Manga
Nothing for now. Finding manga worth to read is difficult, more so than Anime. The tropes are even more tired, and the classics more obscure. I still need to finish GTO and Inari Konkon, koi Iroha.
Anime
I'm 99 % done with the original Space Battleship Yamato, and my opinion from the last month stands. The remake is a net improvement, by being a faithful adaptation and only adding neat stuff.
I have reached Season 2 of You're Under Arrest!, after watching the OVA specials (like 90 % horny bullshit), the beach episode OVA (surprisingly good by virtue of them sticking to the title premise. Directing traffic at the beach. It was an unaired tv episode, rather than made-for-video) and the movie. It's still fun.
Starship Operators is an early 2000s sci-fi show, basically a mix of Dai-Guard, Nadesico and Space Battleship Yamato. It's pretty neat, but nothing special.
Super GALS! shows off gyaru culture as it was in its golden age (and delinquent adjacent), and before it became a design trope and character archetype for modern mediocre romcoms. It's fun, and stylish.
I'm still continuing going through Sailor Moon S, Cardcaptor Sakura and Dragon Ball Z. They're still very good, I don't have much else to say though. Mr. Satan sure is a character.
Own Blorps
Star vs. The Forces of Evil has been a pretty big hit. It admittedly took a while for me to get back into the groove of it, since I'm a very different person now than when I first watched it, and its occasional "random XD" humor is less appealing to me now. But now I feel like I'm rediscovering the love I had for something I fell in love with many years ago, and this time I get to share that joy with friends.
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby has been less of a hit. I've been personally enjoying Uma Musume, but it being a pretty typical sports anime with some uncomfortable baggage in gambling, animal abuse, and noncery, it hasn't resonated with everybody. Which isn't to say that the blorpers hate it per se, it's more that opinions are mixed but not strong. I'm increasingly thinking of showing Keijo!!!!!!!! after finishing my showing of Uma Musume season 1, and then Little Witch Academia after that, rather than directly continuing to Uma Musume season 2. I guess Uma Musume is a bit like Barillé's Once Upon a Time… that way, in that it's maybe best with breaks between the seasons.
PONIES: The Anthology has been fun, thankfully nowhere near as problematic as I worried feature-length shitpost compilations from the early 2010s might be, and format-wise not as boring as I worried feature-length shitpost compilations from the early 2010s might be. Above all else PONIES: The Anthology films are fun little time capsules of contemporary brony and Internet culture.
The Owl House has remained fun as well, as has my dead air material of Joshua Jones and Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors.
I finished showing the DPRK furry war/political drama cartoon Squirrel & Hedgehog, or Squedge as I like to call it. Good show, but the plot basically stopped progressing after the first few episodes, which I guess is the risk you run into when your release schedule is "new episode twice a year to once every two years". I and the other blorpers were sort of shocked that Officer Yeou only shows up in the last two episodes when she's the most memed-on character with the most fanart. Supposedly more Squedge episodes are in the works this decade, so hopefully they'll release soon enough.
After Squirrel & Hedgehog I showed three fanime: My Demon Girlfriend, Yay! Cat Evan's Future, and the first half of Tokyo Magic Star. The former I'd go so far as to call my second favorite fanime I've seen this year; it's very well-animated and is an enjoyable little show overall. I don't mind the Kevin MacLeod stock music but others reacted to it. Cat Evan is my least favorite fanime I've seen this year, for no other reason than that it's so short that it leaves no impression. Tokyo Magic Star is more middle of the road. It's a very early 2010s fanime, albeit with more edge and less charm than the likes of My Jungle Book, Your Year. Unfortunately, some of the dialog in Tokyo Magic Star was completely inaudible due to YouTube's auto-removal of a copyrighted song. Nonetheless, given the influence of Tokyo Magic Star on the fanime scene, I look forward to continuing it.
Work on my own fanime, Blazoner Narazen or BlaNara, has been going swimmingly. I finished prescoring episode 1 (by the end of last month I'd prescored ~70% of that episode); I also finished storyboarding the whole episode, And Also I subtitled the whole episode, and made an audio description track for it complete with ducking. Have you ever seen a fanime with subtitles and AD? Accessible fanime is practically unheard of, but here at STUDIO☆3SIS, accessibility is our top priority.
Anyways, now I just need to make the final animation for BlaNara episode 1. I have about 45 days to get that done. I've unfortunately already squandered a few days, but I'm sure that if I pick up the pace now I can get at least most of the final animation done by the deadline of July 15. At this point I should also think about finalizing the script for episode 2, which I'd like to premiere on November 4.
Next Wednesday I'll be showing the Norwegian Sign Language LGBT drama feature film Lars (2022), two more episodes of the NorSL video magazine Tegnsatt (1989), the fanime Satan's Bitch, and another episode of Tokyo Magic Star.
Others' Blorps
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, shown by Clara, continues to be good, albeit a bit heavy on the movie parodies. I continue to tune into Clara's showings of Hazbin Hotel each week despite not particularly liking it. It has its moments, sometimes very good moments in fact, but I think I mostly tune into Hazbin Hotel because I want to stay in the chat a bit after PASWG, and then I just end up chatting so long that I end up watching the whole show anyways. Garg is nearing the end of Magic Knight Rayearth II, and that too is something I continue to watch for the chat opportunities even though I haven't cared for the show that much.
I saw Empress Chung and Black Magic M-66, shown by Cuban, and the last 20 minutes of Vampire Hunter D, shown by Cud, but none of them left much of an impression on me. Which is especially a shame for Empress Chung since it is a movie with some very special circumstances as a DPRK-ROK coproduction that was lost for like 20 years. I do sort of suspect it would've been better to watch Empress Chung with my full attention.
I saw episode 4 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica when Stalin was showing it, but I wasn't going to stay up super late for Madoka Magica, especially when Madoka Magica is a show that demands your full attention, and when I tried watching it by myself last time, I ended up peacing out after the first three episodes. I'm sure I will eventually change my mind on Madoka and watch the show to the end, but not right now.
For some live action things: I saw Stalin's showing of the first episode of Squid Game, and I don't regret it because it's important to make yourself uncomfortable sometimes, but I don't really like that sort of realistic violence and mass death. It was super late anyways, so I didn't stay for the rest of the show.
I can say a similar thing about the 2025 film Hen, shown by Camden: a very good movie that's worth watching even if it makes you sad and uncomfortable. I pointed out a parallel between the chick sexing scene at the start, and the mass suffocation of a group of refugees later in the film. Based on that alone you can tell that Hen is the sort of movie where you have to be mindful of your own needs as you watch it.