The year has flown by. With the 40 h work week, you’re speedrunning getting old!

Manga

I’m still only reading Great Teacher Onizuka and Shibuya Near Family - both of which are good.

Anime

Gundam SEED Destiny was a mess, and feels like a waste of time for what is 100 episodes of Gundam. And yet, there’s still the movie to go through. Fun. D+

Eureka Seven is a show I’ve started recently, and is quite competently made. Not much is original, it feels like, with the show’s themes (so far) being kinda obvious - a coming of age story. But I don’t dislike it, and studio Bones is pretty reliably good. B

Dragon Ball Z - The Frieza saga ended - 200-ish more episodes to go. But DBZ is reliably good, even if slow. A

Vision of Escaflowne is good, even if imo somewhat harmed by the comparisons to Evangelion. I liked it A-

Wasteful Days of High School Girls is something I picked up on a whim and surprised me. Another show from the Azumanga / Nichijou genre, it’s a fun one. I haven’t had out-loud laughs at an anime in a while, but maybe it speaks of me I enjoy the kind of silly nonsense this show is about. A

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You can only make the same jokes so many times before you have to either end the series or start taking the world and plot more seriously.

    I suppose so, but there are exceptions to this rule, too.