BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

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BanG Dream! Ave Mujica

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Fate/Strange Fake

It's an insane cast of characters and interpersonal conflicts between them but I feel like it's very fun to watch.

Gachiakuta

Feb 6, 2026

SUCH A FUN ADAPTATION. Studio Bones killed it with this one. I've been a big fan of Soul Eater since I was in middle school. And despite its many, many flaws, I also still like Fire Force. So naturally, I was really excited to see a series with art and designs from Kei Urana, who was Okubo's assistant.

I decided to watch the anime first before reading the manga, which is something I don't really do much anymore, but I had a lot of fun regardless. I don't feel that watching the adaptation first ruins the manga experience. They are still different mediums.

That being said I absolutely adore everything about the characters we have seen so far. Amo Empool ended up being my favorite, which was pretty obvious if you know me, lol.
Rudo is absolutely adorable and I love that his emotional hangup due to his abandonment issues directly affects his abilities. Me and my friend discussed how he seems very coded to be autistic due to his mannerisms, even if that probably wasn't Urana's intent.
I adore the power system of the Givers and their attachment to their prized objects. The whole series feels like a fun exploration of Animism and I love that.

Every episode had me hooked, and the voice actors and director were really fun for the English dub! Zeno Robinson was fucking amazing as Jabber. Easily one of my favorite roles for him now.
I plan to rewatch it in the Japanese dub with my sibling when he has the free time. I'm so excited to hear Kana Hanazawa as Amo, especially since she has similar personality traits to Nadeko Sengoku haha.

Pretty much said everything I could have. This was such a fun anime to binge.

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia

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This blog by Sakugabooru about the adaptation is really well-written.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Culling Games Arc Part 1

April 10 2026

Perfect Cultivation was the best episode idc. I waited so long to finally see that chapter animated and Mappa absolutely did it justice.

Mobile Suit Gundam 0079

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Resident Evil (Zach Cregger)

October 4, 2026

Sayonara Lara

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The Apothecary Diaries (Season 1 & 2)

Watched August 21, 2026

I binged both Season 1 and 2, I had a really fun time! Maomao is such a intriguing character to me in regards to her cutely eccentric bluntness and cavalier attitude, and I love her for it. I find her dynamic with Jinshi amusing in that he's obviously falling for her and desires her and she's just like "Huh? Ok...😐". It's very funny.

While I like the setting and worldbuilding, the main thing I appreciate is that the women in this show are treated as multifaceted people and that they don't have preconceived notions about sexuality, women's ambitions, and the like. I really adore all of the Consorts and also the supporting cast. Luolan quickly became one of my favorites by the end of Season 2. Luolan's dance scene for her parents that mimicked Maomao's dance for her mother in Season 1 made me cry lol.

I'm super excited for Season 3 this October!

The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)

It was alright? Not even being rude or anything, it was pretty to look at. I enjoyed the cast! Lupita Nyong'o looked absolutely fucking gorgeous and her performance was amazing (as she always does), Anne Hathaway perfomed Penelope really well, and Samantha Morton was fun as Circe. Robert Pattison was really fun too (I need to rewatch Twilight sometime).

If I have one major gripe, it's that I didn't understand why they cut out the moments of Athena helping Odysseus against Calypso, Circe, and Princess Nausicaa and her father, and that they basically have Zendaya spend the entire movie standing next to Odysseus looking mournful (especially because they wanted to have Penelope say that how it wasn't fair she herself couldn't take the empty throne because she's a woman, which. Lol). I also feel they kinda made Odysseus act really stupid at times, but I mean those things still happened in the original myth, so maybe it was the pacing of those parts in the movie.
A minor gripe, but I was also mad they cut the part of Odysseus blinding the cyclops, but when he was asked who wounded him, Odysseus called himself "Otis (Nothing)" to trick the cyclops. I was looking forward to that but they didn't adapt it smh. (Yes this was partially because of Project Moon Outis, but tbf even before Limbus came out I always found that part of the Odyssey super funny, so it not getting adapted sucks.)

I guess that's it for my thoughts. It was an entertaining movie.

Witch Hat Atelier

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Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc

Under Construction while I work on my Reze Shrine! Stay tuned!

Kpop Demon Hunters

I have been an avid Kpop fan since Middle School when I first heard Girl's Generation on a random Nightcore video, so this movie felt tailor-made to appeal to me.
I had a lot of fun watching it, despite having minor gripes with how it handled certain things such as Rumi's foster mother. I still think it accomplished what it had set out to do.

