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College wk/stdy supervisor, 1980's Lego enthusiast, Typemoon and others Anime Enthusiast. (39)
Oh, well wow! Kite Liberator is kinda great. It seems like it's a heavily rebooted attempt at the ideas in Kite with a much stronger emphasis on the elements I liked.
I liked hearing Rikiya Koyama getting to play a part... I could almost hear him talking about Ilya when he spoke of his daughter.
I liked hearing Rikiya Koyama getting to play a part... I could almost hear him talking about Ilya when he spoke of his daughter.
a man in a black suit is kneeling down in the snow with his hands folded in prayer .
Alt: Kiritsugu Emiya picks up his daughter Ilya, this is in reference to Rikiya Koyama also playing Monoka's Father in Kite Liberator. And he sounds just the same.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Oh, well wow! Kite Liberator is kinda great. It seems like it's a heavily rebooted attempt at the ideas in Kite with a much stronger emphasis on the elements I liked.
I liked hearing Rikiya Koyama getting to play a part... I could almost hear him talking about Ilya when he spoke of his daughter.
I liked hearing Rikiya Koyama getting to play a part... I could almost hear him talking about Ilya when he spoke of his daughter.
Tubi is where I go to watch all the anime I looked at in the used dvd store and go, probably not worth it.
I think Melty Lancer almost, almost made me want to go buy it.
Avenger was the most dreadfully stiff and dull show
Geneshaft managed to modestly impress me after a dire first episode.
I think Melty Lancer almost, almost made me want to go buy it.
Avenger was the most dreadfully stiff and dull show
Geneshaft managed to modestly impress me after a dire first episode.
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Tubi is where I go to watch all the anime I looked at in the used dvd store and go, probably not worth it.
I think Melty Lancer almost, almost made me want to go buy it.
Avenger was the most dreadfully stiff and dull show
Geneshaft managed to modestly impress me after a dire first episode.
I think Melty Lancer almost, almost made me want to go buy it.
Avenger was the most dreadfully stiff and dull show
Geneshaft managed to modestly impress me after a dire first episode.
I decided to try to give Kite a chance... again... made it past 5 seconds and finished.
bleh. The new Virgin Punk is... a far far better experience, I was probably fine to just leave it at that. But free on Tubi!
I'll probably yet take a look at Liberator since it's on Tubi at no cost but my time.
bleh. The new Virgin Punk is... a far far better experience, I was probably fine to just leave it at that. But free on Tubi!
I'll probably yet take a look at Liberator since it's on Tubi at no cost but my time.
a girl in a red sweater is holding a cell phone in her hands
Alt: Kite's protagonist Sawa, a girl in a red sweater is holding a cup of steaming hot green tea in her hands.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I decided to try to give Kite a chance... again... made it past 5 seconds and finished.
bleh. The new Virgin Punk is... a far far better experience, I was probably fine to just leave it at that. But free on Tubi!
I'll probably yet take a look at Liberator since it's on Tubi at no cost but my time.
bleh. The new Virgin Punk is... a far far better experience, I was probably fine to just leave it at that. But free on Tubi!
I'll probably yet take a look at Liberator since it's on Tubi at no cost but my time.
We started Pluribus on Wednesday and my first thoughts are... this seems kinda good, but I need more time to decide if I like what it wants to be... I liked episode 2 more than episode one so it seems to be moving in a direction I may be able to enjoy.
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We started Pluribus on Wednesday and my first thoughts are... this seems kinda good, but I need more time to decide if I like what it wants to be... I liked episode 2 more than episode one so it seems to be moving in a direction I may be able to enjoy.
Not so long ago one of my friends showed me an episode of Love Death and Robots called 'Good Hunting' and the end of it looked like the beginning of my rough draft, but it was very differently contextualized... more in line with Paolo's Wind Up Girl.
My Lunch Break is over.
My Lunch Break is over.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Not so long ago one of my friends showed me an episode of Love Death and Robots called 'Good Hunting' and the end of it looked like the beginning of my rough draft, but it was very differently contextualized... more in line with Paolo's Wind Up Girl.
My Lunch Break is over.
My Lunch Break is over.
So I played Soul Calibur 4 instead. I wanted to write a fantasy novel, and after seeing Ashlotte and doing a study of the field of novels I thought, hello, no one's writing a Clockwork girl, nor has written a clockwork girl novel.
So I rough drafted some Victorianesque Equilibrium Clockwork Girl
So I rough drafted some Victorianesque Equilibrium Clockwork Girl
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So I played Soul Calibur 4 instead. I wanted to write a fantasy novel, and after seeing Ashlotte and doing a study of the field of novels I thought, hello, no one's writing a Clockwork girl, nor has written a clockwork girl novel.
