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Happy New Year!

Hello. ^^
How are you doing?

I was a bit too late this time haha.
Thanks, I ended up doing surprisingly well on the exam, got a 9/10 score, which is a quite higher than what I was aiming for haha.

The chapter with the cat was very cute, especially because we saw that Kaguya only tries to hate them because they hurt Hayasaka when they were kids. But she actually enjoyed playing with the cat too much. XD
Chapter 215 was a new darkness chapter after a long time. There was also an announcement about the previous ones being adapted as an OVA.
I don't even know where to start from with this one. XD But it's obvious that some of the guys were a bit too passionate about their odd fetishes. XD The good thing that came out of it, is that Miyuki, Mikado and Tsubasa became closer friends, since two of them finally admitted that they are actually virgins. XD After that, Miyuki revealed some of his intentions regarding Kaguya... only for her to eavesdrop on the whole conversation.
The next chapter showed some interesting things about Mikado and the relationship between Kaguya's and Maki's families. Mikado was obviously brought near Kaguya for a reason by the higher ups. But to the one who organized the gathering of the 4 girls, Kaguya, none of this information was important. She only cared about discussing what she heard on the previous chapter. XD The reactions were hilarious, but I felt bad for Maki for various reasons. XD At least the girls managed to give her some useful advice, with some weird information thrown in as well. XD

It'd be nice if the Akari and Hina managed to make their dream shop become real, with or without Rei's financial support. I'd like to see them succeed on their own, but with Rei being supportive in other ways, too.
And that's what Akari, her aunt and grandfather pretty much agreed on in the next chapter for various reasons, although the latter two almost ended up adopting Rei. XD

I left many Re:zero episodes pass without discussion, and now it's hard for me to remember what exactly happened on which specific episode. XD So I'll just write all of my thoughts combined.
I loved how they executed Otto's backstory, they added a lot of nice effects, as they did with Garfiel's later. I had forgotten about the cat he had a crush on and I felt so weird when I watched that. XD
The whole part with Emilia and Subaru in the tomb was also done greatly, and the details with their eyes and the song were indeed pretty nice. I also loved how salty Echidna was after that and Emilia just ignoring the insults and copying Subaru's pose.
I think it was mentioned in the anime a while ago that Garfiel and Frederica have different fathers, for the sake of explaining how Frederica got out of the Sanctuary, but not during this episode. But it's hard for anime-only viewers to remember when details like that are just briefly mentioned, like the explanation about Subaru's gate. Last time Felix or Puck mentioned that was at the beginning of season 2 part 1.
The fight between Ram, Otto and Garfiel was pretty nice, but I wish they kept in the part where Otto actually uses high level magic while borrowing the forest's mana, instead of replacing it with the bombs he threw. The Garfiel vs Subaru was also great, Subaru just fearlessly took the punch of a man who can break trees with it and spat his tooth out like it was nothing. XD To be honest, the scene where the Unseen Hand came out looked weirdly funny to me for some reason. XD
After that, we start seeing Emilia's past. I think they skipped a few parts of their everyday life and some bits with Arch, but it was still a solid adaptation of the trial. And little Emilia as just too adorable, seeing her patting Geuse before he went mad was pretty surreal and wholesome.
The next part is where the tragedy begins, with Regulus and Pandora arriving. I loved how they adapted this part and especially Pandora herself. She gave me Shaft vibes at some parts, I don't know why haha. Seeing Geuse descending into madness after killing Fortuna was heartbreaking. Pandora is way too powerful but there are also limits to how she can use her magic, I really wonder how it works exactly. She couldn't stop Emilia's rampage while freezing the whole forest, but she erased her memory of meeting her.
Fortuna's and Emilia's relationship was really touching, I hope I could see even more of the old Geuse and Arch's sacrifice was quite sad. Only thing I'm really looking forward to that was teased a lot, is Emilia's parents and, of course, the seal's contents.
In the end, Emilia managed to pass her trial, and Echidna was still salty about the way she resolved it. XD
While Emilia was facing her trial, we saw the three guys becoming friends and Garfiel revealing that he saw the "love letters" of Subaru during his trial. The reactions to that and the fact that Garfiel is only 14 years old were pretty funny. XD
They all had a discussion with the Ryuzus and we saw the past of the original. Seeing the young Roswaal, Beatrice and Ryuzu with Echidna was pretty nice. After that, the three guys visited Roswaal to advice him to surrender and reveal the real reason for the Sanctuary's existence. The fact that Otto as so insignificant that he wasn't even included in the Gospel's prophecy, but ended up being the key for progress in this loop was pretty funny and sad at the same time. XD
We also saw the opening after so many episodes. It was pretty similar to previous ones and included a few spoilers, of course. Quite nice, but I think it's the weakest compared to the old ones.
These are my thoughts up to episode 6. What did you think about them?

