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coffeemakernamedhank · 6 years

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purposeful procrastinating

hey kids, so, there are things i really want to watch this season but i don’t want to torture myself week-to-week? especially with nobody to excitedly yell about anime at. i got a couple hours of it when my brother visited and we sat around talking weeb shit, but just like sleep debt, i have a lot of pent-up weeb babbling leftovers.

because i want to keep myself away from the urge to watch the things i want to watch RIGHT AWAY RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD, it was time to go back to the to-watch list and the number generator to decide. the random number told me it was time for Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist. and shit, the character designs were generically pretty boys, and it had all that weird Very Christian Bullshit. it should have been a good time, but mostly it was annoying and full of recycled animation and stills on roller skates. have thought about it exactly none since finishing, probably never will again.

after that disappointment, Hotarubi no Mori e was a tiny huff of fresh air. i love the shit out of Natsume Yuujinchou, so an adaptation of a manga by the same author was always gonna be great. a short little movie about growing up and forest spirits and a gentle blending of two worlds and there’s a masked person and for some reason i love the intrigue of a character being masked and only getting to see their face in tiny flashes and special moments. i was crying as it got to the end, and then cried harder when i realized that it was over and sometimes life is just bittersweet like that. please give me all the youkai/ayakashi stories, forever and ever, amen.

let’s go right from spirits to demons, and specifically, demon business hell. Hoozuki no Reitetsu takes the idea of hell and makes it a some very organized Japanese business. hell on your hell sundae. i thought it was a good time, but probably more of a good time if you already have knowledge about Japanese folklore and mythology? the second season is airing now, and it’s probably just as funny-to-a-specific-set-of-people.

right, so there’s tons of the “normal dude gets sucked into his video game fantasy world” genre, right? Sword Art Online will never fucking die, after all. in spite of the popularity of “omg video games anime,” i think Quanzhi Gaoshou got massively slept on. granted, it’s about actual people PLAYING a fantasy video game competitively, as opposed to going into one to collect a harem of waifus. but really, i think it didn’t get watched because it was a Chinese anime. it was certainly difficult for me, because i’ve gotten used to my mediocre understanding of Japanese carrying me through not paying continual attention to the subtitles? not only do i not speak Chinese, but also Chinese is a FAST language. it was sometimes hard to finish reading a line before the subtitle needed to change to the next one. in spite of needing to focus more than i’m used to, it was still good, though. fun, nice animation, and hey: nobody went into the fantasy world. maybe “e-sports anime” will be a trend?? no, no it won’t, there’s no waifu collecting, what’s the point.

i feel like i talked about Seikaisuru Kado before? i put it on hold to finish airing, and only just came back to it. right, so, the first episode was mostly animated traditionally, and then it changed into this lovely 3D animated magic time? i know tons of people want nothing to do with 3D anime, but shit. this was NICE to look at, all the time. the music was nice too! the whole show seemed to be going along at this atmospheric but weirdly grounded pace, and everything was GOOD. and then everything changed when Unnecessary Heterosexual Romance attacked. there was just this point where it was time for a romance subplot, and from there, everything went off the rails. the tone was lost, the in-universe rules were smashed, and relationships that had been building and changing were just left off, because Time For Heterosexual Romance. i really enjoyed most of this show, so the end was.. extra disappointing. ugh.

after that SUDDEN HETERO ROMANCE FOR NO REASON, i figured it was time for some hetero shit done well. i was always gonna enjoy Nodame Cantabile because piano, so watching every single episode and OVA and special was easy. it’s cute and silly but still dramatic and full of lovely music. this is the classic shoujo shit i do like, and also i got to listen to my husbando Seki Tomokazu for a bazillion episodes. with tons of piano. i can’t wait to try to get my girl to sit down and watch this, because she’s a musician and it’s just full of technical music shit.

Higashi no Eden came highly recommended and apparently won awards and shit, and yeah: it’s pretty. but it’s also confusing and weird and doesn’t seem to care about answering questions or.. any kind of satisfying resolution. which, sure, that’s.. a thing you can do with your anime. but uh. probably just a show to watch to say that yes, you’ve watched it, stop recommending this to me. i took this screencap, because unnecessary and bad English on signs in anime is still funny.

i think probably i hadn’t watched or read anything from CLAMP since i watched the X/1999 movie on VHS in high school? and mostly, after watching every sliver of xxxHolic, i just wanna watch that movie again. i still think about some of the lightning/power animation from that movie. xxxHolic was honestly pretty good, full of the youkai/ayakashi shit i love, but just. just slightly too silly, at points, to go along with the more serious tone it kept trying to hit? if you can handle the ridiculous anatomy that tends to go along with CLAMP works, you’ll probably enjoy the shit out of this show. my favorite part was the last two-episode OVA, because older characters, but it was pretty much good all around. a warning that it ties into Tsubasa Chronicle, but it’s really optional to enjoying xxxHolic by itself? it was just really nice to hear “Syaoran” pronounced properly, after having last heard it in the dubbed version of Card Captor Sakura.

i remembered to go back and score a couple idol shows from a while back (Tsukiuta The Animation and B-Project: Koudou*Ambitious, both of which i’d describe as “fine, i guess”) and so, since there are a few idol shows in the current season, i decided to go ahead and give one a shot. friends, i really enjoy the general awfulness and cheese of idol shows, but i dropped Dynamic Chord like a hot sack of rocks. i don’t think we’re allowed to actually know the names of most of these characters? and there are so.. so very many. in addition, the animation was mostly.. awkward and stilted. hard pass, hopefully the other idol shows will be watchable.

i watched Boku dake ga Inai Machi in a total rush yesterday, and man. most of it was pretty compelling, but the end was exactly as bullshit as i’d seen everyone saying it was. it did some interesting things, and is probably worth watching, but.. i was just glad that i was going into it expecting disappointment, after the hype was over and ruined. i cried, but then i totally expected that i would? predictable-chan.

HAHA WOW THAT’S A LOT OF ANIME but in my defense, i’m knitting a shrug? lots of background noise needed.

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