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ACNH was pretty much the backbone of the pandemic for a lot of people, myself included
But the behavior was… Raymond and others had a discord trade market, people would fight over design schemes, they’d kick out any villager they deemed ugly and basically made the equivalent of an animal crossing gated community. One time I saw two instagram users beefing over a volleyball on a beach. The internet pretty much took this game and extreme databased it. It’s convenient but it’s also a spreadsheet simulator more than this super chill relaxing game that was wanted by the devs. But people took to it like a second personality and job even worse than usual. The direction of animal crossing from “living with villagers” to “godmodding villagers like the sims” was an interesting pivot and going from wild world and city folk to new horizon might as well be two separate dstinct game series like harvest moon and story of seasons. Villagers in this game never get mad at you, they’re just feeling bad! Jocks will always talk about their muscles. Special episodes don’t exist. Swimming wasn’t even the game until 2.0 but hey, happy home DLC! Pocket camp has had more attention than the main console. Why does the mobile game get more updates and furniture. There’s an absurd amount of stuff I’d want in a main game just sitting there in a goddamn fortune cookie. Note: I wrote this before they announced they were shutting down pocket camp for a paid version.
NH as gotten extreme neglected middle child syndrome because it’s not as much as new leaf (welcome amiibo still has better features like the holiday camp imo) and it’s straight up never getting another update. I like a town more than a desert island. I hate drip feed model updates, just put stuff in the base game and then have a super cool DLC, why am I paying for like 50% of the game and then waiting for the other 50% plus a $30 DLC lmaoooooo Anyways despite myself saying I wouldn’t be a min max grinder I went right back to it, it’s my nature of playing and it’s developed as a habit of the pandemic.
The cozy games tend to mostly just becoming micromanaging sort of things, 0 stakes, most I’ve felt is annoyance at tools breaking and that’s like, okay, just shake more trees, only consequence is wasps. Super annoying to have to either run or save all the time Gulliver showed up to my island pretty early and I’m considering basically putting pipes on my island for fast travel I thought those would’ve been gone with my save data but I guess collab stuff stays? I’m aiming for a more uh… natural camper sort of thing. Cept I’m dumping Mario pipes for fast travel. It’s pretty stupid.
I still remember my sibling showing up and breaking every rock on my island for supplies. So I visited the campsite since it’s required and you aren’t going to believe who my first camper is Stu and Raymond are now neighbors I'm not the best at identifying redd's paintings so i'm unsure if I'll get scammed. I have the full 10 island roster now! Still only 2 stars though.

Sailor moon is one of my top influential things of all time so I'm breaking my image rule just this once
Damn, i didn’t even realize this came out The way I haven’t watched the OG 200 episode anime for years and the only thing I’ve seen recently was Crystal stuff Watching the trajectory of crystal within those few months and now it basically just looks like a very shiny version of the 90s art style or like Precure Where have I heard this dub Usagi before because I’ve definitely heard it in not sailor moon and very recently Oh shit it’s Hinata

THEY DIDNT RECREATE SAILOR STARS OPENING with MAKENAI! ASHITA E SAILOR YELL!! ZETTAI! TSUKAMAERU! SAILOR STAR! 0/10 its just moonlight densetsu again When’s the last time moon pride even played like was it just season 1 Now they’re recreating the opening scenes from various openings of the 90s show You know for a project that was supposed to not be exactly the same they kind of made it look nearly identical
I’ve seen that haircut on every single MapleStory character thief ever on the white haired one Usagi i don’t feel so good Why they doing the Naruto run Putting a funny little hand on his face She had a face where she said “DNI. Do not ask me how it went.” Meanwhile chibi USA was like “bye losers im leaving the plot” Haruka was definitely like top 1 intros to girls who were not traditionally feminine for me and thinking now on it I am like “yeah that explains a lot about me”

It’s sailor iron mouse, oh she’s competent now I forgot She shooting lasers and shit No there will not be a scene where she begs for mercy from a phone booth while the funeral dirge plays, stop that



Do these feel less like movies and more just supercuts of the hypothetical episodes this would get in the run time if it was an actual season just glued together. Yeah pretty much.

Can you imagine being asked to dub chibi chibi where it’s like “ya wanna voice this thing” and all she says is “chibi chibi” Oh yeah i forgot chibiusa brainwashed Usagi’s mom into thinking they had another kid and then chibi chibi also does it She no longer says just Chibi Chibi I like how Usagi’s kid has pink hair and she was supposed to have like silver or pink hair idk

The 90s canon was bizarre for what it was in comparison to the manga plot at the time but now it’s finally accurate Why’d she knock Usagi out with the pot Usagi keeps waking up and I’m starting to think she might be trapped in a time loop There’s a lot more uh goofy animated scenes like that one scene with the frame in season 2 where I was like “huh?” Tv tropes called that a BLAM but like who uses tv tropes these days. The girls are fighting They said “we’re not dubbing the song” and you know, good for them

Side note (What’s up with Mamoru anyways) :

Now that he’s dead I’m gonna go poke the relationship of sailor moon that has been a contentious fandom point. Takeuchi herself decided originally that Mamoru was 17-18 on an art book and then aged him down to 16 at the start but that did not make it to the 90s anime. Very confusing. It’s kind of more or less I think the intention (manga) was “he’s super smart and competent (and an orphan) so he went to college early despite only being so and so age” but it did not translate well to anywhere else and for good reason. Why did they make it like this inexplainable kudzu mess for ages with this guy, it’s borderline weird to think about from a lens of like years later instead of like the semi borderline wish fulfillment fairy tale romantic fantasy reincarnation drama that it was like portrayed as, the miracle romance that the show sings about. But you know. Yeah. It’s aged noticeably these days akin to spoiled milk. She married the Yuyu hakusho and Hunter X hunter writer (yoshihiro togashi) but like he fumbled it so many times so IRL she’s the girlboss and he’s the cringe fail guy and apparently that is like… consistent? With her writing men? Like Usagi is clearly the ultimate girl goddess of cosmic destiny fulfilling the mandate of good and evil as dictated by the laws of the universe and she ascends with the silver crystal power and in comparison mamoru is some guy. Idk. The energy of “Takeuchi changed her mind but it still made it into the development process anyways” can be found throughout most of early sailor moon like how Ami was supposed to be a cyborg and all the girls were supposed to die (made it onto season 1) and how the development process of the anime to manga wasn’t 1 to 1 like how it is these days which is why OG sailor moon has so many filler episodes anyways. I mean it could be worse honestly, Yes Precure 5 was right there and I'm pretty sure they doubled down on that one...

BACK TO THE PLOT:
What’s the point of this whole sailor vs sailor thing anyways. “Nuh uh, we didn’t do it” like yeah it’s obvious How much of this plot could be solved if they talked instead of just assuming things Sailor guardians? Yeah they’re named after everything in the solar system
No sailor earth ever Not Naru Not an OC. Nuh uh.
I forgot the birds were sailors The sailor crystal means that you’re a sailor guardian but you can just steal the crystals Dang that’s crazy
Is this like 1 to 1 manga dialogue Drama CD vibes are coming back
Usagi straight up has psychic and teleportation magic now Galaxia doesn’t even have her image song She didn’t even have “IM THE GOLDEN QUEEN” Why would she have that though Idk She’s like Frieza but for women to me
Sailor moon I don’t feel so good Hey get up What is the sailor moon time travel logic anyways There’s only 1 timeline in sailor moon no multiverse or alt timeline stuff so the time travel is all the same pretty sure thats wrong and it fluctuates between past future and present
You ever think about how Chibi USA is like 912 years old or some absurd number If you question it all you get “wait it’s kinda bizzare Usagi became the ultimate ruler of the entire galaxy” but that is not the point There’s a tiny Pluto here There’s a lot happening. I’m watching sailor moon fight a cat and her cats just died Nvm they didnt The power of Usagi transcended beyond time and space and the plot too Are there alternate timelines? Well, yeah, there’s the chibi chibi and non chibi chibi timeline That means there might be MORE chibiusas in the world
The Warrior of Destruction A Sailor V OVA would be super cool I think Like no more retreads Bring her to the world Galaxia is blowing up the planet and shit Go girl Chaos. Evil. Kill chaos.

Sailor Moon Cosmos 2!! Ahhh, I’ve been hit! JK lmao.
MAKENAI ASHITA E SAILOR YELL!! ZETTAI! TSUKAMAERU! SAILOR STAR! YEEEAGHHHHHH

That’s what I wanted baby That’s what I wanted the whole time Why are they in the desert of water
All of her friends keep dying What are they like More like what were they like Ohhh the river Lethe like in Greece Hey Myosotis mention That’s the forget me not flower
Symbolism!
I think sailor moon works on dynamic timeline rules since you know there’s clearly an effect in the future with the past but clearly everything has to work out because Neo queen serenity has to exist for chibiusa to be born
Think about the future trunks timelines This means that somewhere out there there is sailor moon xenoverse That’s the another story RPG games Nuh uh Yuh huh
Will sailor moon create a world where fighting doesn’t exist She’s bad because… she is. No shes good actually Oh no they are dead
Yep, 1 to 1 with the manga
Her name is heavy metal… “They’re dead but not really” is a thing that would make this feel flatter but tbh in nearly every manga arc the sailor guardians lose and almost die anyways so this does not bother me
Sorry was that an X like twitter X Starting to hear the word “sailor” too much and it’s not registering as a word anymore
So do people who don’t have sailor crystals just not get to reincarnate
Did mamoru get the evil drip bracelet too Goro akechi? I know who tuxedo mask’s VA is now Has he always been him and I just never noticed but the minute he started being sinister I was like “hey I recognize that voice”
I like how their stock attacks look evil now 😈 and they’re putting in Galactica now That is not a surprise that is a whole scythe blast
Does mamoru get a stock attack No. why did he do all that This feels slightly different from what her story was in the manga or whatever Idk It’s been years I do not remember her suffering like that “Why does it have to be sailor moon” What is the title of the show
she think she’s palpatine
Darkness Light Darkness Light Balance? Wrong light
chibi chibi speaking full sentences now Even Galaxia turned around like “why is the child talking like that” Galaxia: wow the moon is truly beautiful Dies
Me nodding my head: power of friendship together strong Sailor moon the most powerful ever
I forgot about cosmos Okay so time travel can do whatever No no, it’s about the power of hope and love and like being naive and strong and not complacent , because Usagi the best and not like a battle hardened warrior who gave up
The cat just talked in front of the parents and no one’s asking a single question because the credits are rolling now
Pacing is… nonexistent, it’s 1 to 1 with the manga If you like the manga, good. If you liked characterization and filler from the 90s, well, go watch that instead but come back for the dream and cosmos arc unless you really liked watching the final arc of stars for some reason but like it completely falls apart in the final part. Personally I just like sailor moon minus the parts I disliked so it was alright for me. AUGH. Post credits relationship jumpscare.
Thoughts on crystal as a whole:

The first season’s really rough but it gets better later on but not having proper pacing whatsoever for later arcs kills it, but I guess having it spread out as multiple episodes would also not help if they were just gonna be 1 to 1 with the manga scenes. I’m glad there’s finally a manga adapted version of this show and like even with my gripes there’s a thank you letter from the author penned at the very end of it all and like how am I supposed to hate that.
Sometimes I think about that Fanmade sailor moon show where they used random cels from the show and sailor moon gained the silence glaive. What a random thing to remember. I wanna go find that again.

I have like an entire backlog and instead I just rewatched JJK in the dub Sukuna has a voice that is borderline tweaking at any given time and it’s absolutely nutty
They’re making itadori into a sacrificial lamb Dub itadori oomf Nobara cool! Country kid besties!
Nah I’d win. Is this one thing that got me tripping… This is all the footage that people ever use in King of Curses, Jogoat. Quite frankly if I was Junpei I would not let talk to a dude who did that Being a sorcerer sucks but having to work for a living wage also sucks Mood Facing life or death situations do not make you an adult He’s a whole teenager Mahito’s a whole jerk and he’s like 3 years old at best Just because he looks human does not mean he’s human Oh yeah they still think Itadori’s dead
ED1 really is just jujutsu swag The Japanese depiction of the school bullying system in anime that then leads to the victims in the show lashing out and then proceeding to have nothing actually done about it in their IRL cases is outright bizzare because when said kids die as a result of it then the bullies clam up and say they didn’t have anything to do with it. How vile. And it’s a constant repeated plot point in shows too for years, you think someone would go “huh, maybe we should stop having it be common enough to be a popular plot.” Not like the States version of bullying is any better because teachers usually just end up going “both parties are at fault we have zero tolerance here”. Complete bullshit. Junpei out here having philosophical conversations with a guy who was planning to kill him from the start
Jujutsu Jumping! That image of “life is meaningless and we have no value” and Junpei’s on the miserable side and Yuuji’s on the swag side with the sunglasses He was really about to kill his teacher before Yuuji came out of nowhere overtime as in he gets his own powers increased if he does more time So cool! It was a trap the whole time We got him How are you supposed to save someone who doesnt want to be saved whatsoever It was really mean of them to put him in the opening like he’d live
JJK really went from the get go “hey things are bad but don’t worry theyre gonna get way worse” Murder is bad Them both just laughing at him like “lol, lmaoooo” Tbat’s the JJK magic baby! Kill! Nanami and this bakery girl, he just wants a fulfilling kind of job or something like the reason for living
JJK would've benefited with filler that works like the way naruto doe if it was an entirely different show where they're like ghost busters or something.
JJK rules are so funny like what do you mean explaining it makes it work better I still have no clue what a black flash actually is outside of it being the coolest thing possible like “we concentrated this energy so hard you get lightning” sick Cuz your battle is my battle Why they hitting the Mario Luigi combos How are you supposed to deal with a power that is just canonically locking in My favorite part of watching JJK and knowing all the memes as the forefront thing is that megumi doesn’t really have the opportunity to ever summon mahoraga because he keeps getting stopped so as far as the viewers know Nobara and Todou are seriously putting in a ton of work and then it gets accentuated in later parts where they’re still getting extreme meme stocks like the boogie woogie My man canonically imagines an idol girl as his like stand at one point how do you deal with that too in terms of standing out as a character I thought that episode title said “Jututsu Kaisen” and I was like “no wayyy” but it was actually Jujutsu Koishen. Akechi Goro Megumi real ITS NOT RIGHT OR WRONG It really doesn’t help that while Nobara hit the black flash megumi was taking a snooze Brother fell asleep He had his whole domain expansion moment and talked about his sister and then went “honk shooo” So since Sukuna’s JP VA is Archer (Junichi Sawabe, also Erasherhead from MHA) does this mean it’s another case of “ideals blah blah”

JJK 0
Yuta I like him It’s always neat seeing like character prototypes become their own characters in their own right This movie has extreme budget for it also Rika kinda crazy strong It’s kinda like a long extended episode Was this really supposed to be like the main cast of Maki and Panda and Toge? With his whole rice ball gimmick? I wonder if that would’ve worked. This is like glimpsing into an alternate world.
Now that I’ve watched ghost hunter Mikami the fact that this segment is about ghost real estate makes me think “would mikami be able to sweep JJK… she might have had some trouble.”
Oh no his throat medicine is gone… It’s Geto the racist. Is there a significant reason for all these huge invasions happening during holidays or is it just the significance of the date itself
They have teleportation runes in this world Stop staring at me with them big old eyes Ohhh wait is panda a stuffed panda I wish they had translations for the text going across the screen like that should be a bit obvious eh?
Yo Yuta is locked in I’m starting to understand why he isn’t the protagonist because he’s him Gojo did not need to do all of that You know, the mark of a good movie is when you put it on in the BG and then you get so engaged you go to sit down and fully watch it because you’re invested HE HIT THE BLACK FLASH Misa has a nice design but her thing feels like super underutilized
JJK could’ve used some filler with other schools but you know the plot is clearly plotting
What is Todo doing His best Two hospital kids and he can’t even get married and she’s gonna be a ghost forever The power of love Maybe Idk Why is love a death ray laser beam That’s love baby!!
The school’s budget is GONE they’re gonna need to rebuild all of that Oh woah Geto got his arm cut off like Toni Geto and Gojo is like Doomed romance and brotherness or something What ever happened to that brown haired girl anyways Ohhh that was Shoko Okay
So he was enjoying food in Africa during Shibuya I wouldn’t blame him I blocked out all my memories of when I visited Africa when I was 13 but the food was pretty good

Naruto filler is perfect for mindlessly feeling your soul being drained out of you while job hunting and stuff Naruto’s perspective for part 1 is that “being a ninja sucks because you become a tool” but then it contradicts this right before filler hell by being like “Sasuke leaving the village marks him as a traitor”. It’s a world that is fueled by war. Like Metal Gear. Does this make Kurama REX and like the council Shadow Moses? Idk. I haven’t watched MGS related content in years. I'm still watching filler as if any of this is relevant.
They kinda just go with “Naruto has to do some missions to get Sasuke” but like, if they were so concerned about contradictions to canon they couldn’t have made up some episodes focusing on other characters without naruto or something, because I feel like a lot of these episodes would do better with a lack of naruto. Main character syndrome is kicking in again where I go “man this story would be way cooler if that guy wasn’t here” and that guy in question is the titular guy.
The effect of “whee yay adventures fun” and then I think too hard and it’s like “these are children and they have barely any kind of adult support system that isn’t made up of adults that were also children that fought and other adults have tried to kill them and the world as a whole is reliant on training children as tools to solve their problems” and it is an incredibly common trope. Children fighting children for the fate of the world or children fighting adults that were used by the system as children again, is a common trope. Especially for you know, children or teenage centric media. The system itself is corrupted but the status quo isn’t going to be changed is a trope that is common, especially when you get characters who say that theyre going to change it become things that they’ll end up swept up in like the military or police. It’s like what happened with MHA before I dropped it where even when all might and all for one were gone the power vacuum immediately brought in a new number one hero and crimes still continued going upwards (note: I didn’t finish MHA but I know the LOV immediately got brought back to the front alongside AFO). Apparently burrito or something still has the child ninja soldiers so clearly my plot prediction of “Naruto abolishes the ninja child soldier training regime program” is not happening. Naruto and Bleach sort of have the same thing going on that Organization 13 does with like a group of dark hooded mysterious blokes KH2 came after dummy
Filler I think is good in moderation, but 3 seasons of straight filler is insane Filler is good for when you don’t need to pay attention and do like chores and stuff
I just watched an episode where Sakura basically sinisterly mentally attacked these two imposters and I wish she held this energy within the story proper None of these lands are canon The latest arc I’m in feels like a scooby doo scenario, so I guess that makes Naruto Shaggy and Neji Fred Naruto was in the land of birds and he saw a ghost The guy paying them was the bad guy Just like Scooby Naruto how are you a guy with a fox demon inside you but also afraid of ghosts In the new credits Naruto is dressed up like a dog (everyone dressed up like dogs) Sasuke was not there so I did not have to see that Characterization does not exist for these episodes because they need something to do That one theme where the little whistle is playing is like the definition of “nothing is going on.” I’m saying Naruto is about ramen
The ramen guy is fighting a ninja for cooking Naruto is using his rasengan to cook ramen Ain’t no way Naruto has the shadow clone jutsu and can make 100 of himself why even ask that question you saw him do that I feel like the writers just drew straws out for what characters got what filler arc story wise Prediction time Isaribi is the one who’s actually the demon but being framed I see, orochimaru was behind the kidnappings Is that a horse? Yo… imagine if naruto had like cars. That would be weird. they have radios and stuff and demon creatures of magic powers but a car is where you draw the line yeah
Naruto got so mad at his clone eating his ramen he nearly had the fox destroy the town How did naruto even know about the jutsu to begin with, isn't he like 12 jiraya was so dissapointed by naruto messing with his manuscript that stopped a war with such a large cast of ninjas normally there's no time in the story proper to talk about them since the manga is usually on the main character which is a problem i had with sailor moon's manga adaption that goes straight as possible and makes it so that if you want to know anything about a character if it's not in the chapters it doesn't show up and the 90s anime is non canon so i guess filler is good for making it so that these characters actually get to exist at all instead of being side characters that people go "they had potential but they didn't get to show up" We'll see you again naruto nuh uh, you're a filler character and the best you might get is a 3 second cameo The dog got arrested
What about movies. WHAT ABOUT MOVIES. There’s only 3 movies for Naruto before shippuden so as a treat I will watch them Like a carrot on a stick to finish up 2 seasons of straight filler Will I finish it before summer ends? Absolutely not. at least its fun filler I still gotta get through pokemon XY anime and it's been like pulling teeth and they removed the site where i was watching the subs

what if naruto fought a castle chances are i should've skipped but like i feel like this is definitely a show that has made me completely turn off my brain to the point that i no longer think about the logical fallacies and just go "ninjas cool" and like none of this has consequences so like i can watch these characters actually do things instead of being like "i miss part 1" it is definitely the sunk cost fallacy kicking in this episode is focused on lee where it's like "lee as long as you train you can do it" but like there are clearly freaks of nature that will always outpass lee and that is why naruto (part 1) is ultimately not about talent, but it's about ramen and how being a ninja sucks hard work and perseverance vs raw talent and rock lee

are you telling me that this argument on the internet originated from a goddamn filler episode because like a good chunk of these filler episodes have been either "naruto goes on missions and learns ninja society sucks" or "naruto talks about ramen" why is might guy fighting mokujin

Naruto eating some ramen with an old guy and this guy goes “you are my boy now” like its what I’ve been saying even though this guy made like one of the most elaborate plans to destroy the entire village he gave up because Naruto was super enthusiastic and reminded him of his son so he kept buying Naruto ramen It’s about ramen The ramen itself is symbolic. For bonds.