Look Back

Already a beautiful one-shot manga, Kiyotaka Oshiyama manages to elevate it even further in the artform of film.
Fujimoto has made his love for film very apparent, and I feel like Kiyotaka clearly understood this and directed the movie by blending the two accordingly, and it works so well. I loved how they animated the manga sequences from the original story.
The lighting and color palettes were gorgeous, utilizing muted colors when it counts, which I greatly appreciated as someone who is personally sick of modern anime all using shiny palettes just to signify that they're "modern".

While you should definetely read the original manga, the film adaptation of Look back is absolutely beautiful and deserves just as much praise and love as the original story.

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Bee & Puppycat

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Chainsaw Man Season 1 (MAPPA)

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Gravity Falls

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Infinity Train

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Kamisama Kiss

Rewatched September 2026

I forgot how much I adored this show. The animation directing was really well-done, and I think the voice cast is really fun. Tia Ballard is so cute as Nanami (I also mainly remember her as Happy and Kokomi so it's kinda funny). I do think it's funny how fast the male leads fall for Nanami, but she's so adorable and sweet and also it's a shoujo so I don't mind it. I'm kind of gushing but I really needed a pick-me-up and this was the perfect show to do that with. I'll definitely try to get to the manga at some point.

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Knights of Guinevere

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Over the Garden Wall

I Rewatch every October with my siblings.

Ouran High School Host Club

Rewatched April 2026

Still one of my favorite shoujos. I think a big reason for this is because of how well-written I think the friendship between the Host Club boys are. Despite Haruhi being the newcomer, the other members still have their own dynamics with each other and genuinely love and care for one another, and Haruhi gets included into that when they befriend her. It's genuinely very sweet that all of the dynamics dont solely revolve around the "Heroine".

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Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated

Rewatched July 10, 2026

I think this is the second time I've rewatched this show, which was several years ago. Mystery Incorporated is still my favorite incarnation of the franchise outside of "What's New Scooby-Doo", which I'm still very nostalgic for because growing up my dad used to buy dvds of it for me when there was nothing else to do.

I've heard many say Mystery Incorporated is an homage to Twin Peaks, which unfortunately I still haven't watched yet (soon, I promise!). I do think Mystery Incorporated achieves the surrealist aspect of its setting and storytelling, especially as Season/Part 2 starts heading into more supernatural territory, to the point that it caused issues with Velma when she starts having a breakdown over the fact that science and logic couldn't explain the strange new phenomena happening to them. I never felt like the supernatural aspect was veering into a different area, but rather it slowly led us to that point by having eerie moments that couldn't be explained away as "just some dude in a costume". It was very well executed in my opinion.

I also adore how the friendship between the Scooby gang was handled this incarnation as well. While they all had their conflicts, primarily due to their romantic relationship causing friction within the group, they all slowly learned to understand each other and move past their initial conflicts. This was most noticeable with Velma in regards to her accepting Shaggy's breakup and refusing to get back together with him in a later episode, and when she forgave Scooby and saved him when they were both kidnapped. And vice versa for Scooby leaving the rest of the group to look for and protect Velma in the graveyard episode.

I also felt like Daphne and Fred had decent-enough relationship development throughout the show. If I remember correctly one of the writers allegedly did come out years later to say Fred was coded to be autistic in this incarnation, which really shows in regards to his upbringing with Mayor Jones/concept of masculinity, and his inability to understand Daphne's feelings, but still expressed a willingness to learn because he genuinely loved her.
I just found the group's dynamic in general to be really sweet, and it was definitely a good way to tie-in their dynamic with the overall story of the evil Annunaki buried under Crystal Cove claiming that it was the one who brought the group together to serve its will, with them ultimately rejecting and defeating it. The juxtaposition of the old Mystery Incorporated falling apart and turning on each other as they got more involved with the mystery surrounding the cursed treasure, next to the new Mystery Incorporated genuinely loving and caring for each other was really fun.

I could go on and on, but point is I really adore this show. It still holds up well even a whole decade later, and was well-worth the rewatch.

