#7.4.26

Sounds like there was another wiffle ball game this year. Aram reports Will performed so poorly the MayeDay Softball results must have been faked.

@/KITTYKARNAGE

I mean Jesus Christ dude what do you want me to say. Level of adaptation quality that most things can scarcely even dream of. I've only actually read the first volume of the manga so nothing is new to me yet and I get to be all excited because next episode we're going somewhere fucking gorgeous, but still just taking this all in like, wow. It's not even a complicated setup or an all that new take on magic but the deftness with which it's all executed makes you so effortlessly invested, and again fuckin beautiful job adapting to this new medium - a visual treat that if it maintains this level of quality will go down as one of the decade's best with a soundtrack to match, and I love the casting across the board. Wasn't sure how I'd feel about Natsuki Hanae Qifrey because I tend to associate him with younger characters but he's very soft spoken and gentle in a way befitting the character at this point in the narrative and his brief anger in the first episode is appropriately scary to match. I'm 260 screenshots deep a mere 2 episodes in as well. Very excited for more.

Leno sitting and waiting for Will to add him as a collaborator to the 4th of July post, as Will slowly adds literally everyone else.

I don't know that this one will survive all that long. It's definitely solid but I think I'm fairly bored of this genre unless you do something really neat with it, and I don't know that this show will be the one to do that for me. At the same time though, Shion Wakayama. So idk we'll see.

This isn't really a show for me. I've not played the game (though I'll try fix that in the coming days) and core parts of its identity simply don't resonate with me. I don't care for streamer culture and the entire menhera aesthetic and subculture have just never resonated with me. But all the same, why not wash the flashy new anime? And hey, it's a fun show to watch! To be honest it's hard to imagine this anime in the form it takes presumably turning towards a linear narrative of some sort? But this mile a minute all over the place non-linear storytelling and fiction and reality blending visuals (sometimes literally in that latter case) makes for a very captivating viewing experience. And while I can sit there and say I don't care for its represented cultures that doesn't mean I'm unwilling to engage with what this show wants to say about them, so. For now at least, I'm here for this.