Manga:
As usual, GTO and Inari Konkon. I have reached another Tomoko arc in GTO, which were always the worst in the anime, because of how mean spirited, and outright ableist it was to her. On the other hand, I am starting to approach the stuff that the Anime didn't include.
Also my God is it terrible to look for interesting manga. r/manga is a place that vastly prefers horny generic slop to actually good writing, and the lack of alternative spaces for nerds baffles me.
Anime:
I have finished The Twelve Kingdoms. It was good. Space Battleship Yamato is a show I have already seen the remake of, and is good in its original version too.
Sailor Moon S is very gay. I knew it had a bit of a reputation, but it's more than I expected. Slightly less gay is Cardcaptor Sakura, another very good magical girl show.
I am almost done with Season 1 of You're Under Arrest!. The most recent arc was a romance one between one of the main cast characters and a newcomer written basically only for the role of being appealing to that one character. Disappointing, but maybe it'll improve now. I'm looking forward to see what the later seasons will bring. I expect the 2001 season to be decent too, at least.
Monogatari: The more Koyomi Araragi is on screen, the worse it gets. Otherwise, it's good or even very good lol
Upcoming Anime
Surprisingly, it looks promising. Witch Hat Atelier has a really highly regarded manga, from what I know. Yomi no Tsugai is by the FMA author, and the manga was okay when I kept up with it. Kinda slow paced. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun has a new season. That manga was fun, even though I fell behind like 70 chapters. Liar Game is a mid 2000s gambling manga, and is said to be good. I need my Kaiji fix. Akane Banashi is gonna be good. Mao isn't about the Chinese revolution, but is a Rumiko Takahashi manga adaptation. It's probably gonna be decent at least. There's a Fist of the North Star remake. Maybe I'll finally check it out... and eventually go watch the original. Nippon Sangoku has the potential to be toxic slop a la GATE.
and there's bound to be at least one good show I didn't pay attention to, or something promising that bombs hard.
Manga
Been Reading Dorohedoro, collected it last year and made a decent amount through it before being interrupted. Carrying on now and being reminded why I liked it. Many chapters or 'spells' are coloured in a muted and sometimes monochrome style, it definitely fits in with the traditional black and white of manga. Also, I've enjoyed a lot of the fashion of the characters; both their individual styles but also how frequently characters are seen in different outfits. Nikaido's outfits in particular are giving me trans-butch inspiration.
Anime
Watching Shounan Bakusouzouko, 12 episode OVA series. I'm enjoying it, the episodes do flick between serious and light-hearted moments but also has a pretty anti-violence message. Though it is a pretty violent show, a lot of biker gang fights and unprovoked violence.
Blorp
Stalin showed Berserk 1997 last month. Very good show with lots of good background art and music. The show used the soundtrack pretty sparingly but generally did have the perfect effect. Putting on something of the themes to listen to in full was definitely worth it. Listening to Griffith and Guts theme along with the Earth and Forces track in full made them some favorites. The ending did feel rushed and compressed for time however.