, and Spain declared on me around the same year as well. I tried to sit still and wait out the auto wp but it never came for either, so I just idly fought a big war in two different African colonies that dragged onto the 1800s and then the 1810s. By about 1810–1811 I had finally won the land wars in Africa; Spain and Portugal's fleets were deleted by my patrolling doom stack. I decided to blockade them to 80-100% and was like, I'm here anyway, might as well go grape some cockroaches too while I'm at it. So I 100% blockaged Turkey and was sweeping in like the above screencap when tragedy stuck after the timeframe of the image and suddenly all these garbage countries declared on me. Then it became non-garbage countries like Burgundy plus France and England. Which didn't faze me in the slightest, not even annoyance. I managed to divide and conquer with just one army general and forced myself to stop because woops its 3 in the morning time to sleep.
But anyways, I don't think I will actually continue the game. It was largely just over anyway in 1805, or even 1795. I guess playing these games back to back and then knowing what came later as features (like revolutionary regime changes via war), it makes you realize there's a good reason why originally the game just ends in the 1790s. The games just can't capture the political dynamics of the Napoleonic era very well. It does makes me itch to try out Naploeon Total War 3 though. I did install the mod and its updates so I'm going to give that a try to live out my German fantasies of clashing against French and Turkish foes, and the slumbering Sweden foe to the North.
Well, that's enough of map painting for now. A brief update on Tomodachi Life.
I'm still playing it. There was a period where I got out my tablet and made some drawings, because I figured why not. I'd paste a few of them here, but maybe I'll add them later since I had my phone out of reach to charge and don't feel like breaking my flow. At first, I couldn't control my vices and made degenerate porn, but I had a self conscious moral moment and deleted it and all the other lingo of me being a dengerate creep. Now my game is back to mostly being wholesome big chungus.
I was asked once by a dear kouhai of mine once, what I do these days, y'know since we don't talk much at all and it was just a spur of the moment encounter. I said I had gotten into playing Tomodachi Life recently, other than reading and writing. He asked if I had made my boyfriend, Cappuchino, in it, but I said I didn't. It shocked him since it seemed like naturally I would, but I never did.
For one, all my little creatures are just egos of mostly all my past usernames I've had, or the identity I had for a model. Sometimes they're childhood ocs if they were now anicent old fartbags like me. I usually steer away from making established characters. I don't know why, it's just never been my thing, even in the Artifical Academy 2 era. But sometimes I'll made a character like John Halo, and I've been meaning to make John Doom Guy, John Fortnite, and John Marathon(Mjolnir Recon 54?) maybe even John Counter Strike. I don't know, I thought it'd be funny.
But in any case, I won't ever add my boyfriend because it'd just be too weird. And if he dated one of me and broke up, it'd hurt my fee fees quite a lot. He has a lot of VRC models like me but it still wouldn't feel right.
Which was suppose to lead into my main point I was making of this specific case. Recently, my boyfriend had a very serious talk about our relationship and our future. It wasn't a argument and there was no yelling, but there was alot of tears, namely from me, who I expected was breaking up with me.
I don't want art to inimiate life nor the other way around. Even when my egos are dating and married to eachother, when they start thinking about breakup it just makes me really sad. I can't really enjoy happiness in macroverse, but the least I can do is make my little baby gremlin creatures happy being with eachother.
So my boyfriend and I talked. And I feel like we've both strengthened our bonds more than ever. And it came at a really good time too because he started having trouble that forced him to shuffle around his living space for like half a month since. But anyway, that is kind of way I don't want to include other people in these kind of games, because what if you broke up with them or you're no longer on good terms with them? Now you have this cruel reminder of what you can't have anymore frolicing in their amazing digital circus unknowing and uncaring of the troubles above them.
My original Artifical Academy 2 protag Youjin enjoys his AU retired life as a harem leader as always. Jorma is his waifu; they were having some relationship trouble too unfortuntely when I checked in on them when I was makin this post.
I finally got the pretty ladyboy to get together with the man of her dreams but shocking, turns out she's not too happy with their loved life. A shame, since I've been trying to nudge her closely to the dork for a while now. I didn't post a screencap to clog up the screen but I will post a picture of the pretty pink hair with her moles instead, so cry about it. But that more or less has been my gaming experience until now. Maybe I will remember to launch obs and start recording Napoleon Total War 3 footage. Who knows?
Alright, so here comes the anime segment.
Spring 2026 Anime Impressions
At least the ones I've watched. Spoilers largely avoided if I can help it.
Needy Girl Overdose
Well, unfortuntely, I had already written up my second hand impression of this show and the others that came after. So this'll be like a third hand impression of what I had said in the second hand impression of it. Well, it failed to capitilize on its incredible Shaft influence. It deflated like a whoopie cushion and then the rest of the show happened. It wanted to be artsy fartsy and it's hard to say as a anime-only if it hit the mark. It was kinda cool. I liked the practical effects and the mannekin scenes were a nice dressing to a lackluster whatever kind of story this was trying to tell.
