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7 months later and I am back once again celebrating my hitting another anime milestone. I have finally surpassed the 400 completed anime mark. What an achievement! This time around, the milestone anime for me was a film called Fragtime - a rather dull yuri melodrama with particularly bland characters and what felt like three quarters of the time spent without any real character development (and the film was only an hour long). Honestly after reading about the production of it I can entirely understand why it turned out like that, though it doesn't make it any better to watch.

Unlike Fragtime, the last few anime I watched leading up to the 400th were all rather outstanding in their own ways, that being the films Fruits Basket: Prelude, Paprika and Colorful. Of these, Paprika was a bizarrely beautiful experience that only the likes of Satoshi Kon could dream up, Fruits Basket was both an emotional recap and an equally dramatic prequel and Colorful was a slow yet deep insight into a family of flawed but believable characters. As a whole, while the grand finale of my 400 anime celebration was a rather big let down, at least the journey that got me there was a thoroughly enjoyable time.

In other news, I have again undertaken the colossal task of watching a whopping fourteen anime this season, something which I have not done in a good few seasons now. Luckily for me there are so many bangers airing otherwise I might not have been able to take it. Especially the likes of Spy x Family, Kaguya-sama and Summer Time Render are really offering me a grand relief from my generally dull week. As of today I also began the late comer of the season, A Couple of Cuckoos which is looking rather promising at least from the first episode, if a little generic. Honestly the most surprising thing about the show to me is that it has already been confirm for 24 episodes, seemingly a rarity for harem anime in this day and age.

Finally, in regards to my manga consumption, I have as of late caught up to all ongoing manga which I have been following, something which I strive to achieve every couple of months. I also got motivated to read both Aharen-san and Jujutsu Kaisen after watching their respective anime and boy are their original manga amazing too. While I have to admit that in both cases I think their anime counterparts might edge out the originals, the un-adapted sections and base stories and artwork are just so good that I can't help but love both manga anyway. On a whim I also chose to read my first Osamu Tezuka manga the other day, with me reading a somewhat obscure work of his called Apollo's Song for no reason other than that was the one that I randomly picked. As expected of a man of his renown, it was a thoroughly enjoyable read, being essentially an anthology of tragic romance stories after a boy was cursed to experience this fate repeatedly throughout time. My favourite of these stories, as to be expected given my taste in media, was the story set in a future where artificial humans have taken over the planet and despite being a member of the human resistance, the M.C. still falls in love with the evil queen anyway. While on a technical level it may have been similar to the other stories in the collection, I found the slight sci-fi twist to it to be rather refreshing in the end. After reading Apollo's Song, I simply hope that I will be able to read many more of Tezuka's works in the future.

In a similar vein, my ultimate goal going forward remains unchanged: to continue to consume the medium of entertainment which I love. In other words, as long as I can sit down and relieve my stress with some cute anime waifus once in a while then I am one happy guy.