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I was very confused for a minute here, because I thought I watched like half of the first season of Reacher like a year or two back...but apparently, I believed Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan were the same thing. I mean, I think they basically are, but technically, they are distinct properties. First season of Gilmore Girls. The style of dialogue in this show is unusual - it has a tendency to be very quick with a lot of back-and-forth between multiple characters and yet sound perfectly natural...though if you stop paying attention for even a couple of seconds, you may lose critical context that renders entire conversations incomprehensible, and there are a lot of them and they'll all well-written and usually fun, so you should pay attention. I thought I'd take a break before starting the second season, but I accidentally jumped right into the second one which was a direct continuation of the first, so I guess I'll be watching that for a while longer yet.

1994 vs 1996. The OVA ended with a colored sketch drawing of the two characters with "THE END" under them, so I don't think it was really intended to go any farther. 47 freaking episodes, which is also how I figured it was terrible, because that's just too long for an inexplicable sequel two years after the original 4-episode show ended. So I highly doubt you'll be watching this one, . Yeah, tough to be your typical every day hero man when you look like that, . No, I think it's specifically an Obsidian forums thing, because I did a quick Google search and the Obsidian forums are literally the only place that someone's written about that error (marelooke and Azdeus back in 2021).

Sawako is his stupid brain-dead avatar in the show, I'm pretty sure, so it's basically one and the same.

Eh, if there's anything I *need* to respond to, I'll just do it anyway. It did, but in a kind of stupid and dissatisfying way - IIRC, it only manifested when two or more of the girls were fighting. Since Mugi was my favorite character, I was completely prepared to ignore how dumb of a way of showing it that was, though. I have a feeling that Sawako was responsible for writing that part of the script.

Well, you may not be following the terms and conditions of watching Pretty Cure, but I will...halfway, that is. For every Pretty Cure post you make, I may only respond with exactly one tangent of thought - it is simply the right thing to do for a show that has 900+ episodes and 30 movies that you will presumably write approximately 5,000+ paragraphs over the next year or two for, . Is Tomoyo...like, an anime character archetype? Her, Honoka, and Mugi all look very similar - not strictly in terms of physical appearance, mind you, but rather their expressions and mannerisms. I made one quick search for Honoka and it was immediately clear that she was the Tomoyo-like character just from a few screenshots.

I watched the first episode a while back and it was okay, but it didn't really grab me, probably because I didn't like the characters. Very angry shonen protagonist boy, twitch.tv stream-my-entire-life girl and her little twerp of a brother, a weak Ayanami-esque girl, and ambitious secret agent boy...all in some EPIC/DRAMATIC SPACE STORY. Eh, didn't really feel it.

I feel like Nathan Fillion every time this happens. How can you take everything about the original show that was good/enjoyable/different compared to the endless waves of trash that were your contemporaries...and immediately turn around and make it just like them? Is it deliberate - do you want to just make a quick buck off of an existing property...or is it just because you're a talentless hack that doesn't know how to make anything but generic trash? Directors, writers, and producers all changed between the OVA and the TV show, so I guess it could very well be either one. The show is pretty low-stakes in terms of action, so nothing like that ever really comes up. We're talking some minor traffic violations, getting a pregnant cat to a veterinarian during a typhoon*, and one actually semi-serious car-chase with some psychopath that tried to drive our ladies off the road for no good reason (which actually legitimately made me mad because of how insane that dude was being - that was probably the most outrageous thing that happened during the entire show). Otherwise, most of the show's serious moments were reserved for some nice dialogue between our characters. *Whoever made this show must've liked cats, because at least one cat appeared in every episode, and the episode about the pregnant cat having birthing issues was probably the most serious episode out of them all - they were decidedly very intent on getting that cat to the vet. Sounds like a pretty decent show. It's funny how *not* trying to impose that your morally ambiguous character be the "cool antihero" that somehow magically always does the correct/perfect thing with it always inexplicably working out...is actually the key part in what makes them a properly interesting and grounded antihero. An antihero doesn't need to always be perfectly justified in what they do (though their actions/behavior should at least make a sort of sense empathizable sense), and they certainly shouldn't always be supported by framing and/or the other characters. A magical girl show...that is "surprisingly enjoyable"...that isn't binge-worthy...for majestic? Does not compute, .

