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[nerice]

ngl i need a show like mirai nikki to happen again. a girliepop like yuno gasai wld fix me in 2 eps stat

[infinite-mess]

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai | MOVIE REVIEW

(aka “Dialgia vs Palkia vs Darkrai”)

This is most certainly not the first Pokémon movie I’ve ever watched, but this IS the first time I’m watching this particular movie, AND it’s the first review I’m making for this blog, and it’s about damn time.

And what better way to start off than with an absolutely STUNNING film?

REVIEW + SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT!

First of all let me just say the art and animation in this film is GORGEOUS. The colors used in this were unlike anything I’ve ever seen, even in my time watching Pokémon movies (yes I am biased, why do you ask). The animation is very fluid and the 3D models don’t look too out of place, either (which isn’t exclusive to this particular movie at all, btw, I just think it’s neat)!

I was hooked right from the beginning of the film: a brawl between Dialgia and Palkia preceding the plot. I like how this duo was portrayed in the film: two chaotic, wrathful deities, beings that are pure forces of nature, locked in an eternal rivalry, wreaking havoc in their wake. And let me tell you, the stakes in this movie where THE highest stakes I have EVER seen in a Pokémon movie thus far, and I had only seen 6 of them before this one (which would now make 7). I’m just shocked that it was only Alamos Town that was at risk and not the entire world.

Now, let’s talk about the lingering shadow here: Darkrai. Their arc within this movie gave me the perception of a mysterious foe and not only flipped it straight on its head, but tore it to pieces, along with my heart. They’re misunderstood by literally everyone, people were set on literally destroying them, and it was only when they were standing between the Time and Space Pokémon themselves and the city that was against them that people began to see Darkrai for who they truly are. All Darkrai wanted to do was protect them. And at the end of it all………oh my god. The very end of the movie when the cast was mourning Darkrai nearly drove me to tears and I was so relieved when immediately after it was revealed that Darkrai survived the wrath of the deities.

The intro song was decent, but not all that great. But the ending song blew it STRAIGHT OUT OF THE WATER. Just when I had been consoled by the fact that Darkrai survived, the ending song almost drove me to tears as well. Absolutely phenomenal.

I will say though the visuals for Palkia’s interferences on the town (the colors used, the intensity, and the speed; not sure if I should classify this as “flashing lights” because it doesn’t seem like “flashing” per say? it’s a bit difficult for me to describe) can be hard on the eyes at times; just a fair warning for that if you’re thinking about watching it.

Other than those things however, this movie was too stunning to put into words sometimes. I took some notes for this review but for most of the time I was simply astonished by everything.

Would I Recommend: Absolutely. No questions asked.

Overall Rating: 9/10

[soulcialdent]

I was granted the opportunity to attend the NBCUniversal Japan Anime Industry Panel, which produced a lot of different animes. A timeline that stemmed from Golden Kamuy, Serial Experiment Lain, Berserk, and over 30 years of anime under their belt. Their newest additions which were being announced which were From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, How I Attended An- All Guys Mixer, Reincarnated as a Sword Season two along with "A Wild Last Boss Appeared" announced for the very first time within this panel. All of these series will be uploaded onto HiDive.

Read the full article here: click here

[y0uc4n7kn0w]

Doki Doki Days 7: Kill This Love - Yandere Characters

Let's kill this love....or rather let's talk about Yandere Characters... #anime

In the past, we’ve offered a variety of definitions for things on this blog, and we decided it’s about time we return to the world of dere. Today we’re going to be breaking down one of the most (disturbingly) popular dere’s: the yandere. Because there is nothing better for Valentine’s Day, than a love that you’d kill for. To start off this post, I’d like to begin by quoting one of the best…

[parkerflix]

—cupido

theodore nott x reader!

genre: fluff!

synopsis: going to bed without theodore nott was never fun.

wc: 0.4k

a/n: somewhat of a modern au! hogwarts is like. a normal boarding school in this & they can go off campus it makes sense in my head anywayyssss had theo brainrot the past few days + a reworking of an old fic from my aniblog! + part of 1k celebration!

Theo had always felt like home to you. So when you went to bed without him last night, it felt unusual and cold. He normally was in his dorm early enough to spend time with you in the night, but last night he stayed helping out Draco with more practice.

You were completely wiped from the week, and had showered, changed into one of Theo’s shirts and a pair of shorts and laid in bed skimming your book. you got tired of your book and started to watch a rom com which made you reminisce about when you and Theo started dating.

