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Oh yeah baby! That's more like it. I wish another TV network had gotten it though, cuz I don't have Prime and now I'll have to wait longer to see it, but I've never used my free trial, so maybe once the whole season is out I can use it to binge the whole thing. Either that or I'll just wait for the DVDs to come out at my local library.

Yeah, I saw that was going OOP and was just waiting for a coupon code. They send them out through email or regular mail it seems often enough, but they delisted it at Right Stuf like a day or two before I got one wouldn't you know. Guess now I have to wait and hope one goes up for sale somewhere later on for a decent price. If not I suppose I'll eventually cave and just get the regular edition at some point.

Yeah, I kinda agree about the idols. I don't know if it's that there's too many, so much as this season they just basically gave them away at ghost island. People should have to work to find them, that way there's a risk to the potential reward, and they should make them as reasonably hard to find as possible. What bugged me more about this season is, well I like being surprised and this season I like never was. I guess at least in part you can blame how I've watched for so long that I've gotten to the point where I can pretty much always see through the edit's attempt to throw doubt on who's actually going by attempting to make it look like another person could be in danger, when it's pretty obvious most of the time that they aren't really. The main thing I think though is nobody ever made a freaking move! They would think about it, but never followed through. Nobody ever showed enough spine late in the game to stand up to Dom and Wendell and get people to take them out when it was so obviously the best move, besides maybe Donathan a bit. I blame Laurel mostly for that. She had multiple chances to shift the game, but never had the guts to do it. I think she got zero votes to be the winner in the end, and if so then well deserved.

OMG Okay, wait... Okay, think I finally got that out of my system. Ha ha ha. Seriously though, if they're gonna actually do this they shouldn't even bother pretending and just call it Thundercats Ho! instead of roar. I mean it's so freaking obvious what this is derivative of. I love TTG, but this is too much. I really hope this what I can only call a parody remake doesn't succeed. That said, I'll probably still check it out, but are they serious that they seriously want us to think that this show is gonna seriously try and have some serious action stuff in it? Seriously? No seriously?!

Hold the phone! They canceled The Expanse! No way. I refuse to believe that. Dark Matter and The Mist, too? Well, the Mist isn't really that great a surprise given the network's name it was on didn't survive either. Damn though... Hmm, seems The Expanse is being shopped eleswhere though at least, so there's some hope there to it continuing.

I really enjoyed last season, which is part of what made this one so painful I think. I've been watching since season 2... actually I guess since the ending of season 1, and I've never hated a season as much as I hated this one. I was so bored/frustrated that I didn't even watch most of the finale for the first time like ever. I tuned out after the first immunity challenge, and only tuned back in to see who won the whole thing, and to see where they're going next season. Can't make this season a ghost of the past soon enough.

This is the first show I've gotten my mom to watch in like forever. Our tastes in TV don't usually align, but this has been one of those rare ocassions where I felt like it would be something we might both enjoy seeing. She really hated Mr. Hickey, said he was so ugly she almost couldn't stand to look at him. LOL I thought they were going to make a second season though since they called it the season finale rather than series finale. I'm a little sad to hear that might be it, but I guess we'll see.

Wow, no ones posted in here since Christmas? I guess that's not too surprising, as I only really buy stuff myself anymore like once or twice a year now, too. Some decent Memorial Day weekend sales though, so I went a lil' crazy. New on order: Assassination Classroom season 1 part 2, Big Windup! season 2, Brighter Than the Dawning Blue, Di GI Charat Winter Garden, Familiar of Zero blu-ray collections 2 & 3, Food Wars season 1 & 2 premium editions, Hatsukoi Limited, Infinite Stratos season 2, Knights of Sidonia season 2 collector's edition, Pita-Ten, Rage of Bahamut Genesis LE, Squid Girl LE, Tamayura ~Hitotose~, Tegami Bachi Letter Bee season 1 part 2 & season 2 parts 1 & 2, A Town Where You Live blu-ray, Umi Monogatari, and The World God Only Knows season 3 and OVA blu-rays

Yeah, that's true. A couples years back Amazon put a bunch of new restrictions on selling DVDs and blu-rays in their marketplace. They said it was in the name of trying to clamp down on bootleg sellers, but it was really just an excuse and obviously really done to squeeze out small time sellers who were undercutting their prices. Since then, it's become much harder to find any good deals on used media there.

It used to be, from my experience, that if you wanted cheap, used anime, about the best place to buy from was the Go Hastings website. For some time they had many anime discs for about a dollar each, and you could get free shipping on top of that when they had sale codes every once in a while. Heh, only downside was that they didn't have a central warehouse to fufill orders from, so if you ordered a number of items you could end up getting a separate package for almost each and every one, as they would be shipped by whatever store of theirs around the country happened to have it in stock. They went bankrupt a few years ago though, but that's what happens I guess when you run a business where you're paying more to ship stuff than what you're getting paid for the stuff you're shipping, heh. Nowadays, other than the aforementioned ebay and Amazon marketplace, only places I know would be Second Spin and Wherehouse.com which are sister sites run by the same company I believe.

