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Nothing on the Anime front for me.
I did get up to episode 6 of The Brothers Sun. Michelle Yeoh is a joy to watch.

During the Darts on this weekend, I was tough on myself and boxed up loads of anime that I'll probably never continue.
Inbetween, I have rewatched My Isekai Life. The slimes are great fun. My favourite is the one with the eye patch.
 
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest episode 16 Deadly fate.

MF Ghost 2nd Season episode 16 Off-road.

Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 episode 28 Hard bargains.

Tower of God Season 2 episode 17 Light.

TsumaSho episodes 5 Chewed out.

31 Days of Halloween 2024! Day XXVII: Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things, Dead of Night (Films)

Urusei Yatsura episodes 189-191
 
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 30

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Episode 16

Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 4

The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest Episode 4

You Are Ms. Servant Episode 4
 
After-School Hanako-Kun Part 2 episode 8 Hanako horror show. (Complete. Another short and sweet season before we get a full one next year.) 3/5

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Season 3 episode 27 Just politics.

Natsume’s Book of Friends Season 7 episode 80 Shop protector.

31 Days of Halloween 2024! Day XXVIII: Late Night with the Devil (Film)

Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum the Forever (Film) Like the third film, this wasn’t quite as strong as the preceding features, and just felt a bit aimless. 3/5

Urusei Yatsura episode 192
 
ARIFURETA: From Common Place to World's Strongest Season 3 Episode 3

Love Live! Superstar!! 3rd Season Episode 4

Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Episode 16

Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister Episode 5
 
Well I hadn't meant to, but my copy of The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter arrived today and I accidentally watched the whole series. Faithful to the light novels I'd read a couple of months ago, but it does skip the whole centre arc where Noir visits his big brother and gets into a whole lot of bother. Lots of panty shots and bouncing chests, a little action, but mostly building up the harem. Sadly, the Malaysian copy doesn't bother translating the on-screen text, so we miss quite a bit of context. Maybe one day CR will put out a decent/legit copy.
 
A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! episode 4 Doting.

Love Live! Superstar!! 3rd Season episode 4 Chasing dreams.

31 Days of Halloween 2024! Day XXIX: Alligator, Alligator II: The Mutation (Films)

Urusei Yatsura episodes 193-195, OVAs VI, XI, III, V
 
No Longer Allowed in Another World
A bit different to my usual relentlessly upbeat main character. In this case, I'm enjoying the mix of seriousness, comedy and fanservice.
Episodes 1-3

Plus Sized Elf
Crikey, it's been a while since I've seen anime boobs bouncing and jiggling. It's probably just the right length of episode and it stopped me from thinking about double suicide but not about chips.
Episode 1.

Looks like my quiet weekend will be lots of fun with these and Failure Frame.
 
My Instant Death Ability is so Overpowered
Episodes 1-3
I don't think I'm supposed to take this seriously. Isekai trifecta this week.
The 2 MCs banter is funny.

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple
Episodes 1-3
Interesting watching a Japanese version.
I can understand why they've renamed Inspector Japp. Hastings is too young, Hugh Fraser for me.
Anime episodes are a perfect length for a Poirot short story.
20 year old animation is like an old comfy pair of slippers.
 
Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World - Season 3 episode 55 Flies and flood.

Sengoku Youko 2nd Season episode 27 Someone who saves.

The Prince of Tennis: U-17 World Cup Semifinal episode 5 Coming together.

31 Days of Halloween 2024! Day XXX: Trick R’ Treat (Film)

Urusei Yatsura OVAs X, VIII, VII, IX

Urusei Yatsura Movie 6: Always My Darling (Film) This is probably the weakest of the UY films, and spends time on another new character instead of the wealth of supporting characters on offer, feeling again like an extended episode of the main series but one of the weaker ones. 2.5/5
 
Bleach (English) - Episode 1 - 3 (re-watch)

Though I'm yet to finish Bleach (I'm upto Episode 151), now I've started collecting the series on blu-ray I felt I should really watch them (watching a blu-ray, crazy I know).

