That’s cool! How many decades you want to bet it takes the official English translation to catch up?

Translation: “But these feelings of wanting to help my sister are no lie!”

This ED feels like you are browsing an artist’s past commissions rather than an animated ED.

I had to know what you meant by that and wow. As promised. Do the characters actually walk around like that in the show?

I watched a small handful; here are my favorites, in no particular order:

• Bureaucrat to Villainess OP - The ED is nice too (I love the bit at the end with his family), but to me the OP is just full of charm.
• Hundred Girlfriends ED - That was just incredibly cute.
• Apothecary Diaries OP - I assume that much as the previous OP, this’ll hold a lot more significance once I’ve seen more than one episode of the season. In the meantime it’s a pleasant song with pleasant visuals.
• Apothecary Diaries ED - This one mostly stuck out because it’s so different from what I feel we usually get. I don’t even like it more than average, but I really appreciate it when they try something unusual. I feel like this happens a lot more with EDs than OPs.
• Medalist ED - It’s really cute, but not as cute as the Hundred Girlfriends ED if I’m being honest.

This week I read Fire Punch. Can confirm, Fujimoto wasn’t any saner before Chainsaw Man. It was good, but I don’t think it was quite as good as Chainsaw Man. Still, I enjoyed it when it wasn’t busy making me feel sorry for the characters.

To be honest I’m not sure I’ll be seeing it in theaters either, mostly because I just really hate them. Cinemark can stick their “Online Ticket Fees” up their ass.

I’m hearing from people in Japan that have seen the first few episodes in theaters that it was really good; this is definitely one to look forward to.

I don’t really expect anything to come of this, but it would be great if it led to better conditions for animators.

How is I Have a Crush at Work so popular? Is anyone here keeping up with it? I watched the first episode and it didn’t seem that good.

It definitely is trash, it’s just exquisitely crafted trash.

Doesn’t eat sweets so he got her soap

Very thoughtful!

Also wow, poor Sousuke. We’ve had various glimpses of Sousuke’s family life, and it’s generally been negative, but seeing that his mom was so mean to him that she has a reputation in the industry for it really drives it home.

The artist is gar32drawshit on Twitter.

I’ve started a few new shows lately:

I have a Crush at Work - meh. I watched the first episode and dropped it.

Armored Trooper Votoms - I’ve watched two episodes so far. Hard to evaluate off of that, but I think I’ll keep watching a while longer.

Terror in Resonance - Pesky terrorists doing terrorist things. Why are they doing them? What is their goal? The show has dropped some vague hints, but so far it seems very unclear. It seems to want me to believe that nobody is being killed in these attacks even though there’s rubble falling onto sidewalks from dozens of feet in the air. I guess “a good terrorist doesn’t kill other people” or something like that.

P.S. I would totally watch 3rd Girl Fighter Wing if it’s an actual anime

They did a 1 episode OVA of it.

If you’re looking for a serious story, Iron-Blooded Orphans is really good. It’s not quite as bleak as the title makes it sound.

On the other hand, if you want something a bit more light-hearted I highly recommend Mobile Fighter G Gundam. It’s just fun, and it has most of my favorite mobile suit designs in all of Gundam.

Ugh, I signed up for Crunchyroll back in the day when I only used two or three passwords for everything instead of using a password manager. Welp, time to finally change a bunch of passwords I guess.

Prospera is now having a picnic with Suletta and her keychain sister, despite the fact that she just wiped out an entire fleet and almost had both her daughters kill each other

That felt weird to me too. What is Prospera doing in anything but a prison? And she even still has a relationship with her daughters? At least let the rich face consequences in my fantasies!

So far I think they’ve only announced a model for the GQuuuuuux itself, though others will doubtless follow. A few youtubers have gotten their hands on the kit, and impressions seem mostly positive. It looks like it’ll have great articulation, but some of the finer details will be achieved with stickers rather than increasing the number of plastic pieces. That isn’t unusual, and the stickers are decently nice so it’s not a huge deal, but it’s nice to not need to bother with them. Of course you can paint those parts instead, but there are plenty of people who won’t want to do that.

It’s actually been out in Japan for a few days now, so hopefully we’ll get some English reviews soon.

I agree that this show got too complex for its own good. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that maybe it was originally intended to have more episodes and that’s why the second season felt so rushed.

As an aside, The Witch From Mercury has some of the best budget model kits Bandai has ever made. Something like the High Grade Aerial kit, which can be found for <$20 USD, would be a great choice if someone wanted to give building gunpla a try. If there’s another suit you liked more, well, pretty much all of the high grade Witch From Mercury kits are both affordable and great.

Wow! Here I was thinking the 14 chapters I read were all that existed! Definitely did not wake up today expecting to read about Ubuntu Touch mockups and the unpopularity of Windows 8.