So I rough drafted some Victorianesque Equilibrium Clockwork Girl
So I rough drafted some Victorianesque Equilibrium Clockwork Girl
When I started out working up my novel, I was brainstorming a different novel about an elf and a vampire bat that ended up fused together... but I read that elves don't sell novels, and after college when I could really sit down and work on it I realized all my thoughts and notes had no clear story.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When I started out working up my novel, I was brainstorming a different novel about an elf and a vampire bat that ended up fused together... but I read that elves don't sell novels, and after college when I could really sit down and work on it I realized all my thoughts and notes had no clear story.
I also scoped out Frogchildren Studio's Clockwork Girl. and at the time I started my novel it seemed to be just a vaporware movie... but it did eventually come out and I finally watched it. It's very very rough viewing, but there's some charm to it, I didn't feel like I'd wasted my time at least.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I also scoped out Frogchildren Studio's Clockwork Girl. and at the time I started my novel it seemed to be just a vaporware movie... but it did eventually come out and I finally watched it. It's very very rough viewing, but there's some charm to it, I didn't feel like I'd wasted my time at least.
At one point one of my friends bought themselves a copy of Paolo Bacigalupi's 'Wind up Girl without asking and lent it to me.
And then another friend gifted me a copy of Wind Up Girl.
Wind up Girl is very well realized and the premise is awful. It was thoughtful and supportive, and I don't like it
And then another friend gifted me a copy of Wind Up Girl.
Wind up Girl is very well realized and the premise is awful. It was thoughtful and supportive, and I don't like it
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At one point one of my friends bought themselves a copy of Paolo Bacigalupi's 'Wind up Girl without asking and lent it to me.
And then another friend gifted me a copy of Wind Up Girl.
Wind up Girl is very well realized and the premise is awful. It was thoughtful and supportive, and I don't like it
And then another friend gifted me a copy of Wind Up Girl.
Wind up Girl is very well realized and the premise is awful. It was thoughtful and supportive, and I don't like it
Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl
I went to see it before it left the theater after tonight. I had a great time, and I watched all of it... when everyone left I had the theater to myself for an hour.
I also went back to my favorite Chinese buffet for the first time since I'd stopped going in 2020.
I went to see it before it left the theater after tonight. I had a great time, and I watched all of it... when everyone left I had the theater to myself for an hour.
I also went back to my favorite Chinese buffet for the first time since I'd stopped going in 2020.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl
I went to see it before it left the theater after tonight. I had a great time, and I watched all of it... when everyone left I had the theater to myself for an hour.
I also went back to my favorite Chinese buffet for the first time since I'd stopped going in 2020.
I went to see it before it left the theater after tonight. I had a great time, and I watched all of it... when everyone left I had the theater to myself for an hour.
I also went back to my favorite Chinese buffet for the first time since I'd stopped going in 2020.
There's no showings I can find in my area for Angel's Egg... but I am looking forward to adding it to my collection.
It's one of the few anime films for which I've made a Lego Moc.
It's one of the few anime films for which I've made a Lego Moc.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There's no showings I can find in my area for Angel's Egg... but I am looking forward to adding it to my collection.
It's one of the few anime films for which I've made a Lego Moc.
It's one of the few anime films for which I've made a Lego Moc.
It's almost exactly like what watching the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya would be like... if it went totally bonkers with its central premise at the frustratingly egregious loss of coherence. It's a show where literally anything could happen next, but never whatever you expected to happen next.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It's almost exactly like what watching the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya would be like... if it went totally bonkers with its central premise at the frustratingly egregious loss of coherence. It's a show where literally anything could happen next, but never whatever you expected to happen next.
Sasami San@Ganbaranai 2-4
This show is soo wildly all over the place that it's hard to not find something to like. It's flamboyant, cheeky, inventive, with a blend of miles a minute action sequences and minutes a mile lore dumps. It's soo strange, it almost forgets to be fun, but it tries so hard.
This show is soo wildly all over the place that it's hard to not find something to like. It's flamboyant, cheeky, inventive, with a blend of miles a minute action sequences and minutes a mile lore dumps. It's soo strange, it almost forgets to be fun, but it tries so hard.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Sasami San@Ganbaranai 2-4
This show is soo wildly all over the place that it's hard to not find something to like. It's flamboyant, cheeky, inventive, with a blend of miles a minute action sequences and minutes a mile lore dumps. It's soo strange, it almost forgets to be fun, but it tries so hard.
This show is soo wildly all over the place that it's hard to not find something to like. It's flamboyant, cheeky, inventive, with a blend of miles a minute action sequences and minutes a mile lore dumps. It's soo strange, it almost forgets to be fun, but it tries so hard.