Eventually it was 10:30pm, and with no sign of Theo, you turned everything off and tried to sleep. The sheets were too cool for you, and the feeling of warm arms around your waist and a light breath on your neck was not real. You tossed and turned until you finally lulled yourself to sleep, not noticing that Theo was just arriving into the dorm.

When you woke up, you felt the bed still warm, but no sign of Theo. you sighed and got up, not knowing where your boyfriend went. As soon as you made it out of bed, the bathroom door of breakfast opened up. You saw Theo wearing his towel around his waist & drying his hair with another. You went up to him and gave him a kiss, which came as a nice surprise to him. Both of you pulled away, a goofy smile on both of your faces.

“Morning sleepyhead. Figured you were still asleep and didn’t want to wake you.”

You shook your head and snaked your arms around his neck.

“I missed you last night. Fell asleep before you came.”

He pressed a light kiss to your forehead and brushed your stray hair away.

“Sorry. Draco was trying to practice and then he wouldn’t stop talking about some random nonsense.”

You hummed and he wrapped his arms around you, tossing his hair drying towel towards a chair he had.

“How can I make it up to you?”

You make a show of you pretending to think before shrugging.

Theo pulled you flush against him, and smiled.

“How’s breakfast to start?”

You nodded and smiled.

“Sounds good.”

He gave you a quick peck, before detaching himself from you.

“Perfect, I’ll get ready and I’ll treat you to breakfast.”

[floatingcatacombs]

The Normal Author’s Girlfriend’s List Of Bad Yuri Anime

12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 11

So you’ve seen some good yuri anime: Revolutionary Girl Utena (and the movie, if you want), Bloom Into You, Puella Magi Madoka Magica (plus, of course, Rebellion, which is essential), Bocchi: The Rock!, Girls Last Tour. You know HaruMichi and Farcille and poor sweet Tomoyo Daidouji and Quanxi’s whole deal. You’ve been queerbaited by Kyoani, or maybe you got lucky and watched Dragon Maid which was actually gay; you no longer get weirded out by incest; you wanted more Utena and got The Witch from Mercury S1 (good) or Revue Starlight (bad); maybe you’ve even gone back to Oniisama e and discovered Ryoko Ikeda’s incredible butch-for-butch technologies.

You’ve seen some good yuri and that’s been great. It’s just… there isn’t that much of it. Well, you could start reading manga, or books, or talking to actual women, but you want more yuri anime specifically.

To you, dear reader, I offer up this solution:

Bad Yuri.

Floating Catacombs 2025 Presents:

A Normal Author’s Girlfriend Production

The Normal Author’s Girlfriend’s List Of Bad Yuri Anime

Before we get started, let’s define our terms. First: Bad Yuri must not be in good taste. Second, let us consider some ‘ungood’ yuri, that we might understand what we aren’t looking for:

Case 1: Liz and the Blue Bird.

Boring and forgettable. Bad Yuri must be watchable.

Case 2: Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight.

Yeah the butchfemme was good but I spent this entire show waiting for KuroMaya and they only got half an episode. I don’t fucking care about ‘childhood friends’. Bad Yuri must be enjoyable.

Case 3: Hibike Euphonium

It has to be gay. Come on. This is like the most basic requirement.

Case 4: MagiRevo, Undead Murder Farce

Being gay is not enough. You have to have actual characters.

In sum: Bad Yuri must be in bad taste; it must be watchable on a minute-to-minute basis; it must not leave the watcher with a bad taste in her mouth; it must actually be gay; and it must have some semblance of characterization. In practice it is basically always violent and horny. We’re talking like Kill La Kill levels, although if you ever want to watch that you should just go see Promare instead. Also, I reserve the right to break any and all of these rules whenever I feel like it. Without further ado:

Cross Ange

Content Warnings: Blood, Violence, Death, Sexual Assault, Ryona, Incest, Bad Taste, Needlessly Edgy, It’s Just Porn At This Point, Incredibly Stupid Plot Twists, Pretty Much Every Fetish

Princess Ange’s traitorous older brother exiles her to an island full of lesbians, where she must pilot a mech to fight dragons in incredibly revealing clothing.

This is Code Geass if it was about a girl and also worse (sorry Roze of the Recapture). This show starts with a baby being arrested. They put the baby in a special little baby jail cage in the back of a police car. The first episode ends with lesbian rape under the justification of a strip search. The weak girls on Pussy Fight Island pull knives on each other at the slightest provocation; the stronger girls pull guns; the strongest girls just use their hands.

