#11.9.20

[marsofsaturn]

🪐: there’s an imbalance we may have faced or some sort of feeling as if things just don’t feel fair or stagnant. Keep your faith as things ARE getting better and on the brink, i know stagnant energy can feel scary and as confusing but take this time to turn inward and find ways you can better support yourself, it’s about you right now.

[seiqn]

what’s this you ask? oh just something i’ll probably never finish

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Random Symphogear musing: Probably the craziest thing about Symphogear is the fact that like, all 5 seasons of the show have really good endings, they’re the type of endings where if you didn’t already know there was another season, you’d be like “this is pretty much a perfect ending to finish the show with completely”. But then somehow at the same time every season following up each ending feels like a completely natural extension of the last ending and so the 5 seasons flow into one another extremely well. I think for most shows you either have one or the other, but Symphogear has both. Wild.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Spoilers obviously, but Appare Ranman episode 11 aired, and it was really good! Kosame’s apparent death as well as the seemingly inevitable cancellation of the race led to a lot of really great character moments with some damn good visuals and especially some really nice voice acting. It was really good at being a sad episode that felt justified in that sadness. However, I said “apparent death” because yeah, dude didn’t die. I know I was very much like, “he should stay dead” last week, because I like when shows commit to doing such major things like that, but I think in the context of this episode, as well as just how the characters have been written so far and what the themes of the show have been, his survival feels justified. And in fact the Appare we see this episode doesn’t seem at all capable of progressing in the plot without Kosame living so, yeah I can take it Kinda sucks that Kosame’s death was just a temporary scare, but we got so much good out of it that I’m not like, mad that he didn’t die. I’ve certainly seen other shows do similar things to this but when their character doesn’t die it feels like dumb contrived fucking bullshit. This was good.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Deca-dence is interesting because it’s an anime where the majority of the western fan content actually isn’t shit

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Really wanna watch Appare Ranman episode 11 but my torrent's only going at like a megabyte and a half per second and the wait is killing me

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I rewatched Koisuru Asteroid episode 10, it’s by and large a pretty fun and enjoyable time, but ngl it’s probably the weakest episode in the series. Not so much because it actually has anything particularly wrong with it, but I think more so because of its position in this only 12 episode adaptation.

This episode serves as the proper introduction for these two, Yuu Nanami and Chikage Sakurai, hence just Nana and Chika.

The latter is obviously Sakurai’s sister, and is similarly into geology, though tends towards an interest in like, birth stones and fortune telling and just general pseudoscience bullshit lol. She’s fine, she’s very cute, voiced by Konomi Kohara, she’s just an all around likeable new girl, but she suffers from not really getting to do a whole lot of anything at all.

The former is actually into meteorology, though the arc we set up for her and go through with in the episode is that she doesn’t actually like meteorology, but studies it because some flood damage fucked up her aunt’s house and so she wants to learn about it so she can help people and shit. This very woke and moral mentality she has leads her to sorta call out the current club for being easygoing, but she’s, not so much put in her place as just learns she’s kinda wrong, when the others tell her about how astrology and geology can be helpful in life too, and then also she sees a particular type of rainbow that she pops off for and Endou-sensei’s all “focus on the parts of meteorology you do love”. It’s a pretty simple arc, resolved fairly quickly, and the thing about flood damage and stuff grounds the show in a distinct sense of reality like I’m constantly talking about. But it’s just another case where like, it’s still not a whole lot for her character.

And I mean yeah the TL;DR is that we’re in episode 10 of a 12 episode show, these 2 have basically just been introduced, and the next 2 episodes are all about the Kiraboshi challenge, so plain and simple, we don’t really get to know either of them that well. I still think this episode is really good, it’s just that this is literally all the time we spend with these newcomers before the show moves on and then the adaptation is finished. Maybe I should just read the manga.

And then about the Kiraboshi challenge, there’s a little written essay you need to submit to get accepted for it, and in quite the twist, Mira actually passes while best girl Ao fails. Ao actually takes the failure better than Mira does in a really cute scene, though despite that, Ao still ends up following Mira to the challenge anyway, because hey even if the show’s gonna acknowledge the reality of failure, the girls have still gotta be cute and mostly get what they want anyway. I know that sounds bad, but I still enjoy it. Also like, Ao’s doesn’t even get to fully participate, she sorta just gets to observe. Something that the Kiraboshi staff allow pretty much just because everyone in this show is nice as fuck, like I’ve said, and also they only say there are only 7 spots for the challenge anyway but I’m pretty sure not all of them even get filled so they had the space for Ao. I think it makes sense is the point. 

And yeah, we’ll see where that goes. I mean, I already know, this is a rewatch, but I’ll talk about it tomorrow is the point.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

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