Tired.
Manga
Same as usual, I have been very slowly continuing GTO, Inari Konkon, and keeping up with Shibuya Near Family. Something I like about GTO is how Vice Principal Uchiyamada is frequently the butt of the joke, the subject of Onizuka's accidental torment; and the mangaka goes out of the way to show that he is absolutely a terrible person with very few redeeming features.
Anime
I am almost done with The Twelve Kingdoms, and yet it feels nowhere near done. It's good.
Sailor Moon S is a step forward compared to the previous seasons, and that is largely because of the more eccentric villains. It's good.
Cardcaptor Sakura is a cozy, and so far low stakes show. It is something I did not know I wanted to watch. Very good.
Space Battleship Yamato holds up very well to this day, and the very 70s soundtrack makes it better. It was extremely ambitious back in 1974, and it is significantly grander in scape than like 95% of slop airing these days.
You're Under Arrest is episodic (copaganda) fun with an ensemble cast, and basically a very slightly worse Patlabor with no mecha. The show's biggest strength lie in the world created. The authors are good at not only creating memorable side characters, but also not forgetting about them.
I have started Overman King Gainer today. The OP is iconic from the moment you witness (or hear) it. The show has a good start, but I am waiting for Tomino to explain the setting more.
Live Action
I have started a project of a Martin Scorsese filmography dive. Who's That Knocking at My Door was mid. Boxcar Bertha wasn't that good of a movie, but the topic was unusual (it's an adaptation of a novel by an anarchist, and union struggles in 1930s America are the core of the story). Mean Streets was fun. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore was a major surprise, and an excellent movie with a perhaps somewhat lacking ending. Taxi Driver deserves its reputation. It is a very interesting movie.
Well said. I hadn't thought of it that way before.
Basically. The new animation is pretty much just at the very beginning and end, though, as I understand it, and the ending diverges a bit from the original series.
I guess it's difficult to put it into words, but I want to say that it felt "lazy" to have the dog talk. Which I guess makes sense when they're making an episodic TV cartoon, but like…… if Courage could only communicate through regular dog noises, the way the writing would have to compensate in order to convey Courage's thoughts, feelings, motivations and overall character, that would've been interesting. It would've been like the Tom & Jerry of horror, right? That's something I'd like to see.
♫ Heaven, please sing for me a song of liiiife ♫ has been going through my head regularly since Clara started showing PASWG. It's yet another song in the growing pile I'd like to write new lyrics for and karaoke. PASWG is also often said to be better dubbed than subbed. My first time watching it was basically just me trying to get into something a classmate of mine liked, but it didn't work out.
Another thing that stood out to me about PASWG is how much of Kill La Kill's "DNA" clearly comes from it. I vaguely feel like I've also heard something about how Cutie Honey from the '70s is sort of the progenitor of "magical girls but with sex and/or nudity", but I don't know much of anything about that, so it would be interesting to see if I could recognize some of PASWG's DNA there.