It’s got all the subtlety of villainess manga. It’s got girls pissing themselves. It’s got a girl named Riza, short for Lizardia, because she is secretly a DRAGON. Forget ‘Lesbian soldier hopelessly in love with her commander’ – it’s got that too but it has I kid you not a lesbian harem where the top dies in combat so one of the four harem girlies has to turn into a top like a clownfish undergoing sequential hermaphroditism and take over. And then she dies too and the next one in line has to take over and then it happens again and then when it’s down to two one of them leaves because she can tell the current top’s heart isn’t in it and defects to Akio Ohtori’s side, because at least he’s willing to fuck her (lesbian cuckold count: 1) And everybody’s ass is out at all times.

It’s also got a surprising amount of Gundam intertextuality? The comparisons to Iron-Blooded Orphans are obvious; Kira Yamato is there, for some reason; her mecha is the Zeta Gundam but if it was the Strike Freedom with the TR-6 Woundwort’s Psyco Blade Goddess Antenna from Mobile Suit Gundam: Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans; the girls in Ange’s squadron each map perfectly to Shaddiq Zenelli’s Grassley girls.

But that’s not what you’re here for. You’re here for the scene where Hilda confesses that she’s in love with Ange but understands that Ange can never love her back, because Ange is already in love with Kira Yamato, and also with Salamandinay, a DRAGON princess from the True Earth who arrived through a dimensional rift to free Aura, the first DRAGON and the source of all magic, before Ange grabs her and gives her a full kiss while telling her that the world she’s fighting to create will have all kinds of relationships.

God Jill is so hot.

Shlock: Maximum

Lesbian: Yes, somehow, and bisexual as well. It is a male gaze thing but that’s going to be a constant with this microgenre. The vast majority of people who like women are men statistically and sometimes thank god they produce something like this

Watchability: High, if you have covid

Quality: Awful.

The Executioner And Her Way Of Life

Content Warnings: Death, Ryona, Incest, Bad Taste, Needlessly Edgy, Incredibly Stupid Plot Twist

Menou is a priestess in Isekai World whose job is to hunt down and kill Isekai Boys before they start causing problems with their Isekai Boy Powers. But this latest Isekai Boy Target… is a Girl With Enormous Tatas who she can’t kill because she auto-rewinds time to erase any wounds.

What really does it here for me is Menou’s relationship with her mentor, Flare, who groomed trained her from a young age to cut off all her emotions in order to make her a better executioner. I’m not immune to Empty Spaces/Combat Dolls/Signalis. What if Christianity wasn’t about raising girls as lambs to the slaughter but was instead about raising girls to use knives to kill people? A seductive premise for those with my particular flavor of religious trauma. Akari is fine, although I feel like Smith (Bravern) did Homura better.

I also like Momo, although I have a weakness for lesbian cuckolds (more on that later, possibly).

Shlock: High

Lesbian: Lesbian

Watchability: Moderate

Quality: Mid

Kakegurui

Content Warnings: Bad Taste, Needlessly Edgy, Boy Protagonist before the story thankfully gets bored of him, It’s Just Porn At This Point

Yumeko Jabami transfers into Gambling Academy, where everybody gambles and failing to pay your debts means being forced into petplay slavery. Luckily for her and unluckily for everyone else she is the world’s most perfect gambler because it turns her on.

Maybe the highest exposure show on this list? It’s got gambling, and sexual gambling, and a girl who can only orgasm if she’s actively taking place in a gamble where she could die. At one point she whacks off in a bathroom playing solo Russian Roulette. It’s got a Netflix original season 2 villain who was a girl forced to dress as a boy for years in ways that drove her sexually insane. It’s got The Tower of Doors, which is the most woman game that any woman has ever played.

My favorite bit character is probably the early villain who collects fingernails from everybody she beats because that’s her fetish, or the hopelessly-devoted Student Council Secretary who wants only to lay her face on the chair where her beloved Student Council President sits (lesbian cuckold count 3; 4 if you count Midori). She asks to gamble with her life and Yumeko says that that’s boring, and that there are things she values more – and that they’ll gamble with one life vs her relationship to the Student Council President instead.

Watch the opening for this one – it’s very clear about what it is, and if it doesn’t hook you it isn’t the show for you.

