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Manga:
Same as the previous months, GTO and Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha though I have now reached beyond the point where both anime end. I've been enjoying both of these manga a lot, especially with how difficult it is to even find quality manga.
Anime:
I'm almost done with the original version of Space Battleship Yamato and I have to say that I prefer the remake. Why? Quality wise, both are very good, and the remake's changes to the story are small and overall improvements. On the other hand, you do not get to hear the fantastic OP and ED songs by the GOAT of the 1970s, Isao Sasaki, so often as in the original. Or the rest of the very 70s soundtrack. A+
I have finished You're Under Arrest's first TV season. It is a good episodic action-comedy, and what makes it shine is the supporting cast of characters that do give the sense that the protagonists encounter the same people a lot. Which makes sense, considering they patrol a neighbourhood where people live. Strike Man is gonna be living rent free in my head for good. There are few standout episodes, but also the average quality is high, and you will be entertained. B+
Sailor Moon S(hitpost) is so far my favourite season of the series, and they have done so by embracing the weirdness. Good stuff. A | Cardcaptor Sakura is turning into a comfort anime for me. It's got just the right vibes after a stressful day, and a main plot will probably eventually materialise, beyond the gathering of Clow Cards. Even if it doesn't, that's fine. A+
Once again, I have somehow managed to ignore most of seasonals, which is explicitly something I didn't want to do this time around. I have seen E1 of Mao and I thought it was pretty good. I was also interested in Liar Game and saw E1, but a friend of mine and fellow gambling anime enthusiast dislikes what he saw, so idk. Maybe I'll give it a chance.
Live Action:
Having played the surprisingly good Star Trek Voyager video game Across the Unknown, I've got the Star Trek itch again. So, I went and watched... The Orville. And it turns out that Family Guy Trek is by far the closest thing to the 90s era of Star Trek I have seen, and that includes all other post-2005 Trek series, even the homages like Lower Decks. Hell yeah. A+
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Tons of Spoilers for I'm in Love with the Villainess and Cosmic Princess Kaguya! Be Warned!
I'm in Love with the Villainess
i just watched I'm in love with the villainess anime and it's genuinely great, a mix of yuri, funny, and a bit of serious, mixed with an isekai-game world premise.
I enjoy that is similar to a webtoon I read before about a similar premise, where it's more politically serious but it's about a villainess too, but the reader (of a fictional manga instead) becomes the villainess and is hetero, but still fun to read!
Another thing about the villainess anime, aside from the sister dynamic between claire and manaria, + lene arousseau and her brother, I dunno what to feel about some office worker getting into a.. what I'd call an academy arc that is usually for pre-work right? I don't know, it just.. I understand that technically Rae became just like the others, but I dunno, I dunno.
Like, if I was transported to a game or something where I was supposed to be younger than who I was, I'd.. adjust, but still find it a bit... off-putting for me to pursue my yuri story, since I was technically older before, and could have a lot of stuff that I know that the game characters don't. Though, that doesn't apply, I guess, in a sense that it wouldn't change whether I was the exact age range for a game, if I was obsessed, I'd inherently be better and have more knowledge than everyone.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya
I just watched all of Cosmic Princess Kaguya, and I don't know what else to say about it other than it's great happy yuri but I'm more happy about it than Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) in terms of an ending, where I love that there's no memory wipe but instead a continuous but still time-travel aspect. I don't know what to feel about the twist and Yahiyo / Kaguya and Irohi dynamic.
I know it's a fluff yuri and that not everything needs to make sense for a great movie, but there was a lot of unresolved stuff that just.. feels like they should've mattered a lot more. I found Kaguya when I was wondering what yuri I should watch next, and the parent-child dynamic was interesting and funny to watch, but the way it transitioned into yuri was... definitely a bit... rushed? I dunno, I didn't feel like Kaguya developed into a partner that resonated with me. Maybe I glossed over it, I'm going to look again, but I just.. didn't feel it.
From what I remember, Kaguya became a streamer, then shot up to popularity on her own, which means, from the day she set out to win her own competition, she grew from her old childish self into someone who could take care of herself and Ihori, but I don't know, Ihori complains about Kaguya being a lazy bum, which is behaviour of a child, but.. maybe she is just disorganised and ditzy because of her personality, but yeah, I think.. it could've definitely be a bit more explored, pre-high rise apartment.
Also, there was almost no follow-up to the connection to Ihori's parenting and Ihori's backstory, related to the death of her father, and her mother's exhausted detachment (and typical overbearing), as well as her brother's whole thing with money and popular streamer stuff. The time-traveling aspect is confusing at first, but is somewhat romantic when you understand it. Kaguya waits 6000 years after she is sent back to the moon, and Ihori dedicates her future and 10 years to Kaguya to have her become truly alive and real with Ihori as well as with Yahiyo. Even though, yes I know, the time-travel stuff could have been this, or that, it should've been clearer, yes, it could've been this, I'm content with the execution.
Overall, fun movie, fun yuri, but if you think about it has some flaws that doesn't make it a 10/10 for me, nothing is, but it's 8/10. Good movie, good premise, good yuri, and it's exactly like what I wanted it to be, though the only wish is I could get more really. That's the main problem that doesn't make it a 9/10, at least, there needed to be more pre-high rise apartment Kaguya / Irohi dynamic, Irohi with friends and Kaguya dynamic, Irohi meeting her family dynamic, and post-Kaguya Irohi-made body where they get to live out their life, and it ends with them sleeping together, holding hands. But yeah, 8/10, great but not perfect.