Free! Episode 08 - Revenge in the Medley!

So as I was looking up tonight's episode title, I could not help but notice with great disdain that this show has been confirmed now for at least 12 episodes now.

It is as though my worst fears are being confirmed. This is going to become one of those shows that will simply NEVER END. Despite having no real substance to speak of, aside from the obvious yaoi fanbait.

Also, is it me, or are these episode titles starting to make less sense as time goes on? What the hell does "Revenge in the medley" even mean?! The others made sense to a certain extent, but this one? Now they're just plain grasping at straws, man. Unless they pull some Inception-level bullshit at us.

But that would be far too interesting for this show. Let's see what they have in store for us this week.

Kodomo no Jikan Episode 08 - Hold Me Tightly

So some of you might have noticed there was no post for Monday. Whoops. Things happen, and I just wasn't able to get around to doing anything for Monday. Which is sad, as I was rather enjoying this streak of everything having the same episode numbers relatively close in proximity. Ah well, I'm sure that'll balance.

Now the rather astute members of the audience might have picked up on today's title, indicating that this is not what I would normally be watching. In fact, I'm fairly sure I may have insinuated that I NEVER WANT TO WATCH THIS F***ING SHOW EVER AGAIN. But here I am, doing it. I'm going to just guess this is punishment for missing a post on Monday.

F**k you, person-who-knows-who-he-is. You are a horrible person. But not nearly as horrible as the people who made this steaming pile of donkey turds.

Free! Episode 07 - One Style Final!

I have had an incredibly busy week, filled with enough adventure and excitement to pretty much sate the wanderlust of a viking warband. A lot's been going on, but the biggest change is that I'll be starting work next week. Which is a surprise since I wasn't expecting to do that for a couple of weeks out.

Of course, then things also happen in my personal life, which I'm not going to talk about here - it's just life, and shit happens. Then you plan to do things after shit happens, and other shit happens, and then you just kind of shrug and go 'oh well'. Because that's what real adults do in real life. I bet you were wondering where I was going with this, but this is where I segue into a show that wants to be real life by not being real life at all, with people who could only exist in a thing that isn't real life - even though they're convinced they are in real life.

God I hate this show.

Sailor Moon R Episode 06 - Targeted Kindergarten Kids~ Venus' Great Performance

The last few days have been rather exciting for me. It's put me in such high spirits, I really just forgot about Sailor Moon entirely. I mean, seriously, completely forgot it was a thing I was watching at some point.

But what goes up must come down, and eventually the realization came around that I had simply been having entirely too much fun. Which means it was long past time for me to torture myself with something popular and terrible all at once.

Given how the Doom Tree arc has been going, I can only be thankful that it's already halfway over. Because if I really had to deal with another forty episodes of this whole evil alien wanting to bone the main character thing while he's already boning his sister, I'd probably want to kill someone. Also, what is with this series and people wanting to bone in the first place?

Warning: I've spent the last 24 hours watching Macross-related shows. Therefore, I may be inclined to compare everything to that standard.

Strike Witches Episode 06 - We're the Same

Welcome back to our weekly installment of "reasons I should probably avoid meeting certain people in real life for fear of physical violence". Or you could call it Strike Witches. I don't.

I've talked before about how this show will always have a special place in my heart - the one that burns hotter than a million suns, the kind of place that fries an egg with a stare at a thousand yards. I've run out of other things to say. Let's just get this over with.

Free! Episode 06 - No Breathing Shock!

As promised, here is today's post. A little late, due to a combination of factors I like to call "being really friggin' tired". Fact is, by the time I had the chance to sit down and watch this one, I was already well past the deadline and still completely exhausted from my day.

Okay, so if I remember correctly from last week, this show decided it was going to stop trying to be silly and implement some Super Serious Shit. Extra emphasis on the last word there. Let's see how well they perform.

Blog to come later today

As the title says, today's episode will be running a bit behind. When I can manage to stay out of bed for more than ten minutes at a time.

