Came accross this cropped screenshot someone mentioned was from Patlabor on which two very familiar looking girls are passing by. Not sure of this was a dedicated cameo or just coincidence, but am trying to see what episode and sweies from Patlabor its from.

Its still pretty neat.

(Crossposted from my journal.)

Apocalypse Hotel was great. Just great. Go watch it. It's definitely on my Hugo ballot next year.

Kowloon Generic Romance ended very well, even if the finale didn't quite have time to spell out every last detail of what was going on. Presumably the manga, which is ending soon, will be able to explain better. Recommended with some disclaimers: there are some very male-gaze camera angles at first but they stop after episode 2, and there is someone who initially appears to be a depressingly stereotypical queer villain but ultimately becomes three-dimensional and far more sympathetic.

Zatsu Tabi continued to be exactly what it appeared to be, a low-key story about travel and introduction to some of Japan's lesser-known tourist attractions.

Sword of the Demon Hunter is continuing into summer, but I have to say this: The choice to fridge someone in the first episode wound up feeling more and more out of place as the story went on. The subsequent story isn't grimdark at all; eventually it's about a guy hanging out in a soba shop with his friends and taking on jobs with an emphasis on how his work heals the community. Even the demons are mostly sympathetic at this point. So I'm not sure why the author chose to do that, other than he couldn't think of another way to get the protagonist out of his comortable village life and out into the world.

For next season, the shows I'm looking at fall into three categories:

Shows I am truly interested in checking out: Bullet/Bullet, Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show, The Earthbound Mole, Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse
Show I would be checking out if it weren't on Netflix: The Summer Hikaru Died
Shows I should be excited about on paper but am not really: Cute High Earth Defense Club Haikara!, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun season 2 part 2, Ruri Rocks

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PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime)

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The exchange requires a completed work of a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction or a minimum of 10 panels for a comic. (We also allow a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags, but these requests are not asking for podfic.) Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested. You must have an AO3 account to participate.

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What a lucky guy

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Finished Episode 2 of the Dirty Pair series and will continue it as much as I get the time to do do so.

Speaking of Anime watching, am also resuming All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (say that ten times fast,) which I haven't got to finish it ever since I owned a VHS tape with a couple episodes long ago. That's something I need to rectify.

Also trying to finish Patlabor the Mobile Police to move on to other series like Dr. Stone and the last season of My Hero Academia. There are other series I'm eyeing but for now, I'm trying to finish what I had watched before in order to move forward.

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Up till now I've only watched the OAVs and the reboot Dirty Pair Flash which didn't attract me as much as the old timy whimy series. I never even knew a series existed until I stumbled into them on youtube. I gotta say there's a lot of what you can learn from here which potentially connects to said OAVs, and the 80s scifi feel of its phenomenal.

Dirty Pair is a gallant guilty pleasure of mine.

Fandom : Ace of Diamond / Daiya no Ace / ダイヤのA
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : still more art to create.
Rating : PG
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Sawamura Eijun, Miyuki Kazuya
Summary : Sawamura goes running to relieve his frustrations…
Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : Daiya no Ace belongs to Terajima Yuji, Madhouse, and Production I.G.

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Fandom : New Cutey Honey / 新 キューティーハニー
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : sutareta. (obsolete.)
Rating : PG
Genre(s) : Romance, Angst
Main Character(s) : Kisaragi Honey, Hayami Chokkei
Summary : (Taking place in the Shin/New Cutey Honey timeline) Chokkei’s crush on Honey continues until he starts to question if she’ll fall into a deep sleep once more…
Warning(s) : None.
Disclaimer : Cutey Honey is created by Go Nagai-sensei.

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Finished Grimoire of Zero which stars a very cute little witch in it. It was an enjoyable 12 episode watch.

Trying to finish Season 7 of My Hero Academia which I just started. I see there's the spinoff "Vigilantes" after it. Might try it out.

Another series I started watching after reading a Manga volume of it is Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka, which is just sheer fanservice with skimpy outfits and a magnitude of bloodiness.

How can Anime girls with such humongous bust size able to be that acrobatic? 🤔

Also trying to finish any other series I started years go in hopes to fill up my Lists I got online. If I can scratch that off my bucket list then at least I've accomplished something in my life.

By the way, had also watched an Anime OAV called Elf 17 which is floating around on youtube. I recommend it.

Patlabor is still one of my top favorites comfort Anime that I have enjoyed

Reposting from my DW blog.

Summer solstice is almost here, which means a new anime season is about to start. This is the most stacked summer anime season I've ever seen, with at least 60 series airing this season. We have high profile sequels (Dandadan, Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru, Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun, Kaijuu 8-gou), reboots of old classic (Jigoku Sensei Nube, Cat's♥Eye), horror (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu), an all new KyoAni series (City the Animation), a potential big hit (Gachiakuta), etc. Strangely enough, there are four series this season that will only run for 4 to 6 episodes (because the source manga are only one to two volumes long).

As usual, I'm only previewing the series I'm interested in. For a full list of series airing in the summer, see AniChart.

( My 2025 Summer Anime Season Preview. )

What will you be watching this summer? Old series? New series?

Hi, I made a few icons, the anime/manga ones are specifically Super Sonico and Mars Red. =)

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