Seems like an understandable reason for not liking Oregairu that much anymore haha.
I'm a bit more reluctant after what you said, but I guess I can still give it a try someday. XD

Congrats for passing the exams! Since you're satisfied with your GPA, there shouldn't be much of a problem.
My exam is on the 28th (if they don't change the schedule), so I still have some free time until I have to study for it.

Mikado stopped being as suspicious as I thought, he just wanted friends in the end. XD And yeah, he's quite a bit like Maki haha. It was nice to see him and Shirogane becoming friends. I doubt Mikado will approach Kaguya in a romantic way so, hopefully, we won't see any love triangles of this kind here, too. But I believe he'll have a special role in the future.
Chapter 213 was indeed, a very funny one with the whole misunderstanding of Chika and Kaguya. Kaguya did have a very scary look, but Iino's jokes tend to be pretty scary, too, haha. The chemistry between Iino and the president keeps getting better every time.

Shimada was pretty funny on the latest chapter, it's weird how all of the guys from his study group ended up competing against each other.

There was a lot of content covered on the first episode of Re:zero, but I think they managed to adapt it pretty well.
It started with Otto proving that he deserves the title of "best boy and friend", he really is the one who helped Subaru the most throughout this arc (along with best girl Patrasche). The conversation with Roswaal was also nicely done, but that part you mentioned felt a bit weird to me, too haha.
My favorite part was definitely the one with Emilia, she has become too vulnerable, especially now that Puck "abandoned" her, and even Subaru wasn't next to her when she woke up, despite his promise.
As for the conversation between Subaru and Puck, they should definitely show it later.
If I remember corectly, the next episode will include the final conversation between Subaru and Emilia that strengthens her resolve to finally face her trial, which I'm very excited about. There's a lot of interesting things to see adapted about her past.

Happy new year! (￣▽￣)ノ

Oh, so whether you pass or not depends on what the others got on their exam, too? I doubt all of them got excellent results so, since you did alright, you are probably safe.
Actually, my exams will also start in about 1 month, and I hadn't realized until now. XD At least we get quite a bit of free time till then.

Yeah, AR 45 is when you have to farm for so many things, but you never have enough resin. You're quite lucky that you managed to get sets for Qiqi and Sucrose so fast, this domain hates me. Out of the ~20 times i've finished it in the past couple of weeks, it has only once dropped Maiden Beloved 5* artifact, and not even many 4*. It always drops Venerer with horrible stats. XD So I just gave up and I'm currently farming blue Ley Lines, since I realized I'm out of exp materials, which I'll need for at least 1-2 characters when I hit 50.
The Noblesse and Pyro artifacts domains are the ones that gave me the hardest time, too. But I'm currently able to handle them quite well, so I'll be able to help you whenever you need it. There's a trick about the Noblesse domain actually: If you rush to the Pyro mage and stay as much as you can on the right side of the domain, the Hydro mage won't attack you. So, if you can handle just the Pyro and Cryo mages together and leave the Hydro one for last, it'll make things a lot easier. Give it a try, if you haven't already.
Considering your current builds, I think you did quite well on the Abyss.
Having to explore on two accounts is probably pretty boring, but all the new content seems pretty exciting. I'm looking forward to the new weapons and artifacts, as well, but I'm mostly happy about the free wishes haha. Bennett is very likely to be on one of the upcoming banners, and I'm considering getting him to at least C1.

Kaguya's reactions on chapter 211 were pretty funny and cute, and I'm glad she ended up in a class full of people she knows. It seems that the principal is behind this and he actually wants to support Kaguya through this.
I was also happy to see how differently the other students treated Ishigami now. As for the new girl, I also expect a new love triangle to form around Ishigami, which will not be my favorite development. I have a feeling that this girl might start liking Ishigami after hanging out with him a lot, and he might like her a bit too, but she'll get rejected by him in favor of Iino. But I hope it won't be as cliche as that sounds.
There were a lot of new characters introduced, which I didn't expect, but has made me pretty excited. I'm mostly curious about Mikado and the cat guy.
The manga has finally entered its endgame, but there are a lot of things to cover, so it'll be a long "final arc".