Rampage 9/10 Can the Rock do no wrong? It's starting to feel like it lately, cuz that was pure awesome. Jeffery Dean Morgan almost stole the show with his character, who had some of the best lines, but even he couldn't steal the spotlight, of course, from the film's true star... George the gorilla. HOO HOO HOO! Only slight criticism I have is a few things were telegraphed a bit much, but otherwise, that well... rocked.

Pacific Rim: Uprising 6/10 Not bad, but just really feel like in a number of ways that it failed to live up to the original, which was kinda disappointing. Ready Player One 10/10 That was actually pretty amazing. Nostalgia probably has a lot to do with why I enjoyed it so much, but I think even you don't get all the references you'd still find it a pretty fun ride.

I see now. This is like the f'ed up version of It's a Wonderful Life.

Sincerely doubt I'll feel like my life has changed, but I'm gonna watch it. LOL Even the game review's in Japanese!

Hah hah hah, ah ha ha. Greatest April Fool's ever! Eyebrows!

In This Corner of the World Sweet, heart-warming, uplifting: not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting a depressing tear-jerker. . . . What happened?! Ha ha ha. Okay, yeah there were some dark and bleak moments, for sure, but ultimately I felt like it was a pretty positive film that left me with a smile on my face so I'm really glad I decided to give this one a chance.

Season 3 premiere is tonight, and for the first time I can actually watch it right away, as I now have Starz as part of my cable package. Oh yeah baby.

Black Panther 9/10 About as awesome as expected. Annihilation 2/10 And on the other end of the spectrum... Yeah, that was just totally stupid and completely disappointing. I'm sorry, I just hate movies that try and act smart and then essentially throw any common sense about how science and biology works out the window. If there was actually any reasonable attempt to explain any of what was taking place, then maybe I could have forgiven it, but seemed like they hardly even bothered. Mary and the Witch's Flower 10/10 Great kickoff for Studio Ponoc, totally in the spirit of Studio Ghibil, as you would expect from a couple of former Ghibli veterans.

There's more to Taiki's story in some of the later novels I've heard, but the author still hasn't finished it. A couple years ago her publisher announced a new novel was supposed to come out, but they later updated that the author was having a lingering spell of ill health and so that's how come the delay. No news since then, sadly. Just saw Mary and the Witch's Flower. Totally loved it. Very nice first entry for studio Ponoc. The Ghibli homages they threw in really made me smile.

Mine says it's a repeat. Looks like your cable provider is smarter than my cable provider. Will be very interesting to see the ratings this episode gets. If there isn't at least a little spike over other weeks, I'll be very very surprised.

KumaMiko 9 - 12 + OVAs 1 & 2 Sigh. . . Well, honestly this show had its moments where it was pretty darn funny I thought, but at the same time it was just so darn frustrating and quite pathetic really. I think the very final line at the end of the last OVA episode actually kind of sums up my feelings about it all perfectly: "You never learn, do you, Machi?" Yep, you think there would be a backstory, or some character growth, or something to give the main character any kind of depth, but . . . no. She's pretty much just pure moe from start to finish. Other characters weren't much better either; the bear being about the only sensible one is just plain sad. On the plus side, the OP and ED themes were very catchy, and I burned through it all pretty quickly and have Giant Robo now up to watch next. Finally.

Aria the Origination 13 Nice finish. Still I think it would have been better if Alicia had unzipped her face and turned out to be Caith Sith, but if that had actually happened I probably would have fallen off my chair and split my head open, so probably for the best. Gotta say this ranks as one of my favorite series of all time, which I never would have expected would happen when I first started watching it. KumaMiko 1 - 8 Beary silly. How did this wind up in the kids section of my local library though? Do they just look at the ratings from the manufacturer or something? It's rated PG by Funimation I guess, but just based on the first episode alone where you got kids getting nosebleeds from imagining what I guess you could only say is heavily implied bestiality/rape . . . Yeah, nevermind the fanservice stuff, this is not exactly a little kids show. I'm a little loathe to say anything to them, but I think when I return it I feel like I kind of have to.

Aria the Origination 3 - 12 I was really trying to finish this last night, but it got pretty late, so I held off watching the final episode just yet. Got some reactions that I wanted to get out before that though.

Aria Arietta OVA Awwwww, that was almost enough to melt my cold black heart. Almost. Aria the Origination 1 & 2 President Aria's antics never get old. And wow, he can cook! . . . or at least help with the cooking. Impressive. Too bad all that good cooking going to his belly is what keeps President Hime from giving him any attention.

Hiya. I decided upon my New Year's resolutions, and one of them, believe it or not, is to watch some more anime. Watching more than I did this past year, which was practically nothing, should be a piece of cake, but I'm gonna aim high and hope to finish at least 15 series this year, just to give myself more of a challenge. Hah! ::gets pumped:: Anyway, having picked up where I left off like forever ago it feels like now, I watched the rest of Aria the Natural episodes 22 - 26. Especially loved the marriage to the sea episode and the final one with Alicia and the snowball. I almost forgot how this show can just so warm your heart so much. Good thing, too, cuz it's been just so freaking cold, could use every little bit of warmth I can get right about now.