Naruto fell for the genjutsu though This segment has turned into “the leaf shinobi fight an old guy” It was all an elaborate prank

They’re doing a clip show episode. Is this like the first time we’ve heard sasuke since he left Naruto and sasuke’s epic fight was number 1 obviously This new opening’s pretty nice vocal wise but why did they dress up everyone like that in suits and give gaara that fit I went and looked at the count and I’ve actually almost finished filler hell and if I get it done before the site revamp gets pushed I’m gonna be pissed off at myself What if Naruto met a girl who could control the weather through her paintings

I completely ruined my YouTube recommends and now I’m getting stuff like Gohan saves Minato from Obito and Vegeta and goku and trunks tag teamed in too They for real jumped obito for naruto

The holy grail of Eris
Nodding my head wisely and sagely. girlboss villainesses . An average plain type of girl tries to solve the murder conspiracy of the villainess who is also a ghost.
I see you, Aizawa Chan! Forbidden ghost lovers? Horror? The author’s art style clearly being influenced by sailor moon? I have no clue how I got here but I’m gonna keep going with it.
The one within the villaness Nodding my head wisely and sagely. Girlboss villainesses. Really is kind of bizzare how much the otome visual novel genre is centric to these types of stories but here it’s basically executed in that the heroine type was so empty headed that she didn’t even balance out the aspect of the RPG part of the game because she was too busy looking at the boys.
Megami Tensei Persona manga (reread): it’s an adaption of persona 1 in a manga format! Oh man I really did just wholesale reuse this entire concept of the DVA system for one of my own stories, like 100% ripping it off lmao, gonna be funny as hell to rewrite that one though I like Maki
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Manga: Please look at this loser shadow narukami Sho Minazuki I like him I want him in a 3D game to just show up I’ve been in the persona lore pits for almost like 5 years now and I still haven’t actually finished a persona game. Local earthbound fan over here excited to play the game for the first time ahhh beat

ghost sweeper mikami: manga and animated episodes (through the toei youtube) Sometimes you just get random anime episodes in your recommends like what happened with me and the entire lucky Star in English dub thing what if there was a woman who could banish ghosts but she wanted more money and what if the ghosts were causing real estate issues now that's a premise the execution of japanese exorcisms but in modern day is a timeless sort of thing It’s scenario to scenario these are the kind of media where I'm like "man, get the cowardly teenager out of here, he's gooning too hard" because the common trope of average teenage young boy hanging out and being a little perv is a tired trope. It is a little funny seeing him be a simp and be comedically punished for it. His goon levels are immeasurable. She really robbed a bank with ghosts She is what we would call… the modern day girlboss. You go get that money. The fan translation has other manga advertising it… I remember when that was a thing for KH2… that’s no longer a thing for later scans. Feels like in in a manga multiverse, why is Sasuke here now for an ad. A vampire is fighting a clown.
Official companies having their shows up like Toei with Ghost Sweeper and the nozomi entertainment selection is pretty good for cheapstakes like me I'll probably check out nozomi next

Rabbids Cont. Rabbids are okay in this in small dosages. And the human characters don’t infuriate me like other video game mascot driven shows. The episode where they all start speaking English was funny.
Read through the free Digimon comics that were just released Anthologies are pretty nice, right?
Maplestory M
wading away my maplestory behavior by using maplestory M as the deterrent I hate autobattler games, let's see how long this lasts! I was going to pick Bishop as my class but Hayato had a burning event so I started with him. I would've gone with Sia but I think she's gender locked. I liked her class, she had a bit of neat lore (by Maplestory standards) but eh. Now that Hayato got to level 100 or so within the few hours of creation it was kinda crazy, eh? Old Maplestory wouldn’t have had you do that, it would’ve taken weeks at best or months just to get to a smaller level. Now it’s like you’ve got events to breeze past the content. Makes you wonder what the point even is for all these abandoned maps. Especially since it’s a near copy paste of the actual MMO… I think it's a lot nicer when you just explore a place instead of just auto battlign all over the place... why be called an explorer if you just do nothing while the game plays itself? There's no enjoyment to be had out of that IMO. Burning is crazy. I really sat in one spot and grinded until level 100 with nothing stopping my autoplayer. It's different with clicker games, the whole purpose it to watch number go up. but if i lower the volume, then i have an autoplayer maplestory album! that's pretty nice. So my decision to wean off GMS was for the best because KMS ( the OG servers and basically the base code of the game, GMS itself is spaghetti cobbled code) blew up the Reboot F2P server It’s gone entirely.
Rising impact (to continue) Golf Watched in English and immediately went “is that the jimmy neutron VA” and of course she was because once you hear that voice more than once it’s like playing the game of spot the VA only works for me on a 50-50 roll and it’s quite the recognizable voice They shipped this third grader to Tokyo
Read through Makeine: too many losing heroines The tried and true trope of girls hanging out. Also there is a guy.
Watching miraculous ladybug: I’m only on season 1 and the only other context I have is the movie, tumblr posts that felt like when you’re fishing and see the discourse pass by on a hugeass boat, and YouTubers complaining about 7 seasons of the show. I have yet to see a fandom that hates their creator more because of a single character not getting a redemption arc and rerailing back to be a mean girl but Chole is really funny because she's just a Y7 Regina. The show's pretty flimsy because I feel like if you know that people turn into monsters when they feel heavy emotions you'd stop being mean but teenagers are just full of emotions either way. Honestly just turn your brain off, it's a Y7 cartoon. It is not that serious.
The Lego movie (watched 8/9)
All of this true because it rhymes He is a silly man made of lego I like how you can tell the twist is that it’s all being made by a child if you’ve watched it a second time because of how the dialogue is in the prologue My touys… Emmet is the kind of guy who follows the rules but no one knows a thing about him because he’s too confirmed. He masked too hard. Watching a movie on streaming is a lot different than in a theatre because you can just… idk. I feel like you pay less attention to streaming movies. They gave a Lego curve marks. It’s a movie about uh. Prophecies and uh, stuff. BIONICLE REAL The multiverse of Lego real This is just a guy getting mad about a kid playing with his toys They just erased a guys face off and killed his personality like permanently They break apart into pieces like the lego games Cloudcuckoo land is an anarchist state Lloyd cameo Hi lloyd Lego’s are funny. No clue what’s going on with the lego Ninjago movie. Haven’t watched that. I did recently watch Ninjago so the cameo was pretty cool. I should get back to watching dragons rising I heard it’s nuts. Let him build a spaceship None of them have ever followed rules Freedom Friday Tuesday Frursday SPACESHIP HE DID IT What if that kid stepped on a Lego It’s like Toy Story Ages 8 to 14 That’s like some exorcism shit We are all the special
Listened to: Hai Yorokonde/ Kocchi no Kento Ohh, so this is the meme people were referencing Get it done!
Power star Rewatch (watched 8/10)
How many sprite animations were based off people watching the matrix and/or being inspired by other Mario sprite fighting animations So why exactly was Luigi just watching his brother get possessed by ghosts Don’t ask questions just watch the edgy AMV fights It’s so funny how Mario world sprites basically have turned him into this fighting chaos demon between this and all the castle chaos videos and whatnot while superstar saga sprites are now basically just seen as Goku because of all the other sprite fights The part where they just whip out katanas and keep going is crazy but this happens more than once (Okay, but you really can’t make me take Mario seriously especially if you keep in the voice clips from actual Mario going “broough” because it’s not gonna work, it’s why all the SM64 personalization stuff didn’t effect me as much because seeing Mario BLJ past the spooky shit inherently is funny in spite of it trying to be creepy) I like how you can sometimes tell what a person is into based on their music choices, like the creator liked tekken music. Tekken music goes hard. Good choreography too especially with the limited sprite set but once you start recognizing the metal slug explosions outside of metal slug you realize that a lot of people just used the same sprites and effects for their projects It still holds up compared to the other ones I’m probably gonna rewatch on the Mario side of sprite animations (Should I watch old MapleStory sprite animations? It’s been so long since I’ve even seen any of them or their posters and one of them moved onto being an FFXIV streamer so I doubt he’s coming back.)
Watching documentaries on animals and being into bird cams reminds me that i need to go back to my Pokemon tracking concept. It’s pretty funny because even if a pokemon was tagged like animals are like what are people supposed to do if the pokemon just blows up the tag or some trainer catches it. I guess this idea spawned from pokemon go since the trainers do catch a lot of one pokemon to send them to professor willow’s lab to be researched.
No longer allowed in another world
Watched the first episode of no longer allowed in another world. they put the hotline on the YouTube video Do you think the truck industry in Japan has been affected by the trope? Dazai Osamu… That’s the guy who wrote no longer human, right? I saw that book in alter ego. It’s on my reading list. Same writer for the anime wrote the mermaid princess guilty meal I think I read that too… she was sad because she was eating fish. I read the manga too I love a story that actually doesn’t meander on the plot and gets things done.
The union (8/16)
It's a lot different watching movies on streaming and with people too, right? How do I describe this... well, from the get go a lot of movies that tend to focus on spies and FBI and CIA and cops basically run the same course of propoganda, let's get that out of the way Trope of "average guy somehow outskills everyone else involved" is there too alongside "wooing the cool coworker girl" It was an alright action movie, plenty of scenes and fights but the last minute car chase took forever It's a movie that exists made up of tropes to make this fake made up US spy network look good and every other country look bad especially the ones who want all of the US information. I wouldn't be able to recognize any of these actors because I don't watch live action movies that often and more or less I got shoved into it because the cowatcher is the kind of person who scoffs and spits at anything that looks remotely colorful. The whole time I was comparing tropes with my cowatcher and going "well, someone has to be the spy and it's the boss!" which was true, but the guy coming back from the dead was not an expected bit Ahhh, I see, netflix specifically recced this to me the day it came out.... algorithm at work there.

YouTube recommended me the entirety of lucky star in the dub and why did I sit there and watch it engaged and go back to watch the other parts while coding up the site Judging by the release date of lucky star and reference to the PS2 the MMO she was referring to was FF11 Konata is out here watching anime and being a forum user and staying up late instead of working… she’s just like me FR… Shes playing monster hunter 2…. I should play one of those games at some point. Wow, they started singing cha La head cha la, this is just a show about high schoolers hanging out, slice of life is great. Some parts of this show are timeless. Konata’s father probably shouldn’t be allowed within a certain foot radius of schools though. The definition of tsundere being discussed has gotta be funny as hell because I’ve seen people have that argument before. Konata’s game talk is still real… Oh god, this was out in 2007? This is almost 20 years old soon?! The endings randomly switching to an IRL guy was good.
Before marathoning it in pieces through this YouTube video the only thing I knew about this show was the out of touch Thursday meme from tumblr. This is a show about hanging out. I guess the anime cameos here are from the same studio, right? In place advertising. she uses cooking mama recipes to help her cook... the brown haired girl in the new class has a VA I recognize but I don't know her name at all Oh, it's Kari's VA (digimon). I like how there was almost a warm family moment for purple girl and then it immediately cut to a joke with Konata Maybe I'll continue the 2nd part later, I kinda thought the first part with the girl dynamic was good but adding in new girls and leaving purple girl with them is going alright, I guess?

Re: Hero Academia

I’m picking BNHA/MHA back up. I was one of those people who dropped it after a while and griped about how it went into a direction i wasn’t as interested in (miscorrectly assumed that AFO was going to be washed up has been after the big fight with the LOV being side villains as there would be more villains like the yakuza guy) but I did get a lot of twitter second hand spoilers so it pretty much like i forcibly saw the manga. I liked Kaminari, I wish he got his cool sword. I still remember people thinking he was the traitor. I might also watch the anime, depends on how much I get in I’m restarting from ch1 and wow, a lot of those kind of stories I’ve seen really did take CH1’s characterization and run with it even though the author said he regretted writing Bakugou ever like that. He’s a big fish in a small pond and basically treated like an angry chihuahua or mayhaps a Pomeranian by the rest of the cast. Ever watch my hero academia abridged? They made tape guy into the president there. Theres a lot to say about how borderline dystopian the hero world is with arresting and probably a lot of money quotas being a major reason, plus how people with certain quirks get labeled as villains, and how quirkless people are seen as a minority and something “other” (it doesnt help that there’s only like two examples in the series of quirkless people being Midorya and Melissa) and how support tools were never considered until later on as an option and how something like helping people without need for monetary gain was basically thought of as illegal. Looking at the side thing of hero cameos and its like horikoshi really liked comics, we’ve got kamen rider and ultraman and devilman and spiderman and wolverine and Superman all in one panel At one point, mt lady’s power was supposed to be gravity girl’s… it’s kind of weird how that trio of friends with Iida and Midorya got totally shoved aside for bakugan and todoroki Horikoshi’s great at making background design types Ch 1 really did have the set up of “bakugan gets praised and meanwhile Midorya gets scolded” but it’s not like I saw you hero types doing anything…. Interesting. Reading the manga is giving me a much different pace than watching the show. The entire world should probably not be held on the pillars of one guy threatening to punch other people and I’m doing that gripe thing again. Okay, let me see how much I can read instead of every single note of weird dissonance, going to enter “brain turning off mode”, let me see how that goes and I’ll be back. Mario… I don’t remember a thing about the big flesh wing guy, I think some people in 1A were just made because Hori wanted to draw cool designs and you know what, good for him. I will also read vigilantes.
Volume 2
Praying for Mineta’s downfall Do you remember when Mineta got mistranslated and people thought he was bisexual for like a whole week I don’t remember Todoroki’s first costume, that’s so uggo Is bakugo like green/rival? No, totally different circumstances in my mind, they are nothing alike to me. Bakugo really was praised by the public for his quirk and gained a massive ego for it as a child. Blue did not have the same amount of praise from anyone and his ego kind of just developed. Like a fungus. Also, he was 11. The profile says he has low slung pants. Blue would never. Mineta really is just staring the entire time like his eyes have not MOVED from the spot I never would’ve noticed that if i didn’t know about his schemes 1A really does immediately start clowning on Bakugo, lmao Yo, horikoshi is so good at drawing hands he made a villain just out of hands Ive always thought the serial escalation with the league of villains was a bit much Like it’s only volume 2 and the super major antagonists are revealed? It’s kind of like how in volume 2 of RWBY there’s that huge scene with the breach where everything gets completely blown away by the senior team but then in volume 3 its treated as a failure… Oh well, least the fights look super cool.
Volume 3
See? Super cool fight. Who didn’t love “you say run” when it first came out? The medium of a pen makes all might pretty different art style wise… he got some thick ink… Phrasing. Already, a sports festival.. this is the part where i started questioning the premise a long time ago especially when Shinsou showed up because like how do you account for people who have exceptional powers and just… dont become heroes. What if your superpower doesn’t involve blowing up giant robots. How did the guy who talks to animals even get into 1A. Why advertise yourself in a sports tournament where everyone is eyeing you. Hero celebrity culture was a weird premise to me. Like the fact that the Olympics basically got replaced by watching teenagers fight each other… this is greatly hypocritical of me because I just watched through the chunin exams like a year ago. Stonks. There’s a whole stocks spinoff out there. There’s like 40 designs of characters and I can safely say I only vaguely recall like 5 of them who are like from 1B outside of Shinsou. Who the fig is number 22, plain ass... If I get through maybe like 3 to 4 volumes I can knock out the series within like 2 weeks like I did with sailor moon that one time

i'm downloading minecraft mods! it does not feel right I might get a virus look i just want guns why is this website inherently looking sketchy i might play pixelmon if i ever beat regular minecraft firsties What a stupid mod system I need to make sure things are actually compatible with each other and download and redownload and uh stuff and downgrade and things Remember, the screenshot button is F2!
I feel like everyone’s first Minecraft night in a new world is either guns blazing exploration or dirt hut I heart dirt It wasn’t as interesting as I had hoped. I wanted to make friends with a dog but I kept forgetting which dog I fed. Also I threw eggs as a projectile because I didn’t know that could be done and I made the dog sad.

