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I've only read the first chapter so far, but Gokurakugai has potential. The art is really well done and has oodles of personality.

Happy Birthday!

Oh damn, I didn't realize PPPPPP ended! I went and caught up on the last two chapters immediately. Definitely a bummer. I wonder what happened there. It felt like it was ramping up and hit a peak with the 4-on-4 battle, then it just kind of meandered for a few chapters before ending. I don't think it's unlikely it was a somewhat planned ending since his mom died during all that, but it feels like some of those last few chapters were wasted, and we probably could have just done the Dada backstory and then this chapter.

Checked out Beat & Motion. Seems like it could be a good one.

Some really great stuff this week(with a couple manga that I had to catch up from last week, too). Akane-banashi really paying off the brief lull. Elusive Samurai with a signature moment and a gorgeous 2-page panel. Undead Unluck has been really fun with the most recent arc. Ichinose Family really digging into the meat. Even Fabricant 100 had a good pair of chapters these last two weeks after being kind of ok after the first chapter. Just gotta catch up on the last two Sakamoto chapters. I've also been reading Jiangshi X. It's fine. Kinda basic demon Shonen stuff, but this last chapter had some cool art. Not sure I'm gonna cling to this one. I wonder how Cipher Academy has been doing lol.

Chapter #75

Nah, I agree on PPPPPP. Before, even when I didn't know exactly what was going on, there was a charm that made it still interesting. But between having no Lucky and this kind of meandering focus on the other septuplets, it's just not grabbing me the same. And normally after 3 or so chapters, I understand what's happening and it rings me back in, but not for like 6 now.

Happy Birthday, Tassi!!

I saw Birdman for the first time last night. What a ride that is. Definitely one of those movies that has a lot of replay value.

Holy shit, this was it Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins #10

I saw a video recently where someone absolutely loved Dirge of Cerberus, and it made me want to give it another shot. Wish I still had my copy from years back. I'm sad to hear about Zack's voice actor. I've been watching these FF retrospective videos and someone was talking about how the new Zack voice actor in the VII Remake wasn't as strong, and hearing he did the same thing here...god, I hope they pull it together for Rebirth.

Kinda sad this ended up being my full list for the year, but college kicked my ass 1. Pokemon Violet 2. :snes: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past I still technically need to make trades t complete my Pokedex, but I finished all of the story and the post-game stuff for Pokemon Violet. I honestly don't have the patience or the motivation to do EV training, so I probably won't participate in the raids. That said, I had a blast with this game. I kept finding every chance to play, even if it was just for 10 minutes. The game kind of had hills and valleys, where I was enamored for like the first 10-20 hours, then I saw through the matrix after getting all Miraidon upgrades, then I fell in love with exploring again. Overall, I think this game has the same problem Final Fantasy XV does: the open world is a great concept with less cool stuff filling it out. For XV, it was the lack of actual towns. Here, I wish there were more sidequests and random locations that gave more incentive for exploring. I was also annoyed that the Team Star boss monsters were essentially the same after being so impressed with the first one. I think you should be able to ride Pokemon other than the legendary. I also wish the wild Pokemon actually like...did stuff. That said, it was still so joyous to be flying around and seeing some Pokemon I had never seen in the distance and rushing to go grab it. Or getting excited whenever I come across one of my classic faves and feeling the deep need to catch it. A lot to improve upon, but I think they have a winning formula here. As for A Link to the Past, this was actually my first time completing it. Or really playing it at all when it comes down to it. I played it in retrospect during the PS1 era, and I never stick with it past the first dungeon. But even all these years later, it holds up and was impressive. Love the aesthetic of everything, and it's truly a graphical accomplishment on many fronts. The dungeons were really creative with some tough(at times frustrating) bosses, though a decent deal of them were manageable with some fairies in bottles. I also love how natural it felt discovering things and solving problems on the overworld, with the fortune teller hints helping fill the gaps when I was otherwise a bit lost. I definitely see why people love this game, and it's definitely one of my favorite Zelda experiences.

Wait, has Tassi not watched Ousama Ranking yet? For some reason I thought I remembered reading some reax from her

I feel like I'm getting mixed signals

Yeah, that was one thing that was nice about binging for the catch-up. Things made more sense because you could piece it all together over 3-5 chapters lol Really liked the fight with Kanaguri in Sakamoto Days. Class stuff. Ichinose's is still intriguing, but man, it does so much setup sometimes that I feel I'm left waiting for something to happen after certain chapters. Like it feels like NOTHING happened this week. Akane-banashi 45 I liked the last two chapters of Elusive Samurai

I have no idea what the fuck's going on in PPPPPP

Finally got all caught up on Sakamoto Days. Hot damn, have I been missing out.

At first I was thinking there's so much more to cover that 24 episodes would be good, but then I realized they've already covered up to Chapter 39 - which is about halfway through. If they don't so the movie option, I imagine they probably just have an extended season up to like 16 episodes. I haven't caught up to the end of this season, but overall, really happy with this adaptation. There's certain artistic nuances they can't capture like the way Fujinami did page layouts, but the animation did massive justice to the action sequences(including adding new scenes to some of the fights). Also, holy shit, Mob Psycho ended on such a great note. Legit one of the best all-time anime in my opinion. It has the heart and seriousness that One Punch Man is missing. Gonna have to read the manga soon

I've got a new Bluetooth speaker so far. I'll report back as I open the rest this week

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, everyone! Had some light Christmas festivities this year as I was finishing up my last semester of school. Went to the Chicago Zoolights on Monday, and then browsed around the Chriskindl Market on Wednesday. Today I had Christmas breakfast with the polycule and we just got done watching Castle in the Sky. Gifts won't be opened until like a week for now for scheduling reasons, so I don't know what I've got yet lol.

Still gotta catch up on that one. Sakamoto will come next, and then I'll finally trudge through it. Where I left off, it was one of the least interesting ones for me. But I'm definitely excited to see where it's gone since.

Dragon Ball Super is back!

I'm actually surprised some of those made it up there, but I'm guessing the algorithm factors in binges, and those are definitely the series I've done the largest catch-up binges on lately.

I actually didn't realize they sent those! Here's mine

How did I know this post was gonna bring up the Coltrane reference Great chapter this week, and it has me really stoked to see what goes down when Akane opens for Rokuro.