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First of all, allow me to complain about Psycho Pass 2. I've been waiting for weeks.
I also saw Kokoro Connect, which wasn't fantastic, but had its moments. Entertaining, but overall kind of forgettable. I blame it on the fact that the plot was pretty much non-existent. Like, they introduced the premise in the first episode, and never got any further. Except for that weird thing in the last few episodes, that was never even explained. I can't help but feel that the manga would be better.

A much better shojo that I watched was Anohana. There were many feels in this show. Before watching, I had heard people talk about how they "cried every episode". I teared up at the end of episode one, then didn't cry again. Until the last episode, that is. I was watching it, lamenting my dry eyes and hard heart, when in the last 5 minutes the feels hit like a brick. It was 12:30 at night and I was alone in my dark bedroom bawling my eyes out. I admit, overtiredness may have contributed a bit to the sheer number of tears, but it was very feelsy. And that theme song... so good. It led me to discover the beautifulness of Galileo Galilei.

Another fantastic anime was Samurai Champloo. I adore this show to pieces. I found it as I was looking through the S section of Crunchyroll, checking for various anime on my list. Something about it caught my eye (it turns out that it was recommended to me on this thread quite a while ago. Silly younger me, not knowing a good recommendation when she saw it). There were just two things I didn't like. 1) It seemed so short. That might be partly because I binged it like crazy over the March break, but still. I wanted more episodes. 2) The Fuu x Jin ship was real. It was sitting in the harbour ready to sail and then it was shot down. I take back what I said earlier about not normally shipping. This was to beautifully perfect to pass up. Unfortunately, the creators of the show didn't feel the same way... Oh, one more thing. I don't think that any anime has made me laugh as much as I did at those Americans in the baseball episode. Their voices - oh my goodness, hilarious.

A much, much worse anime that I watched was No. 6. I blame it partly on the fact that it was recommended to me as a romance anime. This resulted in my being very disappointed in the ending. Baloth can attest to my anger at the end the series. I mean, this anime started out well. Post-apocalyptic world, good characters, an intriguing, if not entirely original, plot, and the beginnings of a cute relationship to boot. Then, at around episode 8, things started to go downhill.And then there was a bunch of stuff that was introduced, and never really followed through with. Altogether, probably my least favourite anime that I watched.

And last but not least, I did get around to watching Toradora! I have to say, it's up there with Fruits Basket as one of my top romcoms. Much like Samurai Champloo, I wished that there could have been more episodes. But again, I think that's partly just because this show is so very binge-worthy. It's the kind of show where you want to watch it all in one go, because it's so good, but at the same time, you want to watch it slowly and savour it, because it's so good. And that ending... oh my goodness, that ending. So. Freaking. Adorable. I can't even deal. It got rid of any last traces of "but Ryuji and Minorin could have been so good together".

And that op 1 is my jam.


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Unlike others, I never thought that Ryuji x Ami was meant to be. I must say, though, as I was nearing the end, there was a part of me that wanted Ryuji x Minorin to be a thing. But no, Taiga was the right choice. Talk about drama, though. There was the whole thing with them going to elope. I was not expecting anything so serious in the least. But then they went to the grandparents' house, and the family reconciled, and it was beautiful. And that scene... with the two of them in the bedroom... the cuteness... oh, the cuteness.

And I was so happy that they had Taiga go back to reconcile with her family, too. It made a good ending great. And then that scene... with Taiga in the locker... and Ryuji says "guess what"... the cuteness... oh, the cuteness.

From what I understand it was made under a lot of creative constraints, it was being made at the same time as The Movie so they couldn't change the characters in the same way season one did but still, season two is rather weak. A big problem for me is it never resolves the central conflict of The Omnipotence Paradox, the nature of hive minds or Sibyl judging itself in any way. A hive mind is by it's nature a collective, it isn't one individual, that was the entire point of what the antagonist was doing, to make Sibyl judge a hive mind i.e itself. But apparently Sibyl can just destroy 30% of the brains which make it up (for some reason, I don't know why, it's not like Sibyl cares about what Inspectors think) can tell which of those brains need to be destroyed despite how it conflicts with how the brains were chosen in season one and all this causes it to not change in anyway at all. It doesn't become less efficient, it doesn't become more efficient, the mannerisms don't change, it doesn't become less or more open or kind toward. There's no pay off to anything, at all. Sibyl does what the antagonist wants and everything remains exactly the same. I mean maybe it influences Sibyl's actions in The Movie but it never comes across like that.

Psycho Pass: The Movie is a lot better though.

Whenever I rewatch the show I don't know if I'm going to bother rewatching the second series.

Yeah, the show has an interesting set up and the two main characters are neat but it really goes downhill and ends up being pretty bad. It isn't awful but, yeah. Which is a shame because with the set up and male/male romance I wanted to like it but well... Although I didn't really have a problem with them not ending up together at the end. Honestly I was just glad neither of them died because same-sex couples always die.

If you want to watch a much better show about a seemingly nice but secretly evil city in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world I'd recommend Ergo Proxy because it's actually good. And the Dub for it is great.

Mike's death was pretty brutal, although as soon as he went off to fight 8 Titans by himself everyone himself included kinda knew he was screwed.

Fun times with Hange, Levi & Pastor Nick. It's cool that again the group have an actual plan to work toward, find a recruit and try to use Eren to patch up the walls. It'll probably be 2020 by the time we actually see what's inside that basement though. But this also ties into Hange's OVA where a Titan referred to a humans as one of Ymir's people.

Connie's hometown all turned into Titans, that sucks. But hopefully this does mean that everyone else comes to the obvious conclusion that all titans used to be human, not just the intelligent ones. Because that explanation for their origin makes the most sense.

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The ending was very bittersweet, yes. There was a large part of me that was relieved that everyone didn't end up dying in the end (Mugen and Jin's futures were looking a little bleak, there), so I was quite happy by the time the end rolled around and everyone was okay. Fuu's reconciliation with her father was a tad anticlimactic, but I wasn't looking for something very dramatic, so I was content with that, too. Still... I mean it when I say that Jin and Fuu belonged together. In my mind they end up meeting up again a few years later and get married. Ah, a girl can dream.