I cut off the part of this where I talked about part 1 more because really I didn't have much to say outside of "I initially thought the MC was a girl because of the hairclip" and "the only thing I know is that bowgirl showed up in super mario maker" .i don't think romcoms are for me, i haven't had a single moment where i laughed or smiled or thought any of this was good outside of a few scenes.

like chances are he's either going with the childhood friend or the girl he's fake dating because that's how these types of shows go down unless there's some new girl that appears who also is a part of the childhood promise thing, but i don't think the MC would be that dense (i hoped not... unfortunately I was wrong.)

this new guy that showed up is like the Bifauxnen type of trope . I have to say that this show playing out straight as a romcom instead of following up the yakuza thing kinda blows. I can't imagine what it would be like to watch like 100 episodes of a show like this. Okay, the show did make me laugh once and it’s when the key broke. They introduced another girl into the story and the MC did unfortunately turn out to have the personality of stale water and apparently terrible memory issues with this stupid key thing. This has gotta be the most generic checklist of episodes, there’s the hot spring episode and the incredibly creepy beach fanservice episode. That one was all sorts of wrong. There is something wrong with all of these teenagers. I guess that’s supposed to be the appeal for self inserting and being like “yeah, I like this one and their personality!” And I’m just bouncing off. I don't think I get it, but I'm really not the target audience in mind.

There was also part 2, so that was 12 more episodes I had to sit through and feel nothing about. Only chemistry he had was with blonde so of course they ended up together…. The thing that interests me more is the random assassin subplot that happened because that actually ties back to the yakuza thing which is a far more interesting premise. I feel like the Christmas episode was also a good one since it focused on Chitoge’s mom who was pretty much absent most of the show. Whenever the actual plot is focused on it’s good. Orange girl has problems, she needs to get it together. I don’t like that this new character keeps getting perverted jokes surrounding her and it made the episodes for part 2 drag on. The animation style being SHAFT is a bit distracting because sometimes they add in little color effects instead of just having a normal scene. This is also me being stupid, but when I first heard 2’s opening I was like “did they get BUZY to sing this” when the entire band has been dead for years and only had 2 anime attached to their names. Anyways, it was LiSA. The only other romcom stories I have for source of reference are Maid Sama and Special A and who knows if those still hold up anymore considering I saw them as a child on that one anime channel that was on demand and I don’t remember the name anymore. I need to watch better romcoms instead of just going on Hulu and picking a show.

I like early RS but not late RS as much. Kinda apprecaiate that it finally gives a depiction of the super legendaries as super legendaries that are capable of causing disasters but it’s like an entire volume’s worth of nothing but that. Entire panel spreads dedicated to them is very impressive. Somehow it managed to pull off emerald’s duel legendary plot before emerald happened and then Ruby and Sapphire started wearing their emerald outfits too so I guess Kusaka lucked out on writing that or he was told ahead of time that would be a thing. There’s a lot of different moving parts like the aqua (sub leaders of sea scheme) and magma admins (with their memory flame thing) both battling against the 3 gym leaders and 3 other gym leaders and then Steven also brought in the elite four, so there’s a lot being added within a single volume with a lot of buildup that somehow makes these two volumes feel slow. The whole mirage island training arc segment in the midst of the super crisis is probably what does it for me because it’s not the hyperbolic time chamber get back out there Steven needs your help. Plus they lost the bet because of the time technicality. So there’s a bit about the arc that I kinda don’t like so far that I feel like is pretty much the primary reason that people like this arc and it’s kind of hard to describe outside of me being like “I wish Sapphire was less of a static character and that the two had more time to interact before the entire reigon literally ended.” I feel like a problem is that Ruby has more dynamic character development and has a parallel with Courtney/Marge (I was reading the Chaung Yi translations) with being a contest goer whereas Sapphire does not have anyone in Aqua to bounce off of. I’ve likely said this all before, haven’t I… And it’s totally weird because I haven’t had this issue with any other arc’s characters! Like the RGBY cast, the GSC cast, both of them together, the DPP cast, the BW cast is probably the best one because they basically had a redux of this arc minus the traumatic backstory , the XY cast I especially believe is ride or die.
Maybe ORAS does this better but I remember my OG reaction to ORAS being that I did not like it much at all and I'm kinda afraid to revisit it and learn that the problems I had with this arc got worse.

(A few seperate posts from Cohost that weren't part of this review) The ORAS versions of Archie and Maxie effectively overtaking their GBA counterparts has given me this sort of strange effect upon seeing Pokespe’s Maxie that lives in a cave and “actual legitimate businessman Japanese White Archie.”

I really do like the parts of Pokespe where they take some NPCs and elevate them to a more important role even if it’s for a brief moment (like the Super Nerd and Jr that were in the yellow arc)— it makes the world feel connected and lived in when they make cameos later on. Gabby and Ty were always an interesting bit of RSE moving around and interviewing the player for the TV cameos— the first games to do that feature in the series! (Of course, now I’m talking a bit ahead of the arc but the TV aspect is an important plot point for later on and now since it’s what allowed Norman to locate Ruby to begin with.)

I like the bit regarding the gym leaders debating on which team is in the right because of how much sides have been pushed by both of them; sure, Aqua might’ve turned off Mt. Chimney and caused a town to have a crisis but they’ve also been legitimately concerned for the environment and helping out Roxanne and the professor while meanwhile Magma’s tried to get that volcano back to normal helping Flannery . Make no mistake, they’re both criminal groups and have tried to off multiple people and Norman’s reason for not taking a side and ditching in relation to the possible threat of reprimanding from the association is due to his son being directly traumatized because of the Pokemon association. This reread has actually made me think way more when I actually recall the recontextualized bits from my memories.

Yes, I understand that a fundamental part of the narrative protag split before the weather Crisis is Sapphire rejecting the lifestyle Ruby has where he isn’t clearly using the best of his ability because they are both traumatized by the same incident and unaware of it: why did it have to be the caveman outfit again though that is so not weather appropriate when you’re facing a tsunami. Ruby also lashing out similarly and externally on his Feebas sucks but he’s done this before where instead of facing the problem he ran away and shoved it under the contests and it was noted. Now that things are blatantly worse he can’t pretend to be as ignorant. But at the same time now that Ruby’s actually locking in it feels kinda weird that there was entire offscreen segment of Sapphire training? I’m unsure how to feel about Sapphire at this point if you can tell by how many of my posts have been just on Ruby. Course I know what her deal is but despite her being in the lead of the bet and the 2nd protag and rival to Ruby it feels like she’s been around less. I guess what I’m trying to say is I can read through all of RS and be like… “eh, I dunno… I mean, I can kind of see it working…” and then when I get to the confession I shrug and go “that’s nice.” I'm not a franticshipper but I can see how it could work. There’s a lot I could say about Ruby and his dad, and you know, the Celebi thing, and how some people died and that’s very dark but it literally gets wiped out of existence. I don’t know …the arc was alright. Some good, some bad. It kinda felt like this was like the super duper ruby sapphire emerald chapter and then they have a battle frontier chapter after it. Doesn’t help that they spend a bunch of time with Wally and even have him set up as the next dex holder (which was changed for releases) only for Emerald to be the new guy but I’m over that. I feel like this one having all of these concepts like the Rayquaza and Salamance and green jewel connection was a good thing but… Idk. It’s also kinda retroactively funny how much this arc caused trouble for the ORAS arc because they outright just kill Archie and Maxie twice.

At this rate I'm really going to reread all of Spe within a year. I just copy pasted this from my notes with zero cleanup.

The FRLG reread I did in between the RS arc was kinda funny because I was like "okay I'll only read 1 chapter" and then I read the entire thing There's a lot to be said about the way Spe utilized the remake content as the revisit for character development and plot before they were children in RGBY and now they're teens. all the PC guys being here is neat, like I said, earlier arcs were good with cameo usage.

Like how the Sevii islands are the focus and Deoxys because of the birth island thing. three new rocket generals even if Sird was originally a TCG card however I could not stop seeing the three beasts without thinking "BEAST MODE BABY" because my brain has some quirks I guess. the confirmation on Silver being giovanni's son that was Kusaka originally taking an insane lucky guess. also really funny how Lorelei showed up and Green went "weren't you actively trying to kill everyone" and she did not acknowledge that. Girl went home with zero repercussions. only thing I don't think I liked was Blue's parents (even in my OG reading). but that's because they are more or less plot motivation because the girl just wants a normal life and can't have that because of being a dex holder. It's kinda interesting to see how it's like, Red doesn't have a good reason to fight because his family members are just his pokemon, which I mentioned before in an earlier post. really funny to think that he is technically a brother to an alien.

(The previous post) Pokespe Red’s arc in FRLG is such an interesting way to take a character who for the most part was a hero protagonist and turn it on its head by pointing out that “yeah, it kind of is weird that he has no parents in the picture at all (that got taken hostage) or family to protect and only had Poliwag and it’s a plot factor” and “outside of being good at fighting, who is he as a person? Is it selfish for him to only be here for the sake of fighting? ”. It’s almost borderline deconstructing his character trope. An interview with Kusaka said that Red does have parents but they never bothered showing up to anything he ever did which sucks so badly because they were perfectly fine with ignoring their son at the tournament and also when he went missing for years and also every single time he got into a life threatening situation. I refuse to take that as canon to Spe.

dex holding is basically like being a sailor senshi since it means you're destined to get into world ending threats even though that's also like that in the games pokedex status is quite strange. it's seen as a status thing in spe because all the dex holders have a title and respective talent now in the games it's basically an app you can download on your phone so it should be accessible to everyone

we are probably never getting a BDSP/PLA follow up that deals with Sird which is kinda dissapointing because the concept of the bootleg pokedex was interesting and Sird kinda lives rent free in the minds of Spe readers like me. it does make me want to reevaluate my HGSS position though because like the way Gio and Silver's dynamic was in this one is like night and day with that one i guess it could be because giovanni was like. dying. Okay so up next I finish RS and then E and then I move onto other stuff, I was just supposed to reread RGB and I've already gone through 4 gens worth of Pokespe because I also read the XY arc.

It’s official. By the end of the year I will definitely have read all of Pokespe again up to wherever Scarlet and Violet is. Shoutouts to Todd Snap for being a major character even if he wasn’t named.

The emerald arc is… I already read FRLG and mentioned that when I was younger I mostly skipped over Emerald’s bits because I found him annoying. But now that I’ve reread emerald he’s just an excitable kid who loves battling but no pokemon initially. It’s not a charming level like how Gold was a pest but he kind of makes up for it by having a bunch of weird devices on him at all times. Like he’s so gimmicky in comparison to everyone else with his gun and hair and… the Wally thing but… the first impression is really going to be a long one. His entire attitude is mostly a front like how Ruby and Sapphire were. His ability of the whole soil thing and seeing what places pokemon come from is a bit counterintuitive because why does he need a pokedex then? The formation thing is like the thing pokemon rangers do minus the capture stylus. Actually, having a ranger in the cast would’ve been neat but I think the only ranger manga content was daisuke club exclusive and the only canonical mention its ever had in Spe was the manaphy egg appearing at the end of DPP.

Todd snap appearance is pretty funny because that’s the second time Pokespe has made an N64 spinoff important to the plot (the first being that in the Yellow arc a lot of the items Blue uses are devices based off of Hey You Pikachu, and the caterpie babysitting chapter has Yellow carry flowers that are from Hey You Pikachu as well.) There’s a man with a sword in a suit of armor and it’s Archie and they kill him after he had already died. He had an evil surskit. His sword is like a light screen barrier. (I could talk more about the Sird thing but whatever. It really is kind of dumb that there's a whole plot dedicated to this person who ends up in team galactic and it's just never followed up on whatsoever. ) Gold shows up in the exact same fit and armor just to mess with everyone. The main RGBYGSC cast is pretty much my favorites out of the cast due to how long we got to spend with them. (I feel like if I had to deal with just them and their quirks for 30 years though with their quirks becoming more and more one note I’d probably be sick of it, so good for having rotating casts. Pokespe is the one medium that does this outside of the games so people compare it to yugioh and Jojo for a bit.)

The Johto Guys (minus Silver) showing up is pretty much the big turning point where everything starts ramping up , everyone gets a big battling spotlight with their ultimate attacks. Gold and Crys do play a big role in this, but I wish there was more time for the casts to interact before it’s straight into “big fight final boss rush ahhh!” Gold’s pool cue thing being a utilized tool is executed far better and is a lot more reasonable than emerald’s trick master equipment, one has a far better hook in reality and could reasonably be a game thing. So seeing stuff like that for shot throws and helping attack boosts and cheating at games is way cooler in my eyes than the dirt gun. The purifier thing was interesting, but the ultimate attack sequence was the thing people usually think of when this arc comes to mind, right?

Pokespe would do really do well with an anthology sort of thing. Revisiting older characters would work out pretty well and a bunch of plot arcs were missed so maybe one shots are what this world needs more than “another epic adventure to save the world/reigon!” This could really use the sonic universe treatment, but I have no clue how a western Pokémon comic would even go because that thing would be absolutely corporate and mandated to hell and back.

Oh yeah, emerald chapter. It’s good. Like it's the ultimate fanservice moment where everyone basically goes "the phantom kyogre battle is awesome."
(You know, I just thought about that. Wasn't the plot of the jirachi movie jirachi making a fake legendary as well? How much of the arcs for FRLG and Emerald are based on pokemon movie plots? I should investigate this further.) I feel like Pokespe’s at its best when the trainers are using pokemon battles to do outright insane shit based on dex entries. It’s also a lot better in my opinion when it’s also not glued to a game’s plot points 1 to 1 but I can understand why they can’t do that for later arcs which are kinda hit or miss. The best arcs are when there's more distinct stuff going on instead of being a plot supercut... it's not always 1 to 1 anyways...

An entire arc that’s dedicated to actual battling is kinda neat in execution because it’s like actual legitimate pokemon battles based on the technical styles of the facilities. It’s the first for pokespe outside of some official matchups where it’s actually attempting to be using game mechanics instead of how earlier material in pokemon went with “random bullshit go” effects (well, everything but the ash anime) . It’s funny how the heads in the battle frontier are all sorts of like “we hate your ass”, they are so petty to this actual child because it’s supposed to be a tour of the frontier before it actually opens. I realize now that he wears the 10 on his back because he’s the 10th dexholder. I like the whole battle frontier summarizing information that’s given out to the press for end chapters, pokespe has a few things like that where it goes and explains a bit of its own lore/mechanics. Do you think Yamamoto knew he would plague the pokespe reddit when he made the human Latias? I check there sometimes and they actually made it a rule that they couldn’t post her anymore. It’s notable for the FRLG and Emerald arc that there were a lot more references to the anime like with armored Mewtwo and Human Latias, it would be neat if they could put in other small references that aren’t like super intrusive to the plot and structure of the world that are just harmless Easter eggs instead of making it like a huge plot integral kind of reference. The crystal and emerald friendship thing is nice as well because I don’t think Emerald otherwise would’ve been able to get through everything if not for Crystal continuing to catch every single pokemon. It’s kinda funny how Crystal is the only one who actually does things that is like the in game 100% dex completion thing. The further arcs go in Pokespe the less there is any actual skills that are reflective of gameplay stuff for dexholder titles from Pokemon which I feel like is a missed opportunity. The title things aren’t even brought up for later characters outside of like a trivia book. (There’s also a bit of diminishing value where it’s like the idea well is running dry. They called Sun the saver because he’s saving a lot of money or X being the Loner because he was a shut in. No.) Everyone bounces off emerald interestingly that he gets to talk to but the ruby sapphire dynamic being reset because he pretends he doesnt remember the confession kinda sucks but it doesn’t piss me off like it did with what I remember of ORAS.

Emerald’s anti Pokemon stance is fascinating because the reason why is also interesting, like I’m pretty sure he might have a condition for his height because he used to deal with having pokemon for support and then his extended family started harassing him over it (his actual parents are dead and dude’s an orphan). He didn’t have a scene like Ruby did with his Feebas in such a violent way, but I just realize that was kind of a parallel with him rejecting the friendship of his pokemon by not using them in that one tournament battle. Him admitting that he likes pokemon and that being what breaks the petrification has probably hit my top scenes in pokespe. (Other’s include Red’s (Sliph Co triple attack, you don’t know what friendship is), Yellow’s (Pikachu, let’s stay together a little longer, the time green mentored that junior trainer), (The GSC final arc having Bill teleport all the pokemon at once, Blue with the legendary birds), (I guess RS would be the back to back confession scenes), (The DPP’s dex reunion where they all mention that the pokedex beeping was a significant sound to them because they were always together), (Black and White saying farewell on the train ride and their reunion in BW2 before it gets cut short), (The XY rendition of the AZ flowette scene), and I don’t have anything yet for other arcs.) I think in terms of arcs that feel like they’re final, the RSEFRLGE run is that for the concept of a full dexholder reunion team up thing. Other arcs might have them cameo but otherwise this is the largest iteration of the full (current) cast being around doing things. The RGBYGSC run was that of the MATO art style.

Considering that the collector's editions also end at volume 10's emerald arc feels like Viz also understood that this is pretty much the like most definitive place to end on because no other arc afterwards is as interconnected aside from cameos like the new ORAS edition chapters adding in red and blue and XY having Green (Guy) mentor the kalos gang but otherwise outside of maybe additional things having a phone call and the fact there's a huge time gap between ORAS + HGSS to DPP with the dexholders is uh... hm.

I took out the rankings page. I feel like every arc has it's own flaws and plusses and my personal favorites are probably effecting the results with bias (Originally it was just the MATO run and BW). BW I will defend because people were like "it's not like the games, it's trash!" I like it for being different, if it was all 1 to 1 it wouldn't be good. Just because I'm not as excited by the things that happen in later arcs doesn't mean I should put them down. (I still think the BW2 arc sucks though, it really needed more cooking time.) I really did like the XY arc on my first reading, that was kinda crazy.
I feel like Pokespe works at it's best when there's less of a game plot to go with so they can have more stuff to varied effects of... well, idk. I like how it takes new content to interpret a new story.

My favorite arcs in Pokespe are the early gen 1-2 ones, then after is BW tied with DPP, then XY. I’m very open with saying that I might be biased towards liking the first 14 volumes more than later arcs because of how different the tone is in comparison to later arcs. It’s not to say that I’m not a fan of later arcs in Pokespe, it’s just one of those things where if I’m not engaged I tend to recall less of it more which is what happened with FRLG on my first read and then I never went for a reread and the emerald reading I just spedread so I could see the heroes no longer be statues and never properly paid attention to the new guy because I didn’t like him. The added drama kind of also is a turn off for me because while it was fine within the first few arcs it was applied to but it kinda becomes difficult to sit through and marathon when the protags are constantly going through something in nearly every arc, some of them can’t catch a break (Silver has it the worst and I need a follow up story for HGSS just to say that he’s doing okay.) Plus the whole thing with Sird never being followed up on in a satisfying way makes it a bit hard to go through FRLG+E knowing that she’s still out there somewhere during DPP. I like my pokemon stories to be more lighthearted and whimsical rather than being complete edge fests and despite the panels shown off, I can assure you that the BW arc is not edgy at all outside of those two moments and has my favorite protagonist duo in the form of the dreamers. I like DPP because it’s mostly a return to form with the comedy duo and the dawn equivalent being equally as goofy by playing their straight man. Even though I say all of that, I understand I’m a total hypocrite because one of my favorite arcs in Spe is the XY arc, which can best be described as a thriller with a bunch of moments people have posted as being edgy (the essentia Pinsir panel comes to mind.) It’s good to have a balance in mind and from what I recall some strike it well and some… do not. I feel like my memories of FRLG are far too muddy for me to give it a proper ranking. I always did like that the remakes led to a follow up story right until ORAS because ORAS had the problem of the villains both being dead so they uh… ORAS Spe did a lot of things. I don’t think I liked it very much.

