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KP did, and thought it was pretty good.

That box art is actually turning me off, kinda. Talk about bad ideas.

Finished Girls' Last Tour. It did indeed have robots, GIANT robots and of course GIANT MECHS, but no battles. Except for one series of flashbacks, but that's fine. Probably could have done without Yuu's extended skinny dipping in the aquarium scene. Chibi style and fanservice, nah, that's a combination that is... nah. Just no. Some of the scenes clearly suggest that the girls are a good deal older than they sound like or behave (fan speculation puts them at around 20, which seems a tad old). Good thing the anime stopped and didn't adapt all of the manga: Anyway, I mentioned it before, but this is a really baffling mixture of lighthearted and goofy nonsense, deeply philosophical discourse on the nature of life and the exploration of the dreary post apocalyptic wasteland of a dying world. Much of the time nothing at all happens and it's glorious to see (or boring, depending on your preferences and tastes, I guess). Beer is great, right Yuu? Anyway, there are two things that bothered me throughout watching it. The character models, of course, and uncanny valley CGI camera pans. My initial impression was pretty wrong, I figured after the first episode that the concept would get stale really quickly, but it didn't. There's something endearing about watching the two trek through a dead city trying to salvage enough food and fuel to continue. Both characters benefit greatly from the absolutely incredible performance by their voice actors, at least in the Japanese original. All the songs that come up, the intro, outro and the raindrop song, are sung by the VAs, not very surprising there at least when it comes to Yuu, who had a role in Love Live! after all (and those were picked from established j-pop singers). The raindrop song I already linked, here's the intro: They even manage to sing in their slightly slow, child-like limited speech pattern way in which they voice their characters.

Is that someone that comes up in Stardust Crusaders already? Not sure what to think of Iggy yet, though. Somehow this just keeps getting weirder and weirder, and whenever you think it can't possibly get even weirder, it just does.

it is from the same studio, so that makes sense. Probably a similar creative team. I can recommend Kill la Kill for the times when you need some sensory overload. It's still a pretty funny parody, anyway, and it does work for the 24+1 episodes it has, so that's fine enough. It just really kills your brain when trying to take everything in. Nui might have been one of the most batsh*t craziest weirdo antagonists I've ever come across. Sort of spoilers, I guess. In that case I doubt I'll catch up, there aren't that many episodes of Miyu anyway. That's fine though. I'll just quote myself, from some time back in May when I watched this episode. Current talk:

Well, maybe it won't devolve into giant mech battles, but the two girls sure as hell found one and are currently destroying half the city in Yuu's attempt to figure out how to use it. Yeah, uhm, close enough.

That explains why I can't see the video at all. Good job making sure my eyes are safe YouTube!

I'm not sure if I'd call episode 8 and 9 "happier" but whatever helps you cope. They did end on a really hopeful note. After getting really, really, really dark for a bit. 10 was quite a gut punch, huh? It was so obvious but you can't help it. It's just sad.

I'll see soon enough. I really have no explanation for this. As I said, I might be underrating Clear Card, but the drop in quality is so steep its impossible to be objective. There are no coincidences. Only inevitability. What in the what now? How did you end up trying that? Heh.

It's not that bad. No, that is a lie. It used to be not that bad, but nowadays even long established franchises that used to be great to to hell and I'm sitting here, watching them, and suddenly I'm sitting through 39 episodes and two movies of Sailor Moon Crystal. I wonder if I should count Clear Card amongst those. I mean I knew going in that Discovery and Picard were most likely going to be bad, so I expected nothing else. Same for Sailor Moon Crystal. But Clear Card? No, in some ways, while it's probably, objectively (as objective as one can be), the best of the shows I've hate watched in the past two or three years, it was inarguably the worst experience for me. Because Crystal, Picard and Discovery at least made for fun forum posts. Clear Card... no, that's just sad. In terms of expectations and outcome, Clear Card was even worse than The Phantom Menace. There, I said it. I feel a bit lighter now. I'm already done with the first part of the OVA, but now it's time to sleep. I can say the first part was pretty good, but highly confusing. Seems like half of it went missing in editing (or more likely was never drawn in the first place). The music was pretty painfully 80ies at some points, but it does look a good deal better than Girls' Last Tour, as much as I like it in spite of its animation (except that one fanservicy part in the last episode).

Out of all the reasons why nobody should be like me, that's probably... Speaking of Vampire Princess Miyu, I've decided to shelf Tsu... a hell, Shaoran Gaiden Show for the time being, or at least get an episode in every now and then, and instead begin with that.

Girls' Last Tour Episode 9. GIANT ROBOT! And a smaller one!

Don't see the problem here, he's probably guilty of something else.

Right, my bad. He has to sell them as part of his parole (within the next 24 months), and probably because the court realized that they're not really get the fine from a 84 year old otherwise.

No, that's not it, the article is simply incomplete. The extreme time it took to process the case actually came from having to figure out whether tanks and anti-aircraft guns on their own constitue a weapon of war and therefore would fall under the Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz (lit. weapons of war control* law). Turns out they don't. He was convicted based on the other items they found at his home. Machine gun parts, ammunition, the works. Donating the tank and gun to a museum or some other eligible collector is part of his parole. That should clear up any confusion. If he just had the tank and the AA gun he'd been good. Hence some other German being allowed to take the AA gun. *As in regulation.

Currently having to deal with people who asks questions for the sake of asking questions. That's like passive-aggressive active procrastination, a great way to let me know that the other party doesn't want to do it, doesn't want to appear to not wanting to do it so they ask pointless questions in an effort to appear to have expended effort where none was necessary. Instead of, you know, just doing what they're supposed to do.

The way this anime flip flops between deeply philosophical and total nonsense is baffling, and I mean that in a positive way. At the end of espisode 8 they re-enact Usagi at parties.

Girls' Last Tour, episode 7. Yuu and Chi find a former industrial bakery and leftover ingredients. They bake new rations with what they find. And yeah, except for a bit of Chi and her fear of heights, this is actually all that happened in the episode. Oy, spoilers. Woops. Sorry! Episode 5 had this song:

This is why I suggested watching the 35 minute OVA between 4 and 5. While it came out after the 13 episodes of the series, it does bridge the time gap. If I remember correctly, the light novel begins with what is seen in episode 5. You wouldn't expect her assignment to be a total disaster if you had seen the OVA, and... it actually explains why Violet got the job, of all people. And nah, Princess Charlotte of Drossel is way too old for Pedosus.

Is that supposed to goad me into watching? Hah.

Netflix keeps suggesting me that, so I'll eventually end up watching it, I guess. Too much still to watch for now, though. edit: Thanks for the suggestion with Girls' Last Tour. Even if that should devolve into GIANT ROBOT MECH battles at the end it was still worth it. Done with episode 6 now. 5 was a little depressing even.

Cup't help you with that, then.

Mrs. Evergarden had nice cups too, but Violet ruined them. See?