Another Tuesday night edition. I’ve reconciled myself with the idea that as long as I get these up once a week it’s still pretty much fine.

Some stuff to lead off with here. I had the idea of possibly allowing Patreon patrons and/or Ko-Fi donators to suggest an anime movie for me to watch once a month. I’d put which of these suggestions to go with to a twitter poll and would then be obliged to write a review of the film. (I’d probably do this by just…having the Ko-Fi donators put the name of the film in their donation, but it raises the question of how to do it for Patrons. Something to consider….) How do y’all feel about that? You should let me know in the comments or on Twitter, it’s just one idea of several I’ve been batting about recently.

On to the List!

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The Rolling Girls Livewatch for #anitwitwatches – Another 1-episoder this week. One of my favorites in the whole series. I know “ACTUALLY IT WAS ALIENS!” is a hugely controversial plot twist any time it comes up but I’m kind of a sucker for it and I always thought it was implemented really well here. Episode 10 is surprisingly thought-provoking, actually. It’s really quite interesting how almost everyone older than 25 or so in the show’s setting is so anti-violence. It implies what the Great Tokyo War must’ve been like without ever actually showing it beyond a few miniscule flashbacks near the front of the series. I think that’s a really impressive trick.

Revolutionary Girl Utena livewatch – I got to a measly three episodes since I last wrote a roundup. (Stuff came up, it’s a long story) They’ve been fascinating ones, though. The episode where Nanami gets cursed by a magic cowbell (really!) is apparently kind of infamous and deservedly so. The followup, which is a heartwrenching character study of Juri (one of my favorite members of the cast), is excellent. The third one (which I watched standalone the other day) is not really as interesting to me but does mark the first appearance of “pointers”, little overlaid fingers on-screen that point at various things. Ikuhara picked this up from a live action filmmaker whose name is escaping me at the moment, it’s the kind of thing that is certainly a fascinating technique but also on a much more surface level, just kinda funny.

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The God of High School Recap (S01E06): anima/force – Hey this episode was really good! GOH seems to be really picking up as it heads into its second half and I’m happy for that, an injection of good old fashioned Jojo-inspired campiness is exactly what this show needs. (And I do mean specifically Jojo-inspired, a lot of the villains introduced here seem to basically have stands.)

DECA-DENCE Recap (S01E06): Radiator – I seriously don’t know how this show keeps getting better.

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It’s been another busy week over here! Which is a bit surprising because late last week or thereabouts I was feeling genuinely pretty dismal over the state of both the anime fan community on the whole and specifically myself. I’m pretty sure I suffer from some kind of mood disorder! But enough about that, several things (and of course, my good friends) helped me pull through, and I wrote about some of them.

to pick up the pen and sing again: Another Late Night “Idolm@ster” Ramble – Sometimes you’re watching an idol anime at 3am on a Surface tablet and it just makes you wanna cry. This is a writeup about one of those times.

in defiance of the Sun: The Eternal Midnight of ZUTOMAYO – This is interesting in that it’s not really an anime article except in a very peripheral sense. Zutomayo are a Japanese rock band that I’ve recently gotten really into, and I started wondering why, because I haven’t been into any music this heavily in a very long time. I reach something of a conclusion in the article itself, but it’s an ongoing process. I have to be honest I was a little sad this one didn’t get more readers! Hopefully it has a long tail. Stream “Study Me”, by the way.

Other Thoughts N’ Such

I have officially reached the halfway point of Eureka Seven! I’m torn between really loving the relationship between Renton and Eureka (much more than I thought I would) as well as the show’s weirder elements and being kind of offput at how Holland and honestly much of the rest of the Gekkostate crew are just kind of assholes. Like I get why they’re that way, but there’s a shocking amount of “40 year old man lays out 15 year old kid because he’s frustrated toward / jealous of said kid” in this show and it’s pretty unflinching! Not for everybody, this one.

I’ve also been rewatching Kaguya-sama: Love Is War!‘s second season (the confusingly subtitled Love Is War?) with my girlfriend. It is perhaps the perfect show to watch with your significant other, I considered doing a Twenty Perfect Minutes writeup on episode three, which is a fantastic spin-cycle of sincere romantic overtures, melancholy at the (apparent) impending breakup of a friend group. I may still do said writeup, but my hands need a rest for the rest of the evening I think. (I’ve got a lot more writing with my name on it tomorrow =w=;;)

Finally, I started the manga Bad Girl Exorcist Reina the other day. I may do a more substantial writeup on this at some point in the future, but as of now it’s kind of a mixed bag. (The good points: girl punches J-horror ghosts into submission. The bad points: a genuinely surprising amount of casual….I’ll just say ‘isms and ‘phobias instead of listing them out.) They seem to be dropping off in more recent chapters but the scanlation is only about 25 in, so I’m hesitant to make any strong recommendations at the moment. I do leave you with this image when deciding if you’d like to pick it up or not.

That’s all for this week, friends! I hope you’re doing well and you’ve enjoyed some of my work this week. Leave a comment or hit me up on Twitter if you’ve got any questions or just want to say hi.

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