So me when I hit the vape
The occasional Western cartoon was a good touch too sometimes, and the story not taking itself too seriously and fast-forwarding the yapseshs. I guess in the end, it's not easy to make a story from a VN from a creator that's not all quite well in the head to begin with. It was good, but like most anime these days and since the dawn of anime will just be forgotten.
Kirio Fanclub
This one I watched by myself. I actually watched it at aparticularly dark and stormy time in my mental palace, so this elevated my emotions a little bit. It was surprisingly a good series to go completely blind into. The last episode left me misty eyes and some pearls of tears slipping through.
This was probably easily the sleeper agent of the season, a romance I did not expect to pan out the way it did and it was all there from the start in the marketing. Def a good series to check out if you like romance anime.
Akane-Banashi
Did I already review the end of this last season? I don't think I did, but I know it was close to one of the last things I reviewed before I got off the pooter at 3 in the morning and forgetting to copy the html viewer version onto my offline blog document. RAAAAAAAAAAAH. Oh ell. Yeah it's getting a second season and it's ok. Wasn't the drama like Shouwa Genroku I hoped itd be.
Liar Game
Another one I ended up watching by myself under similiar circumstances. It's still ongoing and I've watched up to about ep16-17. I've been really enjoying this. It was one of the shows I suggested but I never brought it up after that one Wine anime fell through and so did that magical girl show. But in any case it's a pretty solid mind games in the same cloth as Akagi or Kaiji.
No one else cared about her accomplishment. :( But I did. :)
MarriageToxin
Another show with a funny premise that kind of became a monster of the week battle shonen. I had pointed out the lack of stakes it had and the suspense of disbelief around the literal OP antag that shows up near the end. He's just a completely normal guy joe schmoe who's somehow just incredibly several times more powerful than all these characters who are subjects of spartan breeding that go back centuries that only the Bene Gesserit would dream to have, and he just kills them off so comically casually simply because he wants to protect his sweetheart heckin wholesome as chungus girlfriend so she can run her shop undisturbed. It's just completely baffling to me. And don't even get me started with the ending, I have no idea if that is how it plays out in the manga as well or if its a classic case of anime writers trying to come up with a feasible way to end the series on a anime-only note, but leaving open for a sequel... which somehow they managed to get a season 2 confirmed.
Seriously, what were they thinking?
Despite that one character's total existence and backstory just being so nonsensical, the anime was good. But it got flat, flat like my dumb e-bike's back tire. Which got a flat again after only a month since the one I had back in June/July. Apparently some super thin metal piece gets in there... somehow? Anyway, we'll probably keep watchignthis slop.
Summer 2026 Mid Season Impressions
As usual, at least the ones I'm watching and spoiler free where possible.
That should be it for Spring I think, right? And now we're roughly where I was last night before tragedy fell. Well, this html viewer is starting to freeze up from the JK yap machine. So without further ado...
Yani Neko
The best to front-load with. This and the Supermarket one caught my eye. I don't smoke in the cigarette sese but I did for a year or two. I decided to quit vaping around October and I was good on that until I decided to watch this. The temptation was too great. Anyway, you can tell where all the sponser money went.You can tell cigarette execs took notes from all the free merchendise the beer companies were having, so why not have a piece of the pie too?
This has probably been the highlight of the season, easily. Like not even anything in the past couple years has that old forgotten art of "WTFJAPAN?" as much as this show does. Like, there isn't really anthing I could really say is wrong with the show. It's a (usually)neet chain smoking cat doing Jackass things but anime. It's dumb and silly. It's relatable at times but it never sways too far from forgetting what it is, a dumb cat and pals.
She's literally me.
With or without drugs, or alcohol, this show is just such a treat, and I get to watch it with the love of my life too, what's not to love about this experience?
I doubt this show will outlive its stay. I hope people will look back on this and City and still remember that WTFJAPAN, indeed.
THE Ghost in the Shell
Well, here it is at long last. Such incredible animation feats! Such lore dumps that go by really fast because even in the original manga iits so much text crammed on screen! Wowie! Wao!
I haven't actually read my legacy manga volumes just yet, as I'm still reading War and Peace presently. But man, I'm so happy GiTS is finally getting the adaptation it was meant to have decades later. The og anime and its atmosphere is a timeless classic, but old school true to form GiTS is atonishing just as well.
Apparently people were upset that despite claiming by the studio that this is was marketed as a true 1:1 of the manga, some fans on MAL angrily pointed out all the differences that had happened so far, namely locations of where some characters meet like in the episode with the gold bars. Basically it came out to it being ore akin to more faithful rather than totally faithful.
