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It’s missing SasaMiya hours rn

I miss them. So much.

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Tasokare Hotel ep1; short review

Not a very impactful first episode, but a good episode still.

We're introduced to our protagonist as she lays on the floor, losing her blood from a bad wound on her side. She then wakes up in a strange desert, and enters a hotel whose manager has a head of flames.

Point of mystery, we can't see her eyes.

It's explained that the hotel is a place of rest for souls that are between the land of the living and the land of the afterlife, because they're not sure if they're dead or not. Okay.

Each guest is assigned a room that contains hints about their past life so they can find out who they are, recover their memories and take a decision: go back to their life, or move on. Arito, who is in the same case as our protagonist, takes her to her room as he got too bored in the hotel so now he works there.

Our main protagonist remembers the last event before her... supposed almost death: an idol concert, and she then finds her name on a school ID card: Neko Tsukahara.

Yah, she looks silly.

We meet the hotel's staff, a cute girl who works in the kitchen that instantly captures Neko's heart, a bartender with horns, and a guest with a frog (?) face.

Another guest appears, a young girl wearing a tarot card as head. She arrived the day before, and still hasn't found much about herself. Neko being curious, she and Arito help that girl search her room, as the room can "change" as the guest remembers their past. They do find out what happened to her, and after some words of encouragement from Neko, she goes back to the land of the living... just by leaving the hotel.

Neko, who finds the whole process very interesting, asks to join the hotel's staff.

The opening then plays, and while it's an okay opening, some of the shots do throw mystery on what really happened to Neko, who she is, and hints at the number of "cases" Neko will solve during her stay at the hotel.

It was overall charming, though. I'll give it a chance until ep3 or 5 if the atmosphere deepens a bit and the main character stays tolerable.

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Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte ep1-2 - short review;

Mystery animes with a genius main character can either make it or break it, and this one is on the fence for now.

Firstly, I have to salute the opportunity to watch the first two episodes at once, allowing us to fully see the first case to its conclusion. It was a good move to make us involved and decide if we liked the way it was solved.

Our main character is introduced as she diagnoses instantly two patients whose symptoms didn't seem to be enough for another doctor she nicknames Kotori to find the diagnosis. Alright, we get it, she's a genius, and she looks like a kid.

Hey, at least she IS cute, I like her design.

She's actually the director of an investigative service, so she must be older than she seems. Though, she's trying to get Kotori to study Jurassic Park with her, so I don't know really about that.

Then, a man who has blue blood and a severed leg is brought to the hospital as an emergency. As they try to revive him, they see he's already dead, and the police is on the case,

Takao has apparently helped the police with cases before, as she has a teasing relationship with an officer, and bargains for information from an inspector.

They investigate during the evening/night. as Takao is very frustrated her uncle, hospital director, forbids her to take on cases. And, yep, she solves the case easily enough, the murderer is arrested. Though, he tries to attack her while yelling. She covers her ears (!) while Kotori defends her with his karate skills. Next, her older sister drags her into a room probably to scold her, more like a mother would do, and the episode ends.

The first question that comes to me is: would the watcher been able to solve the mystery?

Evidently, no. You would have needed knowledge about certain medical substances and symptoms, which I doubt the average viewer would know about.

Were there hints? Yes, actually! Even if you don't know much about sicknesses, the body being in rigor mortis as soon as it arrives to the hospital was the biggest sign the victim has been dead for a longer time than it seemed. There was also the shots from the news Kotori was reading, and we were allowed to followed the investigation closely.

But also, there was only one character introduced during the case, and since it was obviously a murder... Well, that was quick. But I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, as the point in my opinion was to introduce the main characters, and how the mystery solving works. Which brings me to my general thoughts about these first two episodes.

Visually, it's nothing noteworthy, except for the opening that has some interesting frames and visuals that make me think we might get more plot than simple mystery solving, notably these:

The opening song is by Aimer, though I don't like it much for now.

Overall, this was a good introduction to our main characters, enough was told about them to know how to feel about them while still keeping a mystery, and the plot solving method was shown from A to Z.

