I don’t think they expected the kiss either! Anyways, fun episode. Wonder if this ends with both of them getting assigned to Alaska together, though tbh neither of them really seem like management material to begin with. Can you imagine one of them being put in charge of a team?! Surely they would have never been chosen anyways.

They made a 30 second video on the HG kit. It’s looking pretty impressive, though of course we won’t know 'til it’s in our hands.

Interesting piece here is that the character designs are being done by Take. It seems pretty much in line with her other works including Pokemon (2019)

It really shows! One of my first thoughts when I saw the trailer was that the characters looked like they could’ve stepped out of some modern Pokemon thing.

I guess they figure they have enough people watching anime and reading manga legitimately now that they don’t need piracy to spread the word anymore.

Literally ever manga accrued their international audience via piracy.

I don’t know about that; lots of people read using official methods now. Of course, that’s probably just because most of the biggest titles can be read for free legally these days.

Honestly he might have a point about him being especially suitable for her. He’s definitely not the only crazy person here; she tried to sell her kidney in episode 1 just to make a point.

Finished the 4th volume of Char’s Daily Life. I don’t have a copy of volume 5-8, so I’m gonna be paused on that one for a while. It felt a lot like reading Gintama, but with the main cast mostly filled out by people from UC Gundam’s One-Year-War (primarily Zeon characters). Garma and his dad are Buddhist priests. Kycilia got kicked out of her family because she believes she’s a priestess from Dragon Quest. Ramba Ral is a gangster. The important thing here is that as with the characters in Gintama they’re all certified losers except for arguably Sayla, who got dumber but insanely strong. I hadn’t realized this until now, but maybe the author really just wanted her to be Kagura. Lots of puns based on quotes from the original Gundam series.

Started reading Fullmetal Alchemist. I’m about 1.5 volumes in and it’s been fun so far. I was surprised at how short the arc with Nina and Alexander was in the manga; it was only 13 pages from

Even in Brotherhood it feels longer and hits harder. I’ve been enjoying it though. Come to think of it, I’ve got two excellent soundtracks to choose from. I should really listen to those while I read.

Among the stuff I’m keeping up with weekly, Blue Box stood out most this week. I guess I’ve got to avoid spoilers, so all I’ll really say is that the main character really showed us why he’s the main character. I’m definitely looking forward to next week.

Man, what a chadtastic chad Taiki was today. Calling Chinatsu’s dad “father-in-law” was an incredible move. A note on that:

In the Japanese version, Taiki says “おとうさん” out loud, which simply means “father”. But it was written as “お義父さん”, which means “father-in-law”. When the text was read back as Chinatsu’s dad’s reaction it was also written as “お義父さん”, indicating that he understood it as such.

Also I’m realizing that even though the main character was living with his own dad for 173 chapters Chinatsu’s dad already feels more like a fleshed-out character. Could just be recency bias though.

Maybe they weren’t satisfied with leaving us on one cliffhanger so they decided to leave us on two!

In fairness, this is based off a manga so the story wasn’t necessarily paced out with anime episode lengths in mind.

Right? It wasn’t a bad story or anything, but the timing was kind of crazy with how the previous episode ended.

Be right back, gonna wake up Ordelo.

Damn, Ordelo’s got hands.

Just kinda more of the same. At least Aki’s fight was pretty cool.

How are the actual mysteries

Pretty decent, but when I say “the newest thing from Shonen Jump” I mean there’s literally just one chapter out right now. Also, it feels like the story is going to be about the main character trying to live a normal life while he happens to solve mysteries along the way. We’ll see. Like I said, one chapter.

It definitely feels like it’s supposed to be the gorilla he’s looking for, but it seems weird that they’d recruit someone to this organization who wasn’t born in the empire. It doesn’t seem like that sort of organization.

Started reading Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery, the newest thing from Shonen Jump. It’s the story of a great detective who hides the fact that he has no interest at all in being a great detective, but was rather forced into it by fate. The first chapter was really fun, but the ending had me worried that it’ll end up going into love triangle or even full-on harem BS. We’ll see.

I started watching a couple shows I wasn’t following before. Anyways, here’s where things are at:

• Blue Box: Still good, but it’s moving very slowly. When I read the manga I already had over a hundred chapters to burn through at once, so experiencing it like this is very very different.
• Dandadan: An absolutely heart-wrenching episode. The animation team executed excellently on this one.
• 365 Days to the Wedding: This is one of the shows I just got caught up on. I appreciate a show that features adult main characters. Overall it’s quite fun. Not as good as Wotakoi, but still good. Cutest ED I’ve ever seen.
• Yakuza Fiance: Same comments as above, really, except that there’s nothing cute here. If you’re annoyed at how the main characters in romance anime always seem to be good people, look no further.
• Mecha-ude: A while ago I said that this show is great at being charming and funny, and bad at being serious or edgy. Unfortunately it seems to be putting most of its screen time into serious and edgy stuff. I’ll keep watching it, but I’m finding myself enjoying it less than the other shows I’m watching this season.

I wonder if syosetu.com has a character limit on light novel titles. This is getting out of control.

Glad to see Hikaru has some new bodyguards, but they don’t seem all that more helpful than what he already had in terms of… anything tbh.

I hadn’t really thought about it, but if the Mecha-ude can’t normally move without a human it’s extremely unclear how they ever lasted in their own world.

These multi-chapter fights don’t really do it for me. It’s not what I read One-Punch Man for.

Sometimes those model kits actually just won’t stay together without a bit of glue.

Well, that certainly was one of the endings of all time. Aqua decided ages ago that he’d take revenge on Ai’s killer no matter the cost to himself. I don’t know how many people expected him to actually get himself killed doing it, especially after the movie seemed like it would be revenge enough, but here we are.

Mecha-Ude

This one is weird to me. When it’s trying to be funny or charming I think it almost always succeeds. When it’s trying to be cool or edgy (most of the time unfortunately) it almost always fails.