Maken-Ki! Episode 09 - Tempestuous Water Riding Battle

Part of me wishes that perhaps I had saved that other show for the end of the week instead of this. But you know, I'm starting to think that this is for the best. It's like ripping off a bandage - sure, it's gonna hurt like hell, but anything that comes after really doesn't matter as much.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I'm minimizing the damage done to my psyche by maximizing the amount of damage done to my psyche in one go.

... either that made sense or I truly have gone crazy.

Shimoneta Episode 09 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Masseurs?

Every week rolls around, and some part of me forgets about Shimoneta. I start my week with bright, wild-eyed enthusiasm as I dive into Sailor Moon, and all the wackiness that entails.

And then I pick up Shimoneta, and my soul recoils in abject horror, screaming for Cthulu to save it.

When you would rather have a lovely little chat with the King in Yellow than watch a particular anime, you have some issues.

But I have been given a task. And much as it pains me, it is my burden to carry. Let us get on with it.

Sailor Moon SuperS Episode 22 - Mirror of Dreams! Amazon's Final Stage

I begin writing this at a rather fortuitous time. Why, you ask? Because Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 was just teased.

All in all, I am definitely excited for it. Seriously, I know a lot of people hate Crystal, but it is, in my opinion, much, much better at almost everything than the original was. I've said it before, but all of my gripes with Sailor Moon have been fixed with Crystal. Now, that's not to say it's perfect mind you - I'm not a huge fan of the CGI transformations, but I understand why they did it - but for the most part, I give it a solid pass and a hearty recommendation.

So wouldn't you know it, it's about that time I ought to be watching the original series, right? Enough shitposting on Twitter, I have real work to do!

Maken-Ki! Episode 08 - Syria's Everything in Your Hands

As usual, we end this week with the wonderful midair collision that is Maken-Ki!.

It has the trappings of being a good show. The OP isn't completely annoying, the animation is pretty decent, and it has some actual good character designs. It's just. If they bothered to give people personalities, and didn't go out of their way to say that the only important attributes of the entire female cast are their butts and their boobs, this would be an okay show. Watchable even.

But no. They have to pander to the horny teenage boy demographic, and that is what makes this show an absolute piece of shit. So it's time to dive into this mess, and catalog everything wrong with this episode in particular. Let us begin.

Shimoneta Episode 08 - The Devil Blows His Own Trumpet

Few things in this world fill me with quite so much hate as Shimoneta does. I realize that at times this may sound like hyperbole - I get pretty angry around here. But when it comes to this show?

All of it is true, I promise you.

Every time I tell you that it leaves me shaking with rage, every time I say that I need to go to a happy place, every time I tell you I cry in anguish because of something I witnessed in this show? It's absolutely true.

This show is f***ing horrid. That is the only word to describe it. If you have a choice between marathoning this show and getting some molars extracted, you'd better damn well go with the molars.

Because at least with that one, the pain is only temporary.