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I thought maybe she'd stick around longer. Happy birthday though!

Germany went down 2-0 to England today. That was a bit of a surprise to see. Also it looks like Sweden is about to lose to Ukraine. Down 2-1 with very little time left on the clock. Quite a few teams that I assumed would be strong have made early exits in this round.

Anime of the Season, Spring 2021 There were some really great anime to choose from this spring. Whatchu got for AOTS Spring 2021??

Didn't even know there was a game last night

Vivy was AOTS for me. It started so strong, and just continued to be really good all the way through. I watched the summary episode last night and that was a great reminder of how great it was. Very close runners-up: SSSS.Dynazenon and Odd Taxi. Dynazenon had a great vibe and atmosphere, and I thought it got better and better every week. Great cast of characters. I loved the ending and all the mecha goodness. Odd Taxi was quirky and at times a bit slow, but in just the right way. Probably not for everyone, but I thought it was very good. It also had a great ending--it all came together so nicely in the final episodes. While Super Cub was not quite in AOTS territory for me, I will say that I did look forward to it every week. It was definitely worth watching.

I think the first part of Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway is coming to Netflix soon I'm definitely watching that this weekend if it releases by then!

With Odd Taxi and Fruits Basket wrapped up, my queues are almost empty now. Just one more episode of Shadows House and the Digimon. Feels good to have basically a clean slate. This was a really solid season

Nice ending

France gone now too.

What a brilliant ending to Odd Taxi. I really really enjoyed pretty much everything about this show. Definitely something I’m going to come back to again in the future

Of interest for me on Crunchyroll are Fena, Aquatope, and Dragon Maid — air times are all TBD. Funi has Sonny Boy beginning July 15. Not sure yet if I will try anything else out.

I’m really hoping they come across Rei if they eventually make it up into space. Seems like a perfect setup to me. Sakamoto Days is on my to-try list. Haven’t gotten around to it yet, but I probably will this summer. Once the spring anime season wraps up, I’ll have some more free time for other stuff. I’m probably not going to follow as many new shows this summer.

I read Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya and rather enjoyed it. Rei is the best, my new favourite character

I didn't notice this on the chart last I looked, but Cruncyroll and Adult Swim are collaborating to produce an original anime for this summer called Fena: Pirate Princess (listed as Kaizoku Oujo on AniChart). I'm not necessarily sold on it yet, but the trailer seemed decent, and I've already got a Crunchy subscription so why not give it a look? Also, the creator/director is Kazuto Nakazawa and he's got a pretty solid resume as a character designer and director.

I don't necessarily dislike Portugal, but the city I live in now has a pretty big Portugese population and the celebrations if they had won the Euro would have been rather annoying. I lived in Greektown in Toronto when Greece won Euro 2004 and it was nuts. Didn't sleep a wink that night. People were driving around honking their horns and making all kinds of noise all night long.

I'm gonna check that out later, didn't get to it earlier. Speaking of new series, I'm still waiting for more Choujin X... I wonder what's going on with that one. The first chapter was enough to pique my interest.

Portugal is out too—good job Belgium!

Yeah afaik there is one more episode next Saturday to wrap it up

Not a great showing for The Netherlands today…

Well, I guess i tell c is finished. I think it would have been fun to continue with the new kid added onto the i division team. (His mom is a real dragon lady though ) Oh well. It was a fun read. The Elusive Samurai chapter 22 DB Super # 73 — I’d like to see this fight with Granolah animated someday! Very curious to see what Vegeta has up his sleeve in the next chapter.

Well worth the wait indeed! Chapter 48 was fantastic. Anya can do it all Solid look for Loid at the end there too

Episode 12 of Shadows House was pretty good, I thought, but it seems that some fans of the manga are not super impressed with how it is deviating from the manga. I don’t think it’s fair to blame CloverWorks for everything like some have, but I dunno Looking like a “one and done” based on what they’re doing to end this season. Maybe I’ll look into reading the manga instead. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1932849 https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1931999

Wales got beat bad by Denmark today. Italy vs. Portugal or Belgium ought to be a good match next round. IIRC Belgium was quite good in the group round. 9 points. Not the strongest group though. Anyway, I don’t know jack, but it appears they’re a good team.

I’m glad we got a seemingly happy ending from TWEWY, but it didn’t make a ton of sense to me in the end. It’s a video game story. That’s just the way it goes sometimes.

After a rough stretch last week, the Jays have now won 5 in a row. Won 2 against Baltimore after dropping the series opener, then swept the 2-game series in Miami, and last night won the next series opener vs. Baltimore. 3 more games vs. Baltimore over the weekend, and then an off-day, and then 3 games vs. the Mariners. Please win them all, Blue Jays!