Another season, more slop to ignore and a couple of shows to watch.
Manga:
Shibuya Near Family continues being good - it's the only ongoing manga I look forward to and seek out. Koji Kumeta's found his style a long time ago: social commentary + a hint of absurdism. Be it 1999 or 2025, it works well. A
Ariadne in the Blue Sky by Norihiro Yagi (known for Angel Densetsu & Claymore) is a real throwback in storytelling style. An old school fantasy adventure with sci-fi elements that does not care for RPG elements, immediate worldbuilding dumps or isekais. However, it is not as interesting as Claymore and definitely not as amusing as Angel Densetsu. Thus far at least. B- so far
I've also been reading the Evangelion manga and the fun but very slow to update Lies of the Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love - both good.
Anime:
The Twelve Kingdoms and Vision of Escaflowne are two shows that are very similar to each other in the beginning of the show, and I'm too early into them to judge, so I'll leave it at "I like them"
Tokimeki Tonight is a 80s shojo romcom with vampires that doesn't take itself too seriously and has delightful stylized backgrounds. I've only just started it, but it's fun so far.
Ranma 1/2, the 80s version. Having read some of the manga in the past, but dropping it because I lost track of what chapter I was on, the show is just as fun as I remember it being - and features the legendary VA Megumi Hayashibara. A
Dragon Ball Z - If I had 1 € for every legendary 150+ episode show from the Spring 1989 season I'm watching, and is actually holding up to the reputation it has... I'd have 2 €. A- (because it hasn't reached the peak of the original Dragon Ball imo... yet)
Katte ni Kaizou - Re-watched this adaptation of Koji Kumeta's early 2000s manga, and actually read what is available of it. It's fun... definitely a Shaft Adaptation for good and bad, and it's interesting to see the transition from the haha penis humor of the early part of the manga, into the more SZS style stuff later on. Shame it's a fairly short OVA for such a long and quality work, to the point where I feel like it kinda misrepresents the manga somewhat. B+
Western Animation:
Gravity Falls: I just started this, and is it just me, or does this show remind anyone of Spongebob in its humor? Either way, I like it so far.
OH SHIT OH FUCK 
What did you think of this week's chapter?
No break next week! 
Hooboy another build-up episode- first half is the remaining 0079 era bits from the movie with Char trying to kill Kycilia with a big asteroid provided by the Federation (the more things change, the more things stay the same it seems). There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it freeze frame of Lalah stopping Char from shooting Sayla in Newtype space just before the Axis Shock/Zeknova happens that I didn't catch in the movie, but it's here in the show.
Overall I'd say this entire sequence felt better with the movies chronology, since it set up the big mystery of this timeline (what happened to Char?) and highlighted the danger of the Zeknova. I guess this was as good a place as any to put this tho, because we really couldn't continue the back half here without this context.
I'm not going to get too deep into the back half- a lot happens here. (And a distracting amount of Eva references.) But I do want to highlight a smaller character scene/detail that's only possible because we're playing in a franchise with 46 years of material-
Nyaan is a refugee from Side 2. Side 2 was the colony that Zeon gassed and then dropped on the Earth, the event that kicks off the One Year War.
That dinner scene between her and Kycillia would be like if George Bush gave a home cooked meal to an Iraqi kid, promising asylum and college entry if they just signed up for the US Military to test their latest weapon systems.
The entire back half, Nyaan has a deep-seated sadness within her, almost like her soul is being weighed down by gravity.
Oh shit is that my favourite Gulp Shitto, Quattro Bajeena!?
(Have some Kycillia Obaa-chan cute fanart.)
It's Falfa and Shalsha's birthday today, truly an occasion worth celebrating
Incidentally the next episode of Slime 300 season 2 is releasing today pog, I haven't been watching it though
https://anilist.co/anime/112608/Ive-Been-Killing-Slimes-for-300-Years-and-Maxed-Out-My-Level/
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