Since I'm running uber late (how are we already on week 4?!), I decided to skip my usual anime pick livestream so I can catch up 😅
Here's what I'm watching for the Spring 2023 anime season. I'm kinda proud of myself for "only" having 18 picks this time compared to last season's 24 😂🤣
I'm excited to watch:
The Ancient Magus' Bride S2 - I've been waiting for this for a looooooong time!
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion - I was about to read the webtoon for this when I heard it was getting an anime!
Oshi no Ko - ANN kept posting about this on their social media and I can never resist cute twins in the first place 😆
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 - Same story as Oshi no Ko, also, my rom-com picks from last season are all done and it left me wanting more 😍
My surprise picks:
Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage - Only a surprise cause I didn't hear about this.
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts - I actually remember this being announced and totally forgot about it! I read the manga a long time ago, so this is one of those rare ones where I know exactly what I'm getting into
Tengoku Daimakyo - This is my attempt to get some culture in me since all I've been watching lately are trash 😂🤣
I'm expecting to drop:
The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure - It's isekai trash so it'll totally depend on how cringe this harem is gonna be 😅
Just got done watching Gundam: The witch from Mercury 🥺😭 It was so good and I cried like three times and and im so happy It ended well for them. I wouldve been so distraught they ended It on a sad note, dont know if I couldve handled that.
the thing about the queer media tournament that really gets me is that last i checked there wasn't a single mxtx work on it. like not even the untamed made it in and don't get me wrong the og mo dao zu shi books are huge but cql is def more popular among tumblr circles. idk it just really rubs me the wrong way how every single piece of western media that ppl have ever gotten a lil bit aggressive abt shipping with is there and then for east asian media there's utena and madoka magica and the handmaiden and last i checked that was pretty much it. and then for the rest of the world there's next to/nothing but idk enough to really make judgements there.
I think at this point most people speculating about G Witch have agreed that this is a Jeturk Mobile Suit considering that it’s designed by the guy doing all the Jeturk Machines (Ippei Gyoubu) and it’s various visual throwbacks to the Dilanza and Daribalde. It’s still a pretty mysterious MS at this point, not being foreshadowed in the show or shown in the opening at all.
I’ve seen speculation that the Schwarzette will be the MS Guel or Lauda or Felsi uses in a final duel against Suletta to secure their position as the Holder and save Jeturk from bankruptcy. This is certainly possible, but if the show does go that route I’d wonder how Jeturk would be able to produce this thing considering that they’re in pretty dire financial straits. If the Schwarzette is a true Gundam in G-Witch’s sense (i.e that it utilizes the GUND Format), I don’t know how feasible it is for them to have done R&D on this thing in time for an upcoming duel unless Peil or Gund Arm made the tech open source (unlikely on both fronts).
So, here’s an idea. What if instead of challenging Suletta/Miorine to a duel, Guel instead signs away Jeturk Heavy Industries into becoming a subsidiary of Gund-Arm? That way instead of his family’s business simply going under, he can entrust it in the hands of someone he trusts at least partially (Suletta, or maybe even Miorine but frankly idk if he’s really had the time to radically change his opinion of Miorine). Plus if his experiences on Earth have given him some level of Earthian Sympathies, he might see it as a good move to sign off Jeturk to a very pro-Earthian company.
This way, rather than the Schwarzette being a Jeturk only production early into S2, it can be an MS assembled later by the combined might of Gund Arm and Jeturk engineers (perhaps on Prospera’s request? Considering Shin Sei is iirc also a Gund Arm subsidiary atm).
So am I the only one getting "Suletta is a part of a whole bunch of clones" vibes from the new ed? Like Prospera made a bunch of clones of Eri so she'll have one who'll both be able to pilot Aeriel and listen to her without question?
Anyway I really hope we get a "there's only one of you" type line from Miorine when she finds out