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Sentenced To Be A Hero 1
Very well made and 100% not my sort of thing. Will be popular though!

Journal With Witch 1
Very well made and 100% my sort of thing. Direction (from a first timer) was particularly strong, reminded me of Hosoda and Yamada in places. Excited to see where this goes!
 
Golden Kamuy: Final Season episode 50 Crime scene.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes 2nd Season episode 14 Sticking point.

Wash it all Away episode 1 Simple and clean.

Cinderella Boy episodes 1-12
 
Sunday

One Piece (Japanese) - Episode 4

Gintama (Japanese) - Episode 4

Pokemon Horizons (English) - Episode 4

Baki (Japanese) - Episode 2

Monday

One Piece (Japanese) - Episode 5

Gintama (Japanese) - Episode 5

Pokemon Horizons (English) - Episode 5

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Season 2) (Japanese) - Episode 14
 
That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime
S3 P2

It's very nice to be enjoying a long running series. Not much in the way of fighting in this section, more politics and world building, I guess.

And I watched all of Solo Leveling S2 again. Peak OP.
 
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Ep 1 of Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter...that first episode certainly went at the speed of light. Looking at the opening credits, it looks like it will be a full adaption, I'm just hoping it doesn't get butchered as it's one of my fave BL novel/manga.
 
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Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers episode 1 Substance.

Cinderella Boy episode 13 (Complete. Despite being a story from Lupin the 3rd creator Monkey Punch, this was unfortunately nothing too special despite a decent body-changing premise.) 3/5

Coppelion episodes 1-13 (Complete. This series sadly fell shorter than I anticipated.) 2.5/5
 
Dan Da Dan ep22

Kinta capturing the spirit of 'that guy' to an alarming extent.

Reporter Blues ep1

A Japan/Italy co-production from TMS, this seems like a charming little series in the mould of Lupin or Cat's Eye, following a young woman from the sticks who heads to Paris in the 1920s to take a job working for a newspaper. Details of its production are not forthcoming, but it certainly has all the hallmarks of the 80s TMS house-style (note that ya boi Akio Sugino appears top billed at the end), with wonderful watercolour backgrounds of the sort you'd expect from a Dezaki postcard memory, and some excellent attention to period detail. Protagonist Toni's conspiciously modern looking suit is a little jarring, but maybe they thought hip 90s kids wouldn't watch a show about a girl in a flapper dress. Cowabummer.

If I was being critical, I do think some of the characterisation is a bit 'yeah, whatever'. Maybe they're just in a hurry to get things set up so they can crack on with the (admittedly great) car chase, but a lot of key plot points seem to be introduced with weirdly little dramatic conflict. Everyone seems to be completely fine with Toni walking straight into a reporting job for what is presumably a major Paris paper, with no apparent references or sexist pushback, for example. Also she drives like a champion racer and is a gifted jazz musician, because of course she is? Am I asking too much of this children's cartoon to make some kind of concession to back story in the first episode? No, it's the children who are wrong.

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Lupin III - The Mystery of Mamo
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Depending on what day you ask me, I think Mamo might still be the best Lupin film ever made. It's definitely of its time, but I don't think anything else quite captures the same mad energy of the manga quite like Mamo did.
 
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Ep 1 of Nobel Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power
Ep 1 of A Gentle Nobel's Vacation Recommendation
Ep 1 of The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer
Ep 1 of Sentenced to Be a Hero
 
Megalobox 2: Nomad episodes 10-13
The original Megalobox was a solid sports series that was a neat throwback to a bygone era even if the story was pretty deriviative. Nomad however far exceeds the original and tells a much deeper, more emotionally engaging story on escapism and finding the way back home. It's also not afraid to fully utilize its cyberpunk setting and explore more political themes that only seem more relevant as time goes on. Nomad retains much of the production style present in the original season like its dated 00s visuals, retro character designs and fantastic boxing scenes. One particlar improvement though is the soundtrack. The Latin American influence is a wonderful addition to Mabanua's already great soundtrack that works well with the themes of immigration in the series. Given time to simmer this could well be one of my favourite series of the 20s so far.

Hummingbird and the Traveler
An expanded version of the children's story featured in Megalobox 2: Nomad presented in a storybook style and narrated by Joe's VA Yoshimasa Hosoya.

Dark Gathering episodes 14-16
  1. Vlad Love
  2. Megalobox 2: Nomad
  3. Hummingbird and the Traveler
Progress:
3/35
 
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