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Reviews: Past and Current Anime Seasons

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:32:53 GMT

DID YOU THINK I WAS DONE?? I STILL HAVE AT LEAST ANOTHER POST LEFT AFTER THIS.

(I know I could just NOT review everything but I do always like having done it)

Past (just finished):

I finished it:
My New Boss is Goofy
Tearmoon Empire
I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness
Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me
Heaven Official's Blessing

I dropped it:
Frieren
Migi & Dali
100 girlfriends Who Really Really Really Love You

Current (just starting):

Delicious in Dungeon
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord
Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
A Sign of Affection
The Demon Prince of Momochi House
Cherry Magic

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Fiction which is not m/m romance

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:10:26 GMT

These ended up dividing neatly into some specific subgenres. I really have been mostly into m/m romance lately, huh...

Non-romance Anime:
Bocci the Rock
Play it cool guys

m/f romance manga and webtoon:
Sweat and Soap
Busu ni Hanataba wo
Everyone wants to get married
Another Typical Fantasy Romance

m/m but not romance manga:
The Summer Hikaru Died

f/f romantic fantasy novel:
Earthcast
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Reviiiiiiewssss

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:21:42 GMT

I decided that if I could review the game about ALGEBRA BEING FUN I could probably review some things more of you might actually be interested in. So! Off the top of my head without overthinking, let's go!

Lots of m/m, some m/f, and a little f/f and gen.

Live Action TV: Sandman, Old Fashioned Cupcake

Games: Nurse Love Syndrome, London Detetctive Mysteria

Anime: My Dress Up Darling, SpyxFamily, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, Umibe no Etranger

Prose fiction: Light Tea and Sweet Wine, The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader, You Boys Play Games Very Well, spit_kitten
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A Tale of Two Webtoons

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:39:07 GMT

I was having a high pain, low brain day so decided to just scroll through the top rated romance webcomics on a random scanlation site. I ended up half-reading two Korean m/f comics, giving up on one because it didn't inspire enough feelings, and on the other because it inspired too many. But they filled in the time until I felt better!

Thirsty Thirty: A career-focussed woman on the verge of hitting thirty feels listless and depressed after her boyfriend cheats on her. But then it turns out her quiet, competent manager has recognised how hard working and talented she is and they grow closer. I don't mind boss/employee romance if it wallows in the Forbidden-ness but this was just kinda bland wish fulfilment, and while it hit some standard romance beats and they weren't totally shallow or unlikeable I didn't care about either of them enough to get much of a kick out of them getting together, or care enough to see what obstacles the story would throw in their way to keep reading past that point. The story did seem to support her right to care about her career, but also uncritically supported overwork, and while I believed she was excited about creating pretty lighting setups for people, I was not.

The Blood of Madam Giselle: A Victorian noblewoman decides to spite her abusive husband by exploring the Forbidden Basement, where she encounters and bonds with a weird sad pretty vampire boy locked half-naked and starving in a cage. Definitely not bland wish-fulfilment and I absolutely cared about the main couple enough to keep going past the point where they got together, but the story is the kind of porny romantic melodrama that wallows in Angst and Sex and Shock where there's a good chance they not only won't end up happily but might be the cause of each other's downfall due to mutual violent obsession etc. Plus it hit some other buttons for me and I eventually listened to my brain's STOP READING messages. Not until I'd encountered an unexpected but definitely not unwelcome sexy f/f topless blood drinking scene involving two side characters, if I could just read about whatever is going on with those two I'd have kept going a while longer.

More thoughts and content notes under the cut, I kinda feel like I need a vague content note for the content notes. Note: There's sure some CONTENT.
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Live Action TV/Western Animation/Anime reviews April 2022

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:39:06 GMT

Live Action TV:
Our Flag Means Death
Murderville
Inventing Anna

Western Animation:
Star Trek Prodigy
Turning Red
Encanto

Anime:
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale

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Review: My Vow To My Liege

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:26:07 GMT

I really enjoyed the Chinese fantasy m/f romance visual novel My Vow To My Liege, historical RPF set in the 5th Century BC Kingdom of Ng/Wu about various real and mythical people. The protagonist is King Fuchai, a woman cross-dressing for Reasons (to do with Evil Dragons)

It's well made, with good art, UI, music, and (Mandarin) voice acting. The writing is pretty good, too, a little repetitive in parts and with some pacing issues but made with a lot of heart. The English translation was done by one of the writers and is a little clunky and in need of proof-reading but has some moments of real poetry. And the game is LONG, you get a ridiculous amount of story for the low price.

Content notes for the game: suicide, violence, incest (not a love interest), rape (not from a love interest), age gap ships, slavery, fatphobia, hurtful gender reveal, master-slave relationship, major character death, violence between love interests

Here's the masterlist of my reaction posts and a character guide.

More thoughts, no spoilers:
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Reviews January 2022

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:54:16 GMT

Books:
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Games:
I Love You!
One Shot
A Garden On The Sea
Doreamon Story of Seasons

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Reviews August 2021

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:46:39 GMT

Anime: Comic Girls, Blend-S, Jingai-san no Yome

Western Animation: Centaurworld

Books: They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost, Artificial Condition

Webcomic: Survive as the Hero's Wife/This Villainess Wants a Divorce!

Games: GardenPaws, Calico

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Media consumed by my ravenous maw, May 2021

Wed, 26 May 2021 08:03:30 GMT

Hither, Page, Miss Not So Sidekick, Lonely Girl ni Sakaraeai, Subnautica Below Zero, Grim Tales 2, Cooking with Pride, A Thousand Autumns, Yes No and Maybe (has a content note for consent issues)
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Some romancey canons, mostly anime-ish

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 05:04:39 GMT

No Content Notes for this section.

m/f: Horimiya, 7'Scarlet, Hibi Chouchou

f/f: Sayonara Rose Garden, Adachi and Shimamura

m/m: My Underachieving Seatmate Doesn’t Need Any Comforting

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Given: the Movie
** Content note: sexual assault **
( Content note: sexual assault )

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Reviews October 2020

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:56:27 GMT

All stuff I liked!

Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You A Wizard?!, Star Trek Lower Decks, Case Files of Jeweller Richard, Adachi and Shimamura, Game Night, Booksmart, The Male Lead Is A Quilt
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Media Reviews February 2020

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:33:55 GMT

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Female General, Eldest Princess, The Queen and the Tailor, Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating, I ship my Adversary and Me, A Good Day to Be a Dog, Lovely Complex

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Media January 2020

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:24:16 GMT

*stares at that date for a while*

The Only Gold, Briarly, Ni No Kuni 2, Umbagram, 7 Billion Humans

No content note for this first section.
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Cheese in the Trap, Kitchen Princess, Given

Content note: mentions of fictional eating disorder, sexual assault, and suicide.
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