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Anime Relations: Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose, Papillon Rose

100 anime. I watched 100 anime in one month. In one month, I watched more anime than most people will watch in their entire lives.

The thing is, when I marked off number 100 I thought it would be this big moment, and I'd be super relieved. Instead I clicked on three things, and went about my night. It was oddly unsatisfying.

99) Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose was a parody of Sailor Moon, that uses nudity and crude humor to create humor, and subvert magical girl tropes. It was pretty darn funny. I liked it.

100) Papillon Rose is the sequel to Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose and it was the perfect ending to the 100N1 challenge. Because it was long, boring, and I hated it. For whatever reason this series had to tone down the sexual content, and considering everything that made the original funny, and subversive was based on its sexuality, without it, this is just a rip off of Sailor Moon.

To borrow from T.S. Eliot, "This is the way the March ends, not with a bang but a whimper."

Anime Relations: Kite Liberator, Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku, Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai

So you could look at this and think, did sac set it up so that the final anime will be blogged on the 31st?

96) Kite Liberator is the sequel to what I used to call the worst anime I'd ever seen. It was okay. They added bone monsters and space travel to the lore. Which was an... interesting choice. Also the other waitress looked like the main character from the first one, and I couldn't tell if they ever said her name, so maybe she survived after all. Who knows?

97) Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku was a prequel series about everyone's favorite character Levi. I don't like Levi. I didn't care for this.

98) Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai this was actually pretty interesting, but I think it could have been done better. Maybe a bit more foreshadowing, maybe not have two montages back to back, maybe lead into the ending better. But overall I liked this.

Anime Relations: Hametsu no Mars, Appleseed, Kenritsu Chikyuu Boueigun, Chika Gentou Gekiga: Shoujo Tsubaki, Kare Baka: Wagahai no Kare wa Baka de R

5 Left, is this the last day of the challenge?! Maybe! I'm so close, and I can't wait to be done. It's exciting! I'm excited. Are you excited? Yeah, you're excited.

91) Hametsu no Mars is the worst anime ever! Or so people say, in reality it's not even the worst anime I've seen this month. Really it just comes off as an Evangelion rip off.

92) Kare Baka: Wagahai no Kare wa Baka de R started funny but then got less funny. Not much to say.

93) Chika Gentou Gekiga: Shoujo Tsubaki was a confused mess. I flipped through the manga to see if that would clear anything up, but as it turns out this anime adapted pretty much every panel. So... It's just a mess.

94) Kenritsu Chikyuu Boueigun was fine. It was fine.

95) Okay so I thought Appleseed was a mecha fighting anime, as it turns out it's a cop drama. A cop drama where the villain is right. This could be interesting but I feel the delivery was off.

Anime Relations: Inukami! The Movie: Tokumei Reiteki Sousakan Karina Shirou!, California Crisis: Tsuigeki no Juuka, Hotarubi no Mori e, Nerawareta Gakuen, Ikkitousen: Extravaganza Epoch

So you might look at the 5 anime completed, and think, "Wow sac really did crush it."

I look at the 5 completed anime and think, "Wow I'm bad at time management!"

Needless to say I think that number should have been way higher. Now, that's about the free most time I'm going to get for a long time, let alone during this challenge, but I still think I can get in a decent number today. Only 10 left.

86) So I saw what Nerawareta Gakuen was trying to do, but by the end it doesn't really do anything. It just kind of introduces a bunch of ideas, and then just kinda ends without resolving anything.

87) Inukami! The Movie: Tokumei Reiteki Sousakan Karina Shirou! was delightful. Inukami is one of my favorite anime, as evidenced by my listing it among my favorites on my profile, but I haven't seen it in years. It's good to know I it's as fun as I remember.

88) Ikkitousen: Extravaganza Epoch is a bit disappointing... In that it ends on an unresolved cliffhanger, everything else was great! Despite Ikkitousen being comprised nothing but elements I normally dislike, I've always loved it. Part of it might be because it's a library series, but I think it has more to do with how the story is told.

89) California Crisis: Tsuigeki no Juuka was a fun... movie? OVA. The end kind of sucks though, but it's more about the journey than the destination. Great soundtrack too, the song Streets Are Hot by Miho Fujiwara has 80,000 views on YouTube, but the OVA is only in 2,000 lists here on MAL. Now of course not everyone uses MAL, but that is a big difference in number. It makes me wonder if the song is more popular than the OVA.