I can’t exactly rate BW2 even though its a part of BW without being biased about the fact that it took 7 years to finish because of the development cycle of Pokemon games at the time and that the plot moved at lightning pace without ever giving any of the new main characters enough time to properly develop— like you’re telling me that Blake was experimented on as a child and he goes right back to working for the people who did the same things to him and I’m not supposed to see it as a parallel to Whitley being in a cult as a child and think “oh, she’s gonna break him out of the cult mentality somehow” but nope. He just says it. The others have no lasting impact on my mind despite me reading them recently but that’s because they have the problem of not lasting long enough to have an impact (Sun/Moon, Sword/Shield) or I still need to reread them. Last I finished was GSC and then I started RS so I’ll do a back to back of RS to FRLG to E and finish my marathon there.

Marathon Edit: I accidentally went ahead of the RS reading and finished FRLG in one go since it’s only 35ish chapters to go through and this is the part where in my head it’s kind of difficult to evaluate in comparison to the first arcs but this one is more “mature”. The nature of pokedex holders I feel like is the most defined by this chapter where it turns out that they just have these things happen to them. The thing that stuck out to me the most was seeing that one gag from Crystal return and realizing that these are all kids in this situation. I do wish Green’s parents had more screen time or dialogue because they basically were a plot motivation the entire way through. I’d rate RS higher based on the re-reading but the final chunk is slower than expected and I feel like Sapphire despite being the 2nd protag had way less character development in comparison to Ruby. Changed my mind, RS is one of the ones I feel like I’m never gonna make my mind on where it would go or not. It’s all over the place based on how I feel about the second lead and how the 2nd half is pretty much battle after battle after the confession and how in the end I feel like it’s just too Ruby centric for me to rate it even though I like this Ruby sometimes.
Post emerald thoughts... I can't really say. I think in terms of like being a wrap up of pokespe, it does it's job pretty well and it's not a fairly long arc, and the 10 dexholder battle is pretty cool, but in the end it's kind of like a definitive kind of end, right? That makes it harder to evaluate since you basically need to read through all of the other arcs for buildup. As a standalone, it's probably weaker without it.

Sun and Moon: Horizon
There was a manga before horizons came out that was supposed to promote sun and moon and it’s just called Horizon which makes it probably hard to talk about. It’s a story about a guy and his dog (rockruff), barely focused on actual plot and just full of little OCs and whatever. Pokemon Horizon would’ve been one of those mid forgettable tie in manga to me if they did not add in the rival to be a little weirdo with powers and I am a big fan of Pokemon trainers who are little weirdos with powers, it’s why I enjoy Pokespe so much. It was made to promote sun and moon except for the fact that they obviously did not receive anything about the plot so they immediately made up their own thing. It's quite egregious with the designs of some characters but I've noticed that a lot of fanart for characters that are tan just defaults to white for some bizarre reason.

Diamond and Pearl Adventure (Volumes 1-6) Diamond and pearl adventure I had such a hard time finding this one again but it’s a read that goes for having high energy and making the Lucas equivalent a guy who lived like a pokemon like Tarzan and what not. Also has another rival that I like, but maybe that’s just because I like antagonistic rivals. It kind of sucks that the site I used to read manga has been dead forever. Where would I read the golden boys? I kinda need that one to incorporate into Stay Golden's plot... thing...

Dengeki Pikachu (Viz) a fascinating take on the anime adaption for that point in terms of lore and only lore, the it's actually insane how much the artist got away with because uh.. yikes... There's a lot of stuff that was obviously left out for the target audience but I think it's take on worldbuilding for the anime is interesting. There was some serious gooning going on in there though, the censors had to go all out and understandable, I wouldn’t want to see any of that either!

Pocket Monsters (Clefairy Manga), whatever I could find translated
so the funny thing about generation 1 supplementary material is that nobody had any clue how pokemon's direction would pivot so you end up with absolutely incredible things like how unhinged pocket monsters is or the sheer fact they hired a doujinshi artist for the electric tale of pikachu. i have never seen such incredibly off model pokemon in my life. they're fascinating. i understand why this was never localized either, there's no way they could properly censor this at all with all the ball jokes it would be impossible, it would never fly in any other country outside of the select ones it was brought to. "it's that jackass clefairy" is a line I definitely need to use at some point. The wildest thing about this is that this is the only manga that has ever been officially referenced because it shows up in the anime in the movie episode in the gen 3 anime. The other wild thing is that it gives Red and Green actual names and implies the color thing is a nickname. The other more weird thing is that it makes the Firered redesign of Red a separate character, a trend I haven't seen in nearly over a decade now! Kind of fascinating how there was one period where it was Fire, Leaf, and Green/Blue was the exact same except for the internal data calling him Terry and the only one who managed to keep their name out of that whole thing was Leaf.

zensho/ unabridged/ the complete story (completed)
it's a straightfoward adaption of Gen 1 RGB except it uses satoshi and shigeru as the main names and its weird to see a red like ash even if that's not the case and just a case of canon divergence not setting in. there has not been a manga adaption that hasn't had a non verbal red yet. total coincidence that this one is a canon backing source on what happened to the gen 1 rival's parents in which the theory was that they died. also has a sabrina that isn't completely evil and more of a pacifist which is never seen with her much in early adaptions (special had her be a rocket member, the anime... did a lot. ETOP had her try to fight black fog, that's the giant haunter or whatever.)

reading all of these back to back has given me the confidence that I can write anything I want in the pokemon universe and it'll make sense somehow

Varied Selection of Creepypastas (Pokemon Centric.)

Crack open a can of monster and open up a youtube page to yuriofwind with bit crushed lavender town playing in the background... ah... memories...
Something in my brain obviously stopped working because I started reading a bunch of pokemon creepypastas. Most pulled from an old forum site, a few I listened to audio readings, and a few I went to the wikis for. There were many ideas but I could tell majority of them were written by teenagers. Turn off your brain while reading and you'll enjoy yourself more. The fundamentals of a Pokepasta without a fourth wall and as an in universe story interest me more than “ the cartridge bled at me and Red said my IP address out loud.” That’s never happened in the ones I selectively read though. Like the one with the meganium clone was good (by the standards) but that’s because the plot just revolved around the player not liking their weird creation and wanting to be rid of it much to its dismay.

I’ve noticed that there’s barely any popular ones past gen 2 and that feels like primarily because of lavender town and mt. Silver ending up as the most focused on weird locations solely because of a follow the leader mentality. Lost Silver was one of the big ones pre FNF boom. Actually, it still manages to be one of the big ones. But I feel like it's also become too separate from it's position almost a decade ago, like no one associates him with BEN or the other guys because they didn't reenter the culture because you know, creepypasta's are fundamentally weird. I understand why no one in the greater pokemon fandom likes them because they immediately go "oh that's gore, that's gore of my comfort character." Also no one's ever gonna match my exact level of being like "oh shit, there's themes" because everyone who is now involved is too busy drawing human characters, where are the monsters. Where is the existential tragedy and dread.

Missingno being the big bad in a few of these is also funny in hindsight because of the failed run where I tried to use it and it completely sucked so I rerolled the save. I wonder if that makes me one of those people that dodged a proverbial bullet. Wrath of the Titan was great* though, even though that one wasn’t even a creepypasta and read like a serial drama about a flying evil shiny snorlax that could KILL pokemon. CloudMk3 you’ll live on forever in my mind. *By the standards of Pokemon Creepypasta but this one clipped into being a Pokémon story that was more of a commentary on shiny breeding . I feel like they can be a bit better when they're audio readings because people either make it super serious or just go "this is so stupid" which elevate the story in totally different ways. Like if they read it dramatically then you take it seriously, if they're reading it on a skype call and laughing the entire time then you're gonna think of it and think "this is so stupid its great "

Pokemon TV is officially sunsetting in March, so I went out of my way to check out what exactly remained on the app after all the logistics of watching the app slowly lose all momentum. There’s only one season of the original series, the sun and moon saga up to journeys, and all of the pokemon short series and specials that were released over the years. Why is it dying anyways? The reason Pokemon TV is dying is because the distribution rights for pokemon is a nightmare, like a good chunk is on Hulu, Netflix owns the OG and sun/moon plus horizons and amazon probably has a bunch of it too. Also apparently having a nonprofit thing and hosting it has cost a bit of money and add the previous problem and its like… why keep it? Plus it’s redundant because all of the shows that I watched on Pokemon TV that weren’t the ash anime are uploaded to YouTube and they’re all shorts minus origins and Hisui so there’s not really a reason to have an app dedicated to it if someone can just watch it on YouTube I recall years ago when Pokémon.com had a little avatar maker and a bunch of flash games and I used it for dream world but all that stuff is gone now alongside all the features TV used to have, like more seasons and movies.

So here’s the things I actually watched with Pokémon TV!

Generations: I think the disparate rate of male to female player character ratio was kinda unbalanced in this one, also, Cheryl’s Chansey is that of nightmares. Next.

Origins: it was a good OVA series though I could’ve done with less charizard screen time. also its pretty funny how the final episode was like “look, mega evolution, that’s pretty cool!” and the gimmick is dead. I like the Red in this series, he’s simply a guy. Makes me feel bad for Blue/Green in this iteration since he kind of took Ls the entire time.

Twilight wings: Is the pokemon world unionized? Are the flying bird taxis on the union? I dont have any opinion about galar since I haven’t played it and only know things secondhand so it’s quite difficult to gauge this without being like… hmmm. Im normally okay with overemphasis on a pokemon, but something about Leon’s charizard acts as my personal kryptonite. Likely because it’s his ace and not even a galarian pokemon . It’s beautifully animated but that really doesn’t change the fact that I have no real attachment to any of the region so I’m just here going it looks pretty nice and having no emotions about the trainer cameos. This entire region based on just the show feels like it’s got a complex about Leon for being the unbeatable champion. The wooloo episode with Hop makes me feel bad in hindsight because he ditches his wooloo in a box in the game. It’s a really screenshottable aesthetic show, I suppose. Where are these hospitalized children’s parents.

Bidoof’s big stand: the world hates him. They want him gone. He got attacked by birds, the staraptor did the dizzy explosion reaction. Bidoof only was caught to be an HM friend and he won by stalling. It was incredible.

Pokemon evolutions: Good arceus never stray from the sugimori art style ever again lest we see the depths of what real humans would look like in pokemon amen. I don’t have anything else to say because it was just like generations in the fact that they condense one part of the game into the short and nothing else. Least they remembered that women exist.

Hisuian Snow + Poketoon: hisuian snow is kinda beautiful but it kinda makes me wonder why they have all this promotional material like twilight wings and have it star a character that doesn’t even cameo in the game hisuian snow has quite different vibes from the rest of the pokemon shows i’ve watched because hisui as a whole “we’re in the timeperiod where we have no clue what’s up with these pokemon things and we’re trying to survive” so its less of a story about monster taming and more about monster surviving but then there’s pockets of hope and friendship like from this show then it’s immediately contrasted by poketoon which has complete and utter style no matter what episode its on because whoever decided “let’s have a series where we have different animation styles for all the pokemon was a genius” but the pancham episode has a narrator that completely sucks the life out of the episode

Pokemon path to the peak: Well it’s about trading cards. I have no clue what’s with some of these production art styles being so non pokemon, same thing happened with the big stand. My thoughts were “It’s certainly out of my age range” and “Its not yugioh thats for sure” Does anyone remember that GBC card game? I’d love to see something like that. I like how the dad’s advice was “idk use your imagination” The whole time I’m watching it I’m like “it’s not that serious, it’s just card games, the adult division would’ve destroyed this child”. It was a fun watch though but that kept nagging me the whole time.

And that was really it. I’m not interested enough to get through the ash episodes that are still available when I can barely get through XY and those are on Netflix anyways. It’s kind of sad to see it go but it was pretty much dying for years anyways, I completely forgot I still had it downloaded.

Anyways, Pokemon Ironmon has been pretty weird, what I sincerely need to do is just play the game like a speedrunner and go fast, that’s the way I got the first run of Leafgreen done and I haven’t really had that momentum for any other game I’ve played because doing ironmon means if I make a single mistake I don’t actually get to fully explore the game… so ironically, ironmon might be dead again? Depends on how it goes with the Gen 1 games, that’s my new focus. The XY chronicles is a year long project so it’s okay if I don’t do it all now.

YouTube has been recommending some pretty good artists to me like Yoshitaka Mihara but that’s mostly because I’ve gotten back into listening to Xref Xpec remixes. Last time in December I watched olive the other reindeer by myself because no one else had any interest in it. Along with that, this January I finished Ninjago. Well, the first part, not dragons rising. It certainly had varying quality by the end of it, my favorite one was probably everything before Crystallized, that one kinda fell flat. I’ve continued Death Note and I’ve hit the Yotsuba arc. It’d be kinda funny if the note kept getting passed around like a hot potato but I know that’s not how it works so I’m just waiting for the pieces of the dominos that have been set up by this business to completely fall apart. I’ve also continued Baki’s second season but I’m starting to guess that the plot as a whole is about the futility of trying to be the strongest, because otherwise it’s like, why exactly are they fighting this caveman. For clout? It makes no sense, but it’s engaging regardless. Played some of Yoshi’s Island, one of my favorite SNES Platformers that I would never in my life try to 100%. I already did dreamland 3 100% on the 20th anniversary wii release and 64, not doing those two again because some of those puzzles were OBTUSE. I’ve been playing that one bit by bit on my switch online when I recall I have a switch online. Being a PC gamer pretty much made me have buyer’s remorse for that thing, even my 3DS has been used more often this year (mostly to play pokemon X and miitopia.) speaking of pokemon…

Pokemon TV is shutting down so i was going to watch a bunch of the short stuff they put there only to lose interest from watching generations and all of the player characters from what I’ve seen so far were just the boy characters. I watched Origins as well, so now I know that Charizard propoganda has been there since the beginning. Mega evolution being there is quite funny in hindsight since it got cut. I’ll probably continue to watch everything from TV before March since the only worthwhile things are the shorts even though I know they’re all probably on YouTube or something. I also redownloaded pokemon cafe and I’ve gotten into masters ex, which I know is a terrible decision because I’m wired to hate Gacha. It’s also made me realize that I barely care about any human character in pokemon outside of a select few because they’ll be like “look, its the gym leader from this generation or this player character in a cool costume!” And I’ll be like “who gives a shit. Can I summon Red or another Blue (guy) yet?” Never in my life did I think that people had like, actual genuine interest in the human beings because there’s a world of magical creatures that can shoot laser beams. finished watching Pokemon coincierge as well. It was so cute! A glimpse into a slice of life Pokemon vacation. I do wish it was more than 4 episodes, once I got into it and the ending theme played out I was hooked.

I’m not much of a moviegoer and I barely go to see movies in theatre. That being said, after watching the original mean girls, I went to see the musical one in an actual IRL movie theatre. Regina was kind of the only worthwhile part of the musical that I’d likely listen to in a Spotify playlist, the other songs were forgettable at best and the lead actress couldn’t sing. I also watched how to train your dragon. It was good, I’ll probably add the extended cartoon to my watchlist. Game wise I’ve mostly just been playing spark the electric jester. I kind of played through a ton of demos before getting the game for the steam winter sales so I breezed through the first chunk of levels. I’m the only person who would note the dialogue changes because of how much of the old demos I played. Now I’m in the mid game and getting completely beat up because I’ve got no clue what I’m doing or where the good abilities are at.

Spark the electric jester (Main game cleared): It’s very easy to feel completely lost during the later half of spark as the stages get more loop like and I lose my one ability I use to cheese the game. You’re never taught about the dash parry until Fark campaign. In the end, I feel like I had a better time with the one bugged run where I just had edgy for no reason but that’s on me Spark Mods (To Continue): Choco and float both have different movesets from spark which is a nice touch to make them all feel like different characters in the mods
Undertale (Started): Everyone and their grandmother have already psychoanalyzed the shit out of undertale so I’m just here to get better at playing deltarune. I have nothing new to add to it since I’ve seen a bunch of streamers play it and whatnot. You’re supposed to understand the quirked up monsters but then I realize my RPG addled brain is like “why waste time with bullets when I can just get a big number to attack” and I realize a pokemon trainer would probably grind the underground to dust without a second thought and that’s not what I’m going for because doing no mercy is tedious and there’s a lot of ways to accidentally end the route
Slay the Princess (To Continue): My friend recommended this so I’ve been very happy to say that I have no clue what’s going on but I like defying the narrator to have increasingly weirder routes. And there’s probably a lot of those, so I’ll keep playing this but actually listen to the voice cues because my brain goes very quickly to click prompts so I might miss something.
Genshin Lantern Rite: Cut for space. One day I’ll probably just go “nah” and delete the game since I’m always on the fence with this one. And it takes up so much space… (lol.)
Fire emblem Awakening (Started): So I did not realize that they kinda just throw you into everything incredibly quick with the premonition.so far I play footsies in fire emblem and let Fredrick shoot his shot. I got to the smash cutscene in game and then immediately realized that I’m not good at fire emblem and I have no idea how to use low level units. Is there a grinding thing I can do or am I just screwed.

Death Note (2nd half, Yotsuba Arc): They’re too busy doing this detective nonsense when they literally could’ve caught them immediately with Misa’s evidence. Everyone acting in their own interest during the yotsuba arc was pretty interesting because Misa had some independence despite the fact that she’s clearly in the wrong show. Only thing is I think the new intro’s a downgrade. It’s kinda crazy how Light and L did all that stuff and then Light immediately went back to killing. All according to Keikaku. If L spotted the watch then it would’ve been over entirely. I’m on the final stretch with L’s successors now.

Sonic Prime (3rd Season, complete): Did I talk about finishing sonic prime or did it skip by because it was kinda nothing but fight scenes and I didn’t care much. Nine is a compelling character but I do not understand how the dimensional stuff works and I don't think the show wants me to either.

Baki Hanma (2nd Season, complete): to think baki would end with yujiro cooking his son invisible food after the insanity of the caveman thing. yujiro hanma would just flex his muscles really hard to break glass and that would work he’s like the embodiment of total masculine toxicicity except this entire show has never had a moment of awareness except with the caveman and the big scientist guy being like “this entire thing is stupid”. these are the most grotesque men i’ve ever seen this entire premise is stupid and yet it is so compelling because the entire show is solely about a bunch of overpowered weirdoes screwing around. the plot twist that this has always been the cycle of violence with yujiro’s dad and baki’s grandfather makes it kinda crazy huh. this show is baffling because everything in or out of context still make no damn sense. sea king retsu became a boxing champion because the caveman cannibal ate his leg like what…?