Shlock: Very High

Lesbian: Surprisingly

Watchability: Very high

Quality: Fine

Akuma No Riddle

Content Warnings: Violence, Sexual Assault, Death, Ryona, Bad Taste, Needlessly Edgy, Fanservice, Various Fetishes

Bishonen girl assassin Tokaku Azuma has received her first assignment: attend the Black Class at Killing People Murder High School and kill sweet and innocent-seeming Haru Ichinose, who she immediately falls in love with. Unfortunately the other eleven members of the Black Class are also there to kill Haru.

And they’re all lesbian or bisexual. And they’re all freaks.

They’re constantly pulling guns and knives on each other. Like every conversation a weapon will come out – possibly two. There’s a lesbian serial killer who really likes using scissors on girls. Sexually. The Student Council President is sexually devoted to the school principal. There’s a twenty-year-old spoiled rich girl with a boy’s name because she was named after her mom, who was a gay man. Her dad was also a gay man. If you dare say anything homophobic about this she will kill you. Two of these girls locked eyes right as they transferred in and immediately dropped everything to engage in a 24/7 ageplay dynamic. The other spoiled rich girl is secretly a cyborg and in love with the multiple personality girl, who wants to kill her as well.

This is by the author of infamous shotacon BL manga Loveless, so I guess all that is to be expected.

Also… Akiko Morishima got really into making doujinshi for this one? Sure.

Shlock: High

Lesbian: Yeah

Watchability: Pretty decent

Quality: Sure

Yuri Kuma Arashi

Content Warnings: Sexual Assault, Bad Taste, It’s Basically Just Porn At This Point, Bears

Lesbian Bear Storm.

For my money, the best Ikuhara post-Utena work is Sarazanmai, but Yurikuma Arashi absolutely earns its spot on this list. The pieces of a story about how lesbian desire is used to titillate a male audience but never fulfilled, how desire is regulated and rendered hideous, and how girls enforce heteropatriarchy by manufacturing consensus completely independent of men are in there somewhere under the moaning naked girls licking honey off precisely-positioned lilies. I think? It’s well-directed, at least.

Shlock: Ikuni

Lesbian: Ikunirappa

Watchability: Ikunichauda

Quality: Ikunigomamonaka

(the first half of) Birdie Wing: Girls Golf Story

Content Warnings: Violence, Bad Taste, Incest but not really, Golf, The Threat of Having To Resort To Survival Sex Work Underlying This Stupid Golf Show

Birdie Wing is the story of a girl who hates golf and a girl who loves golf. Season two fails to make par because it loves golf too much; season one, with the baffling metaverse vr episode, the underground mafia roguelike golf-to-the-death course, the woman who golfs so hard her robotic arm explodes, and the inexplicable Bandai property references, is the way to go.

I hate golf in the way only an eldest daughter forced into golf lessons hates golf. When Birdie Wing hates golf – when Eve swaggers onto the course in her stupid outfits, refusing to adhere to any etiquette, uses only three clubs and slaps a ball directly into the flag to drop it straight down? I love that. When she lifts her driver and points it and says she’ll kill somebody with it? I love that.

Also like when Aoi says she’ll get her attention with this and pulls her extra long driver out and holds it like a strap. And then her beleaguered caddie talks about how Aoi pierces everyone through with an innocent smile. That was good.

The thing that stuck with me the most wasn’t actually any of the golf shenanigans – it was the way that Eve effectively shoots Aoi down when they discover that they shared a father and were therefore half-sisters. Well, it’s yuri – incest is just something you get used to. Except then it gets revealed that that was a fakeout, because Aoi’s dad was actually her dad’s best friend and her parents were in a throuple that the dad who raised her left behind to secretly raise Eve. Also her dad is Amuro Reiya and also Char Aznable is in this one? And the HG Turn A Gundam? Don’t forget to increment the Lesbian Cuckold clock up to five – Aoi herself and her poor caddy, who didn’t deserve a mysterious blonde swooping in like that.

Oh god I didn’t even mention Vipere, the slutty snake-themed bisexual underground mafia golfer (you know, for the underground golf mafia) who uses pheromones to control her opponents, gets outgolfed, and then shonen-rival style sticks around to help out whenever somebody needs a car (as the girls are too young to drive).

