Part depiction of a traditional occupation, part food show. It remains an informative, charming & relaxing little gem.

Apparently the manga is finished so I may have to sniff that one out.

My new completely random rewatch is Kiyo in Kyoto from only back in 2021/2, although it feels much older for some reason.

It's essentially a bunch of limited animation short about a talented upcoming Maiko and her spacey best friend who fails to become one & ends up as the house's cook.

Finished up my rewatch of Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth.

Honestly it didn't hold up to my memories.

I recalled the series as a Parisian travelogue, but the lead Yune barely leaves the store she acts as a live-in maid for, and when she does it's usually to a weeb girl's mansion for minor antics

Fighting words

Kamiina Botan's author Hey openly asked for an adaptation that takes distinct stylistic swings according to the lead artists every week, and episode #02 is undoubtedly Fugo's domain: solo key animation with no clean-up, unfiltered display of his body articulation to fuel the character acting

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

Guilty Crown (2011)

Of course the Dawntrail ex trail final completion mount would be a biblical accurate angel

I wrote about the Best Director nominees for the Anime Awards. It's a pretty fantastic array of talent: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...

RIP NADIIIIIIIINE!

It's robbing the series of any emotion & makes you wonder why WIT even bothered if they had so little interest in the concept.

Other than replicating aesthetic choices from the Ajiado adaptation, there's very little passion on display outside of animating spells. I can go anywhere for that.

Oh man, putting aside the slop, I'm quickly losing faith in this new season of Bookworm.

The adaptation is moving so quick as to feel like a selection of videogame cutscenes with all the connective tissue missing.

J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.

다 그리려니깐 색 잡기가 너무 어렵네
#ガルクラ

Cue a later story arc where she becomes the most successful in an otherwise extremely serious forest guerrilla war campaign, by going into every village and chilling the chiefs & money lenders, and making each stop part of an extended pub crawl.

Man, Malazan had some great soldier characters. Helian had severe arachnophobia, & because she was on an island with tyre-sized ones hanging from buildings that could kill people and livestock, so spent the entire series in a state of inebriation.

Now we're talking! It's about time Valkyria Chronicles had an answer to the Malazan series' Sergeant Helian

James is not kidding. Someone on Twitter put together a clip compilation and Kenshiro's actor sounds like someone doing a parody of bad old anime dubs. I am SPEECHLESS. I am DUMBFOUNDED.

He can't even do the fight noises right!

Also no one can pronounce "Hokuto."

There's even a girl with a smoking habit that the show kind of fetishizes.

Honestly, the worst thing about it is knowing Japan absurd response to recreational drugs means we'll never see the cast going through the full gamete of elevated experiences.

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk is a cgdct anime, only with the pastime activity being about getting blasted, which apparently fuels an invisible lesbian innuendo gauge.

There's no way the show will ever commit to anything, but I did find myself enjoying it as a iyashikei.

Even putting that aside, just look at the fucking proportions of this thing!

Pure nightmare fuel

A couple of days ago someone mentioned that Tiny Chef cancellation video, only for me to then watch Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble, which is about an eldrich abomination with an eerily similar voice.

Hmm, A Hundred Scenes of Awajima looks pretty. Guess I'll blind watch the first e-

*The Class S comet crashes into my house*

FMA 03 is one of those deviations that you won’t see anymore because of how vitriolic (especially Shonen/Jump) fanbases are to creative liberty. I love Brotherhood but I absolutely consider its production and success to be the start of the current reality

OK, the second episode of The Ramparts of Ice managed to sell me on the series far more than the opener.

Now that the shoujo romance clichés have settled down into more of a group ensemble about kids working stuff out, I can definitely see more of Agasawa's fingerprints in the writing.

Q: It sounds like you love Turn A Gundam after all. TOMINO: I do. Even now, it’s a work I love so much that I can talk about it nonstop. I’ll tell you an interesting story. I do this several times a year. When I hear it’s a Full Moon, I open the window and look up at the Moon and shout “Dianna-sama!” (laughs). My wife will join me once a year for the occasion, which makes me very happy. Yes, I really do love Turn A Gundam.

I like it when AMVs are built on a joke that everyone can appreciate. I don’t even know what series this is, and I’m still cracking up.

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My wife when she informs me that thermonuclear war was being threatened today: