Well, this is embarrassing...
So the blogspot project I started bogged down pretty quickly, and I come back here and realize I haven't made a post in weeks. Ugh. I'm having a pretty bad bout of artist/writer's block right now; have been stuck halfway through the fic I'm ostensibly working on for a ridiculously long time while wringing out dribs and drabs of a headcanon summary I want to do just for myself, and with drawing it's even worse...
I'm still obsessing quixotically over Psychic Force, tho, and I'm still enjoying that new CrunchyRoll subscription and in general trying to watch more of the anime I had filed away to get to later. For example...
Finally watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and it was indeed awesome (just a minor point tangential to the overall awesomeness, but after PF it was nice to have someone redeem the good name of time powers, it really was).
I thought it would be nice to actually watch some currently-running things. Way back in my anime club days might be last time I had to deal with the creative frustration of being kept in suspense for a week at a time (at least with anime), I was curious to have that again, and I have found several current shows that I like. On Crunchyroll I'm all caught up on Folktales from Japan and Kuroko's Basketball, and am working to catch up on Poyo Poyo and Kids on the Slope; in fansubs I'm following Hyouka, and Acchi Kocchi if the subbers haven't dropped it (the last ep seems like it was some time ago, but I'm probably just being impatient; it's a fluffy cute series that's kind of like if you took Azumanga Daioh, made it co-ed and centered it around a sweetly awkward kind-of romance, then cranked the "cartoonishly zany" dial up several notches).
On the other hand, I DLed and am currently 3/4ths of the way through Earl and Fairy, and with only three eps to go I feel like I might as well finish the damn thing, but I really don't recommend it. The premise could have been good, but the male lead is apparently supposed to be attractive in a "dangerous" kind of way; if you have a well-tuned set of "creepy" buttons, he goes through the series dancing on them. Not pleasant. (He pulled the "I'll kill myself if you leave me" on the heroine in like the second effing episode! Seriously, she might be better off with the carnivorous mer-horse; he's brutish but at least he's honest, and his track record for respecting her is arguably a hair less bad. There might be a law in Japan about love triangles that involve Hikaru Midorikawa and Koyasu Takehito, though...)
I've been thinking I should go back to Natsume Yuujinchou; I'll deserve it after that BS is over...
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I'm still obsessing quixotically over Psychic Force, tho, and I'm still enjoying that new CrunchyRoll subscription and in general trying to watch more of the anime I had filed away to get to later. For example...
Finally watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and it was indeed awesome (just a minor point tangential to the overall awesomeness, but after PF it was nice to have someone redeem the good name of time powers, it really was).
I thought it would be nice to actually watch some currently-running things. Way back in my anime club days might be last time I had to deal with the creative frustration of being kept in suspense for a week at a time (at least with anime), I was curious to have that again, and I have found several current shows that I like. On Crunchyroll I'm all caught up on Folktales from Japan and Kuroko's Basketball, and am working to catch up on Poyo Poyo and Kids on the Slope; in fansubs I'm following Hyouka, and Acchi Kocchi if the subbers haven't dropped it (the last ep seems like it was some time ago, but I'm probably just being impatient; it's a fluffy cute series that's kind of like if you took Azumanga Daioh, made it co-ed and centered it around a sweetly awkward kind-of romance, then cranked the "cartoonishly zany" dial up several notches).
On the other hand, I DLed and am currently 3/4ths of the way through Earl and Fairy, and with only three eps to go I feel like I might as well finish the damn thing, but I really don't recommend it. The premise could have been good, but the male lead is apparently supposed to be attractive in a "dangerous" kind of way; if you have a well-tuned set of "creepy" buttons, he goes through the series dancing on them. Not pleasant. (He pulled the "I'll kill myself if you leave me" on the heroine in like the second effing episode! Seriously, she might be better off with the carnivorous mer-horse; he's brutish but at least he's honest, and his track record for respecting her is arguably a hair less bad. There might be a law in Japan about love triangles that involve Hikaru Midorikawa and Koyasu Takehito, though...)
I've been thinking I should go back to Natsume Yuujinchou; I'll deserve it after that BS is over...
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