Another month gone, another month older, another month at work.
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I've been reading Great Teacher Onizuka and so far it's almost exactly 1:1 like the anime... which means, the horribly aged ableism is about to hit, beyond all the other problematic stuff. Beyond that, it remains as fun as I remember. It's neat. B+
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Gundam SEED has managed to make it across its entire 50 episode run without making me too annoyed or in amused disbelief over the nonsense happening on the screen. Really, it's... alright. I wish Kira and Lacus were less wooden characters. Athrun and Cagalli were significantly more interesting and 500x more likeable than Ange and Tusk in the trainwreck of a show named Cross Ange, who used them as a ~~self-plagiarism~~ source of inspiration B-
SEED Destiny too... has been pretty alright so far. However, I do like Shinn's character. That man has definitely every reason to be as angry as he is... but I am fairly confident the show won't do too much with that. Speaking of Cagalli, wow, that is a massive downgrade in character writing compared to S1. Supposedly, there's IRL drama that caused that! C+
CITY is Nichijou 2, not much else to say about it. It doesn't quite live up to the predecessor, and with the shorter show run it probably never will, but it is undeniably still a good show. A
Dragon Ball Z - almost done with the Freeza fight. That was... pretty long. But consistently good, even though some previously impactful stuff, like people dying, is not much of a big deal now. A
Ranma 1/2 is also consistently entertaining. Not much else to say about it at this point. A
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I knew Gravity Falls was always a highly regarded show... but I did not expect it to be this good. There's an iconic cast of characters, compelling storytelling... it's just very very competent at what it sets out to do. A+
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A challenging Super Robot Wars game in the year of our Lord 2025? One that has, so far, good writing? One that is available in a language I speak? Y is shockingly good. I've been on a binge this weekend. A+
Animation alone or with mom
I finished I'm In Love With The Villainess and ended up landing on Urara Meirocho as my morning anime. I'll probably finish Urara on Wednesday, two days from now.
I saw individual episodes of Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost (E2), Makeine (E2), Tokyo Mew Mew (E15), Futari wa Precure (E23), and Angelic Layer (E12).
With my mom I'm still watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level season 2, Ojamajo Doremi, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, Squid Girl season 2, Samurai Champloo, and The Boondocks. We have just one episode of Champloo left.
We haven't made any progress on Steins;Gate, but have made some progress on CITY the ANIMATION, which my mom is evidently growing fond of, and why shouldn't she? It's a fun 'un.
We also saw the first episode of Long Story Short by BoJack Horseman's creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Long Story Short was... fine, I guess...? Mom liked it more than I did. Aside from just the vibe of Seppolandic "adult animation" usually being kinda cringe aside from The Boondocks, I think a big part of the problem with Long Story Short for me is that Bob-Waksberg made the deliberate choice not to mention the Zionist entity directly in the show, so it's just a huge fucking elephant in the room in this show about a deeply religious, decently-well-off Jewish family in Seppoland.
If my mom wants to keep watching Long Story Short on her own then that's her problem, but I'm not joining her insofar as Bob-Waksberg gives me liberal Zionist vibes.
Animation on Blorptube
Garg is still showing K-ON! on Blorptube; we've finished season 1 and now we're making our way through season 2 still on Monday evenings. Our dear @AernaLingus@hexbear.net ended up missing out on a few weeks so I rewatched most of those episodes with her alone as well, which was a lot of fun.
On Blorptube I also ended up seeing two of the three episodes of Gunsmith Cats, and I saw the short film compilation Manie Manie: Neo Tokyo, and I rewatched the lovely Kase-san and Morning Glories.
I myself held watch parties for the "fanime" shows SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl and My Jungle Book, Your Year!, which were both a blast. Fanime is seriously underrated. Now I've returned to Albert BarillΓ© with Once Upon a Time... The Americas, which @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net has subtitled for us, and I must say I was impressed with the first five episodes' depictions of Native history, up to and including depicting Cahokia.
I also saw the short film Paradise and I think part of an episode of Love, Death and Robots on Blorptube. And, as I've been doing for many months now, I've been organizing watch parties for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. We've wrapped up season 5 and are now making our way through season 6.
Edit: Oh, and how could I forget Fireman Sam, it's a classic! I've been using it as "dead air material" for months. I hope editing this comment doesn't re-ping Aer and Cuban though...
Manga
I finished volume 2 of The World of Narue and started reading volume 3. I finished volume 4 of the Norwegian translation of Ranma Β½ and started reading volume 5. On my phone I'm reading the Esperanto translation of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch: Aqua, which was made by the same folks who did the Esperanto translation of Sailor Moon.
My mom and I are still reading The Demon Girl Next Door volume 6, though we aren't making much progress. In fact did we read it at all in the past month? I'm not sure. I'm lousy at making note of when I read things with her compared to by myself, though even by myself I often forget to note when I read things.