I really loved Hina and Rei's interactions, they have a much deeper understanding of each other now and have become really close. And Akari is, as always, a very gentle older sister. I loved the fluff of these last few chapters, but I'm looking forward to the shogi ones, too.

Fortunately, the first two seasons of SnK don't cover as much important content as the next ones, so it'll be quite fast to go through them again. The most annoying part are the spoilers, like you said.
I remember you liked Non Non Biyori and you mentioning Mushoku Tensei before. I'm very surprised that the novel evolved in such a way, that it even managed to move you. I'll definitely stay away from the anime, but I believe I wouldn't stand how awful the protagonist was during the first few volumes either haha.

I was a bit late, too, this time. How did the latest exams go?
That thing with the unexpected results has happened to me before, too, haha.

These adjustments made a huge difference, you can use your phone when you're playing much loger now.
Did you do any summons on Zhongli's banner? I decided to try and get him, but the thing I thought was not going to happen to me actually happened: I pulled Keqing on Zhongli's banner, that 50% chance is more important than I wanted to believe haha. At least she helped me get all the stars I had been missing on floors 7 & 8. But I decided to level up Xinyan and make her a main dps, too, since I got her to C3. Now I'm almost out of all kinds of materials. XD
As for the voice of Paimon, I also found out a while ago and I've been thinking the exact same thing. XD It's exactly like listening to chibi Kaguya.

I was happy to see Shirogane papa appear at the beginning of chapter 208 and his conversation with Kaguya revealed a few interesting things about Shirogane's family. Miyuki was basically abandoned by his mother, because he wasn't perfect in her eyes. It makes sense that he's grown up in a way that he'll try to maintain a perfect image in order to achieve what he wants.
I'd like to see more about the family and how Kaguya helped Kei take that decision.
We got a very cute moment between Kaguya and Shirogane, but we could already feel that something is wrong, before chapter 209.
Following the previous arc with Hayasaka, we continue to see what the Shinomiya family is like. Now it's her other brother that uses Hayasaka to control his sister, and even has plans for controlling her for the rest of her life. But no matter how tough things look, Kaguya is determined to fight for the life she wants, even if she has to be separated from Miyuki for a while.
As for Shirogane papa, fortunately, he is a man that recognizes Kaguya herself has nothing to do with the Shinomiyas ruining his company, and welcomes her regardless.
I also think that we have already gone through 2/3 of the story and we'll slowly head to the final arcs. Kaguya and Miyuki will probably have to go through many difficulties, but I'm looking forward to see how they'll face them.
I expected the latest chapter to be a continuation of all that, but was instead another chapter of Chika eating ramen. It was kind of anticlimactic, but fun nonetheless. We got to see another one of the four ramen emperors. Her backstory was pretty weird, but so was the shop owner's, that guy looked pretty scary to me, too, haha. But in the end, everything seems to have ended well, and Chika even became kind of famous along with the shop for some reason (even though she threw up that huge portion later). XD

Yeah, unfortunately the author couldn't handle every part of Hachimitsu to Clover well. It even looked like she got tired of it near the end or just didn't know how to wrap things up. I ended up dropping my score by 1 because of this, but I still really like the good parts of the manga. But yeah, 3-gatsu is a major improvement of this.

I haven't been watching many of the new seasonals either lately. At least, the 2nd cour of Re:zero will come out in about a month. I'd say the current season passed faster than I thought it would, probably because I was busy playing Genshin Impact the whole time haha. The new season of Attack on Titan will also come out in a couple of days. Will you watch this one (along with some of the the previous seasons you haven't watched yet)?

It's a pretty common phenomenon here for some professors to take too long to announce exam results, but I didn't think you'd have the same issue. Don't worry about the replies, I hope work and preparation for the finals are going well!

It'd be a shame if it wasn't customizable in that way haha. But even though it is, it looks like it can't be used like that often due to the battery. XD
The battery going down to 15-20% for 30 minutes of playing Genshin Impact is even worse than I thought.