Regardless, I wish I could watch this dub. I haven't been actively searching for them but apparrently they do exist? Sometimes files aren't listed as having dub tracks but I'l just have to look next time. The scenery is often so gorgeous and it is just truly true to the original art in some ways. I had glimpsed at some manga pages and its just breathtaking design by all accounts. I'm really eager to start devouring the original classic manga eventually, whenever I finish War and Peace+Three Kingdoms+Part 1 of Chainsaw Man.
This was a really cool effect they did, that's another thing this studio really just absolutely killed it on was future-retro ashethics. In this scene, she's hacking into a console and that's overapping into cyberspace, but it looks like the video player is fucked up but it doesn't, which can be funny because I watch this in VR Chat with my boyfriend so I was worried for a second that there was a hiccup in the encoding and my internet lagged. Nope, it's like that by design. It looked really cool in animation but I don't wanna go through the effort of recording it, so cry about it.
Mahou Tenshi season 3
huh? Did I miss something? What happened? Oh, that happened. Hey, yeah, remember that cool thing that tOtALlY HAPpened? Haha, yeah, good times, right?
Yeah, so, what the fuck. I've explained my reaction to a few people on occasion about my misgivings about this so funnly enough it wasn't one of the times that got wiped the first time since I didn't reach that far yet. I got straight up fucking Katanagatari'd again. Shit happens, deal with it.
I've still been enjoying the season as an anime-only though.
Tanya the Evil season 2
It's been 80 years... guh, so I've had my misgivings with the show, chiefly its eisode count and where it may be stopping at or near after: volume 11. Well, it's hard to even say with a LN like Tanya. In fact, I may even go as far as to provokke the anicent weebaoo saying of It Can't be Helped. I'm enjoying what I've seen so far. It's exactly jumped out from the pages and played out exactly like how I'd expect it to be animated.
It's hard to go back to check what was or what hasn't been omitted from the LN because I had volumes pre-10 on my kindle which is too much of a bother to recharge and see where it was, and using wikis is just plain cheating. But given how fast they sped along with the visiting Italian general, I can tell there's just so much political bvullshit you can feasibly shove into a 12-ep series. I was reading that they've already skipped the boat attack right from the get-go which is gut-wrenching if true. But anyway, the main point I was making is there's just a crazy amount of epsionage and politics between the Federation lisason officers and Mary's group alone for example that there's no way they can dedicate any worthwhile focus on. It's kind of frustrating when you think about it. They have to prioritize the action more than say the strategy or the politics from higher powers inthe conflict.
And boy, is there a LOT of povs from minor and major characters, it's almost LotGH like it's funny. But this has the misofrtune of being a standard TV-length series, not a OVA that can run at its own pace. But so was Nu-LotGH and tahat didn't stop that from being good. So what gives?
I'm not sure the ending of this will stick the ending or end on a satisfying note because where do you end this as a cliffhanger for the next part when the next part is literally a marathon of nothing fucking happens? Seriously? Carlo Zen, Yoshiki Tanaka (I hope he gets better soo nthouugh), are the Japanese equivlent of George Martin the worse aspect possible with them taking literal years to finish even one volume. Yoshiki actually just finished up one of his stories from the 90s or 80s just a few year ago in the 2020s, and it wasn't reall well receieved. The same thing happened with Arslan's ending that left fans disappointed.
Literal cg gommie army hordes! run for your lives!
I think I'm getting off track here. Or maybe I'm not. I love Tanya the Evil, I admire Carlo for writing it because it gave me inspiration to write what was then Saga of the Cosmic Heroes and then A Game of Cosmic Titans. I love the series, it's the only one where I bought merch for and bought the LN books, even the cd for the movie. I want to see it end and end a chapter of my life, but I fear Carlo wrote himself into a corner with these past vols (I stopped at 12) and can't end it satsifingly. And that's a frustrating thign with Japanese authors is they had their golden age and now sometimes they just can't end a series unless they die or they need to axe it.
So I think that about covers everything I've watched... oh.
Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
It's fun. The complete polar opposite of Yani Neko so you can't help but feel sorry for it, like airing in the same season as a Initial D-universe anime like Overtake did.It's a romance where apparently there's no development and for some reason it chose to go on hiatus until August before it resumed from ep6. Never seen that done before, but whatever. You can defintely tell which of the two had the better love of budget overdose.
And so that leaves me with Re:Zero season 4 and Space Yamato Rebel 3199. I'm watching these by myself but I'm enjoying them. I also slipped in us watching Sailor Moon SuperS, Hell Girl, and Votoms. My boyfriend never gave any indication when he wanted to resume watching non-airing anime,but he didnt't complain about it ,so we're good maybe, chat? So we'll continue the Samurai Ran anime and more Monogatari... eventually, and Gundam Unicorn.
I think that about wraps up life the past two months. I can't afford to run on before this html viewer begins to really implode. Oh, I did get a couple new art commissions, those of my new character Madoka, the black-haired girl. I based her off one of the characters in the anime Kimagure Orange Road. New day new me, am I right?
Anyways, thanks for reading. Catch you starside.
