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Saturday, December 6th, 2025 07:18 pm
From Far Away 1-14 (Kyoko Hikawa) - for a beautifully-drawn shoujo manga with an interesting plot, this was such a slog that I am absolutely baffled. Like, I have bounced off this multiple times and basically made it through this attempt by skimming towards the end. Absolutely should have been my thing, absolutely was not. Base plot is isekai/portal fantasy, schoolgirl in a world with a bit of magic with a strong romance and good supporting cast.

"Gaiking" - the Force Five version of the series, presented on five DVD-Rs that I picked up many years ago. Despite this being an incomplete version of an already-shaved series, it wasn't difficult to follow and was pretty enjoyable. Had a 'movie version' added at the end.

RahXephon - complete series + movie. This is one of those "I will need to watch this again to fully follow wtf just happened" pseudo-mecha anime from the earlier part of the century. I liked it, and I liked the cast for the most part, though every now and then it felt like it was trying to go the harem route for no reason. I have a full DVD set with all the beautiful liner notes but I apparently also picked up a thin Blu-ray set at some point...

So, From Far Away can go, Gaiking and the thin RahXephon set can stay. Technically I guess this is a 50/50?

Anyway, even though we're into Actual Advent territory, I'm just gonna keep going and probably all through next year?
Saturday, December 6th, 2025 02:53 am
I've done another bit of security-pruning and circle adjustment. Occasionally I just unfollow/un-access accounts that haven't posted for a rather long time. And I saw a few folks that are active again, so re-followed. ^_^ This is also a reminder that you can unfollow/etc. me for any reason and I won't take it personally.

I posted up a [community profile] holiday_wishes post over here. The most important bits are to tell me what to work on with my website and also send me Gundams, lol. I'm still granting all the wishes I can. This is such a fun time of year.

If you're in the USA (sorry, int'l shipping sucks), you can have some of my stuff over here. I really should make these posts more often as I spelunk.

I need to go through my communities and make/add some sort of No AI guideline to each. I just pulled a drabble from a community because they're allowing AI slop to be posted. It's now crossposted to my spaces and deleted from theirs. I'd always meant to create more for that community but that sure isn't happening now.
Sunday, November 30th, 2025 07:20 pm
Back to work... I expect the robots to be revolting tonight, for sure...

The one shop that I buy Gundam kits from started a massive Black Friday sale a few weeks back and there felt like there was something a little off about it... Yeah, they just announced they're sunsetting over the next few months because a billion reasons including tariff hell, but mostly peronsal-want-to-spend-more-time-with-family stuff. Better than being completely underwater, at least.

I'm going to try to get holiday cards out over the next week. If you're not on my usual mailing list but would like one, please PM me an address.
Saturday, November 29th, 2025 03:59 am
I really need to catch up on these...

The Zen Diary - via JFF. It wasn't immediately clear to me at the beginning if this was a drama or a documentary and while it's more like some dramatized memoir, holy shit did it evoke a lot of feelings. Mostly wanting to punch the lead. Very well acted. A very good movie. Hated it.

Have a Song on Your Lips - via JFF. A fairly uplifting 'teaching choir' story with all sorts of complications. Also well acted and enjoyable.

Come Back Anytime - via JFF. Restaurant documentary.

Mottainai Kitchen - via JFF. Documentary about eliminating food waste.

Misc JFF shorts - via JFF and also on YouTube, several about sushi, yokai, music, and art...

The Scoop - via JFF. Hilarious as fuck double-crossing delight about an underground school paper and a writing club.

LOLO Itsukou Series 7: I Can't Hibernate with Books as a Pillow - via JFF, also on Youtube. By a group that writes short modern plays for student productions. Students in the school library on xmas eve. I'd watch more by this group.

Takano Tofu - via JFF. Sort of underwhelming drama about a family that makes Tofu and their complicated lives. Doesn't stick the landing at all but otherwise well acted.

Wizard Barristers - Yep, watched this again and still enjoyed it through the fanservice and whatnot does grate a bit. It's just the right kind of over-the-top that I sometimes need. I feel like the title basically explains the plot? Bonus for Moyo. Always bonus for Moyo.

Super Dimension Century Orguss - aka the one that didn't become part of Robotech and that's incredibly okay because Orguss is... There are some very good ideas in here but a lot that fail spectacularly and also a lot of absolute What The Fuck?! Listen, I watched Orguss so you don't have to.

E's Otherwise - rewatch as well. E's has some bumpy moments but manages to pull itself together by the end. The cross-dressing scenes still hold up incredibly well.
Saturday, November 29th, 2025 03:25 am
I hope anyone celebrating Turkey and/or Nap Day had a lovely one. Since I was out incredibly late (for me) on Thursday and couldn't get myself together to do more than shuffle around the house for a few hours, everything I'd meant to do on Friday will get done today... I think it's just run by the pharmacy, run by the PO, and maybe another shop to get gloves for the mitten tree at the library.

I've taken advantage of a couple of gunpla shop sales... and I got my gift from the second Secret Santa and just... what a wonderful and generous community. I am humbled.

Still have some stuff on my giveaway post and I might be adding more as I clean and whatnot. I'll probably post it to [community profile] holiday_wishes by the end of the weekend.

I'm sure there's more but it's sure been a week and a weekend. I need a nap and probably some turkey...
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