Fujiwara was insulted quite a bit by Ishigami but, fortunately, she let him off the hook for once. XD It must have been very sad for Iino to hear Ishigami rejecting the idea of them being a couple immediately, although it doesn't look like he said it because he hates the idea (like in Fujiwara's case), but just because he has never considered the idea and currently sees her as something like a friend, and probably believes Iino would be against it, since she always shows him a cold side of hers. But it makes sense that Iino would still be sad about it. It was surprising to see her tease the president like that, but I like the senpai-kouhai chemistry between them. And they are kind of similar, since they both have some creepy coping mechanisms. XD
Chapter 207 was great, although I'd love it if daddy Shirogane was there, too. Kei and Kaguya had a pretty nice conversation, but the ending was hilarious. XD Kei turned her brother's room into quite the atrocious sight while "cleaning up". XD
Yeah, getting anime adaptations at least up to the Culture Festival arc is perfect.

I guess no arc has managed to be as long as the 4th yet, but it's quite sad that the latest one ended up taking a lot longer to be completed, despite being much shorter. It's good news that he'll continue the LN, but at this point the story will take many years to be completed.
Arc 5 sounds like a weird one haha. I'll probably go back to reading the LN, too, if there is not an announcement for a 3rd season after the second one ends.

I just finished Hachimitsu to Clover and I have so mixed feelings about it. I don't want to write too many things about it, I'll try to make it as short as I can, since my thoughts aren't exactly clear yet, either. In the beginning it was an alright and pleasant story, not very gripping, but it was enjoyable and looked like it would go somewhere soon. Around the middle, it started to pick up and reached its peak from Takemoto's journey up until a couple chapters before the ending. I really liked how well some characters were fleshed out in the second half of the manga, each with their one personal issues. I could clearly see that the author could create realistic characters with understandable and relatable issues since back then. Takemoto's arc was probably my favorite, and I could probably consider him the main character.
On the other hand, some characters got a bit less focus, especially Morita. Even though he got his own arc towards the end, as I expected, his brother got more of the focus there than he did. There wasn't even enough focus on him before that, like how he fell in love with Hagu and how she fell in love with him. But the worst part was Shuuji's revelation at the end, that he was actually in love with Hagu. I have a lot of issues with this, since he is actually a relative of hers (her mother's cousin), he has always been a father figure for her and knew each other since she was a kid, and there was no other point in the story where this is implied or obvious in Shuuji's actions. It just came out of nowhere, and in the crossover chapters I saw Nomiya referred to Rika and Hagu as Mayama's and Shuuji's girlfriends. So I guess that in the end, even Hagu accepted this kind of relationship with him.
Overall, I really liked the parts that dealt with interesting issues and developed some characters and the love triangles between Nomiya, Ayu, Mayama and Rika were handled quite well. But Morita got quite neglected, just like Shuuji apparently. I don't know what's with Josei manga turning father/daughter relationships into romantic ones. But, despite the issues, I got some really nice things from this manga and I actually appreciated the kind of bittersweet ending. I wouldn't mind a bit more closure for some issues, though.
I ended up writing quite a bit. XD Tell me your opinion, if you still remember the story clearly enough.

As for the second season of Rakugo, the short answer is that I found it to be an insult to the first one (although I wouldn't consider the first one a masterpiece, either). The first season had some pretty nice atmosphere, the story's progression was engaging enough and had some interesting characters. I'd say it handled everything quite well, but I'd like a bit more fleshing out and some events also left me with a few questions. But that was fine, there's a second season and that should answer them, right? Well, in a way yes, but it managed to raise even more questions for some issues. The second season pretty much consisted of many time skips, Yakumo almost dying and regretting the past, and unnecessary drama around Konatsu's first kid. All of Yakumo's issues with his past were resolved in very lacking ways and weak writing in my opinion. The most outrageous thing is that the author threw the whole issue with Konatsu's first child on the table, only for her to never reveal the truth and have another character make disturbing speculations, probably just to please her BL fans.
The only thing that was worth in this season apart from a couple of touching moments, was the fact that we got to learn something more about Sukeroku and Miyokichi, but was also left incomplete.
Just like you, I didn't enjoy the first season much, but I could still recognize some of its good points, so I continued, only to be disappointed. So, since you didn't even like the first season much either, I'd recomend staying away from the second one, it'll make you hate the whole thing even more haha.

BTW, is the Railgun series good?

That's understandable lol. I couldn't really get into it before, it does take a pretty long while until you get to the 'good stuff'.

I understand why you gave Gintama a 6 since you're only at the sixth episode X-X