You're Under Arrest (1994), a nice little 4-episode OVA about two policewomen becoming partners and friends...that I was certain was going to be bad (top three tags: "action", "comedy", "police"...also, the name is terrible, why did I even try this again?), but which inexplicably wasn't. The two main characters were both distinct and immediately likeable (Miyuki, the gentle but serious veteran with a passion for all things mechanical; Natsumi, the impudent but driven rookie who always does the right thing, even if it's not necessarily by the rules...or particularly wise). I thought this was going to be some dumb fast-paced action comedy with our mains doing patently ridiculous stunts leading to arrests of baddies...but instead it was usually a slow-paced, low-stakes show primarily about and driven by our cast of characters with a pretty equal comedic/sincere split...which I guess is just how I like 'em if "comedy" is going to be a thing. Bizarrely, literally nobody was ever arrested on-screen, and there wasn't even a single shootout (heck, I don't think a single gun was fired at all)...a few short car-chases, but that's it. Our big "action finale" was making sure that a marathon ran smoothly after somebody's motorcycle accidentally caught fire while our characters used teamwork to deal with it. Why in the world was this called "You're Under Arrest" again? Apparently, they ended up making a longer TV sequel/reboot of it a couple of years later, so I still have to check that out. I'm assuming that that one will be dumber because sequels that are longer than the original usually are (why make something that accurately captures the spirit of the original show which is presumably what made people like it in the first place when you can just...make it a lot dumber way easier instead?), but who knows, I could be surprised. (e): Out of curiosity, I decided to try an episode of the second series. Maybe it'd pick up right where it left off and I could actually recommend this to @majestic given his OCD for needing to finish a series, and...oh my gosh, this is so utterly terrible - why do they do this to me? First five minutes was a litany of gay jokes, nosebleeds, immediate and terrible flanderization of established side-characters, women in their underwear, up-close shots of women's chests, people shooting guns, bad animation... It's like they deliberately made this to be the complete opposite of what the original OVA was like (and it's also "coincidentally" everything that I hate) while (nominally) using the same characters, setting, and universe. This is what I expected when I read about the original OVA and hesitantly tried it out, but which I oh so mercifully did not receive - just shoot me in the face. I guess this is probably what also would've happened to Carried by the Wind if it had ever become a full TV show. Let's just...not, okay?

I never do well against sine wave enemies/projectiles in anything. In theory, I perfectly understand what to do to dodge them, but reality is a little different...

Yeah, it looks a little weird because on Playstation 4, it only runs at 30 FPS - on Playstation 1, it runs at 60. That's probably what you're seeing...probably.

Re-visiting Bloodborne a little today. Was pretty sloppy for the first half of the video (first try!), but did better as the battle went on. Would've been pretty embarrassing to die to Cleric Beast, but give me a break, I haven't played this in years. And also, I was using a freaking d-pad because it's on Playstation 1.

Milk Outside of a Bag of Milk Outside of a Bag of Milk I don't play many visual novels (...pretty much never, in fact), but I liked this one. My impression of the game was that I played as the imaginary friend (or perhaps therapist?) of a paranoid schizophrenic girl trapped inside her room trapped inside her brain with only you, the player, as her guide to try and help make sense of her unstable thoughts and surroundings. Why I am playing this incredibly esoteric game...I'm not a hundred percent sure - I guess because I saw some stylish-looking pixel art and it had overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam and it only cost a couple of dollars. Money well spent, I suppose.

It's completely awful - went from racism to some pathetic and utterly generic attempt at being pro-military, great. One good thing about is that three syllable teams pretty much always have a shortened version, and it seems the internet has already dubbed them "the Commies", which feels appropriate what with the red and all.

CLAMP's Clover (1999). Uh...I think I should stop watching anime. Or at least the weird stuff - I could certainly do a little more research before I try something out of the blue like this. It was basically a really weird 7 minute or so...music video-esque thing. Apparently, CLAMP's Clover is an unfinished manga that "takes place in a dystopian, futuristic world where children known as 'Clovers' have special powers". I guess I kinda got that, but it sort of felt like I was watching a Lincoln Park music video (but without the high energy angsty music). Rilakkuma and Kaoru: A short stop-motion show (thirteen 11-minute episodes) from Netflix about a single woman and her teddy bears. It's slow and sombre, and seems to primarily focus on how disappointing and sad life is...but also, you should try to make the best of it when and where you can. The last episode I watched was about them having a power outage during a storm and suddenly being host to a dead girl that had been run over and killed by a bus right in front of her first boyfriend. Seeing her boyfriend get comforted by another girl nearby while quickly forgetting about her made her spirit upset enough to turn her into a ghost...and more of a sad ghost than one doing any actual haunting. Yeah, that's fair. Did you listen to it at least 50 times? Because I do believe that's the key here, so if you haven't done that yet, you really ought to. It's just the right thing to do.

One of my new 14 TB hard drives started groaning and clicking constantly about an hour ago. Well, let's load up the SMART data real quick... WARNING Number of retired sectors: 400 Number of unstable sectors: 48 oh hell naw, dawg, that ain't cool. sigh, this is going to be a long night. always a good idea to let your drives run for at least about a month before you start trusting them, folks.