I am still on the fence about Takao as a main character, because mystery animes with genius main characters can make the viewer feel excluded from the mystery solving itself, and it gets worse if you don't care for the characters themselves (hey Kamonohashi Ron). Takao is cute, but if she's an actual adult with that personality of hers, I will wait to see more of her before I can tell if I like her or not.

Kotoko Iwanaga from Kyouko Suiri will always be my best girl from mystery animes anyway.

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Kana Arima deserved better. She needs her own manga series by a different writer.

I have no regrets buying the vol11 collector edition because she’s gorgeous on the cover, or the art book because the art is very pretty.

But man, this sucked so hard it makes me feel better as a writer.

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ppl are so mad in the replies to this tweet but op is literally right

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oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever

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i kinda wanted to say oshi no ko stayed mid from after the first volume which was fantastic to this point in time,

but i can't even do that. it got so bad only my undying love for Arima Kana and the Goro/Sarina dynamic is what pushed me to even read new chapters.

thanks heavens i don't have to do that for much longer now.

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Short fall season animes thoughts

because I'm still not able to do full reviews. And I'm very not up to date.

Dandadan: that was one fucking weird first episode.

Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere: a lot more enjoyable than I thought, actually! A pretty new concept for Magical girls, both opening and ending are pretty good, and the execution is interesting.

Sword Art Online Gun Gale Online 2nd season: after binging the first season in one day, I'm also eating that one up. I missed Llenn-chan!! I can't wait to see more!!

Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi: yes i had to paste the title from anilist. But!! It's worth checking out at least for the artstyle and colors. It's so soft and pastel, it's the reason I got into it in the first place, and then I came to like the characters and the plot that seems to be unfolding.

Fairy Tail 100 years Quest: welp I'm 15 again.

Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi: the first episode was a lot more well done than the trailer and concept showed first. I gotta watch more of it!

Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri 2nd Season: still mid.

Sengoku Youko: Senma Konton-hen: STILL A BANGER IN EVERY ASPECTS!!! MORE PEOPLE SHOULD WATCH IT!!! I JUST WANT MORE!!

that's it.

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SENGOKU YOUKO IS BACK WE ARE SO BACK

I gave up on reviews for spring and summer animes bcoz my keyboard decided to give up on me, so I'll come back with fall animes in due time, with eventually some thoughts there and there.

BUT I HAVE TO SCREAM ABOUT SENGOKU YOUKO BEING BACK BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH AN UNDERRATED ANIME!! IT DESERVES LOVE!! HYPE UP MY KIDS!! also the new opening is fire.

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RIP Kabosu, who inspired one of the most influential memes of all time; Doge.

2/11/2005 - 24/5/24

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when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

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procrastinating again on anime reviews by watching black clover and i legally can't stop right now, it's time of Black Rover opening aka the best black clover opening as you all know

it makes me feel so insane i love it

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NIJIYON ANIMATION 2 ep#7; short review

This was a simple but cute episode.

Lanzhu notices Shizuku being depressed by the window and comes up to her. Shizuku says she failed an audition but says she isn't too angry or affected by it.

Lanzhu decides crepes is the thing to do right now, and drags her behind, getting crepes, and taking her to the ocean.

Turns out she was following a manual on how to cheer up a friend which Shizuku noticed. Of all of Lanzhu's attempts, seeing that is probably what cheered Shizuku up the most.

She then proceeds to scream her true feelings at the sea, revealing she was actually very frustrated with losing the audition, and that she loves Lanzhu!

Lanzhu is very happy about it.

Once again, a very simple episode, but it was very adorable.

Lastly,

She isn't wrong.

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Shuumatsu Train doko e iku?/Train to the end of the world ep#7-8; short review

Woops I'm late to the party. First we fight zombies, secondly.... I have thoughts on episode 8.

Episode 7 continues with the zombie thingy.

A pretty calm episode compared to what this anime has given before, but still a good one, though I don't have much to say... except for the end.

It's obvious the "queen of zombies" definitely isn't one. She puts our four girls through the test and we keep learning about our characters like this actually, like how Nadeko is very good at video games.

