OWL June Joust and Summer Showdown

I've been writing these up but not posting them. Hopefully posting them all in one big ole post will keep people from being spammed by stuff they don't care about.

 

Going through these it looks like I got lazy and skipped a lot of games, even though I watched almost everything but the APAC games.

Warning: Super long.
 

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Loki etc.

Loki

Saw Loki Season 1. It was ok I guess. Old Loki was the best of the bunch and I wish the show were about him. Somehow they turned NY Loki into an earnest straight man instead of a crazy would-be conqueror, so he was boring. Sylvie at least had some passion and drive, and if she wasn't so hell bent on her mission there would be literally nothing in this show. Basically, not what I wanted out of a Loki show, and the "finale" was such a cliffhanger that I feel like there wasn't any satisfaction in the plot either. I guess the fun stuff will start in season 2? I probably won't watch.

Hitorijime My Hero

My roommates got wind that this anime existed and I found them watching the first episode downstairs a while back. They never watch anime, and usually opt for live action shows, so I figured I'd join them in watching for once since our interests were aligning. We had a good time with it. I have to admit there is still a good amount of fujo in me, but I have never watched straight up BL in the presence of other people and it was half hilarious half embarrassing. And this is an anime that leans into the tropes. We were cracking jokes about statutory rape the whole way through since the main pairing is between a high school student and his teacher. I mean, I still ship it, in fantasy anime dubcon land sort of way. It's just that so many jokes can be made. Setagawa is a cute majime guy, and his earrings make me miss my own.

After we were done watching that series I decided to poke around online to see if there were BL light novels online or maybe some radio plays I could find. I hit on a couple of nice youtube videos so I'm pretending I'm studying Japanese by listening to them.

Octopath Traveler

I'm starting to understand why people call this game grindy. I managed to take a big chunk out of the chapters a little while back, and figured out a nasty combo on a boss that brought him down quick, which appears to be the key to not just getting slowly fucked to death otherwise. But the story continues to underwhelm.

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I also have done some honest to god studying this month, and was rewarded by actually seeing a study vocab in the wild. It's been a long ass time since that happened.