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Actually, looking at next season’s lineup and it’s insanely stacked yet again. Every season I say I’m gonna finally be able to watch less stuff and they just keep making all these smaller lowkey good shows lol.

Some shows I already know will be slept on:

Plus we got Digimon too!

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Weekly Catch up #32

Go ahead, put anything.

(last week, next week)

What was on?

SPY✕FAMILY

(Ep 3.7) There's something funny with the idea of learning lipreading from old anime, but let's roll with that. Anya, Damien, Becky and the rest of their classmates are being kidnapped, and while every security organization has different plans on how to deal with the situation (WISE is on wait and see also because Loid is on another of his extra assignments, local police wants the kids out, secret police wants the situation resolved no matter what), and all the spy shows Anya watches come to help as she comes up with a way to tell someone where the bus is going, with the help of Becky because what she thought was code turned out to be Anya's terrible handwriting, but even Damians interference isn't enough to get completely undetected and Anya ends up with a bomb collar. An unusually tense episode, as usually the tight situations have either Loid or Yor who are more than capable of getting out of their jams while Anya in general relies on them to get out of any thorny situation she ends up in, gets their funny moments once Anya picks up her bomb collar is a fake and relaxes a bit too much, freaking everyone out but particularly Damien, who feels the responsibility of his family name and ends up with a collar himself. A very solid episode setting up what should be a pretty good arc.

Ranma ½

(ep 2.7) After last week's fart, we return with a banger with some of the classics, like Shampoo's line of questionable products that rarely work as intended (in this case, the instant spring of drowned man) and her peculiar entrances, Ranma trying to trick her, Genma and Soun teaming up for some plan to bring Ranma and Akane together that doesn't go as planned and at best succeeds on making her mad, even if both will at the end have each other's back as long as nobody is forcing them. Also clarifies Ranma's male classmates are well aware of his particular predicament, and unsurprisingly would much prefer it to continue that way. They probably all told Kuno but he stopped listening once he heard "red-haired pigtail girl".

Touring After The Apocalypse

(ep 7) More questions about "just what happened" as the girls try to get their bearings on a highway filled with abandoned cars, looking for the facility Airi is supposed to be checked in. The facility looks out of a spy movie, with a phone boot Youko has some trouble getting her head around to, acting as the entrance and a bunch of Get Smart doors, but the inside it seems fully automated, and whili Airi is getting patched up, Youko also gets a health checkup. Nothing much happens in this episode after the excitement of the last couple of weeks, but raises lot of questions, like the maybe older-looking Youko on the flashback and her "sister" updating an app. Coming back to something I've said early on, it's fine if these shows don't explain much, but this show kinda does have a lot of small mysteries that more or less have to be sorted out.

Awkward Senpai

(ep 7) Beating the allegations that those are actually high schoolers playing pretend by actually having parents that care about them in a non Gendo Ikari Parent of the Year Award way is weird, but sure, it works and it's a perfectly fine episode. Kannawa's mom makes a surprise visit, making her saying she had a boyfriend fearing she'd be pushed into an arranged marriage really, really awkward for her, but Kamegawa steps in to save her the embarrassment and from there it's just another story you've seen too many times, which is kinda my whole problem with the storytelling here, when it's not doing straigh up high school romcom plots with an office romcom re-skin, it's doing the most average romcoms stories you've probably already seen since Rumiko Takahashi decided to grab a pencil, create many of the guidelines for the genre and influencing everyone born this side of the mid 1970s. But hey, at least that works.

Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota

(ep 7) Starts in Valentine's Day, Oota saying very loudly and how much he DOESN'T CARE and WOULD ACTUALLY BE BOTHERED if Kashiwada gave him something, to the amusement of local heartthrob Sata and Tadokoro, who's just happy to take some of his. Of course Kashiwada has something for him, but can't stop teasing him until he's about to lose his mind. Second story, everyone has terrible grades, except Tabuchi who finally has the nerve to invite Kashiwada to study at the library, but her plans are foiled when the three boys are also there studying. And then playing cards. With Kashiwada. After getting some reassurance from her and overhearing how none of the boys actually dislikes her, they even think she's a bit like Oota, rejoins the table, falls to peer pressure, and their grades don't go that well. Last story, there can't be a Valentine's story without a white day story, so Oota feels obligated to give Kashiwada something back, but of course he does it in the most Oota way possible, and his sister also helped to the confusion. Now, I probably may have missed it, but I don't think Kashiwada had Chiyo hair. I wonder if it can also be detached.

Style of Hiroshi Nohara Lunch

(ep 7) Kawaguchi can't stop being jealous when Hiroshi goes out to lunch with Takagiri, so he guilt trips him into another lunch and they go to a indian place hoping to get curry, but it's a place that sells exclusively biryani because the owner fell in love with the dish working in India and decided to quit his job and make his mission to introduce him to the Japanese public. Second story, it's the return of Haruka, the hard-working college student who can't stop taking the wrong idea from basic social interactions, now working at a pasta place. I love her and I'd watch a show where she's constantly getting things wrong, like thinking Hiroshi is not some dead-end salaryman but actually a powerful business executive and Kawaguchi his hyper-competent assistant, just from overhearing a few seconds of a phone call. Hiroshi finally tries squid ink pasta, which is close enough to link to one of my favourite things ever uploaded to the internet.

A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace

(ep 6) Time for some drama as Futami is approached by Setouchi, an editor at a bigger magazine on the same publisher to have a talk about writing for them. Being a pushover, she accepts to have a second meeting, but filled with an immense sense of guilt, first because she's Futami, then because she knows she's already stretched enough as it is, and also she can't help but feeling she's cheating on Satou. Doesn't help how Nashida is just hanging around half-drunk doing exactly what you expected her to do in this shhhhhtuashon, and how a phone call for an update on the storyboards and mention the indecent proposal ends up with Satou viery upset, because Setouchi is an old rival of hers. It's not one of the best episodes so far, not because of the drama part that is mostly played for laughs, but so far the stories have been at their best when Futami is fretting about nothing rather than actually kinda messing up, which is not on her, Satou is the one who has a problem with Setouchi, even if from her comments it feels like Futami wouldn't be able to work with her anyway, from what we know of her, she'd be pushed into doing something more commercial but flounder.

Flying Witch

(ch 88) Hokkaido mentioned! Hot from her success with the makeshift cafe in her classroom, Makoto goes with Sayo up North to help with another witch, who is hosting in her cafe the protectors of the North for the upcoming Sabbat. Another of those chapters where something new is added to the world and it's another little perfect moment it makes you wonder how Chihiro Ishizuka keeps getting away with it.

Someone Hertz

(ch 10) I'll be the first to say how characters often go down with a fever after the least contact with water in a non-beach/ onsen/ pool episode is a bit ridiculous, but this seems entirely justified.