In the stripped club straight up
rumpansching it

and by ‘it’ haha well
let’s just say. My ekelhaft

April 6: WITCH HAT ATELIER

That’s all

• Azumanga Daioh: gag comedy about high school, the dub is pretty good and the humor translates well (except for Blue Three/Bruce Lee, don’t know how the dub did that)
• Non non biyori: slice-of-life about elementary schoolers in a small town, lots of nature exploring and small adventures
• Ika Musume: squid girl comes to the surface to take revenge on the humans who destroyed her home, but she gets caught up in human affairs instead

I just started Sanda this week and I still have to catch up, but it’s already my sleeper hit of the year. What science are they doing at Science Saru to make Dandadan and this back to back?

I’m just disappointed in the AMZN subtitles and no fansubbers picked this up, so now I’m learning how to use Aegisub. For myself, initially, because it’s a bit late to retime the full season at this point.

Though if I figure out how to do signs and karaoke, it could still be worth doing a batch release for… next Christmas? (If no better groups pick it up before then. I’m just a single amateur with a grudge against badly timed subs.)

I wonder how the police even got involved. The article says the NCMEC reported him? But was he streaming the game? Did somebody on Steam or Discord see his game activity and ratted on him to the NCMEC?

Anyway, I don’t see why the National Council for Missing and Exploited Children should concern themselves with drawings of fictional characters. Nor the police, nor the law.

Reminds me of this cutie.

Sharks - Sweetness & Lightning

My only complaint about Frieren is the exam arc. Up till that point, it’s a tightly knit group of adventurers traveling with a very vague goal, it’s about their journey and their internal relationships. But the exam arc has an actual goal and introduces a lot of recurring characters, which really changes the vibe of the world. I liked it enough in the end, but I would’ve preferred more smaller arcs. On the other hand, season 2 could put the exam arc in a whole new light and make me appreciate all those characters much more when we see them again.

I was just thinking, can I honestly think of a perfect anime? But yes, Steins;Gate, without a doubt. It is so perfect that the second season, which is an almost-perfect anime and fits neatly in the events of the first, can only bring it down in perfection.

I recently rewatched it and there’s a lot of foreshadowing and plot points that hit harder when you see them coming.

Curling her arms around me, dragging me into the dark deep, holding me tight as I struggle to get free :3

And that’s ignoring the Uma Musume manga releasing earlier and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark enjoying modest popularity. And of course the simple fact that people can still be quite fond of cartoon horses who no longer get any new episodes.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 9 Episode 26: 2019-10-12

Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 1: 2018-04-02

There was an 18 month overlap where you could watch two sets of animated cartoon horses.

For the English dub, yes. I even found Italian, French, German, Spanish and Russian. But none of the pirates set their VPN to Netherlands to get the Dutch dub.

And then you have me, who’s so hardcore I was forced to sign up for Netflix so I could watch the Dutch dub of Tonari no Totoro . If I was any more hardcore, I’d figure out how to rip it from there, because it’s the only home release it ever got, as far as I can tell. Can’t even find a second-hand VHS (wouldn’t be acceptable quality anyway).

But that whole situation means I’m a Netflix subscriber who “prefers dubs” for their stats, even though I rarely watch a dub.

Wow, how strange to hear Gotou Yuuko use her Mikuru voice again. I recently heard her in a minor role in HanaShura and she used this old lady voice that immediately made me feel ancient, but now I realize she can do whatever she wants with her voice and it wasn’t a sign of her (or my) age. I’m still young! 2006 wasn’t 19 years ago!

I’m impressed by the soundtrack and sound design. For most things they had a great manga to copy from, but the sounds are all brand new. It fits the animation and style very well though.

It’s trash and I love it. I hope we’ll get some yuri love triangle plot, I spotted what looked like a Yuu daki in Suzu’s bed? She’s also clearly tsundere for Yuu.

The cast reminds me a bit of

but this episode didn’t immediately show the quality of jokes and pacing that made Hitori such a memorable show (that we didn’t forget about, right? It’s Hitori Bocchi, she’s the girl who sits in the corner seat. We were friends!)

What the hell happened to Edward’s face?

AI upscaling is the newest vector of digital rot. We already had forced compression, watermarks, people making screenshots instead of saving the picture and now there’s AI upscaling guessing at details that never existed.

Here’s the original picture.

Edit: Found a better resolution that wasn’t decAIed

Definitely watching City and Dandadan. And Yofukashi no Uta S2 snuck up on me, have to watch that too.

As for originals/newcomers, I put Bad Girl on my PTW ages ago and it’s finally time! Just some silly yuri shenanigans, I don’t expect too much of it.

I tried to find the hidden microtonal harmony, but no, it seems to be properly off key. Let’s hope they change it after 6 episodes and it turns out to be the vocals for a completely different song. (Now I got myself hyped for a 4d move that’s probably not even real.)

No longer cold Miku

I really like any Miku in the snow, the color of her hair matches the cold nicely. Though I also think it matches the beach and racing, so maybe I just like Miku…