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Heyyyy!

Haven't posted in an eternity, have I? The sad thing is, it's not even because I'm using tumblr instead. Haven't been posting on that either. (I've still been reading my flist on LJ/DW though). I don't have much interesting news to talk about (there was that time when my computer broke down during the summer and I lost all my files of comics, manga & music as a result. Still trying to recover from that -_-;) but I figure I still might use the end-of-year-surveys to talk about all the media from this year I haven't said anything about. So what do you guys want me to start with? Anime, TV shows, comics, books, something else? (well if anyone's still interested after my long absence and everyone leaving journalling that is).

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I vote anime. :)

I vote for anime too, since I'm so ridiculously out of date, I need to know what I should (or should not) be watching.

Not Op, obvs, but for the current season, I've really enjoyed Gallilei Donna, Gingitsune and Kyousougiga, roughly in that order, but it's a pretty tight cluster. I've also been watching Kyoukai no Kanata, which has a lot of interesting things going for it and I do like it, but a lot of the earlier episodes make "cute and clumsy" a major character trait for the heroine, and the 2 main male characters openly fetishize the two main female characters, often in front of them. The girls aren't impressed with it at all and one of them is usually openly disgusted by the behavior, but the show itself thinks the behavior is funny and is rather "boys will be boys" about it.

I really couldn't deal with the overly moe/tropish storytelling in Kyoukai no Kanata which is a shame because I liked some of the characters and of course it's very pretty.

It gets much better about that later? But yeah. I'm glad I stuck with it because it takes things in a new direction (and there are a couple things that make me suspect that Mirai may have deliberately played up/exaggerated the moe bits to fill a certain image) but much of it really is a balancing act, and the gap in level of enjoyment between it and the other shows I've been watching is fairly significant.

I watched up to the Summer festival or the pop idoru number episode, which was the ones where I felt... it wasn't for me. I liked the focus on the action more.

Yeah, it was actually right after that (maybe another ep or two) before it started getting into the action.

(Not that i'm trying to talk you into getting back to it, because part of me is still surprised that i'm still watching.)

(Not that i'm trying to talk you into getting back to it, because part of me is still surprised that i'm still watching.)
Reaaaaaaaaaaally?

Welcome back! Thirding anime here because I've also completely fallen behind...

Thanks!! :)

Already posted ^^

Hi! What comics have you been reading?

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