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Current :
May I Ask For One Final Thing is still entertaining me, and the story’s still moving along at a nice clip. I like everything about it.
Gnosia last week was weird, and not in the way that it normally is. It was some sort of otaku shoutout filler episode, with these bizarre science fictional characters acting out a whole assortment of standard anime tropes. It was entertaining, but… strange.
Past seasons:
Mostly I spent last week watching all three seasons of Kimi ni Todoke, which was mostly good, occasionally excellent and a bit too often frustrating.
Sawako was an excellent character all the way through, but unfortunately Shota not so much so. The first season was solid if a bit slow and the second season was very engaging. The third season though got bogged down with Shota being awkward and avoiding Sawako, and that even after he was explicitly told in the second season that Sawako was sensitive to being avoided, so that’s the one thing that he should never do to her. At the time, that made a big impact on him and served to spur him to action, but apparently a few months later, at the time of the third season, he had already forgotten it and nobody saw fit to remind him. They finally ended up sort of reconciled, but only after Sawako was reduced to bawling her eyes out (which led finally to a first kiss that was apparently supposed to be romantic but just struck me as unfortunate and sorr of cringey).
I ended up with the impression that they were doomed (I’m sure that’s not the way it played out in the manga, but still). I just think that realistically Shota could never provide what Sawako needs and they’d end up growing apart. Still though, I enjoyed it all in all.
A curious sidelight to that though - I originally looked into it because I really liked Honey Lemon Soda, and I kept seeing people say that it was a copy of Kimi ni Todoke.
And after watching Kimi ni Todoke I’m inclined to say that it actually is, sort of, but with one vital difference - Kai in Honey Lemon Soda is a much better character than Shota, and is a much better match for Uka than Shota is for Sawako. And I tend to think that’s not an accident.
And at the moment, I think I’m about to embark on Dandadan. I read enough of the manga early on to know that I didn’t want to try to keep up with it one episode at a time and would rather binge it, and I think now’s the time.