For this Sunday's arthouse watching, I watched Abel's Island. I admit that, as far as this "sprawling New Yorker shit" (to quote Charlie Kaufman goes), Steig is much more pleasing to me than Thurber is.

Word of advice to myself: If something appears to be flattering your ego, look at it extra-skeptically.

I like that we're still getting introduced to new characters in CITY six episodes in.

I just finally watched Fritz the Cat. Honestly, I am much more sympathetic toward Bakshi's point of view than Crumb's, but still, the movie gets too wrapped up in "wow we just said fuck wow we just showed tits" to showcase the aspects of Bakshi's worldview that I sympathize with.

Much like with Fate/Apocrypha, Witch From Mercury is probably where I begin and end my acquaintance with Gundam, but much like with Fate/Apocrypha, it hits my action spots in a very welcome way.

Look Back is something where, try as I might (I watched it twice over a couple weeks to be sure I was giving it a fair shake), I can only feel the mechanics of what I'm supposed to feel as opposed to the actual feelings.

Okay, I now know who my favourite character in CITY is going to be, lol. (Tekaridake.)

Lycoris Recoil fulfills my thriller itch quite well. It’s not a “perfect” show (but then, what is, really?), but it’s a show I personally find deeply enthralling.

CITY has got me in the mood to watch some anime, so I watched Overtake! this week. It’s very masculine but sensitive in the way I’ve wanted from something for a while now. It also feels very… human in a way that I’ve also been wanting from something for a while now.

After nearly two years, I've finally made it through every Looney Tunes short.

Hot take: These two shorts are essentially the same type of thing.

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Here's my final list of superlative UPA cartoons now that I'm finally through:

Great: Rooty Toot Toot, Gerald McBoing Boing
Good: Madeline, The Wonder Gloves
I Respect It: The Tell Tale Heart
A Frustrating Near-Miss: The Unicorn in the Garden