The first three seasons of Bleach I'm very nostalgic for anyway so will be good to revisit, was the first long-running Shounen Jump series I ever watched actually.

I know re-visiting season four and five will be a slog though, really didn't enjoy those seasons.
 
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu: Episodes 1-6

"I do in fact have time to teach you how to operate a Colt" Edition

Good a night as any to make a start. As I suspected from the final episodes of Gō, Sotsu is going to be quite difficult to discuss without spoilers so I'll continue to make use of them for most of my comments, but I will say these new(er) seasons are very well constructed indeed. And intense, I definitely stand by my earlier comments regarding emotional impact. Not to diminish original flavour Higurashi and Kai, which still made me feel for the characters, but these seasons really know how to hit hard, perhaps due to showing scenes the audience wasn't privy to before. Oh, and Happy Halloween.

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Everything was not okay.

Some of the cuts in these new seasons are so damn good. The Keiichi arc from Gō and Rena arc from Sotsu, the way they have been re-worked from those in the original series and tied together so they make sense as one loop (where it's Rena who is experiencing Hinamizawa syndrome not Keiichi, he's not being paranoid and Rena really is out to get him because she's already succumbed and her murder of Rina has already taken place) was fantastically well done. Likewise the retake of the Mion/Shion arc, which might the first piece of media I've ever seen that has subverted expectations by unsubverting expectations. Yet everything still tied up and made sense. That's what I like to see.

I was initially uncertain about the development of previously antagonistic characters thwarting Satoko's plans due being so haunted by their past misdeeds in innumerable loops that they change their ways, but I think that's paid off and proved interesting now with Satoko's use of Teppei (hang on a sec... Events don't always play out the same in each loop, how did she manage to Biff Tannen the horse race? Maybe she had to try that one a few times) and I think Rina seemed more sympathetic this time as well, which made her and Rena's interactions more emotionally charged.

Further thoughts: Satoko's a lot more competent with a knife than Rika, I will say. You'd think Rika would have had more practice at getting it right first time by now. Though quite how Satoko managed to stick a fully concious Mion with a needle without her noticing I don't know, that's skills. I also would have thought that a toilet you can fit an entire body down would probably have had this glaring safety risk pointed out during the design stage. How warped am I for laughing at Mion stomping Rika down the toilet? That definitely felt more funny to me than horrible. And on the one hand, I feel like Satoko has been made a bit too sadistic now BUT at the same time I'm wondering if this could be the Lambdadelta origin story, since it seems witches are born from the negative part of the psyche and if that happens, perhaps she can find some peace again. Witches, as we know, do not obey time-lines.

Further Rampant Speculation: I suppose if I had stopped to consider it, it's obvious Hanyū was still around at the same time as "Eua" though we still don't know why she stopped being able to appear to Rika (and possibly even ceased to exist entirely). I had wondered previously about the possibility of Hanyū being the witch of the artist formerly known as Oyashiro-sama, but now it seems more likely that's what "Eua" is, and Hanyū is something else entirely. A counter-force to witches perhaps, a positive being that splits off from someone rather than a negative one? Could Hanyū be Oyashiro-sama's good side and "Eua" her bad side?

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DAN DA DAN episode 5 Lost and found.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V episode 5 Wonderland.

Negative Postive Angler episode 5 Expensive hobby.

Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- episode 29 Broken.

Trillion Game episode 6 Nothing to lose.

31 Days of Halloween 2024! Day XXXI: The Exorcist III (Film)

Urusei Yatsura Urusei Yatsura Movie 5: The Final Chapter (Film) Though a stronger finale than the film that would follow, it was the last half hour or so that made it memorable. 3.5/5

And with that, the original UY run is now (Complete. This made for an enduring and enjoyable franchise with a mostly solid run of episodes, OVAs and films despite some lesser films and stories here and there. I slightly preferred Oshii’s run as director, though the latter half still had some highlights. I’ll be watching the remake series next to kick off November.) 4/5, 3.5/5
 
365 Days to the Wedding Episode 5

Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V Episode 5

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Episode 55

Transformers One (Film)
 
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