90) Hotarubi no Mori e was... fine. Everything told me I should watch this. It sets up an interesting concept and relationship dynamic but then it just ends.

Anime Relations: Metropolis, Summer Wars, Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale, Mary to Majo no Hana

So I made up some good time yesterday, I think I'm no longer behind schedule, but I'm not sure, because I haven't checked. It doesn't matter though, because even if I am, I won't be after today. If I watch one more long anime, I have enough short series saved up to walk it through at the end. I hope to finish this challenge with in the next two days.

You may say that it's not very exciting if I'm only behind for two days, and then immediately crush it, and finish early. But I say it's better to finish early than not at all. Ladies...

82) Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale is of dubious canonicity, but it's a pretty alright movie. Exciting action scenes, good soundtrack, the plot isn't completely stupid, the final boss was hype, I even thought seeing Yuuki was cool when Asuna used Mother's Rosario. Probably my second favorite part of Sword Art, but not as good as Gun Gale Online.

83) Mary to Majo no Hana was kind of okay. It looked pretty, but the characters weren't really well developed, and there where really only two parts to the movie, introducing the academy, and then fighting the academy. So when it came together it felt like it didn't make the best use of its time. Also I don't think they ever explained why the raccoon was so helpful.

84) Summer Wars was good. I felt the action was lacking a bit, but it did a good job of creating tension, and its portrayal of family really got me thinking.

85) Metropolis managed to be well written and messy at the same time. Well written in that it managed to bring together a bunch of plot lines and themes together, satisfyingly at the end. Messy in that it has so many plotlines and themes that it's easy to get lost in, and the way it introduces these can be a bit... You know I had the perfect word last night, but I can't remember what it was, and now the only word coming to mind is generic, which isn't quite right.

Regardless the whole movie comes off as flat, if that makes any sense to you.

Also, Osamu Tezuka art style really meshes well with the, I want to say 1920s feel of the movie. Crazy I know.

Anime Relations: Steamboy, Pale Cocoon, Koe no Katachi

Okay, so I'm still behind schedule, but I ended up with a decent amount of time yesterday, so I didn't lose as much time as expected. I'm hoping to catch up over the next two days.

79) Steamboy was long and generic, and boring, and they named the family "Steam."

THEY NAMED A CHARACTER STEAM!

80) Koe no Katachi was great. It was the best thing I've seen this month, and I'm really glad I watched it. I tend to play Nep Nep while watching anime, but this had me so enthralled I was stuck on the same dialogue for two hours.

I only wish the romantic subplot was resolved.

81) Pale Cocoon exists. Apparently Pewdiepie suggested it at some point. Something a lot of people may not know, Pewds actually knows a good amount about anime. He even has a MAL account he doesn't log on to anymore.

There's a reason I've chosen to write about Pewdiepie and not this anime. I found nothing interesting about it. I would explain why, but I wouldn't want to spoil it, in case someone actually cares.

Anime Relations: Tenshi no Tamago, Sennen Joyuu

I'm behind schedule... It's Sunday, in the last week, and I'm behind schedule...

God help me...

77) Tenshi no Tamago is visual gibberish. I heard the director of this movie said they didn't know everything about it, and it was up to the viewer. That tells me this movie doesn't actually mean anything, and since it's up to my interpretation, I can't be wrong.

Let me give you an example, if I say to you, "Glor thap doop quap!"

If you ask me, "What does that mean?"

If my answer is, "I don't think the speaker always knows what they mean, sometimes it's up to the listener to decide."

You would be right to dismiss what I said as gibberish... Tenshi no Tamago is visual gibberish.

"But sac, you hate things like that, a 5 seems like a high score from you."

Let me rephrase that, Tenshi no Tamago is pretty, atmospheric visual gibberish.

78) Sennen Joyuu is the only Satoshi Kon movie I wanted to watch, not because everyone told me I should, but because I wanted to watch it.

It does that thing, all of his movies seem to, where it suddenly changes how it... presents the story? What I mean is it starts as a flashback, but then it tells the story of the actress's life by using her movies. This is similar to how Paprika cycles through its environments, and Perfect Blue disjoints its scenes.

I liked it, but I would of liked it better if it didn't do that the entire movie.