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Happy Birthday!!

Happy birthday

yes but for how long

Hey

What's up?

Ohey. Been a while.

Gotcha. Meanwhile, things have def been shaking up for me now. Graduated, started anitube, moved house, reconnected with a now close friend, got myriad health scares and headaches, a few other things, it's been an eventful 16 months, for better and worse.

Gee, decided to log in to MAL again after a while? I barely do so myself, as I have become quite disinterested in watching new anime shows. How is life going for you?

lol

Good to hear. It's been quite a while. Nearly 2 years.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Thanks for the long reply, it is nice that you live in Norway btw, I'd really like to at least visit once.

It makes sense that you felt worse, long-term quarantine(s) are something that makes people inactive, fruitless and unproductive. I myself am still going through that kinda situation atm, in spite of the quarantine not being a thing anymore, because it has long-lasting effects that can only be dealt with with trial and error. Hope that you are better now and you can do what you want to do both internally and externally.

I myself moved somewhere else for university, for sure it was hard at first but then it got better. Unfortunately, as I said, covid changed a lot of things, and I had to move back. It all needs a lot of effort in order to get back on track.

I don't watch any seasonals anymore. I handpick some series from several seasons and binge 'em later on when I got the time and liking. It makes sense that you are not interested in similar stuff or are accustomed in certain cliches that you don't want in the series you watch.

I am looking forward to Kobayashi-san's sequel and Fumetsu no Anata e. Found Violet Evergarden to be good, even though I don't think it's anything that amazing. It does a good job at addressing several themes but its episodic nature makes the feelings it wants to evoke a bit fabricated, and it's like I have seen this done a thousand times over. Dropped Horimiya because it felt uneven and badly paced. Liked the last season of Dr. Stone less as well. Jujutsu Kaisen was pretty good, I enjoyed its audiovisuals a lot.

It's perfectly okay, I'm struggling with my english at times myself.

I can't remember anything important that you've missed honestly

Im doing good if we ignore Im tired from work :/

How you've been holding up while gone?

ah right I should mention I finally watched the original Ghost in the Shell movie few months ago

Ah damn, well, everyone feels like that from time to time. Covid, lockdown and all that definitely made things worse. I can relate for sure. I also started feeling crazy being stuck at home not able to do anything or see anyone. Ever since lockdowns, I started reading more books and taking more walks while thinking about things. It clears my head somehow. Maybe you need to find something like that or add onto it. Just anything that'll keep your mind occupied no matter how simple. Things won't stay bad forever though, especially if you just do everything you can for the moment. I'm not entirely a glass half full sorta guy myself, but it doesn't hurt to try. Since you're back at home, perhaps something will change. I hope so, and that you'll feel better.

Ahahaha. Yeah 'life is good' is pretty much equivalent to 'I'm just alive' at this point

For real though, COVID impacted all our lives in one way or the way, and most of the times it is not in a good way. I left my job around 2019 for an MBA at a good college and I thought I'd turn my life around. It went pretty well till the end of the year when Covid struck with full force. It was never the same. That period didn't turn out as I hoped it would cause I ended up with a half assed experience of an MBA life.

Well whatever, it's done now and at one point of time, I can't stay bitching about the circumstances. So just adapt and find your own ways to tackle it. Right now I'm in a comfortable place with my job and looking into my hobbies a bit again.

But yeah my social life has been very limited. There are friends I haven't met up in 2-3 years, some I haven't even contacted on phone cause it doesn't just feel right.

I've been totally out of the anime culture. No more do I keep up with what the majority feels about seasonal anime or wrack my brains trying to understand why someone rated something high or low. Neither do I go out of my way to convince people something should be rated higher or lower from my perspective. I'm just chill with the things I find to my liking.

Violet Evergarden has a few strong moments but as with most recent anime, the entire aspect of trauma and loss is dolled up- pretty much like its protagonist. So it appeals to a crowd who can relate with it. After all they aren't used to stories where loss and trauma isn't that shiny/

Bruh
I came back just today too. Been a whole year since I dropped here.
I'm doing good. Working irl and watching anime a bit here and there. Although I mostly watch films nowadays since they take little time to tell a story.
As far as anime goes, I'm trying to get into UC of Gundam. Did till Zeta. Will do ZZ soon

Hey Fovez, it's been a long while holy crap. I've been alright, just watching anime and film, and reading manga as always. What about you?