Pluto: I finally started watching Pluto after having it on my list for so long. It’s an interesting take on the greatest robot arc from the OG, seeing everyone drawn in more realistic art styles was a bit jarring. This shows all sorts of crazy with the murder mystery and the evil robot and the war and the racism but that was all in the original too. Reinterpretation and pulling from the source material really works.
Wakfu (To Continue):W akfu was on here at one point and I got to the part where it turns out the main character is a dragon and the dragon mentor fought a time lord and it was an entire anime battle animated in flash and it made me go “wow.”
Rabbids (Why am I watching this): Rabbids Invasion is apparently something I’m putting time into watching even though its brainless. I’m kind of endeared to only some Rabbids who manage to experience remorse instead of being shitheads.
Miscellaneous: Infinite Craft just reminds me of little alchemy. RPGmaker XP was free so I got it, too bad I have no knowledge on how to code anything and it all evaporated after school.
TPP 10th anniversary: How in the world has it been 10 years. They did gens past crystal? There was way more extensive lore to it? What the heck. I’m old.I’m in there too. We’re just ants on a keyboard attempting to beat Pokémon

Pokémon Section: Pokemon gets a seperate update but I’ll have three posts for it depending on how the rest of the month goes. My current progress on the XY chronicles has grinded to a total halt as I’ve found myself easily distracted by wanting to reread all of special, playing crystal clear instead of X, and being too invested in finishing death note instead of continuing to watch the anime since I finished up the Pokémon TV project already. You need to collect that shit on different services like it’s the goddamn chaos emeralds to have a chance of watching all the seasons now. So it was probably better in the past before all the streaming services started taking pieces of the pokemon pie which makes it a bit annoying that there’s no official subs after all these years either, right. If all of the pokemon series is a distrubution nightmare it’s kinda crazy that 20 years in they refuse to acknowledge other language options. Eventually I caved and grabbed the docs for crystal clear since that seems? to be my focus right now.

Madame Web: Watching madame web the same way I did with morbius and I'm convinced Sony is attempting to make some kind of shitpost off brand Spider-Man cinematic universe. The main villain is like “I need to kill these teenage girls before they become a problem” and is stopped by a single adult who has no superpowers minus the power to run him over. I think this is the opposite of marvel having people be hyped over it for years, it has like, anti hype. The Morb Effect. I was texting my friend live commentary and at one point said “This feels like a CW pilot”

Death Note Completed: I finished it after a few months in between after the Yotsuba arc and compiled my notes in a coherent summary. Good boy light with the evil eyes is so dissonant. Death note is a pretty crazy show. Is the main character in conflict over needing to kill his sister? Is it because things have been so out of control? And the answer is, Light has no clue what to do in this situation where his family is in a vulnerable position but so is his entire plan and that’s an interesting angle, right? I wonder what his dad would do about it all.Then they uh. Launched the death note through a missile and I thought “what is this show doing.” Obviously having the death note in the hands of that one guy doesn’t seem like the best idea, but I guess there’s not much that can be done now. Why exactly was all this notebook swapping with this new shinigami thing again…It’s a little weird Dude light’s dad is dying and his first reaction is “you should’ve killed him” and was it because he lost the gamble with the shinigami eyes. Death note is good because it’s at a time where Light watches his dad die I’m like “was it genuine? Did he mean it?” And its that complexity that makes it good. Light’s sure in metaphorical hell at the moment. Kira’s making a dystopian internet hell. Did they all just forget Misa was Kira at one point in the show. The TV special guy has become consumed by the drive to get huge ratings. Matsuda is flaky and some people would be flaky in this situation. Light’s lost the plot. His sister is broken, his father dead, but he’s too invested. And now I think I get why the second theme song is so messy, because light’s a whole mess. The stair symbolism was him walking to be at the top of the world but he can’t do that. He’s going to hell. He’s gonna die. I just wish Misa wouldn’t die but chances are she probably will since she’s only loyal to Light. Note. I don’t know what happens minus the fact that Light and L were dead, I came to the show knowing that. Conslusion Notes: I was incredibly distracted by the English VA for light because I had watched a show where the VA was the same voice so I just associated Light with that guy instead (It was Lan from the NT Warrior dub). Misa deserves to be in a better show because Light hates women. Mikami kind of feels like the writer had no clue where to go with the story so he just made up a new guy to handle the plot. The notebook swapping thing is contrived. Light’s not a good person but he likely would’ve just been a regular guy if not for the notebook allowing him to work with his worst most judgmental vices but people online saying it’s the fault of the notebook is stupid, he’d basically do the same thing if he had a gun and then he’d try to hide the gun. I think I liked the Yotsuba arc more but I liked Near for finally being like “okay fine let’s just get this over with”. Light’s not a tragic figure at all, he just decided to be judge jury and executioner where the judicial system was supposed to work, like did he actually make sure the people he was killing weren’t just accused or framed for crimes. I’m thinking too much about this. Matsuda being the one to shoot Light is a pretty good moment for him since he was the one who had like the most “normal” perspective out of the task force. His ass is not going to heaven.

Pluto (Completed): covered this last time, now I finished it. it was good. I kinda liked the parts with the detective more than with Atom but that’s because I’m a fan of detective stories. I think it’s a pretty poignant show about how paranoia leads to tragedy and war.
Steven Universe (Continuing): Steven universe is a show about horrible memories. Im not a fan of the beach town people episodes either. Remember that episode of gravity falls where dipper has a paper copy of himself that horribly died.It’s kinda crazy how this show had years of lying to Steven and Greg about Rose and her character development went in reverse. How many do you think they had trapped in there before Lapis got out.
Tour de undertale: The ruins is so weird compared to the rest of the game. Eating vegetoid doesn’t count as a kill Monster overworld encounters. I ate the vegetables and worried I ruined the run but turns out it’s fine to eat those fellas. His name is sans undertale’s monster. Sometimes you have to use the check button. Undertale features insecure teenagers. Sometimes you have to beat them up as well to steal their hats. But not too much. Ignore them too. The insistence on calling it a dusty tutu and the narrator saying it’s real armor are… concerning.I’m not posting about alphys because I stoped reading her texts as she went on and she reminds me of me which means that girl needs serious help.
Dungeon Meshi (NEW): I've been watching dungeon meshi in the dub. idk when i stopped reading meshi but i remember that senshi is a great man and the food makes me hungry. dungeon meshi is a very fun dnd story because they're hungry and cooking monsters. i like the narrator too this is a good story, simple, full of whimsy bump of chicken is there (makes it automatically good) and its also a finished story too and maybe we'll get to see the entire thing play out i'll keep up with the releases as they come out or maybe watch 2 episodes per day instead of in one sitting. But I'm not calling it delicious in dungeon .
Continuing: Possibly naruto. I haven't started the runaway sasuke arc yet. Eventually I'll end up hitting filler hell, so that'll be something I do while grinding out pokemon. The most fun i had with Naruto was watching it with my parent who never watched Naruto but did buy me a Naruto sweater out of association like a parent trying to connect to their kid’s hobbies I started watching Naruto and they popped in when itachi first showed up. Really, majority of February was just progress in Pokemon X. I think I’m at the 4th gym now, then the announcement for Legends ZA came out. If I keep progressing well I can get to Y soon and start my Y nuzlocke.

I just finished watching the Netflix live action avatar on my TV that makes it look way too high quality. I’m too used to the big block TV used for years but it was replaced with idk… an oled tv? You’ll have to forgive me, I have no clue what these terms mean. I've been all over the place since the news about Toriyama. I don't think I've been hit this hard by a famous person's death since Takahashi. There's so much that's owed to Toriyama in so many different genres. I wouldn't be an artist or writer if not for being influenced by DBZ like so many others. Dr. Slump too, like, he was everywhere. Half my favorite franchises wouldn't exist if not for Dragon Quest. God, even Chrono Trigger... insane. So I ended up sticking with Big Green and then hopped to watching some of the movies in the Funimation/Ocean dub. I'm not sure if this helped or not. There was other stuff that was earlier too but I feel like this is too much text for something that's just about me watching shows, huh.

HTTYD

No clue if I mentioned this one or not in the last rounds but it pretty much cemented that I should watch things by myself instead of other people if they’re going to refuse to watch the movie and instead get mad at made up versions of the main characters. Ruined my enjoyment. So naturally, I'll just watch things alone like I usually did. They tended to get pissy when that happened but like, they're totally incorrigible.

Rabbids Show (Continued)

I needed a completely brainless show to not think and the Rabbids worked on my brain in a way I can only describe as whatever kids go through when they watch cocomelon marathons. Sorry. That’s my only point of reference. I look up from using it as background noise and they’re fighting aliens, turned into zombies, or causing acts of domestic crime. Somehow I like these human characters when normally they’d be the bane of a mascot driven show. I think it’s because they don’t show up that often.

Avatar the Last Airbender Live Action (Completed)

My friend told me to not watch this but I decided to anyways because sometimes I need to listen to my impulses or I start being more weird in different ways like cooking things with hot dog water. Live action shows never seem to capture the correct amount of whimsy, the lighting is whack, but hey, one piece wasn’t that bad so maybe this one could be like. Good? Those were my initial thoughts going into this. Eventually though I realized I had a lot more enjoyment by pretending that this was like, an HD remaster of one of my dad's old movies instead of trying to compare it with the main cartoon. They’re writing this like they know they’re not getting a second season even though this has only covered season 1.

Spring means I get pinged with many promotional emails and normally zero way to buy them, but for the last few years I've gotten way smarter with birthday/Christmas presents for the purpose of using them all in one go on video games. I don't think I did ever reposted the steam winter sales roundup of stuff I bought, huh. I think I bought way more with the spring sales just on principle. I basically only ask for gift cards for presents these days so I don't have to actually figure out what will be approved of by my family or not as a reasonable and safe purchase. The Winter Sale was uh, the two rayman games, undertale, slay the princess, spark 1, sonic mania and SA2. Sometime in between I got the murder of sonic and RPG Maker XP when it was being given away for free. Also forces and generations but they're not loaded in yet because I don't have room. Uh. I kinda went all out during the spring sales in terms of games. I got the orange box that has half life and portal 1, GMOD, cookie clicker (which I've already succumbed to number brainrot), Celeste (because I sure as hell am not using the epic games store anytime soon), hat in time, henry stickmin, stardew valley, sonic adventure DX and Terraria. Then to top it off, I was gonna buy disco elysium, but then I remembered the controversy, so I ended up buying minecraft instead since I already got terraria. I don't understand why I need a microsoft account if I'm just playing Java, but alright. It kept my demo world, which is pretty neat. I have no clue what I'm doing here. Maybe I'll just wander around. I really shouldn't keep adding more games to play though to my already growing list, so I need to finish undertale and the spark mod experience before picking up anything new(er.)

I can’t think of anything I did notable in April outside of watching season 1 of JJK and moving my writing notes from obsidian to standard notes. I uh… played animal crossing new leaf a bit and enjoyed it more than Horizons, but I think I just didn’t like horizons to begin with. I’m never good with games that give me no end goal and too much freedom because then I end up making a mess. There was pokemon but like, I’m always doing that. I also watched some Bakugan…..? I think I mentioned watching all of sandland as it came out? Maybe? I liked watching it. Damn, I’ve really got nothing to talk about this month. All of April (March too) got upturned by IRL stuff that wasn’t accounted for like how it would pretty much upturn everything else in my life but too late to complain about that now I guess... In May, my final project is due, and then I graduate. I’m not happy about it. It feels like I wasted my time at college switching degrees and everyone expects me to be into a job and have a plan for the future when all I get is reject letters. I wish I had done more but things went out of my control during the first few semesters because of the pandemic and then I spent my final semester at home. What a bummer. JKK season 1 I’m watching this for the first time when all I had were the memes and I still have no clue what’s going on, but the fight scenes are cool looking. Knowing what happens in season 2 makes season 1 feel like a story where you, the viewer, know of the impending doom that the characters do not and that they were losers from the very start. Honestly, it’s a world where the main guy is in the wrong genre where if it were any other show a miracle would happen to make things get better and idk, but uh, no, this is a world of evil/ Zero progress on any other show, I kind of just watched JJK and would’ve continued just that but my service only had season 1 up.

On the Pokémon side, I did find a watching order for XY, that’s good. I still have Pokémon TV downloaded and for some bizarre reason it still worked after the shutdown. Because of my tablet refusing to acknowledge this blatant necromancy, I rewatched the Pokémon origins OVA. Going at it from a perspective of +10 years later and not as a part of a retrospective on Pokémon TV makes me wish that they had done more with it and continued later games because now it’s just another thing in the kanto pile. I do like how endearing the red of this one is, he’s just a really excitable clumsy guy with a sense of justice and what not. The fourth episode is still the most hype one battle wise. I still stand by that Green of this world didn’t deserve to be flattened and basically hospitalized while watching his dream crumble in front of his eyes. It’s a good nostalgia trip of basically everyone’s first Pokémon playthrough where they overleveled their starter (like hell I’m calling it first partner) and used it to solo the game.

TTG to the movies. I’m not sure why this show still exists tbh. The Flintstones. I didn’t pay attention to this at all. I’m not a movie person and mostly use it as background noise. My attention span has been shot for years. On average maybe I’ll watch like, one movie in theatres for the entire year.

May Crazy how May started off with me immediately knocking out a bunch of stuff and then it kept rolling until a screeching halt. I doubt I’m going to magically get anything done in between today and June 1st so I’m posting it now.

Completed season 1 of bakugan done

Basically as a standalone it’s okay, it’s not really anything special outside of the select episodes where the characters are tested and the whole Alice subplot It’s quintiessential Saturday morning cartoon you put on while you do something else because they kinda just do whatever during battles Wakfu Season 1

Wakfu is a show made in flash that’s uses MMO terms because it used to be one and just expects you to know things and I was just thrown into it It’s made on flash and is really well made like I wasn’t expecting some of the fight scenes and it gets better as it goes season 1 finale locked in FR English dub is so so but I like it; reminds me of the NG sounding voices anyways Tristepinne was a real one It’s very clearly anime inspired and wears it’s influence on its sleeve The main villain commits centuries of atrocities to go back in time only for it to fail and only give him the episodes run time which is insane

Fanmade (pokemon Starter Squad) Starter Squad is a relic of the past but I had no clue what I was expecting during any part so the later half took me out Made clearly during brawl time with the models, episodes get longer and length and more complex in plot

Tokyo Mew Mew (Ole, 2020 Return) I was supposed to read regular Tokyo Mew Mew a La mode but instead binged through Ole, which is a story about boys instead. Yes, the main character is a cat boy. The main girl is the knowledgeable one about the endangered animals. The boys don’t really have uniforms like the girls did with their costumes. They’re all weirdos. This is one of those ones where you have to turn off your brain to get through it. The main girl being active word wise but passive power wise kind of causes an imbalance where it’s like… why are all these guys after her exactly again…? The first few volumes hit some of the generic shoujo romance beats including the stuff that makes me go “why include that”. Then it gets real weird later on. I kind of wish it didn’t go in that direction, it felt uncomfortable. At least one character said it was sexual harassment at that point and I was like “yeah that’s what I’ve been saying, these villains suck!” Quite frankly it was one of the readings I’ve done this year. Tokyo Mew Mew 2020 Return This one was more of like a compilation of short stories that kind of just incorporated berry into the team as if she’d always been there rather than my memories of a La Mode so it was… nice, I suppose.

On going

Bakugan Season 2 I started season 2 but didn’t really care much at the start outside of the one guy who is in this one pokemon fangame i meant to get to but didn’t yet Season 2 really does not want to give the main cast their dues, did the writers fire the only woman they had or something because like why is Alice not here smoking the aliens she can teleport Ninjago dragons rising has that Netflix money I’m assuming it assumes that you haven’t watched the rest of the show but I already watched through a bunch of the earlier seasons (and posted it too.) When are they gonna start streaming monkie kid

Pokemon Related Content

I played through Yellow Legacy which was fun. I did it on my tablet instead of my usual computer. I also played through cubic crystal since Delta came out. I forgot how much Zubat SUCK in early game when you’re on mt.moon and all the SuperSonics hit and you hit yourself everytime Goddamn bat. I have no idea how to start the looker quest in X and I think it’s hit low priority at the moment.
Haikyuu Season 1 Local shonen/mahou shoujo watcher watches sports anime and is pleasantly surprised to see that somehow all of the power level stuff translates over to “how hard can this guy hit a volleyball” incredibly easily I like it because it is a nice change of pace and it is funnily mundane. I have no idea why all these people online keep calling the grey haired guy a war criminal and I’m afraid to find out.

Tomodachi Life: I dumped a bunch of my Pokémon fic characters into Tomodachi life where I also had a bunch of joke characters because the old save wiped. There's like 6 Reds. Miku is there. I forgot how funny this can be if it’s full of mii OCs Other

To fill out the FFXIV MMO shaped hole in my life I’ve been playing mobile MMOs. I think the genshin gachafication of video games needs to be thoroughly studied because why is this game locking behind weapons. The only thing it should be used for is cosmetics like Maplestory used to do years ago.

Kirby Dreamland 3, Cave Story, Live A Live, Sonic Advance 3, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Dream Collection, Cave Story, Smash 3DS, Pokemon FRLG, Dragalia Lost, FFXIV, Freedom Planet, Mario 64, Mario and Luigi Bowser Inside Story, Legendary Starfy, Pokemon Emerald Rogue, SRB2Kart, Alter Ego, Smash 3DS, Pokemon Blue Rescue Team, Miitopia, Maplestory (level 250 era), Deltarune, Alter Ego, Animal Crossing City Folk, Mario Kart Wii

FreeTEMPO, LOONA, EVE, Buzy, Clazziquai Project, Psyqui, Daoko, Maroon 5, BTS, Junko Ohashi, Miki Matsubura, One OK ROCK, Anri, Flow, Sonic CD, Crush 40, Windows 96, Nelward, Bump of Chicken, Jeff and Casey Lee Williams, UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, Jamrioquai, Bo En, Mayayoshi Soken

Sailor Moon, Gurren Lagaan, Romantic Killer, Angel Beats, Madoka Magica, Maid Sama, Yugioh GX, Kirby of the Stars, Gravity Falls, Avatar the Last Airbender, Code Lyoko, PPGZ, W.i.t.c.h, Winx Club, Digimon Adventure 1+2, Baki Hanma, P4 the animation, Fresh Precure

Percy Jackson, Calvin and Hobbes, Illiad, Kingdom Hearts, ChocoMimi, Pokemon Special, Spirit Circle, Megaman Gigamix, Fate Strange Fake, Zelda Four Swords Manga, Dragon Ball Z, Sonic Universe, Cucumber Quest, Girl's Last Tour, Bone, Great Gatsby, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Hunger Games

Pokemon 3, Spiderman into the Spiderverse, The Bad Guys, Pinochio, Ponyo, Pokemon 1, Digimon Tamers Runaway Locomon, Madoka Rebellion, Spiderman 2, Matilda, Wreck it Ralph, Despicable Me, Sonic OVA, Monsters Inc, Starwars, Despicable Me, Monty Python Holy Grail, Shrek, Princess Bride, Spongebob Movie (1), Christmas Story, Home Alone, Holes, DBZ fusion reborn, Dead Poets Society, Rugrats Movie

Definite recency bias here since I mostly went with influential stuff from childhood instead of newer things and the newer things I haven't finished yet.