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The Amazing Digital Circus

June 19 2026

The humor invokes a nostalgia in me for shows of my childhood such as Adventure Time and Gravity Falls, which is obviously the point lol. I think the cast are all really cute, and it was really fun watching them have moments of vulnerability through the 8 episodes. The webseries is also obviously taking inspiration from "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", but I don't vividly remember the full story so I might reread it at some point. I'll write more later, but I really adore Pomni Ragatha and Jax haha.

Episode 9 Finale Thoughts

I think it was very sweet. I've seen mixed reactions on the writing, but I think (and I mean this with no offense to the show) that people kind of ascribe more "depth" to the Amazing Digital Circus series than its creator intended? And I also think a lot of the more negative reactions are because the ending turned out way more hopeful than I believe a lot of us hadn't conceived of.

But this is about my thoughts. While I do wish the series had more episodes to explore more of the character relationships, I get why that likely wasn't feasible Production-wise. I think the finale's pacing was fine. However, I did think the scene of Pomni narrating right before Jax Abstracted was kiiinda weird. I think it would've been more impactful if we got to see her Abstract ourselves rather than it instantly cutting to her already being turned into a monster.

But yea, speaking of Jax. I still adore her, sue me. I thought the finale would make me like her a little less but nope it didn't. The scene of her and Ribbit confessing to each other was really nicely directed. I loved the visuals with the lights in Ribbit's room. While I still do agree Jax is an asshole, I think it's? Not hard to understand why she started pulling away after she felt embarassed by coming out about her family and gender issues? You could immediately tell when she dropped the bow Ribbit put on her head, left it on the floor, and made Ribbit swear to keep their talk secret. And even before that, the way she would act flippant about anything no matter how serious or dire was clearly her "coping mechanism".
Anyway, I fucking loved the scene of Pomni reaching out to her when she Abstracted. The visuals, the dialogue, it was all so fucking adorable. Them playing "Isn't She Lovely" in a montage right after was evil (affectionately). I could write paragraphs but I really liked the whole scene.

I will admit I didn't understand the line about the brain scans from the beginning and had to be explained later on. But I still think the ending was poignant in that just because the Circus cast were trapped there and suffering from interpersonal conflicts, their "future/present" selves were living their lives on their own terms, so the Circus members should try and do the same. Caine effectively letting them "write their own stories" was meant to reflect that. Again, yes it's a way more "hopeful" ending than I would have anticipated, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it and I still find it enjoyable. And everyone who knows me knows I love super bleak stories lol.

The ending shot of the cast together at the bus stop made me smile so much. I enjoyed the ride until the end, and that's how art should make you feel, right?

Also, I'm happy for Gangle and Zooble that they can fuck now. Genuinely good for them, they deserve it.

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Gossip Girl

I decided to finally finish the series since I stopped at around Season 2 years ago. There's not much for me to say about the writing after Season 1. It was a very good introduction into the messy dynamics of the cast and their desire to change.

But as long-running TV series often do, all growth of the characters gets set back and they end up at square one. This is especially true for Serena. Honestly I found her severely annoying after Season 1, since every single plotline she gets is either falling for a man who ends up deceiving her but she digs her heels in until its too late, or goes back to Dan and then they fight and breakup again.

Dan's character also felt severely assasinated as the seasons went on. A video essay by Friendly Space Ninja pointed out how the show went out of its way to make the non-wealthy characters look bad, which is what it felt like for Dan, Jenny, Vanessa, and even Rufus to some extent.

Yes, the twist that Dan was Gossip Girl is extremely stupid. Yes, it's also extremely stupid that they all just forgive him for it "because it was a love letter to us", and Serena marries him anyways. I will say it was funny when they all started saying "Oh I thought xyz was Gossip Girl instead of Dan". But yea I 100% understand now why everyone was so angry about the reveal. I can't stand when media talks down to its audience and treats them like they're stupid, and that's honestly how the reveal and subsequent explanation by the writers felt like. (Side Note: I watched the 2021 HBO Gossip Girl reboot and dropped it for this very reason) Even the actors were confused which is really funny to me.

I will say, suprisingly Blair Waldorf stayed my favorite character from start to finish. Despite her bad behavior throughtout the series, I could still understand why she is the way she is. And to be honest, her desire to change felt better executed than Serena, but mainly because it felt easier to root for Blair due to her feeling like she always lived in Serena's shadow and Blair trying to overcompensate for that.

I did like the show and had fun, but the writing quality did take a dive after Season 1. I adore Blair though, she definitely made the show better for me.

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