Shlock: Absolutely

Lesbian: Somehow

Watchability: High

Quality: Better than it had any right to be

Maria Holic

Content Warnings: Transphobia, Bad Taste, Fanservice

Kanako Miyamae is a hopeless hapless lesbian excited to attend Lily Yuri Girls Only Academy. She falls in love with a beautiful blonde girl, the queen of the school – and discovers her ideal gf is actually a boy crossdressing to attend the academy who wants nothing more than to torment her sexually.

Maria Holic works like this: Mariya wants something from Kanako, and wears a sexual little outfit/exposes his feet/blows her a kiss/strips his maid’s top off to control her through her sexuality or just because he feels like it and she falls over of anime nosebleed disorder before she remembers “oh right Mariya is a boy” and starts eating her own organs Pearl Steven Universe style. Occasionally a girl who calls herself god will say something uninteresting. Kanako has a little pervert fantasy about one of her classmates. The cast has a reference-heavy Studio Shaft Conversation. Kanako can’t get Mariya out of her head. God I had to retype every ‘him’ up there from a ‘her’ because there is no way that little bitch is anything but a girl – it just doesn’t stick in my head. They don’t make boys like that. Torturing a girl like that is a female trait.

If you don’t want to watch a lesbian get relentlessly edged by a brat this show may not be for you. In all honesty even with Studio Shaft direction I found this almost completely unwatchable but it does earn its slot here. If you want a good Studio Shaft yuri show? Go watch Madoka Magica or Hidasketch.

It does have an excellent opening though.

Shlock: High

Lesbian: Well it has at least one

Watchability: No

Quality: No

Re: Cutie Honey

Content Warnings: It’s Basically Just Porn At This Point. but god. Natsuko Aki

“Honey Flash!” yeah she sure does huh

Transforming android Honey Kisaragi fights against evil organization Panther Claw, with the reluctant help of her annoyed cop eventual bestie Na-chan. This is good, actually. Go watch it.

Seriously. The animation is so fun and vibrant! They do the super-cost-saving stills being moved thing in a very high-energy way that comes across as a reference to the original manga format and then every so often they’ll pull out absolutely incredible action sequences.

Look at this!!! Her triangular stompy steps! The super low line count on her as she slowly advances with the gun flying toward her hand! Her Go Nagai snarl!!!!! It’s a real treat for the eyes even without the naked women. There’s only so much “saving your best friend by the power of being naked and kissing” you can do before it stops being bait and starts just being They Are In Love.

Shlock: Absolutely

Lesbian: NATSUKO AKI

Watchability: High

Quality: Yeah

Akiba Maid War

Content Warnings: Genre-Typical, No Spoilers Don’t Worry About it

Go watch this right now.

Shlock: Less than you’d think

Lesbian: Yes

Watchability: Extreme

Quality: Genuine

A Very Specific Set Of Monogatari Arcs

Content Warnings: yeah that guy is sexually harassing that 11 year old and also that tiny little vampire and also both of his little sisters.

Show beloved by pretentious internet perverts.

Alright. You are going to watch Episodes 1-8 of Bakemonogatari Season 1, (skipping 3-5 depending on your tolerance for watching small girls getting sexually harassed) and then you are going to watch the five episodes of standalone arc Hanamonogatari, halfway through Season 2. If you really like Hanekawa, who is bisexual, watch 11-15, Neko Black and Neko White. If you really like animation, watch Kizu. Do not be tricked into thinking more of this show will be gay because Hanekawa and Senjougahara had sex in a shower once. If your goggles are really on tight, enjoy Nadeko Draw but you’ll have to sit through the previous Nadeko and Yotsugi arcs to get there and I can’t in good conscience recommend you do that.

Shlock: Less than you'd think

Lesbian: One

Watchability: SHAFT

Quality: Yes

[studentofetherium]

as an anime blogger myself, i see it important to share other writers' material when i can. aniblogging is a small niche, but a good one

[hesitationss]

TWO protests for trans rights and palestinian solidarity across from each other and another of those 1 million march things and potential zionist counter protest.... like i will be there as a body but i will prob aniblog my way thru it if i'm honest...

[poopeth]

i really need someone to recommend me euro aniblogs my dash is dead

[arbitrarygreay]

#one aniblog already did the thing of recapping the show using the namesakes instead of the romanizations #I can't do the concept justice because I don't know the music well enough

Blog concept

Screencaps of Amagi Brilliant Park characters with lyrics by their namesakes as captions

[infinite-mess]

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop | MOVIE REVIEW

A couple of people on AniList recommended this movie, and when I looked up information about it I quickly decided it would be a no-brainer that I watch it.

