I watched seven episodes of anime for this new season which is the most I’ve seen in a single week since…I dunno, October maybe, probably longer.  Still, as you can tell, this blog isn’t up to my usual standards, so I wouldn’t consider myself back to doing anime blogs just yet.

- I’m going to watch more -

Kowloon Generic Romance
What’s it about?  A mystery set in a future where the Kowloon Walled City wasn't demolished.  

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Lazarus - A doctor develops a drug to cure everything, but once everyone takes it, he then announces it will kill them all in a few years.  Agents from around the world work on a cure.

Witch Watch - A young witch chooses her childhood friend instead of an animal familiar.  

Kowloon Generic Romance - A mystery set in a future where the Kowloon Walled City wasn't demolished.  Good manga.

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From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!

A villainess with Big Dad Energy is unique enough, but a protagonist who is a 52-year-old is a rarity in itself.  While entertaining, I wish there was a little more conflict.  Parents don’t always understand, after all.

And now down into the manga.  

List organized in rough order of my most to least favorite.

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From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!
What’s it about?  A middle-aged man finds himself in an otome game his daughter played.  He’s an old otaku himself, though, and is genre-savvy.

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As I've alluded a few times over the past few weeks, I'm going on hiatus from anime, and honestly, probably taking a step back from the internet in general. I'm not going to call it exhaustion, but I feel like I need to do this before it gets to that point.

How long? Dunno. A couple months R&R sounds nice. We'll see.

That's not to say I won't be around, just don't expect weekly blogs.

I watched at least one episode of 38 shows this year (though three were continuations from previous years), down from 48 shows in 2023.  

That’s kind of a big drop, and accelerated as the year went on.  I’m not sure if anime is getting worse, I’ve reached a critical point of having read so many manga that I already know just about every new anime that premieres, or if I’m getting burned out.

Of those 38 shows I tried, I watched 10 to completion, and they’re listed below.

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Dandadan

This show keeps pulling out stops we didn’t even know existed.  It’s getting really hard to decide where this is going to fall on the Anime of the Year list: number two, or number one.

How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer

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I recently did a deep dive on Earhart's disappearance as research for a story, and figured I would share it here.

As usual, I'll do my best to delineate facts from opinions.

Bottom line up front:

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Most astronauts are not highly paid considering the work they do - given that many are active duty military, I'd say most probably don't even make six figures.

But with a new space age upon us, we may now be living in a time where “astronaut” can be not only an aspiration, but potentially, a career.

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Court martial!

Okay, calm down, let's take a step back. Court-martial is the worse of the two outcomes here, and it has several variations, so we'll walk through the basics first.

The UCMJ

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