I only count things I’ve completed entirely to fit into this thing of the year, which was not something I had last time. I’m also only considering going more in depth for some this time around instead of single sentence summaries of all. Depends on how I feel more towards the end of the year. Nothing past December either because recency bias would mess with the results, but I’ll have a latecomers section just in case something new shows up. I had it in an image this time around but that's clearly not here.

Counting only complete/ never ending things might’ve worked against me this year. Cartoons/Anime Category: I’m having a heavy debate here. It would be Scott pilgrim, but that literally just came out, so it shouldn’t win. In fact, it really should be in the latecomers category. But simultaneously, I do not want to give it to Ben 10 either because my enjoyment was lost in later seasons out of fatigue. So it’s in this state of “I didn’t finish enough cartoons or anime to have a good one for this category. ” I don’t have a books or manga category because I don’t read books consistently enough to finish them and I speedrun manga without thinking, which I really should do.

Movies/Live Action: Out of all things, based on old/new, wouldn’t the best thing be the one piece live action for being so different from the rest? From an objective standpoint, I did enjoy it the most, and it inspired me to go back into watching the original one piece, so it won from a marketing standpoint. But also, it had that tumblr campaign with buggy, so I don’t want it to earn anything. In terms of movies that aren’t live action, the miraculous ladybug movie might win(?) because it managed to capture the craziness of the actual show except for the fact that it actually managed to wrap up the plot instead of making things convoluted like the original show. Also, making it a musical was jarring but funny because of the way I watched it with my sibling and both of us had wildly different reactions. But across the spiderverse was right there, so it should be there, but I kinda want something with rewatchability and the end of the movie gave me a headache, and comparing it to the first has the first be more rewatchable in terms of not needing to worry about a meta plot.

Video Games: I did not complete much this year for video games at all. GaiaOnline would win, but that’s just because I didn’t have many exciting things going on outside for video games because of class, which makes it difficult to get established with a new game that expects a lot of things versus the MMOs/Gachas which mostly require me to login and do one task. Though, for the most part, I’ve been ignoring a lot of main stories in games this year to just relax, because getting invested into a video game heavily during such a tumultuous time of academia would not be a good idea! But GaiaOnline… Yeah, this one’s weird to me too. I haven’t even been talking on the forums, which is the main appeal, I’ve just been using it like a dress up simulator. For some reason, buying clothes from the marketplace and learning lakekindred has brought me enjoyment while I multitask on other things. The power of cute clothes won over my heart since I deleted hello sweet days off my phone I suppose.

Pokemon: Pokemon is in it’s own category as per usual but since I only said I’d do complete games… I had to refer back to the Pokelog I said I’d only update with cleared parties instead of every single game. If I had to give an award here, it would be to the concept of the Ironmon idea, which isn’t new, but it allowed me to comb through a lot more Pokemon games when I had the motivation to play them. I think Crystal Advance Redux would win this category, but I didn’t finish it, so I’ll put it in the other category (out of three, I have complete items, continuation, and latecomers.)

Results: Do any of these things deserve to be called thing of the year? Uhhh. Well. No. Considering the last one was angel beats, which had a profound effect on me even though it was cut relatively short. Nothing much came here since I was so busy with other things I didn’t get to fully enjoy a lot of media like others did. Maybe next year.

Extra (Latecomers) This has gotta be the funniest lineup of random things I did all within a few days of each other.

Unicorn Academy What if there was a magical unicorn horse academy full of quirky people. “This is sort of out of my age range but I’ll watch it anyways.” I said. “This is kind of like RWBY,” says the person who watched a lot of RWBY. “It’s like my little pony.” I thought since the horses have magic powers. “I should rewatch winx club.” "The house elf thing kind of sucks", I think in hindsight. I hated the cliffhangers on literally every episode. The main villain is literally an evil elf woman and the entire time I was like I understand villain enjoyers now I think, I wanted to see more of her hamming up the scenery and she was barely in the show because they turned into a statue. Lame.

Captain Lazerhawk: How did this thing get greenlit. It’s incredible. Like someone decided to make smash bros but while snorting something after speedrunning through cyberpunk , like, I’m just in awe of how wild the premise is and what they do with most of the characters. They kind of did Jade dirty by killing her so early. More or less I did end up watching it because I was like “was that YouTube recommending a shitpost or did rayman really do all that crazy shit” and then I watched and it was like when a person watches a show for one thing and ends up invested in the overall plot anyways, it was good regardless of the fact I don’t know what Ubisoft franchise Lazerhawk is from. (I feel like heavier Rayman fans have had a weird time with this show though, they keep deciding to put in NFTs and Rayman as a franchise has a pretty environmental message, right?)

Pui Pui Molcar Season 2 (Driving School) I loved season 1 since it’s literally just guinea pigs/hamsters on wheels. It’s adorable. And very chaotic. This one had more of a focus on driving school since the molcars accidentally destroyed the city but I think I like season 1 more since that one had less focus and just went all over the place. (It does suck knowing that they got into Fungibles though.)

Food I did get the wawa pizza to share but it was bad and sucked and shouldn’t have been $14. I got a big thing of iced tea instead of water and I already know the health consequences will be dire but variety’s the spice of life and my breakfasts were boring AF (I say this and then immediately a few days later I’m starting to try a big exercise routine. Hmm.) Not even a media moment but I ate a burger with cream cheese on it and everyone around me was like “cream cheese???” And it was actually somewhat good tasting. It was like a bagel.

Media

Mostly star rail (I posted about that), finishing Emerald’s trash run (I also posted about that), and doing my best to not be tempted into ruining my entire schedule thing by racing through ARR since I learned the speed run takes 20 hours. (Which I would obviously break down, I’m not that foolish,) I should’ve properly paced that, but I didn’t, which is going to lead to a very interesting experience if today was any indication when I have to inevitably tank and heal for the last chunk of MSQ since I don’t have other jobs for those alts since I barely play them, just take photos with them. As for the Pokémon thing I’m considering after this latest one I move onto the DS ones since I want to do more long running games for the fall to switch pace. The only consistent thing will likely stay with XIV (thus, ending the whole latale-flyff-RuneScape-MapleStory M rotation I had going on.) ToramOnline is really the only new thing I’ve added aside from briefly continuing my bakugan venture. It’s so wild that I learned in later seasons that they straight up get rid of two of the major supporting cast characters while the others are reduced to cameos. I haven’t gotten there yet, just to the point where the gang is sent to the doom dimension. XIV: I was told that it would’ve taken me like 3 hours to beat ARR on everyone but per character per day thats like 6 hours… i can’t do that kind of stuff anymore. One piece LA: Tbh im probably fully spoiling myself when i actually watch the anime parts but I don’t like the way Nami’s arc was handled in the live action but I dont know enough about her as a character in the anime to properly have thoughts on her. Also the lighting was really dark in some scenes and I couldn’t see anything (I wish movies and shows would stop doing that so often.) Madoka was taken off Netflix so I just watched a YouTube version that I found of rebellion in prep for the new movie. I haven’t watched the Gacha version. laTale M came out. It’s not good! Why do all the work to make a mobile MMO version of the game just to make it an automover? Makes no sense.

read through the entirety of Pokémon festival of champions again and it’s still peak of Pokémon fan related content reading. (Unfortunately it's a bit of a hard opening to get through since the new prologue involves Red getting brutally beaten up and I understand that probably would get a lot of people to not want to read that) Pokemon Reboot certainly had some designs I didn’t see because I was too busy aiming for the nugget bridge exploit to get a dratini. Honestly that last chunk where I had to systematically hunt down every trainer was my fault which has inspired my new challenge run idea for randomizers I have, otherwise I’m just moving onto Gen 2. Which I’ve done so with Pokémon Crystal Advance (redux) I’ve never played the original crystal advance, so I have no merits to judge it. However, I’ve had some to say about it so far like… they sure did have a double battle with Falkner for the first gym. There’s a lot of generational distribution. I’m kinda more into an experience of vanilla johto instead of the perfected experience so after this I might go backwards to just plain crystal and gold and silver instead of something like… legacy. I spent way too much time on Star rail this week and the game only gave me light cones. I went from no rank to rank 26 and I think I fried my brain a bit. I do not like findie. Please tell me there’s an option to keep it quiet. It’s silly little beep beep beeps do nothing for me. Naruto has also fried my brain because In a way I’m in a matchup between my brain being shonens most braindead reader/ watcher versus “it could be deep” theory crafting for a 20+ year old franchise and my brain is actively picking apart pieces of the show I don’t like and wiping them out. I haven’t even gotten to Shippuden. Bakugan is one of those shows I am clearly not paying attention to fully. It’s a filler show I watch between death note despite the fact if I’d pay attention fully I’d finish death note already but that one’s more of a slow burn I like bakugan for nostalgia’s sake, which is why I’m only watching season 1 because the other seasons lack the characters I liked in season 1 rewatching rwby. Rooster teeth might’ve officially removed the seasons from their channel but reuploaded work faster than the devil. I slept through fanfest for 14 and didn’t miss much since I’m not posting DT stuff yet. I’m only interested in the collab stuff… Played more of Pokémon Crystal Advance Redux. This shit is hard as hell, even the magikarp have hands. I have to do teambuilding but also have to consider I can’t use more convenient Pokemon due to already using them for other halls of fame. And it’s only gonna get worse the more games I clear… I’ve yet to find a vanilla johto game remake but hey, shiny onix. I did not want an onix on my team. But since it’s shiny. I have to use it. My system in place is that I only play until I get a badge and then I stop. I hope onix can evolve without trading because I do not care about Onix in any way, shape, or form. I’m sorry onix enjoyers.

I’ve completed ARR on M’ari, meaning I’m at the halfway point for all of my characters. I think that ARR has some good areas but since I’m prioritizing clearing MSQ for the sake of it rather than taking my time that it’s reflecting poorly on me as I kind of… stop paying attention to yellow quests and stuff I was doing to have fun in the game. But I promised myself I’d complete all of them, so up next on the list is Sage. Who. Is falling a bit behind, somehow. My Warrior level didn’t get much exp in a while (and I haven’t tanked much duties, just DPS), but somehow I’ve managed to clear stuff. Doesn’t mean I’m a good tank. I completely forgot about the ARR ending part changes. On the one hand, better that they’re not janky. On the other hand, I kind of liked that jank. It was funny when sprouts were continuously believing that Westwind was immensely hard only for it to turn out to be easy as hell. The fall guys stuff dropped (well, its gotten patched in) and it’s so obnoxious that wraps back to being funny, im gonna learn how to be the best faller guy in XIV for the stupid shit. As a bonus, there’s some collages of progress for everyone. (It’s in a separate post.) In the meantime, I put a bit more effort into playing ToramOnline since it’s basically the only MMO that survived my no more mobile MMOs purge, because I like it. It’s charming, reminds me of MapleStory before I threw it into the gutter.

Death Note (10/37) I can’t believe madhouse made this 15 years ago and it’s still really nice looking. I watch it in intervals of 2 days. 2 days works out because then I gotta let it set in like “how’s light gonna get out of this situation?” Death note is very funny because light seriously would’ve been bagged multiple times but the people are fumbling. Just give him a fake name. Like, he’s only winning because the author is letting him, both FBI agents failed, but even the cameras were noted because of the Shinigami. Light wouldn’t have been bagged if he yerked off while looking at the mags or if he wrote fanfictin or something that’s not as obvious as freaking scorn mags. Come on. Write poetry or draw crazy shit or something, get some hobbies. He took a potato chip and he ate it, but why couldn’t he just have changed up his routine and studied at the library or something. I’ve gotten to the part where L meets him in real life, and I kind of like L. He’s a little oomfie core. I can’t believe the tennis episode literally happens immediately after L gets introduced. Honestly, it would be really funny if the show abruptly changed to Light going back to playing tennis. To win, one must attack. And that’s the kind of person Light is, he’s never on the defense, he always has to do something scheme wise. I didn’t know his dad had a heart attack that wasn’t death note related, that was kind of crazy. Then Misa showed up. Maybe. The tapes seem like a thing someone other than Light would do.

Baki Hanma (season 1) The prison escaping arc is certainly a way to go for season 1, along with Oliver and his wife and Baki being a little bit of an asshole, it was kind of a bit of a turn around from the first part of the series being like a boss rush. There’s kind of not much compelling to keep watching it because I dunno, I liked the structure of the other more, this one has a lot less chaos going on. Like the first half was better because it was Baki’s training arc with doing dumb shit like fighting grasshoppers and his dad breaking into the military too just to go swimming. Baki got his own devils face though, that was cool. I think Yujiro Hanma could defeat a T-Rex, is that when the pickle arc happens? Oh, it’s happening now. As in. The plot of season 2, judging by the new opening scenes.

Star Rail (Jarlio VI, equilibrium 1.): The romantic start period I think is over and it’s back to doing the same grinding that I did with genshin minus the fact that it’s more convenient to play this game in short bursts instead of needing to do that open exploring thing, I can’t do that, my brain cells will only get me to explore one area instead of doing it all. Anyways, uh, Topaz made me learn about the stock market but when I rolled for both fire units I ended up with Himeko. Very cool. I had started up the little prince and I had notes, but never continued it. Then I ended up with pride and prejudice in audiobook format and got pretty far, but then I somehow got bored of it so I just returned the book. So nothing really in terms of my note taking…. Guess I gotta be in the mood to read more. As for November, I could continue with the stuff I said I would do in October, or come up with new things. I ended up rewatching RWBY and I want to do so until the end of volume 3 or however much I can find without having to use the site, and Pokemon Horizons looks pretty good. Could also consider watching more movies instead of just leaving them stuck on my bucket list, but I gotta be in the mood… its different watching a show than a movie in some areas.

FFXIV * Fall Guys: Man. I wish it was easier to see your arrow with the about face mechanic I’ve thought was mine but turned out was someone else’s. I’ve had the term “Sisyphean task” in my head for days while attempting to get past the second stage. GaiaOnline: Look at this cat thing. I’ve been making an in game journal and all I’ve been doing is pointing out stuff that works or doesn’t but now im just gambling in the auction and bumping forever in the forums. Also, the ruffle stuff works, sort of? The answer to that question was “yes, the ruffle stuff only really works on desktop, otherwise it takes forever or just leaves a black screen on mobile. LaTale journal: I deleted M because I hate autobattlers. I went back to desktop on a single mission. It’s more of an attempt to funnel directly to learning if the NPC fashion items were ever directly changed after multiple company transfers and if mobs still drop fashion items, but one is of a different priority than the other. Do later towns sell fashion items that weren’t documented?The answer I leaned was a fat “no” and that’s why nothing past 2008 focuses on different clothes and then Iris said something pressed so my motivation to continue the game died. Oh well. Least the musics still good. Pokemon(?) :There’s only so much time I can spend dedicated to long term RPGs so my new strat is doing ironman’s. One run and if I die im done.

Steven’s Universe: After years of not watching Steven universe and seeing the fandom implode on itself I decided to start watching Steven universe for the anniversary I have two very simple rules in mind when engaging with certain types of media Don’t listen to the opinions of Youtubers Never argue over children’s cartoons I’m having fun, why did people hate this? It’s got all the anime Lo-fi aesthetic, powerful ladies, narrative lore stuff, does it get severely mid or something? I know I got wrapped up in the critic wave where everyone said it was bad so I thought it was bad but I’m going back to 1 now because I think the tumblr Steven media critics moved to some other children’s cartoon which likely has some nightmarish fandom the likes of which I’ve never seen before. I had a genshin section here but I'm cutting it out.

RWBY: Years ago, I said that RWBY was like an anime adaption of a JRPG where the story goes “cool school, blows up, time to collect macguffins and fight god” and that was like around volume 6 or so, which is when I decided to stop watching, mostly because the episodes moved to RT’s website. Now, I did manage to watch volume 9 as a stand-alone but the end result pretty much made me go “why did I like this show again?” Because it had been so long that I forgot. Starting off with the latest when I hadn’t seen at least two of them wasn’t the best idea, but rather than go back to them, I decided to reset and rewatch the entire show step by step. Not like I have anything better to do with my time.

Manga Moment! I have an issue where i read through books and manga based on recommendations and then proceed to have zero formative opinion on them because I see a cool thing and go “wow, cool thing!” And proceed to black out from the rest of the narrative and translations. I should stop doing that.

Pokewilds retake: i updated but I lost all my old saves… I got swept by a sudowoodo. Pokémon crafting is pretty good fun. The Ironmon thing is pretty funny because it’s either like I manage to get through a game easily or I get wiped to the first few battles. I’ve gotten a bit in of Gaia and Turquiose. Scott pilgrim takes off assumes you’ve watched at least one Scott pilgrim thing which makes it very hard to talk about it so I’ll say it’s a good “what if” exploration of the characters and nothing else. If anything I can say it’s like a new Amanaguchi album came with this animation* *people online debate if this is a cartoon or anime considering that it’s based on a Canadian comic but it’s made in a Japanese studio so… Scott the movie: I liked it, it was pretty funny seeing a life action version of everything. Even if the sound choices were very limited in what game noises they could use (they were pretty happy with the sonic ring sound…) wasn’t really great that they kinda shoved Scott’s development of not being an ass about the two timing into a single scene but the swerve with Nega Scott was also funny. I watched this after take off. Pitch perfect: My sibling loves this movie so I’ll check it out it’s about the acapella band or something… Tbh I can’t care for these movies about relationship college drama and they love it alongside mean girls and idgaf. It’s slightly more than that but School drama is boring to me. It’s second hand embarrassment I don’t like all. I listened to a lot of takeo onuki’s works this week. One of the city pop artists. It was good.

Retiring the manga section because it’s mostly just me speedrunning Isekai that get cut short because they’re web novel ads and I dont want to do that. the missing one was “our lives after the apocalypse.” It’s a combination of YouTube recs and that one marvel video, but I can’t get over how the stars were aligned for me to fixate on the show that literally just came out and instead I’m too busy getting absolutely beat in Rayman Redepmtion. Incredible. I also blame Captain Lazerhawk, even if that is an AU rayman. I’m kinda surprised that title character is barely in the tag. I sincerely need more podcasts outside of sleeping ones and video game news for games I don’t even play from companies I’ve never bought In terms of online games… The WiFi’s shit where i live again. I’m starting to suspect my break from part timers/ffxiv might be more permanent if the game keeps crashing like this/ i guess it’s a good thing I tried fall guys out now versus finding out it would be hot shit later.