I think people like 'Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi' though... the clerk at the counter was so hyped to see it I think he bought it from the store when I sold it. I paid 10 dollars for it as a blind buy and sold it for 1 dollar just to get rid of it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I think people like 'Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi' though... the clerk at the counter was so hyped to see it I think he bought it from the store when I sold it. I paid 10 dollars for it as a blind buy and sold it for 1 dollar just to get rid of it.
Sasami San@Ganbaranai survived to get finished... unlike another show I watched that I hated so much I had to talk myself down and was like... I can sell this unfinished, I don't have to finish it.
That show was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. you'll never catch me trying to watch it again.
That show was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. you'll never catch me trying to watch it again.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sasami San@Ganbaranai survived to get finished... unlike another show I watched that I hated so much I had to talk myself down and was like... I can sell this unfinished, I don't have to finish it.
That show was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. you'll never catch me trying to watch it again.
That show was Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. you'll never catch me trying to watch it again.
My first time watching it I disliked it. and a month or three later I finally got the gumption to finish episodes 2-12... and it turned out I liked the show... and I think I had to like the rest of the show to even have a chance of liking episode one... I can't imagine why this show isn't popular
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My first time watching it I disliked it. and a month or three later I finally got the gumption to finish episodes 2-12... and it turned out I liked the show... and I think I had to like the rest of the show to even have a chance of liking episode one... I can't imagine why this show isn't popular
Sasami San@Ganbaranai is probably the most overly animated anime that was ever animated, and it's not remotely a classic, but Oppaisode 1 wants to be soo awesome that you swear you'll never forget you saw 'transforming boob Surface to Air Missiles join the fight against chocolate candy coating.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sasami San@Ganbaranai is probably the most overly animated anime that was ever animated, and it's not remotely a classic, but Oppaisode 1 wants to be soo awesome that you swear you'll never forget you saw 'transforming boob Surface to Air Missiles join the fight against chocolate candy coating.
I actually liked it this time. Last time I did not have the brain oxygen to process it... I'd had covid, or something else that lowered my blood oxygen level and... I didn't like the subject matter, and couldn't follow the antics... this time I get that Sasami's animatedly dressing to a techno beat
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I actually liked it this time. Last time I did not have the brain oxygen to process it... I'd had covid, or something else that lowered my blood oxygen level and... I didn't like the subject matter, and couldn't follow the antics... this time I get that Sasami's animatedly dressing to a techno beat
reWatching Sasami San@Ganbarani right after Rewatching Welcome to the NHK is definitely the right move... from one Neet show to an extremely another is a peerless planning win. Last time I watched Sasami I watched one episode and put the show down for over a month.... seeing episode 1 again is like
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
reWatching Sasami San@Ganbarani right after Rewatching Welcome to the NHK is definitely the right move... from one Neet show to an extremely another is a peerless planning win. Last time I watched Sasami I watched one episode and put the show down for over a month.... seeing episode 1 again is like
I'll try to watch the rest of it later... the first 5 minutes are engaging and funny.
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I'll try to watch the rest of it later... the first 5 minutes are engaging and funny.
I'm taking a look, but not the whole thing, I'm crashing against the wall of procrastinatory limits re: my sleep.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I'm taking a look, but not the whole thing, I'm crashing against the wall of procrastinatory limits re: my sleep.
There's a short bit in The Night is Short Walk on Girl when a character talks about how all books are connected and briefly recounts how different authors read and were inspired by each others works, or wrote about them, and etc. I thought of it again just now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=naao...
All Books Are Connected | Night Is Short, Walk on Girl | Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome | 夜は短し歩けよ乙女
YouTube video by Gnar Mate
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November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
There's a short bit in The Night is Short Walk on Girl when a character talks about how all books are connected and briefly recounts how different authors read and were inspired by each others works, or wrote about them, and etc. I thought of it again just now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=naao...
Funny how this is the thing that got me to look up just a bit about Gore Vidal and find he's nothing like the picture of the man you'd impressed upon my mind. Gore Vidal didn't go to college?
He knew the lady who bagged a muskrat?
Who are these people and why/how do they all know each other?
He knew the lady who bagged a muskrat?
Who are these people and why/how do they all know each other?
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Funny how this is the thing that got me to look up just a bit about Gore Vidal and find he's nothing like the picture of the man you'd impressed upon my mind. Gore Vidal didn't go to college?
He knew the lady who bagged a muskrat?
Who are these people and why/how do they all know each other?
He knew the lady who bagged a muskrat?
Who are these people and why/how do they all know each other?