Always trust your instincts, and prepare for me to scream about this HIGHLY underrated movie.

REVIEW + SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT!

But first, two small pet peeves in the grand scheme of things, but still noticeable: it’s not bad, but there was this bright, sometimes neon color palette in the majority of the backgrounds throughout the movie, and in a few fast-paced scenes, the animation was so fluid it was rough for me to process; both of these things were a bit hard on the eyes sometimes, so unfortunately points had to be deducted for that. However………

The soundtrack in this movie was so good. It was pretty relaxing at times, other times it simply brought a tearful smile to my face. The story made me feel so many emotions: pain, joy, catharsis…the pressures of the world around you, the fear of losing the places, things, and people you love, the desire to be understood. Not to mention the romance between our two leads, Cherry and Smile, is so ADORABLE!!!!! AND CUTE!!!!! I was smiling at the end where Cherry confesses that he loves Smile through haikus and just. My. HEART.

And speaking of Cherry, he’s actually the aspect I liked the most in this film. As an autistic person, I haven’t been understood, accepted, or respected as myself by the world around me throughout my life, and whenever I see characters who have the traits that define this, define me as a person, I feel relieved and seen, heard and valued. The movie doesn’t explicitly state that Cherry is autistic, but that didn’t stop me from relating to him.

We both despise loud noises, and although I don’t use noise canceling headphones in my day-to-day life, I wonder if my quality of life would be better if I did use them in most places; maybe I wouldn’t get overstimulated near as often as I do. We also have difficulty with communicating with the people around us, and often communicate better in different ways (for Cherry, it’s haikus; for me, it’s typing. I’ve noticed that I type better than I speak); and we both get extremely anxious when it comes to public speaking (which I never ever want to do again).

Representation is extremely important, especially in a world that does everything in its power to make you believe that you’re worthless and have no value. I know I’ve believed this about myself many times. But when I see people who are like me, and are respected and appreciated for who they are, it’s as if someone is trying to tell me that it’s possible for me, too, to be respected and appreciated for who I am.

The more I think about this movie the more I want to increase the score, but for now it shall remain like this for now. Will the score ever increase? Perhaps. Who knows.

Would I Recommend: Please. I beg of you. Watch.

Overall Rating: 8/10

[kokkuri3]

Heated argument

[nerice]

welcome 2 spring season,

part one: good shows, yay!

fire force s3; is it good? no. are we getting the benimaru backstory arc? also no. but it has haumea in it and that must suffice. i still think 2daken for joker was a miscast btw

gundam gqux. doesn't have the same draw as gwitch had and i don't fully vibe with the pkmn trainer design sense going on there, even if i enjoy the girls well enough, howEVER. they name-dropped [redacted for movie spoilers] so i am on the edge of my seat & if nothing else i will find vicarious enjoyment in this from charlotte's displaced braincell that's been lodged in my skull since the hathaway incident <3

kowloon generic romance is MY AOTS CONTENDER i need this to deliver it has everything i want. psychological mystery drama animated on the closest we can get to a 90s palette in the modern age. ofc this will stand and fall with how well it comes together but i have my fingers crossed!!!!!

loser ranger s2; unfortunately have to report the op/ed are not as good as in s1, everything else is just as wacky stupid and insane & i alrdy got to see suzukiri have a girliepop moment. aots <3

ninkoro has that underdog enjoyment factor. more compelling than the boring yurislop i tire of so quick despite having little going for it on the premise but the gags are solid, main girls dynamic is fun, i love a cold nd mean assassin, and it sure had its production values at the right spot when it mattered (thank u shaft)

witch watch. i was going to skip over this from the trailer HOWEVER THE OPENING IS SO FUCKING CUTE and i am beyond glad i gave it a try after all !!!! huge softie for childhood friend romances. having a bastard strength chara in it is just a bonus that will haunt me every episode without tapping into anything, if anime's usual treatment of this trope is anything to go by (please surprise me) also where's kitty girl i need 2 see her !!!

yaiba. this is how i learned the metantei conan mangaka wrote a dbz clone back in the day, and u know what? this adaptation fucks hard. this is an example of exactly what the likes of shaman king and ranma remakes wld have had to bring to the table to reel me in bc while i dont particularly care abt anything here, it is so fucking fun to watch, animation is insane it's like one piece fight scenes but also for every regular interaction. also it is simply so funny to see conan chara designs beat the shit out of each other lmfao

rock is a lady's modesty, solid yuri romp and i'm happy that the comedy hook seems to have the backstory to back it up. my biggest gripe is the cgi (motion capture or not) instrument sequences but i know damn well nobody other than kyoani is every gonna animate that shit by hand again. special shoutout also 2

