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I’m playing catch-up here since I started the season a little late, that’s why you’re getting two ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princessposts in one week. I’ll settle on just one starting next week although there also a chance I’ll deluge you with some Delicious in Dungeon reviews. Continue reading Untitled

I have to stop reading manga. I want the thrill of discovering new anime as it airs! Fortunately, I never got around to Solo Levelling so I can see where it goes! Continue reading Untitled

Those consorts just can’t function without Maomao! I don’t blame them. I would also not be able to do anything without Maomao once I had a taste for her efficiency. She seems to make life a whole lot easier. Especially if you live in a palace and people are trying to assassinate you a lot. Like me! Continue reading Untitled

There are a lot of great shows this season. Not just a lot of great shows but a lot of shows that I have been anxiously waiting for. And The Witch and the Beast is definitely at the forefront. For those who do not know I have been enjoying the manga (I am up to date) and even reviewed it once. It’s not necessarily a story I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone out there. I would say it is a…

I just saw that the second season of Ron…. Has been announced and I’m really happy about it. Have you ever done that thing, when you can’t decide something, so you just blurt out a decision to see if you feel disappointed. I do that pretty regularly. I just don’t have very strong feelings about most things. Well, the second season announcement of Ron Komonohashi did something similar for me. I…

I have two episodes to catch up on for this one. And I have to say, I loved being able to watch two episodes one after the other. I suspected it all along, but I really think that the Apothecary Diaries would be a very fun show to binge once enough episodes have aired. The story just flows so well from one episode to the next that it feels natural to sit down and just watch a handful in one fell…

I’m back – sorry it took a while. The holidays were great though and I hope you guys had a lot of fun as well. I will be picking my watch-a-longs for the season soon. To be honest, I have a whole bunch I want to see BUT, I might be watching them with friends which is certainly a huge change so I don’t know if that will make for good review candidates (since I won’t necessarily be able to watch…

You know what, now that the season is over and I can look back on it as a whole, I really enjoyed this season of Dr. Stone. The pacing was great, there were several points where I was genuinely intrigued by what would happen next and it was consistently fun to meet new characters and get plot reveals. It felt like we actually moved forward and that can be a challenge for long-running…

At least the last two episodes of the season are going to be a two-parter. It’s like they knew that I like those better! YAY! Continue reading Untitled

The Apothecary Diaries are really moving along. I didn’t realize this story would come so soon. It felt like a long time before we got any insinuations about Jinshi’s background in the manga but maybe that’s just because I was reading as they came out and they had long breaks between volumes. I’m actually going to put off reading the last volumes I got just so I can experience the anime with…

The boat arc is officially over and we are back to our good old, uneventful family life. I have to say, it’s nice to have a little breather. I always found Becky’s steady and unwavering pursuit of Loid a little odd. Not odd exactly, little girls get crushes like that all the time. I just didn’t quite know how to integrate it with the rest of the story. But I like the way they went with it. At the…

This happens sometimes and it’s frustrating for me. I watch a perfectly fine episode, you know, nothing earth-shattering or anything but fine. I can probably find a few things to ramble on about. If not, I can at least share some yummy screencaps with you all. And then, at the last minute, not even the last minute, the last few seconds, something tremendous happens and completely pushes…

We are having a pretty great season of anime if you ask me. And that’s a bit of a bad thing for a show like Ron Kamonohashi. I really enjoy this show and I was pleasantly surprised by it. But I can’t deny that it’s light as air. It’s a sort of make you smile, supremely easy-to-watch type of show that in a lesser season would have gotten more of a chance to shine. Again, if you ask me. As it is…

I don’t know if you guys remember, but I had a few little reservations about the Apothecary Diaries animation when the season started. I didn’t dislike it at all, but I had been such a big fan of the manga that I couldn’t help but compare the two and in some ways preferred the latter. I have to say, I still have some issues with the art of the anime but otherwise, I am fully onboard. And the…

There’s a line in the middle of this episode where Twilight mentioned that family vacations are just way too exhausting (I’m paraphrasing) and I felt that in my bones. As some of you may know, I don’t exactly have a big family but I do have some. With the Holidays coming up, it means attending various parties and making small talk with folks who get together a few times a year at most,…

I was really wondering where this season was going to go. Because as far as I could tell, the main plot was over in the last episode. Sure we still had a bit of cleanup to do. Revive everyone maybe go back to the village but the Big Bad was defeated, the good guys had the Medusa, there really wasn’t anything left to do…was there? Oh boy was I wrong! Continue reading Untitled

Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions is just a light little bit of silliness and really that’s part of what I like about the show. It doesn’t take itself seriously but it does still deliver a technically well-made and put-together little story. However, it doesn’t delve too deep into things. That might change with time but seeing as we only have 3 episodes to go, it won’t be this…