Yeah, you never made one of these threads for October, I was wondering why. Did you just forget all month? You've gotta sharp yourself!

Wasteful Days of High School Girls is something I picked up on a whim and surprised me.

I think I added this one to my planning list after I saw a clip of the freaking Pocky scene. It looks like a lot of fun, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Manga

My manga reading has slowed down considerably lately. In the start of September I read a bit more of The World of Narue, but mid-September and onwards all I can really mention is that my mom and I have been reading Non Non Biyori together again, apparently taking a break from The Demon Girl Next Door. I've got some shake-ups in my daily schedule so I haven't really been taking the time to read manga for myself.

Animation with mom

My mom and I finished Neon Genesis Evangelion and we saw The End of Evangelion on October 13. We also finished Samurai Champloo and I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level season 2, the latter of which I hold was a step down from the first season.

We started watching the fourth and final season of The Boondocks, as well as the second season of the Ranma ½ reboot. The Boondocks season 4 has a bit of a different vibe than the previous three seasons, but it's also not nearly as bad as I'd been led to believe it would be; Ranma ½ season 2 is continuing, incidentally, basically right where I left off in the Norwegian translation of the manga, so it's a bit déjà vu, but I don't mind. It's fun to hear SungWon Cho as Mousse. The OP feels a bit tonally off for Ranma but I think I'm growing used to it anyways.

We're still continuing Ojamajo Doremi, Steins;Gate, City the Animation, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan and Squid Girl season 2. Not much to say about these.

We saw the short film bâan together but we weren't very impressed with it: it's a novelty insofar as the story was created by an anituber, but that novelty isn't really enough to carry it — I honestly don't even particularly like Gigguk.

We've also started watching Haunted Hotel together, which definitely has some "Seppolandic adult animation cringe" in it, but dammit it's still pretty fun. I'm particularly fond of Esther and Abaddon, they're very "kids rock".

Animation alone

I saw a bit more Tokyo Mew Mew and Futari wa Precure; I'm about midway through Futari wa Precure now, episode 26/49, and things definitely ramped up in the past few episodes (to avoid spoilers). Precure is a very good magical girl show, there's a reason why it's so enduringly popular, I recommend it.

I completed Urara Meirocho and ended up trying a few things for my main alone anime:

• I saw an episode of Aria the Natural for the first time in ages, but for as great as it is I still don't feel up to continuing it right now.
• I saw the first two episodes of Joshi Kausei but decided I didn't like it. The gimmick is that all the characters are mute, but that doesn't really carry it, it's just kinda weird.
• I saw the first episode of Endro, which has character designs by YuruYuri's mangaka Namori, but for some reason fantasy just doesn't really excite me that much.
• I tried continuing Madoka Magica, but didn't feel up to it because it's kinda heavy.

Eventually I decided that I was going to watch Land of the Lustrous as my alone anime; I saw the first episode when I was sick earlier this year, and it is genuinely a very special show. But trying four shows before landing on something I felt like watching I think points to a bit of a "full fridge" effect with this stuff. I've been taking my sweet time with stuff and have a bit of a backlog of torrents now.

I also recently finally got around to watching Avatar: The Last Airbender and have been pretty impressed with it so far. I'm five episodes in and have landed on watching the Norwegian dub specifically, something I haven't done for any show in a LONG while — mostly just because most of the things I like never get dubbed into Norwegian to begin with, and even the ones that do get dubbed don't tend to have very accessible/pirateable dubs. Which is a shame, but that's just how it is.

Blorptube

For Garg's nights we finished K-On! and have now moved on to Cardcaptor Sakura. Not much to say other than that both are bangers, though Cardcaptor also has some uncomfortable stuff, by which I mean it has the particular flavor of occasional libertarianism that we can call "CLAMPery".

Stalin is showing YuYu Hakusho, which I stayed up to catch a few episodes of and tried watching on my own, but I quickly lost interest in it. I've also been watching New Game one on one with @AernaLingus@hexbear.net, which has been a lot of fun.

For my own nights, I showed Albert Barillé's Once Upon a Time… the Americas, which was a lot better than expected. Like it's still old and racist at points, but for the most part it's a genuinely good educational cartoon, which was really pretty sympathetic to the struggles of Black and Native people.

I also showed the fanime shows Tokyo Crystal Mew and Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls, which frankly should have each other's places in terms of fame: NNSG even as a parody series wasn't particularly entertaining, while TCM kinda blew us away at points. The evolution in the animation quality is genuinely astonishing, but even in the beginning of the show it's genuinely impressive for the work of a couple ten-year-olds — I'm definitely going to include at least one reference to Tokyo Crystal Mew in my own fanime.

…Apropos "my own fanime", progress on that project is going… not as quickly as would be ideal, but still going. As of today I've finished about two-thirds of the intro and I predict I'll have the intro completely finished by the end of the week if I sharp myself. Once I'm done with that I'll make the outro and the eyecatch, then revise the script for the first episode based on AernaLingus' feedback — and possibly translate all the dialog into my conlang while I'm at it — and then I'll try making an audio-only version of that first episode, which I'll use when making the storyboards.

Aside from Barillé and fanime, I'm of course also still showing the usual My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Fireman Sam. We've finally started the penultimate season of MLP:FiM, season 8; and we've also started the penultimate series of classic Fireman Sam, series 3. We also finally got to My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), and the Equestria Girls films and specials Legend of Everfree, Tales of Canterlot High, Forgotten Friendship, and Rollercoaster of Friendship, so all in all we're definitely in the "sunset" phase of our MLP watch-through (no pun intended). Hence I've been drawing up some plans for what to show after MLP:FiM: I'm thinking Star vs the Forces of Evil and Uma Musume, among other things. Apparently Vaush likes SVTFOE, which is a fact that I really didn't need to know, but now I do and so I'm cursing you all with that knowledge, too.

I've also got some other cool animations planned for my Wednesday watch parties in the coming weeks. I'm especially looking forward to Your Name; I'll be showing its Esperanto fandub this Wednesday.