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Beyond continuing GTO at a glacial pace, as well as keeping up with Shibuya Near Family and Wasteful Days of High School Girls + Gekkan-Shoujo Nozaki Kun whenever updates release, I have picked up Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. It's short, it's fun. I'm pretty early into the story to comment more.
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I have finished Monogatari: Second Season, and the Kaiki arc is just fantastic. It's another high in a series that I have both underestimated and feel that it does live to its questionable reputation. Onto the next series, which is... uh... Hanamonogatari?
One Outs is a gambling sports anime that has been recommended to me for a while, and it is decent so far. The MC is pretty un-Kaiji like, and more your average extremely confident gambling genius.
I've watched Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's somewhat style over substance, but it is refreshing in a sea of formulatic slop. I remember the ending having a bit of controversy surrounding it. I thought it was tragic. The post-credit scene did cheapen that though.
Cardcaptor Sakura keeps being fun and cozy.
I have also resumed Sailor Moon, from Season S. It's still good old Sailor Moon.
Millennium Actress was a pretty good movie, aided by the soundtrack of the excellent Susumu Hirasawa. I felt like I missed half of the appeal of the movie by not being that familiar with what was most likely 1930s to early 1970s Japanese cinema.
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Finished Kaguya-Sama: Love is War and the spinoff We Want to Talk About Kaguya-Sama, which is about two unhinged members of the mass media club, one of whom is a Kaguya fangirl while the other draws fan manga shipping Kaguya and Shirogane. They're both pretty solid, obviously the main series is better. I'm honestly surprised how negative the online reaction to the last arc is when it's more or less fine? Really disappointed they're skipping like 80 chapters for the anime adaptation, Ishigami and Miko were robbed.
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Finally finished Log Horizon S2 by powering through 14 episodes in a single day at 2x speed. Deleted S3 without watching it. Absolute trash. I don't know if there's even a single positive thing I could say about it in retrospect. Taking a break from my backlog to watch some seasonals.
Golden Kamuy Final Season continues to be peak, the Sapporo Beer Factory arc slapped. The constantly shifting allegiances and all these different people trying to use Asirpa to their own ends results in so many characters being fleshed out. And sure, plenty of them are shallow, but they're all quirky weirdos.
Oshi No Ko S3 is kinda meh so far. Aqua's relationship drama is as uninteresting as it is creepy, and Ruby does not have the sauce when it comes to the 5d chess mindgames. Hopefully it improves.
Frieren S2 has been almost entirely the more boring generic fantasy journey stuff, which is fine I guess, but I really long for the first 3 episodes again. The Southern Hero was kinda neat, I guess, but definitely feels like an episodic adventure that will never come up again.
the end of the Kaguya manga was fine, I think the reaction was negative since most of the series was excellent. And yeah they're skipping some of the best parts for the adaptation! They should've just stopped at the movie