Less deep than it sounds; I'm actually just fangirling about a current-run anime.

Because if you aren't already, you should totally be watching Phantom in the Twilight. I know these Chinese co-productions have a lousy track record, but this show is a gift, with paranormal good boys (including a machine-gun-wielding jiangshi, what's not to love), ( Read more... )

Well, my anime season is, for the moment, shot. First the new MST season hit, then Nyaa died (which I can work around but yes, it's a disruption for me), so I just kind of decided to let it slide. If I go back and catch up on anything, it'll be Uchouten Kazoku ( Read more... )

Two more shows:

KADO: The Right Answer: Now this is interesting.  A first contact government procedural, yum!  Okay, I have kind of weird taste.  But lately I find it refreshing when a show is about mature adults (give or take a somewhat annoying genki-girl physicist).  Our hero is a bureaucrat, a negotiator for the Japanese government, and he ends ( Read more... )

So, I'm sampling first eps of the Spring anime season more thoroughly than I have for a while.  My thoughts on the first three shows I've checked out:

Alice and Zouroku: This one was on my radar going in, and the double-length opener was middling-fair.  ESPers vs. evil government scientists is an old plot but one I like.  Mixing it with "cute girls ( Read more... )

So, the Winter anime season is ending and Spring is starting.

The only Winter show I ended up watching was Scum's Wish, and I'm glad I saw it.  Its strength is its emotional rawness, which seemed very pointed at the beginning, but toward the end it got kind of vague, and in places unexpectedly simplistic?  Or at least it seemed that way to me (as I ( Read more... )

Scanlation came out for the latest Akatsuki no Yona chapter, 134.5. It's a fluffy bit of New Years filler in which nothing much happens, and yet...

( Should it bother me to be jossed? )

Computer drama continues. Finally got the call that the desktop was ready, made the drive and picked it up, brought it home --- and it won't start up. Call the shop again in the morning... (This place has always been good before, honest.) [ETA: forgot to note, my portable hard drive where I actually keep my stuff was pronounced healthy, so ( Read more... )

Desktop computer is still in the shop. Waiting for the shop to call is stressful ( Read more... )

I'm not doing the Snowflake challenge, but I've seen this prompt from it come up in my circle:

In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.For me, the obvious answer is Rurouni Kenshin (TV anime, through the end of the ( Read more... )

Previously had the news we're getting another season of Natsume Yuujinchou...

Now it also turns out we're also getting another season of The Eccentric Family.

Oh, yeah, and Rakugo Shinjuu, too, I forgot about that one.

There are a couple more it might take to make my life entirely complete, but it's shaping up to be a promising year.

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