Today I encountered beef sushi. My mind is blown.

Also, they put cheese in my salmon sushi. Interesting choice...

Should Toei find a second partner for their shows ?

It's also Sayaka Day, so even more reason to celebrate.

Today was a day for my army to relax with some Checker's/Rally's and roadside strawberries. You mean a day to riot!

I might be starting vocal/audition prep lessons soon.

Currently watching M:I VI Fallout since 7 and 8 are coming.

Also Hurricane Ranger due to Ninja Storm being 38 weeks. #06 is my last re watch.

Today shall be my last day in Florida as tomorrow I return to my homelands. Today I shall finish up the prep work nf my plans.

Just saw Onward, the new Pixar film.

It, uh... it's not that great. I mean, I didn't have a great time with it. No spoilers, but I thought it was going to be about something I personally connected with (a quest to meet the father who died when you were young, is this a kamen rider show or something, all dads are dead), but then it ended up being about something I had no connection to. Just, in the end, wasn't dialed into the story they were telling.

The animation's solid, and the voice-acting was great (I'd much rather have watched a movie about Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus's characters, they were the best part of the movie by a mile), but the story was pretty predictable and most of the gags were lackluster. If you laughed a lot at the trailer, you'll probably dig it. If you hoped the movie would be better than the trailer, probably going to be disappointed. It's not, like, The Good Dinosaur bad, nothing like that, but totally forgettable.

Anyone else catch it? Thoughts?

Onward didn't even look like a Pixar movie when I saw the trailers for it. It looks like a typical generic kids movie from Sony or Illumination.

That's a criticism I've heard a bunch (one of my friends mentioned it just last night), and it's not entirely unfounded. There's a story being told, but so much of the world-building doesn't seem like it's built to tell this story, so you could easily tell any number of spin-offs in the same world. That's how I usually feel about non-Disney films, a reach for a franchise. (Unlike, say, Zootopia, a Disney film with a rich world and a story driven entirely by that world's design.) It misses that cohesion I think the best Pixar films have, where the world enhances the story and the story enhances the world. This one, it's like, there's fantasy stuff but modern AND I guess here's a story about a family.