There is probably a large subsection of people who have never seen the original dragon ball and that’s a shame. They don’t know about goku’s looney tunes nonsense with extreme violence and how bulma performed a hit and run and immediately shot him. It’s accurate to the intro where it’s their strange little journey. I mean I read the manga but it’s a lot different seeing it move. I heard Goku speak in the subs and I understood him immediately. He is my friend, he is a creature of whimsy, he was a monkey that could shoot laser beams. Forget power scaling, I want a rule of funny that kid goku would do some goofy bullshit to DBZ enemies. He’d kill cell with a can of raid and a fly swatter I’ve also been watching the big green dub of DBZ which holds an equal amount of absurdity but that’s because it’s infamous for being a bunch of French people speaking English in one take Enraptured by the language choices when speaking of dragon ball terms and how it is. It’s endearing to me. They speak so fast. That’s just how dubs were. The humor is still there. I should continue this into December, like that guy who does dragon ball December months. A very bad holiday: The OG bad guys I liked but this one was clearly children’s special for the holidays. Ninjago— the shorter episode seasons (11 minute runs) Maybe I should’ve started at the original but I was like whatever they’ll explain the plot Next thing I know Zane’s been trapped in a dimension and became an emperor and Cole’s fighting a yeti I’m watching it like what??? Huh??? The next season I watched had them in the gamer dimension and the one I’m currently watching has… the sky… world? I dont know.

Media Myhouse.Wad: That doom MOD has been pretty funny to watch turn from a “ohhh spooky mystery” to “these guys are using the lawnmower mod to speedrun it” I finished Glitter Force (The Smile Season.) The juxtaposition of smile Precure episodes: - Joker has trapped the girls in the hell dimension - Lily wants to buy a gundam robot - These two episodes were back to back They basically cut like all of Sunny’s episodes and I feel like the show is like, good for an entry way point but my main problem (not even with the dub) is that like half these episodes could’ve been solved if the girls just fired their attack at the start of when the villains show up instead of waiting for the clown guy to do their gimmick. At the very least the dub voices were nice to listen to but when I started watching the dokidoki version I was immediately distracted by how Mana sounds like Jimmy Neutron (they have the Same VA) I’m starting to think the best way to watch a Precure season is to marathon the entire thing so that way you don’t have an entire year’s time frame to dislike the shows handling and efficiently not analyze much of it at all so that people aren’t inevitably disappointed by a children’s cartoon.

Rugrats season 1, where I have two singular thoughts in my head the entire time. : These babies have caused so much property damage because the parents are neglectful—brain cell A. Isn’t this supposed to be funny to be watching them do wanton chaos though— brain cell B I’ve been watching Death Note, the dub. Unfortunately netflix subs mean I don’t get Keikaku and dub only makes me think of Lan because of the battle network run I only know this show through meme osmosis. Chobits: I read the entire manga in a single night, and then i basically forgot it all. CLAMP is kind of weird with the amount of student teacher relationships they have and this one also has it. Like what I do recall is “why did they give robot people free will if it would just lead to those kinds of problems” and “why did they make a robot child’s power button THERE of all places” and the general feeling of witnessing a train wreck in real time kept me going. Understandably this is one of those things I can never recommend to anyone ever. Watched the entrietry of Gudetama, the show where an egg becomes the prime minister for a single episode. Salt Fat Acid Heat: I’ve only watched the salt and fat episode so far and I keep getting insanely jealous. I wish to eat pesto.

FFXIV is a dearly beloved video game to me and I truly hope to continue the MSQ which I will do eventually, but for now it’s holding most of my attention as a roguelike with the occasional strategy dip with whatever I’m doing with the squadrons All I do these days is login to craft or play POTD, Gold Saucer, and drag alts through ARR, rinsing and repeating. Some of those alts are having skill issues though because I have no idea why I kept utterly failing at stone vigil. I eventually got through it with WAR on duty support but I don’t think I’ll ever be allowed to play with people again. FGO making a comeback was the last thing id expect to happen this summer but I still had the damn old account from 2018 so its back to the gacha mines I tried playing Sonic 1 and 2. Emphasis on tried. “You know, green hill was pretty fun, let’s make no stage like that ever”— Sonic Team. The special stages are heinous and I’m straight up never getting the good ending on either one. I believe the reason they only ever reuse green hill is because that’s probably what majority of people saw. Sonic is supposed to be cool, the classic one, but I see his little animations and go like, oh, he’s kind of cute. Genshin returned for like a single moment and then faded back into the BG. Final Fantasy 1 returns, but I immediately screw around with party compositions instead of continuing my original party. The wizard gang will carry me far into the game, I believe. I beat two rounds of emerald with pixie mons so now the third run of emerald is obviously just a regular run with it. I’m considering having a checkmark dex or something to ensure that I actually utilize all Pokémon that are available to me, even if that mindset is stupid. Actually, that gives me an idea based on my IRL Pokémon games I still have….

Watched spiderverse (the new one) with my friend, and it’ll probably be my movie of the year since I barely watch movies. I do wish there weren’t so many effects like all the time though, it’s probably impossible to watch for anyone with sensory issues and even I had to close my eyes at one point of the movie. Unico, Volume 1. I didn’t find two, but I did watch the pilot. Is the underlying theme of these Tezuka mangas just that something bad/sad always happens to the protagonist? Same thing happened with the few Astro boy episodes I watched from like, most iterations minus the movie. TBH I forgot. The pilot movie I did watch was radically different from the actual manga chapters it was based on because like, the chapter with the cat and demon were seperate and there also wasnt a vampire demon thing so seeing it was more of a sharp turn from an adaptation to the directors just doing their own thing with it. The entirety of glitter force doki doki. Is Mana a Mary sue discussion has been beaten to the ground so I don’t care to even bring it up, but the GF version kinda highlights how her friendship with Regina kind of takes over the facets of her friendship(s) over the other girls (which isnt helped by how many episodes centered on the other girls got cut outside of the ace arc). Umineko Manga: this shit’s crazy! How is she doing all of this. I’m gonna read an episode per day like I was supposed to with death note, (and possibly check out the VN if I can.)

Ben 10: I only have memories of Kevin as a tall person who was fascinated with his car. Seeing small Kevin was bizarre. I liked 1 and 2 so far more than 3. Not as interested in Gwen centric episodes aside from like. The lucky girl ones. Because watching two kids consistently squabble is the low point vs Ben using his aliens to do petty shit Again I blame the nature of binge watching because I probably would’ve enjoyed season 3 and 4 had I not marathoned the entire show but I feel like the direction was slightly changed for season 3 and 4 to be like, more aliens! Or maybe an episodic show with not much continuity leads itself to being formulaic and I’m just not as engaged in the formula as with the first two. I am putting far too much stock into a Y7 Show.

Sonic Prime: I don’t remember my review for season 1, but season 2 was good in some spots and if something’s not memorable to me I flat out forget it. Highlights this season were shadow and the show’s take on metal Sonic. Will they (the shards) coexist or not is the great question season 3 has to answer because it’s like, do you erase the individuals to make them their originals again or do you erase the parts to make them whole? The funny thing is that this is the third media I’ve seen that has the trolley problem of “if these people are split into different parts is it worth it to erase the parts to make them the originals again” within the span of 2 years. The other two fandoms still argue over their media’s takes on it. The Sonic fandom tends to argue over many things so it’s kind of irrelevant.

Magi Season 1: I tend to sometimes have like a critical standpoint on things that are clearly not made with me (a black person) in mind but this show makes me overthink whenever I’m not watching it because I feel like if this was a more recent show that it would attract the type of insane discourse that makes me turn off my brain. For starters since the show takes influence from the Arabian nights this would stand to have like… anyone who isn’t white* (as in Japanese and not White as in Western) looking, but then it fails at that point by only having a handful be anything other than that aside from one of the season 1 villains who is also a banker stereotype. Plus there’s also the stereotype of having more heavy weighted people just be villains. Then there’s also the slave subplot which is also primary to the tertiary character but then when adding the above… , I have to consider the factor of “do I really want the only black person in this anime’s entire plot line to revolve around being a former slave” and my answer is “not really.” So whenever the show’s focus isn’t on the world building of the magic system or the bond between the two leads it’s kind of failing on a cultural viewpoint (yes it also has the stereotypical outfits). Ignoring that it’s mostly just a mid ... it's not a shonen because of how much the main character is a total perv. What's the category above shonen? Seinen.

Using my switch online subscription the only two things I’ve been doing are playing yoshis island and trying to decorate my animal crossing island. I also redownloaded pocket camp. There’s way more events going on there, it kind of feels like I just play new horizons to decorate it so weeds don’t grow there. I revisited wild world but DS games are made for slower seasons I feel (like fall and winter.) Everyone in advance having a way to cheese bosses aside from sonic has some pretty fun matchups.The Amy campaign being lengthened by me not knowing her full move set was kind of nuts, watching a YouTube video where I saw her use an attack I never used in my game made me lose it (I played her more like a puzzle game since her move set is so different from the other three.) Kirby squeak Squad: Kirby doesn’t need inventory management. But squeak squad is a decent game when you don’t have some YouTuber/influencer telling you the game is mid. It might be mid in my opinion as wells but at least I’m not bored. More Pokemon . Same old, same old. Nothing incredible to say so it’s whatever. So the way I vibe with Pokémon isn’t active, but passive, because I use it to multitask with my hands while doing other stuff, like watching shows. Going forward I’ll only post cleared Pokémon games instead of in progress ones (unless it’s an ended demo.)

Playing: I just beat Kirby squeak squad yesterday so I think outside of the canvas curse and other spin-offs I’ve completed all of the pre 3D 2D mainline Kirby games. It’s decent when you don’t have people online in your ear complaining it’s mid. It’s reputation might just be “the one where Kirby goes crazy over a cake” but man if I was going to have a delicious snack and someone stole it I’d be mad too. Outside of that I’ve been working on SMRPG and the SNES Yoshi’s island. Casually I’ve been playing animal crossing and one of those Sanrio mobile games (but not the new one.)

Watching: I was supposed to be sticking to watching just shorter shows like Sonic Boom and watching movies instead of getting heavily invested in anything but then somehow I’ve found myself watching the Astro Boy 2003 dub. I wanted to watch the subs but I don’t want to pay a subscription but I also don’t want to watch it in a poor quality. If I watch around 3-6 episodes I can probably get it finished before vacation ends. Sonic Boom was started in August… 100 episodes? Some jokes are actually funny. Teeniepig is basically just precure and I have no idea how I ended up watching it Shorter time per episode= more episodes. I wish streaming services had a shuffle episode button. Like a large majority of Astro boys dubbed episodes within two days. That’s the fixation man, since I couldn’t even get through Death Note even with me watching it once a day I dropped it in 2 episodes The final episode is completely butchered, no going around that, but for the most over it’s serviceable unless you’re particularly nitpicky like with Atlas but like, the whole point of that was parental neglect even if the dub made him a robot instead of a human it still counts because his treatment was still the same It’s a beautiful show, which is why I ended up using so much of it for the screenshot parts

Mech Cadets was on Netflix and I watched the entire 10 episode course in two days because I have zero control when it comes to watching where it either drags our or I watch it all in one go. Every time I see a mecha show based in the West I end up going “Is this gonna try to reference Eva?” But that’s because I have zero referential ability. Mech cadets is quite a generic name though, they couldn’t have given it like a cool subtitle like Mech Cadets Ride Out with some exclamation points. (EDIT: the full name in the comic is Mech Cadet Yu, which works far better.) Kind of funny how my instinct whenever I see an bike in a western production is that I think the Akira bike slide is going to happen next (Wasn’t expecting the old men fight though,) I can probably retire the video section since I have the photos to show off the music I listen to with the full name in case YouTube pulls a fast one and deletes it and I’ll outright forget what it was. I like how I was like “I’m not getting invested into anything in the tail end of summer so I won’t be distracted when I need to study” and now I’m watching Baki the grappler because I saw the obama scene Sonic OVA: That was a very cool 2 episode movie with neat scenes and fight scenes. I like how knuckles has a hat. La Tale: Let’s gooo, time to waste my entire life on a new MMO that doesn’t have all the insane stuff behind it. But I need to be careful lest I turn into a beast of nature like my MapleStory days. It’s so funny how badly I slide off gacha games and like things people consider being good or not. Everyone is out here with their new games and meanwhile I got back into playing like, a Pokémon Emerald Bad Pokemon only run where I immediately busted out the rare candies since I quite frankly do not have the time or patience to actually grind out them. I think it’s justifiable when other hard mode games do have them.

( I still stand by the rare candy thing. No one is playing something like run and bun with grinding, there are level caps for a reason.)

Last time I mentioned kirby was on a twitter post where I mentioned playing Kirby’s dreamland DX edition, which adds color to it. I didn’t cover extra mode and I think the next game I moved onto was nightmare in dreamland versus playing just plain old adventure, but this is what I sparsely wrote because of character limit: “ I’ve only ever played Spring Breeze through Super Star and Ultra so going back to the original wasn’t too bad minus the one boss rush. I didn’t know the SHMUPs started this early in the series.” The next few games I played love doing (mini) boss rushes. In particular, I’ve played Nightmare in Dreamland, a bit of the NES kirby’s adventure, Super Star Ultra’s campaigns minus Meta Knightmare, and the Kirby Fangame Invaders from the Dark.

Overall: On the one hand, playing all of them back to back in such a way probably ruined the experience more than I think because my playstyle is so responsive to being able to just smack whatever’s in my way and deal with invincibility frames. That’s what playing mostly super star and ultra does to a person and I guess Star Allies (eh) is to blame as well. I got spoiled.

On the other hand, I think Kirby’s better when it’s not some immensely long puzzle solving grand adventure and is broke into bite size pieces like super star and amazing mirror do. Too bad there’s no games in the series exactly like those two. Nightmare in Dreamland (A bit of adventure as well): I’m not entirely sure what happened here, because either my memories are tricking me or the NES experience is what I remember outside of the game looking a bit… strange? All I had thinking was “why is butter building purple, why does getting hit once take your ability if enemies can swarm you so much, I’m not getting 100 percent.” It’s a bit disappointing to me because outside of a few levels I think the game looks and sounds nice. I moved onto adventure before stopping at around Grape Garden because I think visually adventure is more appealing but going back and having the exact same enemy rush problem where some puzzles require escorting an ability from a different level and dealing with screen lag on top of that made me move on.

Kirby Super Star Ultra Main Campaigns + Extra Modes Minus Meta Knightmare.: I’ve seen these backgrounds in sprite comics all the time. Honestly jarring. Since most of my kirby experience comes from amazing mirror as my first one and the 20th anniversary collection as the second, playing some of the remake games is definitely a new experience for me. I’m honestly a fan of Super Star because of the multiple campaigns and wish more Kirby games would aim for campaigns like the ones in Revenge of Meta Knight and Great Cave Offensive outside of just adding in a new playable character scenario. The closest so far are the timed campaigns in Star Allies, but I haven’t played forgotten land yet so I could be proven entirely wrong by it! Revenge of the king is like some mix between harder spring breeze and the hard mode of the original dreamland, which I didn’t play but I did try to see if it was visually similar. Not exactly since castle lololo never returned, but hey, Kabula’s back!!

Invaders from the Dark (Almost Completed): Anyways, what about that “almost?” I make it a point to try clearing main games as much as possible and going for 100 percent only if I really like something. For invaders of the dark, it’s something I wanted to complete because it’s the only platformer Kirby fangame out there that’s relatively completed and not just a mini game reskin or incomplete, but that final boss. Very uh. Out of place in difficulty. Honestly, Pandora from the last ice level was the same way with the ice attacks that chase Kirby and are indestructible. but my problem with Medeor or whatever is that the game throws you between the shmup and the final boss with no way to practice the 11th hour superpower. In this case I should probably just get good but I really don’t want to. It’s like, in theory, I should probably beat it but simultaneously I looked up the credits on youtube and the ending is done in a gamemaker bubble and the credits are in comic sans so I think it’s okay for me to say I’m not inclined to finish it anytime soon.

Conclusion: The games that try to emulate super star emulate the gameplay and not the actual game which was a bunch of mini games. In that way, super star and ultra still remain unique. But I’d rather play super star than ultra because I played the original first on the 20th anniversary collection and I’m the sound is off to me personally. It seems like in the case of Kirby, hardness comes with being a tiny bit annoying. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve lost an ability due to a bunch of Bronto Burt’s flying on screen at once where it’s a buy one get two deal where they all come at once. That was universal between all games, but I can’t stand it when adventure/nightmare did it because most puzzles required getting hammer or fire from one side of the room to another but I can’t exactly do that if I can’t keep the ability on me for more than one nanosecond. It’s my reaction time versus the enemies precision to snipe me from the room. And don’t get me started on the mini boss brigade that haunted me through nightmare in dreamland and amazing mirror and I’m glad none of them made it to 3D!! I never want to see Phan Phan, the fire lion, or that one dog ever again.

Attempting to get to level 130 in Maplestory M through burning was like “wow this sucks.” Sia Astelle finally came out, she’s good. I learned that there’s actually voice acting in the game but I never hear it because I only have auto battle on. I did not get the last BTS cookie in kingdom and quite frankly I’m sick of the event and cookie run kingdom micromanagement but that’s likely burnout from BTS. I still haven’t progressed in FGO and it’s just the France saga. At the very least I haven’t deleted but I currently have no motivation to do it on my phone. The big Ipad though… I should likely transfer. Worsties update: So I beat Zapdos. Only took me learning attract and a lot of stat reducers between tail whip and attract (like my previous Eevee run. Also did the fugitives arc. Will likely cover later. Now I’m going to be stuck on Groudon like my first prediction!

Watched a Low budget movie involving two kings and a question of morality between picking a friend or king when the king killed the rightful heir but obviously the protag picked the king because there wouldn’t be a movie otherwise. Wizard battles with PowerPoint transitions. A movie I missed last year outside of the unfinished Disney movie marathon was Pompo the Cinephile, which is pretty much the epitome of the statement that art is suffering and making extensive cuts but my main takeaway is that a movie needs to be 90 minutes long because I’m terrible at retaining information. A movie watched with the extended family was National Security, which was. I don’t recall much of it outside of it being a buddy cop movie and the antagonist being killed in a looney tunes styled execution where he gets launched off a rock. Lots of explosions. Immediately dated by the usage of video camera, otherwise it would’ve been on phones. Purging all genshin related info from my mind as soon as I saw a glimpse of it online or anyone talking about it IRL has left me clueless as to who anyone actually is or their importance or anything else because I had zero interest. This Diluc guy is cute. Apparently a 5 star. But I know nothing else. Genshin is kind of. Overwhelming? There’s a lot of stuff to do. I’m running around clueless getting the aetheryte teleport thingies while also doing quests and upgrades. It’s probably going to be my next big time sink like how I was with FF14 for a year. Food fantasy. Switched to the JP version INSTEAD of the English version, and I definitely had a better time because the English version is definitely stilted. Not even every character has a dub anymore so some characters have no lines in English. Minor, but concerning: what’s more concerning is that some blurbs don’t show up in English either: the game is probably slowly dying.

