Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
Though Mo Lan has long had a crush on Yifeng Liu he doesn’t see her as anything more than a friend… and a male friend at that. One day she comes across a magical flower that has the ability to transform her into a long-haired beauty, a form in which she gets to see an entirely different side of him.
A school-life romance with a large amount of comic relief and minor fantasy elements which become more pronounced toward the end.
While investigating a power outage on the roof Xiong Ma Ying discovers a girl floating in mid-air who promptly gets knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning. Not believing his eyes but wanting to help her all the same he attempts CPR, only to be violently rebuffed as the girl, a cultivator by the name of Muzi Li, suddenly regains consciousness. Not quickly enough to prevent some of her power from transferring into Xiong however, and now he’s faced with a choice: Join the secret world of cultivation as her partner… or die.
A multi-genre series, featuring a relatively even mix of romantic comedy, action, and drama, with a small amount of ecchi content.
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The everyday adventures of the two cats Azuki and Daizu, who were recently adopted and now have to acclimate to a new home inhabited by an assortment of strange people.
A short-episode slice of life comedy with picture drama style visuals.
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Transported, along with his allies and all of Arkham Asylum’s inmates, to what appears to be feudal Japan by one of Gorilla Grodd’s contraptions, Batman must find a way to both untangle the mess history has become and return to the modern day.
An action movie with both martial arts and mecha action along with a bit of comic relief in the form of the Joker and Harley’s personality. Be aware that it requires some basic knowledge of the Batman franchise to understand the character dynamics and that the English script differs significantly from the original Japanese version.
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Despite being terrible at action games, I decided to try Tokyo Xanadu eX+ based on its connection to the Legend of Heroes games… and ended up getting pretty far into it (currently in the middle of Chapter 7).
It’s half RPG and half action game. The action game aspects are a bit over-complicated (three super moves with three separate resources, two buttons to swap party members) but are easy enough to grasp that even someone with terrible reflexes can get S-rank stage-clear scores (on normal difficulty). The RPG aspects on the other hand are straight-forward but suffer from character behavior and storyline events that fluctuate between stereotypical and awful. That you have to continuously re-canvas the maps in order to collect the various character info pages and find hidden quests also quickly becomes tiresome, and the way it blatantly taunts you with content which can only be completed in a second playthrough is just plain annoying. I do like the way the upgrade system relies on loot rather than money though.
Overfall was recently bought on a whim and unfortunately ended up nothing like what I was expecting. Rather than being RPGish it’s more a strategy game (with the goal being to unlock new starting weapons/abilities/traits rather than winning). Worse is that only the battles are turn-based and each playthrough apparently has a time limit of, according to the tutorial/guide on Steam anyway, ~14 minutes. The time limit alone would be a deal-killer even without the focus on unlocking things solely to unlock more things.
Retsuko is a 25-year old accountant who constantly has to put up with all sorts of unreasonable demands and annoying behavior from her superiors and co-workers. She can never express her feelings directly however and so instead vents her frustrations through death metal fantasies and karaoke sessions.
A workplace comedy with a chibi artstyle. It’s a remake of the previous series featuring mostly new content.
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Though the earlier misunderstandings brought about by Mei’s magical chocolate have been cleared up, she’s still stuck on Earth trying to find a way to fix her increasingly erratic magic. Meanwhile, Haoyi is busy attempting to manage the lingering affection the girls still have for him despite their memory loss… a situation further complicated by the appearance of a fifth girl who had been exposed to the chocolate.
A mix of harem comedy and character-specific dramatic subplots similar to the prequel. It picks up from where the first season left off and, while it does briefly recap those events, requires having seen that first.
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Retsuko is a 25-year old accountant who constantly has to put up with all sorts of unreasonable and annoying behavior from her superiors and co-workers. She can never express her feelings directly however and so instead vents her frustrations through death metal fantasies and karaoke sessions.
A short-episode workplace comedy with a chibi artstyle.
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It’s been over 25 years since we last saw the Matsuno sextuplets and now they’re all grown up. Yet… nothing really seems to have changed. Will they every be able to find a job, move out of their parents’ house, or get a girlfriend?
An episodic gag comedy featuring an assortment of reaction-based, random-style, 4th wall breaking, slapstick, and parody humor. It does not require any familiarity with either of the Osomatsu-kun prequels.
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Searching for clues regarding her brother’s disappearance years earlier, Sophie Hennes learns it has something to do with the term ‘El Dorado’ and falls headfirst into the hidden world of the Horrors. There she would have died if it were not for Sword, the current Golden Demon Knight, who is hunting El Dorado for his own reasons and eventually agrees to let her assist in the search.
A partly episodic action-drama with some minor horror, comic relief, and ecchi elements. In regard to the two previous Garo animated series, it includes a few character references to Honoo no Kokuin and has no notable connection to Guren no Tsuki.
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