Gall Force: Eternal Story (1986). It was...pretty good, but not really what I expected - kind of feels like a very odd blend of Star Wars and Alien...and something else. It at least ranks as one of the better non-Ghibli 80s things I've seen, so there's that...albeit it's still very 80s (I mean, who wouldn't want a cheesy sad music montage after someone died - that's just what you do when you're in the 80s!). I'll also forgive a little unnecessary although not particularly offensive fan service (7 girls working together on a spaceship not always particularly caring about how they're dressed makes a sort of sense, I guess). I'll be curious to see how the next part continues on from this one (there are three parts to this particular story of Gall Force)...especially, uh, considering how this one ended. Lmao. Villain's a bit of a shonen brat, is he? Well, no, but you seem to forget...neither was Nanoha - in the early to mid 2000s. The 2010s Nanoha, on the other hand? Oh yes, very offensive, very brain-peeling. Now, I can't help but notice that Precure starts around the same time Nanoha did...and continues all the way up to present day. How odd! Well, for your sake, I hope history doesn't repeat itself - 2010s magical girl shows haven't exactly gone well for you so far, have they? Good thing it's only...873 episodes and 30 movies! P.S. I've been catching up on Cardcaptor Sakura episodes on Netflix (I forgot to "watch" the last 25 episodes or so), and I usually let the intro music of the third season run before I mute it. Yes, it does appear that I have been fully brainwashed. Also, it autoplays the English dub and I just heard English!Tomoyo and I nearly melted from the terribleness. I did try a couple of episodes of that show a few days ago, and I wasn't entirely sure what to make of it yet. I'll have to try a few more.

Ah, that's why you're not supposed to talk about it - not until the end of the season, I think I suggested. It's probably for the best for all of us, because it also means you can power through it a lot quicker than if you're making an hour long post about every episode, . It also now makes sense why you were showing this guy in the last page, as I previously had no idea whom he was. I've gotten through 20 minutes of the first Gall Force film (Gall Force: Eternal Story). I expected silly girl shenanigans in space, but instead I've gotten twenty minutes of pretty serious planning and manuevering, as they're all fighting for their lives because the movie started with them literally in the middle of a battle that they were losing before making an escape with their ruined ship. I'll let you know how that goes when I finish it.

If this has relation to what you were quoting, I can't figure out how. All I can assume is you finally bit the bullet and watched an episode of Pretty Cure, .

Hm. Akira basically loses his mind after finding that the hysterical demon-hunters beheaded Miki and makes the transformation to full Amon and starts indiscriminately slaughtering demons and humans alike. He devours one of his best friends while in this state, a like ten-year-old girl that was a fellow devilman that he had been working with to hunt demons, which was honestly kind of horrifying and I had to look away. There was some sort of semi-Frieza knockoff that was the "big bad" of the demons that got dispatched fairly quickly, and...then it kind of just ended after Akira finally got to Asuka? Akira had finally regained control from Amon, and they had a stare-off for a moment, and then Akira just walked past him, the end - it didn't feel very resolved. IMO, Devilman Crybaby probably has a better plot and did better in slowing everything down and trying to flesh out as well as resolve things better, but there's so many stylistic things I dislike about Crybaby that it was still very difficult for me to enjoy, which is why these OVAs are "okay" while Devilman Crybaby was a bit less than "okay" to me. P.S. I added one more thing to the previous post, but it hardly matters.

Studio Ghibli's Iblard Jikan (2007). It's a 30 minute "OVA" of art, I guess...and not much else, because there's no dialogue or really even much of an attempt at visual storytelling here. The most I can say is that I'm pretty sure I saw some stuff in there that was inspired by the fantasy visuals of Whisper of the Heart, or the other way around depending on when the painting these animations were based off were made. Apocalypse of Devilman (2000). The third and final part of the original Devilman OVA series. It's kind of crazy how much Devilman Crybaby took from these OVAs - it's not quite a 1:1 recreation, but...it's probably like 75% the same plot, and a number of scenes in Devilman Crybaby are obviously direct recreations of scenes in these OVAs. Anyways, just like the first two, it was O.K. - it starts with the part where Asuka gets on TV to basically set off mass hysteria and Miki loses her head, and things get much worse from there. Dragon's Heaven (1988). A sentient giant mech is left behind as a relic of a thousand year old war...and is reawoken by some lady passing by, and suddenly there's a lot of fighting, I guess? It's also only like half an hour long. Some similarities to Birth (which I mentioned trying to watch a while back) and Nausicaa, but it's not as bad as Birth was but also not nearly as good as Nausicaa either, so... Not the best day of anime, but hey, getting stuff out of the way is good.

Lmao, that's...very coincidentally the thing I remember him most by. I have, on and off throughout the past decade, sung part of it in my head at random times. Kuala Lumpar, pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpar!

Wow, man...you're like, so old and ancient for knowing that! I didn't follow Mr. Weebl for very long - while he had some decent animated stuff for the time, it turns out that his precise style of humor was not exactly to my taste...who would've guessed?

Her voice is very strange...and kind of scratchy, which isn't something I hear in Japanese voice-acting a lot. I didn't much like it at first (in fact, it made me try out the English dub where I initially thought "hm, maybe I actually prefer the English this time"...until I heard the other characters that were not Ahiru, and went "nope"), but I was getting used to it by the end of the second episode.

First two episodes of Princess Tutu. What in the world is this show? I thought the second episode would be less weird than the first, but no, it's more. The main character's two friends are basically Tomoyo-fied verisons of the shadow puppet girls from Utena, there's a giant creepy anteater girl licking boys' faces, the ballet is...uh really something, the dollmaster and whatever the hell he's doing is really weird and feels kind of unnecessary, we got a cat teacher that insists they must all marry him every time they mess up...I just don't really know what to make of it.