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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.

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[-] Better_with_Gender@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

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I watched and completed Neon Genesis Evangelion and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion. (I'm writing up this just after finishing The End of Evangelion, so just immediate thoughts now and possibly a more fleshed out analysis later).

Possible spoilersFrom my perspective, it went 'oh Misato is using her rare sports car as a van, thats funny' to 'this show is getting creepy with subtle de-humanisation of characters to each other but also to themselves (also a lot of extremely scary screams).

Then the ending episodes that start to explain whats going on to a very creepy second to last episode before both ep26 and The End of Evangelion film.

The ep26 episode makes sense but was confusing till I thought about it, its both Shinji understanding whats happened to him plus what's been taught and learnt from the experiences at NERV and piloting Eva; while also giving the viewer being given a chance to reflect and understand themselves what the show was saying and teaching.

Blorp

Stalin showed Berserk (2016) which rounded off the Berserk animated shows. Personally it was fine with a decent artstyle but mixed animation. I am curious to see how the story continues in the Manga.

Following that was Madoka Magica. A magical girl series that does not want to be a magical girl series. It was confusing but good though I would need to re-watch to understand whats properly going on. Good soundtrack as well.

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