Sailor Moon R Episode 05 - A New Transformation! Usagi Powers Up

Look, let's just get one thing straight here: I *want* to like Sailor Moon. Truly. It's got all the things that I should like in a show. But for some reason, everything about this show just infuriates me instead. I have a low tolerance for stupidity I guess, and that's one thing this show has in spades - just pure idiocy.

It doesn't help that the plots are about as well-thought-out as some of the shit you find over at fanfiction.net. Wait, I take that back. I'm pretty sure some of the shit there is better thought out. Yes, that includes anything involving a self-insert rape fantasy (and isn't that pretty much every fanfic out there?).

I guess rape is a pretty high note to end on, so let's get this train wreck derailing.

Strike Witches Episode 05 - Swift, Gigantic, and Soft

You know how sometimes, you just look at the title of something, and you just tell yourself, "oh dear god, this can only end in horrible catastrophe"? Well, I took a look at today's episode title, and you've got one guess as to what I thought.

I don't think I have anything else to say tonight. Let's just get this over with.

Free! Episode 05 - Trial in Open Water!

Welcome back, dear Internet. Did you miss this show? I certainly didn't. I got a whole two weeks away from the wonderfully wet world of Free!. How many other shows let you break the rules of punctuation by placing a period after an exclamation mark? Not many, I'll wager. It's like they want us to break all the rules here.

Don't even get me started on .hack//INSERTTITLEHERE. That's another rage moment for another day. So much potential wasted...

Sailor Moon R Episode 04 - Usagi's Crisis! The Tiara Doesn't Work

Once again, it's that time. I'd rather be doing a lot of other things than watching this, but there's something about consistency which just, well, calls to me. Also, the fact that the longer I put off this show, the longer it'll take me to actually get through it all.

Also, the new Sailor Moon show has once again been re-scheduled for the end of this year. I wish they'd make up their damn minds once in awhile. Though, I suppose if they could have done that twenty years ago, I wouldn't be writing this blog now, would I?

Strike Witches Episode 04 - Thanks

I've watched a lot of shows in the time I've been watching anime. Come to think of it, I guess I've been doing that for the last twelve years now. Seems like a long time, but it also feels like not so long ago I started watching stuff.

But in that twelve years, there has only been one other show which has filled me with so much anger and vitriol as this show does. And no, I'm not talking about that other show. Dear god no. That one just makes me question what little faith in humanity I have left. No, I'm talking about Peach Girl. Never before have I dropped an anime before the second show because it left me filled with so much rage that I wanted to physically destroy something. Like, with my bare fists. At the time, I was considering flipping over my desk and slamming it against a wall.

Of course, my reasons for hating Peach Girl and hating this show are totally different. Upon talking with other folks, it seems like Peach Girl is one of those kinda-true-stories. So I hate it because of the drama. But this show? I hate this show simply because it is so goddamned awful.

Sailor Moon R Episode 03 - For Whom is the White Rose? The Moonlight Knight Appears

So, as I mentioned last night, Free! has been delayed a week, probably due to some weird Japanese holiday or something, I'm really not sure what the deal is with that. According to their actual website (and dear god I can't believe I'm actually bothering to look this shit up), due to some sort of special programming change, the episodes are all pushed back a week.

And here I was hoping maybe it had been cancelled since it is damn near impossible to get the show to turn up on a Google search. Damn.

Instead, I've got to put myself through something else this week, and I'll be damned if I'm going to double up on Strike Witches. So instead, you get more classical magical girl action.

I really don't want to be watching this tonight...

A note on Free! aka Gay Swimming

You might pop in here around friday, wondering, "where is this new show with young manly men swimming around?" Well the answer is, for some reason, it seems like the show has been delayed for a week. I could probably attempt to scour the internet to find the reasoning behind all of this, but I'm going to guess that those guys at Kyoani (the studio behind this particular show) realized their branding was really bad, since typing Free! into the internet gives you everything that isn't this show.

So expect something else to pop up in its place friday. From there we'll see how much further they decide to take this show, but at the least it's confirmed for another 4 episodes, which means there's a possibility they may try to extend it beyond 12. I sincerely hope not.