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And thank God for that. Nice to see more of those goofs!

HIAC 2019 left an extremely sour taste in my mouth too. Bray's death gutted me, and I still find myself struggling to enjoy Rollins even in this current run, which is arguably his best.

I mostly watch PPV's. I never could stomach AEW enough to watch the shows, I kept up with all the drama and news through Jim Cornette. But WWE seems really exciting right now, I love their presentation and current mindset. It feels more like a sport or a serous contest rather than something silly.

I've never really been a fan of the guy in the past because of his negative attitude and his fans being mostly insufferable pricks, but maybe times have changed since a decade ago.

Been doing pretty good man, can't complain. Hope you have been well.

yeah I gotcha. entertainment is definitely on the way.

lmao. yeah brother im ready for em, part of why I wrote the review. weeaboo_bomber's comment alone got a chuckle out of me.

Congrats on achieving 10,000 hours of watched anime!!!
And 76% of the completed anime you rewatched. Huh...

And that's why you could never become closer to THE one and only Maffy!

I am THE Maffy, not A Maffy!

It was an accident!

lmao. gotta check that show out one day

Sir, I hope you have turned in your assault stove.

Hear, hear. Being about 10 years younger than yourself my "Slayers" equivalent was Shakugan no Shana. The novel is far more interesting than JC Staff could manage, to the surprise of approximately no one.

Gundam definitely has low points. The main one I could recommend to you is Turn A. It has an all-star staff. The significantly different direction of that series compared to others makes it divisive for Gundam fans but it stands on its own. The characters essentially rediscover the Gundam as ancient technology and have no idea what they are getting into. In that sense it's quite a bit like Ideon. Not quite as difficult to suspend disbelief as in Victory Gundam ("guerilla" forces that are carried by a 13 year-old boy who wastes inordinate amounts of their arms and lives because of his inexperience).

I can only recommend the Escaflowne TV series. The movie looks like a summary and I haven't seen it. The setting is fantasy with mechs (which are rare and hereditary weapons, lost technology), essentially upscaled suits of armor. There are no modern projectile weapons, and there is very limited flight. The mech operators are functionally knights. Neat concept and it's well polished.

Gave Slayers a shot and I thoroughly enjoyed the first 4 episodes or so, but they apparently changed writers because they wrote themselves into a corner with Lina's over-powered nature. The moment it became clear was in a scene where Gourry was being chased by the possessed shopkeep and begging Lina to help. Lina replied to the effect that she could probably solve it with a spell, but didn't want to (there was no motivation for her to say that). Then it was solved inexplicably by the shopkeep's wife yelling at him, knocking him out of the enchantment. This is only plausible because the magic system in the series is weakly defined (why don't writers define their world more?). Several similar scenes occurred in the following episodes where the writers introduced a problem that was insufficient in size or complexity for Lina and they were forced to separate her from it. The first few episodes had good exposition and worldbuilding, and I was looking forward to the character development to follow. Unfortunately it fell into a mostly episodic routine after that with very sparse development by the end of the season. It was nice that some hint of romance had shown by that time, but having seen many similar shows I do not expect it to develop further. There was also a very strange development at the end where Lina was unconscious for about two episodes and the production staff seemed to be in disagreement about how to handle it. They were so concerned about her not having screentime that there was a 4th wall-breaking insert into the episode to have Lina explain some magic mechanic, and Lina herself assuring the viewers she'd be back soon. I understand that the series is supposed to be comedic, but I don't find that to be an excuse for bad writing. Lina is cute as heck and her party has a few interesting characters, it would be better if they were met with problems more befitting of their rank (like in the long and drawn-out ending to the season, or the first fight with Rezo). If this changes, let me know. There are certainly shows that improve or find their niche after the first season. Nanoha comes to mind. They don't settle on a single formula until season 2, and then they polish out the rough spots in the summary movies.