Turns out Queen of zombies became such because the zombies were the only ones left who waited for her. I felt touched, tbh. But more importantly, we get the gist something is wrong in Ikebukuro.

Which is confirmed in episode 8.

This episode was a ROLLERCOASTER.

It starts off in an incredibly silly way, with the girls passing through a station that gives them THE ITCH. THE CRAZY ITCH. And then it suddenly transitioned into a much creepier looking station.

Like, wow, just wow. The change of atmosphere gave me chills. The girls (and the dog) get hit then by the memory of their biggest regret. It went by pretty fast so I had to come back and pause to understand.

For Akira and Reimi, it seems both linked to... someone's death/disappearance? One that Akira has let happen, one that Reimi has caused? Very curious to see if they expand on it later on.

Nadeko's one is much clearer and kind of hurt me. She regretted not stopping her parents' fighting and asks her dad to come back... Which comes back later in the episode.

Doggie...? What happened to you :(

And of course, for Shizuru...

Her argument with Yoka.

And then the opening plays. This whole episode introduction was a rollercoaster.

-rewatches the opening because it's a banger-

The girls start rambling about NeriAli, which is what the next station is about. Shizuru is going through a guidebook about every type of characters they can encounter in NeriAli. It's apparently a series Yoka used to love and ramble about to Shizuru.

When they arrive there, it's pretty different from what they're expecting. It seems the bad boss Chaos has taken reign, won against the heroes who have died, and the Walkers are pretty against them going to Ikebukuro for some reason...

Thanks to their knowledge of the series, they manage to find a hidden club of resistance, elaborate a plan to bring the heroes back. Sadly the plan fails and the heroes die definitely.

When lecturing the Darkizumites, Nadeko says this line:

And is reminded of her own issue with her not stopping her parents' fighting, giving herself good advice on purpose. She ends up wearing the hero Alice's outfit due to her brave attitude.

The other girls are also dressed up as the other heroes, and beat the enemies thanks to.... shogi rules, Akira noticing the patterns and remembering how to beat them. They defeat everyone, and then the Chaos boss joins them.

That's the interesting part. The boss tells them he can't let them go to Ikebukuro, because the Queen witch has ordered him so.

Who turns out to be... Yoka, their missing friend.

After leaving the Darkizumites to fend for themselves, the girls leave again on their train wondering how the settings of NeriAli were tampered with, and worried about these news regarding Yoka's whereabouts.

This episode went really fast, but it was great. The first minute doesn't tell you at all what you're getting into, and it finally drops the bomb on Yoka's actions after some quite good character action from Nadeko.

Can't wait for next Monday!

-rewatches the ending because that one is a banger too-

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Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF ep#7; short review

Actually it has been a hot week since I watched the episode itself, but I still have some feelings.

My feelings for Holo, first things first.

She is adorable I lover her so much.

On a more serious note, this episode is a bit more. Holo and Lawrence have such a cute dynamic, though Holo does truly get what she wants from Lawrence, which is... food.

Thanks to her wise wolf ways, she manages to get Lawrence a great deal, exchanging pepper against armor. Holo notices indeed the table was tilted, pushing the balance in favor of the seller, who immediately freaks out at the idea of these two making his deal public.

Back at their inn, there is this sweet scene. Lawrence cannot admit outwardly that he appreciates traveling with Holo, so he tells her he should pay her back by the time they reach the Northern forests, expressing that the debt doesn't have a deadline.

The way she clings to him. Gah, they make me insane.

On their travel, they hear of a rumor about a sorcerer. Turns out the said sorcerer is simply a shepherd, someone Lawrence uses proper etiquette with it seems, who has a dog and sheeps.

It is, also, Holo's most hated type of humans.

See you next week!

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I'm late in my seasonal anime watching but not only my keyboard is acting up but also I've simply been devouring to aru kagaku no railugn T and i just HAVE to finish watching it right NOW or else I will probably die.

(ive read the manga and i know what happens but i need to watch it anyway)

there's a holiday coming up so hopefully i'll be up to date by monday