It's cold, it's dark, work is every day. And yet there is time for anime.
Manga
Beyond continuing GTO at a glacial pace, as well as keeping up with Shibuya Near Family and Wasteful Days of High School Girls + Gekkan-Shoujo Nozaki Kun whenever updates release, I have picked up Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. It's short, it's fun. I'm pretty early into the story to comment more.
Anime
I have finished Monogatari: Second Season, and the Kaiki arc is just fantastic. It's another high in a series that I have both underestimated and feel that it does live to its questionable reputation. Onto the next series, which is... uh... Hanamonogatari?
One Outs is a gambling sports anime that has been recommended to me for a while, and it is decent so far. The MC is pretty un-Kaiji like, and more your average extremely confident gambling genius.
I've watched Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's somewhat style over substance, but it is refreshing in a sea of formulatic slop. I remember the ending having a bit of controversy surrounding it. I thought it was tragic. The post-credit scene did cheapen that though.
Cardcaptor Sakura keeps being fun and cozy.
I have also resumed Sailor Moon, from Season S. It's still good old Sailor Moon.
Millennium Actress was a pretty good movie, aided by the soundtrack of the excellent Susumu Hirasawa. I felt like I missed half of the appeal of the movie by not being that familiar with what was most likely 1930s to early 1970s Japanese cinema.
Predictably, the discourse around Jujutsu Kaisen's transgender character, Kirara, is insufferable. It doesn't help that some translations have misgendered her. The transphobes are so bizarre, they want her to be a "femboy" instead of a trans woman, because I guess its easier for them to admit they're attracted to a feminine man than a trans woman? T
Oh yeah, I've been seeing 'recommended' vids in YT about the chud perspective, of course, I did my best to get it the fuck away from my screen but still, the whole debate's not even one, Kirara's trans implicitly. Though I've seen (from
, of course..) some people say Kirara was actually cis but was 'boyish' back when Panda met Kirara. It's.. pretty much expected though, yeah.. Popularity comes with negatives I suppose..