Odd Taxi

As with any mystery series, do watch it till the end for the payoff / reveal.

Here are my thoughts on some series I have watched recently.

Kaiju no. 8

This is the third anime of the season that I've completed (the other two being Konosuba and Dungeon Meshi). I'm surprised that I did not drop it before the end, given that it is quite a brainless battle shonen. I guess it helped that I cheated by skipping over the boring and filler scenes, and by turning my brain off for the rest of them.

I love the soundtracks though, especially the insert song Never Break Down which played during the climax.

Good enough to get a 5 / 10 from me.

Solo Leveling

I was planning to ignore this series based on its synopsis and its genres + tags. I decided to give it a go now because of its high rating, and because friends assured me its not battle shonen.

Big mistake, because it's way worse than any generic battle shonen. This series screams wish fulfillment.

I can see how people who are not doing well in their lives can easily project themself onto the protagonist. Like, you are suffering because you drew the short end of the stick and life, and others look down on you. Then you got your big break in life, and yadda yadda yadda.

What takes the cake was

It was so frustrating to watch that even skipping scenes and turning my brain off doesn't help, and eventually I dropped it at episode 5.

I'm giving it a 2 / 10. Its only saving grace is that it serves to elevate the top-tier series that I have watched earlier: Odd Taxi, Violet Evergarden, Heavenly Delusion, and 86.

Mob Psycho 100 (season 1, 2 and OVA)

I decided to try it out since I've heard good things about it. Once I started watching it, some of its art style and humor seemed familiar to me. When I checked, sure enough, the author is also the one who wrote One Punch Man.

It feels like a mix of One Punch Man and Saiki K, combining Saiki Kusuo's psychic powers and desire to be low-key with the flashy battles plus humor of One Punch Man. It's good, but I don't find it as funny as either of them though.

I'm still planning to watch season 3.

On average, it's getting a score of 7.5 / 10 from me - for now.

Same.

In my case, Gundam: Witch from Mercury was the one that single-handedly brought me back into anime after 4?+ years of not watching.

Can't violate human rights if they are sub-human

You can introduce interoperability. I am on X. I can't go to Bluesky. Let's say that Elon Musk decides to block me because I said something he didn't like. He has blocked me before for a couple of weeks. Now, I have more than a million followers on X. I cannot leave without losing them. If I go to Bluesky, I have 10 followers. Interoperability would mean that if I go to another platform, to Bluesky, when I post something on Bluesky, then my 1 million followers on X can hear it.

Sounds like Fediverse's ActivityPub

Sounds like the UAC from Doom (2016).

Java is looking more and more cool.

Too bad companies are still stuck on Java 8😔

Since everyone else before me is too mature:

They made it for your mom

Nathaniel Chapman, a designer who has worked at both Blizzard and Obsidian, also added: "The slow grind on something you do not believe in is 10x as soul crushing as crunching for something you care about."

I felt that

It's probably a feature, not a bug.

See: Dark Pattern (to be specific, Roach Motel)

The conspiracy theory that there's a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.

They can simply count which products are being sold more / run out of stock more quickly.

(But I get that they probably bought into the hype of AI)