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BT's kinda fun. The whole incident at the diner made like negative sense though but whatever.

I realized after the fact that the only reason I thought the diner scene didn't make sense was because I forgot vampires don't show up in mirrors. That's actually slightly brilliant.

Speaking of Jojo, I'm not sure how exactly I'm supposed to feel about the fact that in Part 2 Speedwagon's seemingly-seedy-dude-who-turns-out-to-be-pretty-respectable-and-also-mostly-screams-a-lot-of-explanations-during-fight-scenes equivalent is an Actual Nazi, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haven't made so much progress on Kaiji or Jojo beyond the last time I posted about them but I have been catching up on a few more of my seasonals. So I guess I'll briefly post my thoughts on the ones I'm up to date on.

ACCA is alright. It's definitely not bad, but...I don't know, it's a little slow, maybe? It's a little hard to explain. All the characters feel very distant, so while we see them do and think a lot we are never privy to any of those thoughts. It's hard to stay too engaged when the characters feel so closed off. I guess that's how I'd put it trying to articulate my thoughts on it. But the setting is fairly interesting. I guess the plot also is, but between the aforementioned slow pace of the show coupled with never really knowing what's on the characters' minds it's hard, at least for me, to really pick up on where all the threads are actually leading.

Also caught up with Kobayashi-san Chi no MaiDragon, and just, shit, I really friggin love this anime. It's hard for me to deal with and understand how much I enjoy it. It's so great. I watched both of the previous adaptations of Cool-kyou's various manga, and I had nowhere near the same fondness for either of them. The otaku husband one was alright, and Komori was downright mediocre crap, so I wasn't even planning on watching this one (and the whole dragon maid thing didn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence either). It took a rapping PV to get me to reconsider, and by god I am glad I took the chance on this. It's still very recognizably a Cool-kyou story with a Cool-kyou sense of humor, and, despite a lot of added polish, a Cool-kyou art style. But it's amazing what a stark difference having full length episodes (the previous shows being shorts probably accounting for a lot of my ambivalence) and the high quality of art and animation that KyoAni brings with it make.

It's a very polished, very well realized show. The music rocks, the voice acting is top notch, as mentioned KyoAni just makes it an absolute joy to watch. The characters are fun and endearing and the whole thing is cute and funny and just, it's crazy, it shouldn't work, but it really does. Also, Kanna. My god. A lot of anime try to create cute girl characters, to then have them do cute things. This show was made in order to prove definitively that every past attempt has been a resounding failure. Kanna is like next generation cute. I honestly can't even deal.

My only real point of contention with the show is as of the latest episode, with more elaboration into Lucoa's circumstances and the weird sexual harassment going on with Shouta... When I think back to the depravity of Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru Wakaranai Ken (Cool-kyou needs to get shorter titles) I guess this caliber of gross shouldn't strike me as particularly odd, but it's gross nonetheless. My only consolation is Shouta appears to be no more into it than I am, so all I can hope for is that the show minimizes his appearances going forward. Literally everything else that could be and is going on in the show is more worthwhile and great. That being the case, I'm more willing to forgive this crap, though I would have preferred it not being there at all. But such is the plight of the animemes.

Hm. Anything else. I don't think I've mentioned Koro-sensei Q. Man do I not care about this. I don't know why I have such aggressive apathy towards any and all animated AssClass, because I don't really think any of it is bad (I mean, mostly), I just appear to be incapable of caring for it. It's weird especially because I'm reading the manga right now, and I think it's pretty good. I don't know. Though Q at least suffers form a few particularly heavy handed jokes, it's still not so bad...seriously, the Chiba/Hayami gags in the latest episode should have gotten way bigger laughs out of me than they did.