(((pls note that the word she's using here is 女王様 u//w//u. sniped)))

part two, where i drop things very soon probably u_u

anne shirley, which is a weird case of a show doing everything right and pulling all the stops and i am enjoying my time with it however….. idk if it can keep my attention long term so if you see me drop it, know it's with no hard feelings and a 7/10 in my heart

apocalypse hotel, aka nier automata iyashikei. it is decent in every way but at the same time does not stand out enough for me to be deeply invested. we will see how the tanuki comedy goes

kijin gentousho, aka demon slayer but good? i jest but for a solid minute there i was like huh imagine a series where ur sister is a demon and there is any content btwn the main sibling pair lol. unfortunately enjoyment tanked the second i realized the opening movie is just tragic backstory set-up and does not fucking matter (just like in//// lol) i don't think i care abt this lone wolf revenge story sorry

lazarus. the high profile release of the season and as somewhat of a shinichiro watanabe sceptic (sorry bebop) this holds true for this one as well. if nothing else i enjoy watching the competently animated parkour but unless they keep this up every episode, i will not stick with this. esp bc none of the cast's design do it for me

miscellaneous other mentions

apothecary diaries s2 continues to be good AND lakan will be back. i love winning <3

was gna check out moonrise but bc it's a netflix production they dropped all 18 episodes at once and at 30mins apiece this is going straight to my PTW instead lmao

passing over wind breaker s2 bc my plate is too full alrdy and they didn't even show kotoha in the trailer. booo

finally (!!) watching yubisaki to renren. which i on-holded during rsi samsara bc it did made me wanna write too much lol but now the sign romance language has me by the brain stem & no matter how this shakes out it's 10/10 and aots for me thank u for ur time

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winter season wrap-up

hanashura (8/10) ok damn that final ep!!!!! rare W of an extended cast where i liked basically every single member but mostly the absolute brilliant seiyuu work in this paired with the visuals during recitations made this an absolute joy to watch + various shades of sibling drama esp!! what's brewing w hana + shura we only got crumbs of i need it IMMEDIATELY thank u. okitsura is my personal aots but this was hands down the best show that aired this season <3

okitsura (8/10) easiest AOTS ive ever seen. i wanna visit okinawa so bad now it was so fun to learn abt all the little culture things and i love uchinaaguchi pronunciations!! solid gags allround, the animation took a lot of shortcuts but at the same time was stupidly elaborate at the most random moments. this also had better romcom motion than aohako (lol) we love 2 see it loved every second of it nd kyan in particularly was concocted in a lab for me <3

chikyuu no undou ni tsuite (8/10) objectively closer to a 9 but it didn't quite worm my brain enough for that which feels criminal to say!!!! clear vision and flawless execution no notes this is a must watch for anyone who likes historical fiction/cyclical narratives. best op two seasons in a row too i love when they keep the song and just update the visuals :3.. i think this season just put me in a bad mood so i'm rating meanly lol

100kano (7/10) another season of the horny girlfriends show, it hasn't lost its charm but it's also victim to the highs and lows of how much u enjoy the individual girls esp as scenes become more crowded. hakari horny antics remain my raison d'etre and i have to give a special shoutout to the hair tentacle segment. been thinking abt it nonstop in ways i am not publicizing thanks w

ao no hako (5/10) ended up being way less than the sum of its parts in a rly frustrating way. making it a standard love triangle just felt so... dated. hina should have been aroace is my thesis thx, however one thing i did enjoy was having a sports focused show that did not spend entire episodes on every minutia of a match. more of that

sakamoto days (5/10) probably wld enjoy the manga more since most of the gags felt like they didn't gain anything by being animated. solely in this for shin+lu ngl lol we love a mind reader x brawler girlie dynamic for no reason in particular :3x

aquarion: myth of emotions (3/10) is it good? no. compels me though. this did have a banger soundtrack though

zenshuu (2/10) lol. lmao even. ive said my piece on this alrdy, free my girl mem she should have been evil. also fire whoever keeps greenlighting these dogshit mappa originals and give their salary to the poor basement animators