The phantom menace. I’ll probably post more in depth about Star Wars (the first six) and then the sequel trilogy later but right now it’s sitting with the classic being the top because I’ve bounced off the phantom menace twice now because this really could’ve been cut. A lot of line reads were stilted and it sort of leaves a weird first impression of the big guy anakin being a child. My watch order was literally 4-5-1-2-3-6 in order to get it out of the way and I can see why they put it like that. Watching TOP progging and its good but also I keep thinking about how genuinely unhinged DSU’s prog era was (Among Us twitter saying who their favorite ward member was, Zephirin pogchamps, peepoArrive, the sheer audacity of the time travel timeline being the worse one, watching multiple DRKs being chased around, twitch chat hive brain screaming “SAVE HIM”, me having Finals during that time period and having 5 different streams open to see if anyone managed to get progress over the other, PlayStation memes, I AM NAMED KYLE). One of the leading groups is someone wearing a Sasuke wig. I have no idea what the shadowbringers ultimate could be. Hades? Warrior of Light? Maybe both? There’s also the buff cap problem they’ve been having which is kind of incredible. Solely dodging everything ahead.

Remember when I was like, oh TOP Progging hasn’t been as insane as DSU, it got insane again because of mods involving the camera. I have nothing against mods but I’m obviously playing vanilla and my opinion doesn’t matter. That’s to say, I have no opinion on the matter. Do I think they’re bad? No. Do I think sometimes they’re used badly? I guess. I do wish I had the ability to backup games, nothings made me feel bad for buying afterwards and not contributing as spark the electric jester, which I couldn’t buy either. Hmm. They made the way bags open in POTD a lot faster. That’s good for future runs. Too bad I still can’t get past 20 on a normal day… but on the other hand I got a red panda!

FGO is one of those games I’m definitely going to watch versus actually play because whoooof. I cannot get myself through it. I could if I had enough incentive outside of cool units but I always impulse summon and get nothing. It’s definitely one of those things i hear about secondhand through looking at forum posts because those are a lot more entertaining. I was playing a nuzlocke mode of Emerald for one of my story concepts but it unceremoniously died at Flannnery and the only survivor was Azumarill, which died to a random battle, so I’m just going back to playing regular Pokémon. I started watching Astro Boy based on a recommend IRL and I had zero knowledge going in aside from what IRL person said which I forgot and also stuff from Megaman, but its pretty jarring to hear such a cheery opening and then the next thing is the boy that Astro is based on dying in a car crash. Then the next episode is Frankenstein. What a fascinating time capsule. a single episode of a show on Netflix which I’ve been considering not using since they have that dumb house policy. Going to check out Tubi more. FFXIV has me needing to multi class for a single job quest but I’m too lazy to do so at the moment. One day I’m gonna end up with an Omnicrafter by sheer accident.

I watched glitter force’s first season (smile precure’s power rangers esque dub on netflix.) I will be posting screenshots of that in full because it was. a lot. My gurren lagaan rewatch got cut since netflix keeps pulling off shows I was still watching!

Watched: The Bad Guys (Dreamworks): I’d like to thank spiderman into the spiderverse for allowing animators to flex in movies forever now, also whoever at dreamworks keeps making wolf characters the way they do, plot was based on a book or something and the morals i think were like, be a good person genuinely instead of being performative, like that little hamster man. Dropped: God Troubles Me (Bilibili). …show kind of peaked at the 12th episode which was the finale of the 1st season, but some of the “humor” turned me off… (re: fat jokes), then season 2 was boring enough to make me drop it (this also might’ve been sleep deprivation.) Pokemon Emerald: There’s a section where I’m like… hmm. IGN might’ve been memed on for this one but they were kind of right to say there’s too much water. Why’s there a whole section with only like, one town that’s insignificant outside of floating on logs. It was at this point in emerald I was like “shit where am I going” so I just uh. Went with a guide. Route 123 to jagged pass… the back to back magma aqua stuff was grating, but rayquaza is so cool it makes me forgive it. speaking of forgiveness in video games. in between intermims when I get sick of pokemon (which considering I saw my playthrough’s team and realized there was no way I’d get to the elite 4 without grinding (I’ve been using music playlists to allievate the boredom), I play Kirby’s adventure. Even though it sort of has the same problems I had with nightmare in dreamland (fast ability stars and like zero time to react to grab it, enemy placement that’s absurd, minibosses… I don’t like), I forgive it because I think by NES standards it’s good in the music and art style. Nightmare in Dreamland just has something on it I don’t like (or it could just be rose tinted glasses.) In terms of FFXIV, there was the little lady’s day event which I did on one character and then basically lost interest in. Why is there an event centered on a dance that isn’t even loopable? This is like, the second event this year I feel like was… lowering my expectations.

Sailor Moon Crystal (in the dubs): every time i think of this show I think of watching the debut but it’s been years, so it’s time for me to move on and actually watch it since I don’t have crunchyroll or Hulu to watch the original. It’s good looking on Netflix since they have the blu ray version and I’ve never gotten to season 2 so… shrugging. Maybe it’ll get better. It’s a more forward manga adaption but sometimes i wish that Sailor V got an adaption instead. I watched the entire production of sailor moon crystal and it was like. “okay.” I’d probably rather watch the original 200 episode course because after a while I just started listening to the audio of it like it was a drama CD. The netflix thing used the blu ray updated versions so seeing this thing manifest on my screen brought back bad memories. The artstyle changed a bit for season 3 and the season 4 movie onwards. Yes precure and Maho Girls are getting a new season! Yay! Cure mofurun has apparently been banned from being used outside of the movie, which sort of blows.

Started off with RWBY volume 9, got to the cliffhanger with old man Jaune and it’s looking like it’ll be a good volume! I’ll likely watch the rest of it afterwards. I’m still wondering what happened to Neo though, she kind of just showed up in a single episode and then left. the Bulk of this week was me watching the mega man NT warrior marathon, the dubbed one, with the twitch chat.

Capcom releasing an official dub version of the battle network show on their YouTube and then apparently putting in the Japanese subs because they lost one of the episodes (the first one!) is incredible

I'm in April now, Cool.
(Previous post watch referred to RWBY.) Somehow everything did manage to get wrapped up in a single episode, but did they have to keep the haircut the same way…? I liked the ponytail better. Playing animal crossing and forcing my switch to render millions of renders of corn so i can have the ugliest farm known to man so I can efficiently sell them by the daily for easy bells? Cool. Trying to remember to water gyroids by the daily? Uncool. I beat Pokemon Emerald but… I broke the rules. I did something I shouldn’t have done. I beat the elite four being carried by a level 70 rayquaza that replaced my camerupt because I was too lazy to properly train up the rest of my pokemon. It was real easy too, like once I caught it the final chunk of the game might as well have just been a speedrun. Disappointing? A bit. Guess I should try grinding a bit more for the next time I play emerald. This was the final roster since I was originally playing a nuzlocke (the only survivor was the Azumarill of the original run after everyone wiped to Flannery) and then just continued after the run ended. I swapped out my starter for Celebi. I made a piccrew of the protagonist too a while back (the story was that he thought the Celebi was a weird budew.)

Kind of interesting how anime as a whole is considered a single genre in the western/US sphere where people can be like, yeah, I’m watching Precure and using death note as a palette cleanser and people will just nod their heads like what

I miss dragalia lost. Now that I’ve effectively wiped my phone of internet usefulness (deleted Firefox for my finals) I use it less. Instead, if I want to do other stuff I have to do it on my iPad now because my laptop is fragile. It might implode if I have too many tabs open. I saw it flash a blue screen and feared. And the way I play FEH is downright stupid with me mostly shoving units into barracks like it’s the Pokédex or something I’ve been playing through emerald again but with a weird randomizer. Nothing more jarring than watching Pokémon be in the ocean and then use explosion and legendaries be commonplace catch rates and all. Now that i know what I’m doing though for Emerald’s plot I’m not as pissed off by the aqua magma fetchquest stuff, it’s not as bad once I recall what to do. I could always just consult *how long to beat* and see how far I get with that for non Pokémon RPGs but everything requires me investing time and for some odd reason it’s quite easy for me to not do that.

Thing of the Year 2022: Live Action

Movies: Spider-Man (Raimi Trilogy) (It’s spider man, hero to the people, massive meme! I wish Spider man 4 was real, the third had way too much going on. It was like 2 movies in one.) - Amazing Spider Man Duo. Just gonna post my twitter opinions here. Amazing Spider Man (1 + 2) I liked the first movie. Felt the second was a bit scattered. Too bad the sinister six movie never came out, because the second movie’s ending was just dedicated to that. - Scream (The Reboot) (Watched in a group scene, the antagonists were redditors and most of what I recall was everyone saying increasingly stupid ideas like Scream (that’s not his name) getting the World (the stand.) - Monster House ( The house is a very imaginative concept but I still can’t get over the climax being “kid you need to blow up my wife with my tnt collection”) - Goosebumps (The one with Jack Black and an imaginary daughter and all his books coming to life? The most I recall is the nerdy sidekick beating up a werewolf.) - Charlie Brown Cartoon Specials (Snoopy.) - Tick Tick Boom (Watched with a friend. Sort of inspiring as to all of the uh… well. It’s like an autobiography and not of this one playwright guy and I’m struggling to recall it outside of the music lines.) - Ophelia (This one was based on hamlet, the girl in the lake. Nice dresses. ((I think Daisy Ridley played Ophelia. I don’t know why I recall this… oh!)) - Star Wars (A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back) (What happened was that I was supposed to watch the prequels in the meantime as a sort of time thing between that and the return of the Jedi and I simply could not get through episode 1. I’ll try again next year, but I still enjoyed the first 2 due to all of the stuff they inspired.)

Live Shows: - The King’s Affection (Watched this one with my parent. Lot of intrigue and drama set up in this storyline of twin has to impersonate the other one without anyone knowing that he’s dead because he was the prince and killed and then she starts falling in love and… oops. That’s a whole synopsis.) - Reign (Struggling to figure out if it was this year or last year. This probably reignited my interest into watching medieval dramas again— but ones with like magic and political intrigue and what not.) - Spamton Sweepstakes (I watched this live. I’ve never been more baffled in my life.)

Thing of the Year 2022: Anime/Cartoons Sonic Prime (I enjoyed it, minus the multitude of flashbacks to things I had seen the episode beforehand because I was binging it.) I’ll have a more thorough post based on my bullet point notes but not at the moment. Romantic Killer (Immensely interesting premise of evil wizard traps girl in romcom which she defeats with the power of friendship, but wow, episode 9-12 is such a rapid psychological mood changer that I sort of go “that was too rapid” towards the antagonist at the end. Original review: this one was a psychological horror disguised as a rom com with an evil wizard taking this girl’s beloved objects and then episodes 11-12 happen and the show goes back to pretending it was a romcom. as long as you don’t think about those things for too long then its a good romcom. Naruto, Season 2 rock lee beating gaara’s ass was peak. neji’s argument is basically blown out of the water because the show’s not that deep, guy was just malding (I could be hilariously wrong in the end) . naruto looked at a guy killing someone else and was like “he’s just like me FR”. These guys being like 12 and engaging in bloodsports to become graduates is completely wild. Sakura was basically a nonentity in the second half of the tournament arc but the whole shonen stand there with the eyes cut in and make commentary is also a standard. Then the Akatsuki came and its like, these guys are cool as hell but there’s a few other plots involving the original sanin and Naruto basically learns the Kamehameha. These ninja aren’t sneaky at all. -The daily life of the immortal king- I watched this with zero expectations in mind and the best I could initially come up with was “store brand Saiki K” until the tournament arc in which I was invested in the main character experiencing emotions until the show decides to introduce time travel and I sat there wondering if I missed an episode or something. Nope. The show decided to stop the development. - Angel Beats (Interesting story, good music, immediately rushed by getting only like 12 episodes. The emotional climax was supposed to be sad, but I was more confused than anything. I probably would’ve appreciated it more as a teenager.) Like, I think the only two I recall are Otonashi (for his focus episode), Kaede (the angel) and everyone else sort of just exist? Pui Pui Molcar (I’ll be honest I only watch for the hamster noises at this point and seeing the silly little cars.) Tekken Bloodlines- Out of the three or four tekken adaptions we’ve gotten this one is “better” when it comes to adapting a game if you don’t question why Leroy has replaced Eddy and also ignore the triangle art style. I wish for a tekken 4 adaption because I feel like if there’s a second season that’ll be it. The Hollow (The kids were trapped in a video game but then it turns out they weren’t and then the show ends with them technically still trapped. Or something.) Kingdom Hearts Pilot— I would’ve loved to see this thing be a full cartoon, I love seeing scrapped concepts and lost media pop up! Not sure if this last one really counts…

Thing of the Year 2022: Video Games This is where I’d put Pokémon, which I played a lot of! I did beat Leafgreen, but I think I posted about it already… on twitter. Pokemon Leaf Green Decided to change things from the standard and did a gift only run, which was pretty enjoyable. Have a newfound appreciation for some Gen 1 Pokemon I had previously ignored. This still holds up. Lapras has been bumped up to a pokemon I appreciate! Ikachan! Cave Story A few Kirby games here, which I covered in a seperate post. I guess I need to repost that too, huh. FFXIV, which has definitely shot up to being one of my mainstay video games of all time. Freedom Planet- Carol Campaign I haven’t bought 2, but I still enjoyed playing the hell out of 1 even if my brain keeps going like “hey look at all the plot stuff and beta stuff that got cut and never made it in, oooooh” Stupid brain. It’s a fun game, I shouldn’t complain… Even if I haven’t updated so I can keep a playable Torque.

Fangame section: A lotta Pokémon here, one lone Kirby game! My favorite fangames are the ones that are just sort of unhinged. Like, where else would I be without megaman battle network 7, which is a pokemon reskin, or the pokemon orange islands game which accidentally gave me two overpowered sentrets but then the demo was never completed? I’ll post screenshots. I miss my weird green sentrets. A lot of them I still have the bad habit of starting and unfinishing. Highlights: Pokewilds Technically not completed but I have been spending an absurd amount of time on it because it’s something I never knew I wanted until I had it. Open world crafting exploration with pokemon is a dream. Sick as hell! Pokemon Emerald Rogue This one was the one I dropped Pokewilds for because I never considered a random generated pokemon game until now that wasn’t just randomizing pokemon and I gotta say, it’s pretty good! Kind of sucks when your team gets wiped in one go but im pretty sure that’s because I’ve just been playing the EX version. Pokemon Unbound Been playing this one as well off and on again, it’s got a pretty decent setup all things involved and I’m slightly invested in this plot which is seeming to be good for a Pokemon game. Most of my poke fangame experience is between “this is batshit insane, why did it get cancelled”, and “wait it’s over already” and also between “this is a lot of EV/IV stuff” and then some “these fakemon look lame AF” but the last one is rendered moot by how some real pokemon look now. image Thing of the Year 2022: No Longer Current Events so how about that Twitter exodus? It’s been such a weird turn around for tumblr considering that they’re the originator of the big ban and now it’s all back. Huh. Even the bots! Booo! Also I basically split all my interests only for the tinier blogs to just funnel into “things I was too shy to reblog from the main tag of a thing I liked on my main but can now do so on a sideblog no one will actually look at.” The scrapbook (this blog) got removed (from my main directory) solely because I felt like the main page would be too cluttered. It’s just a lot of scattered thoughts. I wrote two fics last year! That’s an exponential of 2 more than ever before! Well. There was the original works, but I sort of shot those. I could talk about them as concepts to be made for… is that a thing? A concept book? Like Nasu’s notes series? I got my neocities page for the part timers finished! (Minus mobile capabilities.) I’ll probably be using their stories and FF14 as a vehicle to write up plots that might’ve been original stories but I like writing fanfiction because I get to play in someone else’s sandbox. I’ll probably be posting a bonus Geocities Gallery of stuff I found during the neocities excursion. Goals: Exercise more next year, I turned into a major slug Actually write outside of one shots— or maybe just make everything a one shot and work my way up Figure out how to hack weeds off animal crossing wild world Other Category: Books? Aside from Mirror Visitor and Dracul Daily, it was mostly school related books. I did start the odyssey and never finished it… Food? Red Bean Paste Pastries from the Local Bubble tea shop. That’s all I can think of. I’ve completely lost appetite regarding breakfast foods due to my budget for the school semester, so now I just don’t eat breakfast anymore. The worst had to be that smashburger salad with the blue cheese. Yikes. Drawings? I could probably scan some drawings to post here, I have a lot of binders full of tiny scribbles but I should probably go with more recent and not completely ruined with a pen stuff… That’s it.

Thing of the Year 2022: The Continued Category - I have a bad habit of starting and not finishing things. The “most likely to be continued”: - Final Fantasy 4 - Naruto - Fate Grand Order: I hope to play this at a better pace this time around versus getting burned out in London and deleting. This time I have no excuse since I’ll be able to read what’s happening on my iPad. I finally got it fixed! - Earthbound -Pokemon Infinite Dungeon generator, Blue Rescue Team, and Team Worsties Team Worsties is a sort of challenge run I’m doing where I’m basically going through the motions of an absolutely terrible player who only uses items they get in a dungeon, no money, no friend areas outside of the tutorial ones, and only doing missions that are required. I’m having a terrible time, it’s great!

The thing I dropped like a rock and should continue category: - Final Fantasies (1, 3, 4, 6) - I have a bad habit of starting and not finishing things. - Mega man games (Funny story, I got to the end of 1 and then stopped at the fire pillar things. Mega Man fan who is bad at playing the games.) - Live a Live (original fan translation I started playing in celebration of the remake) - Star Wars (I’m probably the only person I know who’s never watched it all) - Bleach Bleach Season 1-4 I watched this up until Netflix took it off and thought it was pretty good up until the Bount Arc started , which made me think “this is a filler arc, isn’t it”, so I’ll probably need to finish this one by reading the manga. (Twitter review) I never did do that. And I should, considering that the Final Arc is out! - Donbrothers (I keep saying that every Wednesday I should watch it but also piecing it all through social media is entertaining to me.) - Persona Games - Sonic games - Fire Emblem Games

The things I’m debating continuing category: -Cookie Run Ovenbreak: feels like the neglected middle child where a bunch of dumb ideas continue to water down the thing I liked. The last thing I seriously enjoyed was the anniversary that introduced the sugar glass cookie. - Glitter Force: mostly doing out of extreme curiousity to see how badly they butchered smile Precure in the dub - Maplestory (I don’t think I’ve played GMS in a very long time. Mostly because I just get bored with it easily. Everything early game is handed to you and the plot’s mangled. That’s why I hopped to FF14.)

Things I forgot I watched category: - The Sound of Magic (based off a web toon? Magic? Musicals? Totally forgot.)

Thing of the Year 2022 Award And now, the Thing of the Year award goes to… Angel Beats! Yeah, despite my gripes with the ending I couldn’t help but feel like this was a good show regardless. There was a good soundtrack and storyline backing the show, but there just wasn’t enough time to develop everyone outside of the Rebel Against God club (even though I barely know any of the cast's names in spite of that).... Second place would be romantic killer. Third is a tie up between Naruto and FF14 because those two were the most done things throughout 2022.

Surprise!!