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With that said, Happy Birthday!

Anyway June! How are you doing this mid January?

I used Pokémon Database that long sure, but I only started taking advantage of it recently. That is, copying and pasting its traditional Chinese characters onto Nihongodera. Yes, Nihongodera actually works. Able to handle 65% of Chinese characters that China uses everyday.

Other than that, only 9 more days until your next birthday which is clearly next door to Sanae Kobayashi and the tomboyish girl that turned Amish years ago Holly (she must have been a chearleader back in school because she had that natural cheering in her).

I haven't played Sakura Wars 5 in Japanese yet, but I can tell that Sanae Kobayashi did a great job as Gemini Sunrise. Some cowgirl living in a steampunk, 1920s New York. Laura Bailey also did a great job voicing that Texan character with the split personality.

Crazy, but still an interesting character. Shifting between scatterbrained and hardcore cowgirl. I don't think the game explained clearly how she traveled that far northeast to New York or how Subaru Kujou traveled more than 10,000 miles to New York from Japan.

In general, Sakura Wars 5 is all about steampunk exorcists working as part-time entertainers (via auditorium) fighting demons in New York. The only VN of its respective franchise that made it to America. Probably because westerns are more familiar with Ah! My Goddess character designs.

Sega owns the franchise (very true and that samurai showbiz girl Sakura Shinguji should always be the face of that franchise), but it was the makers of Gungrave that made So Long, My Love. Not Madhouse, but Red Entertainment.

As for Gungrave, I really enjoyed the sequel called Overdose. Brandon, Billy and Jyuji are all awesome protagonists in that game. Definitely the best adventures of Brandon and Mika I've ever seen.

Too bad Madhouse never saw the awesome sequel Overdose coming. I would have loved to see Billy and Jyuji adapted into anime.

Happy New Year to you too milady. As we can see, people are taking it easy after playing with fireworks and celebrating all morning.

I hope to at least make more progress in Grandia HD before everyone goes back to work (I still want to know exactly why Leen or Feena's sister got enlisted in the military).

I'm not super mecha savvy myself, but I grew up with the genre since Voltron got its last rerun.

Mecha-wise, I prefer Big O and Fafner to Gundam. Some Gundam SEED fangirl in an online game told me that 00 and AGE have the worst mecha designs. I kind of agree, but you know modern anime and I don't think anyone is interested in those Little Witch From Mercury mech designs either.

Iron Blooded Orphans is something that I grew out of because the characters are forgettable (G Gundam and OG Macross characters have way more personality; have grown out of Voltron also since most Toei stuff is for kids) and because the mech designs are average. More proof that the anime industry isn't as up to snuff anymore.

That OG Gundam isn't a masterpiece, but at least the characters are memorable. Sayla being one of my absolute favorites. I love the fact that its prequel or that 2016 OVA perfected 0079's artstyle.

I totally agree with said semitomboy saying that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's artwork is beautiful. Of course! his manga career started a very long time ago so he has a lot of experience and I wish that more people could hire him (very good at drawing very realistic women like the tomboyish biker Miranda who is capable of hitting like a man or the beautiful Hamon Crowley; I'm tired of seeing cutesy bishoujo all over the place and I can't believe Japanese men would marry virtual bishoujo instead of more realistic women).

IMO, most Universal Century Gundam sequels are mediocre. Side stories like some OVAs are cool though.

Some semitomboyish, Sailor Mars fangirl that I haven't seen in months loves Gundam Wing, but my North Carolina friend hates it despite being so sci-fi savvy (manga-wise, she loves Gundam: The Origin, Rose of Versailles, Big O, Akira, Lupin, Chobits, Please Save My Earth, Kikaider, Chihayafuru and even Lindbergh). Haven't seen said Sailor Mars fangirl in months because she has a fiancée. Everyone knows that smart is sexy by now.

In the end, everyone has their respective tastes.

I re-watched Gundam Wing two years ago and it was as cool as I remembered plus I didn't get a chance to watch Endless Waltz when it was on TV. I watched TechTV anime, Anime On Demand, Anime Network and even Encore Action anime, but missed out on Endless Waltz until this decade. The movie was enjoyable, but kind of sad also.

It's respective universe has way more iconic mecha designs than those of AGE, 00 and IBO. As iconic as its toys were in the 90s when I was looking for action figures (Pokémon cards as well) in a store.

Both actually and in my current residence, i.e., central Mexico, there are universities willing to give people PhDs if their Japanese is good enough.

You could say that Japanese can be rewarding in the long run. Aside from having decent Japanese, I also know a great deal of math already. It did take ages to make a high school C student like me with average GPA into a guru, sage, etc mathematical-wise.

I'm a late bloomer so I couldn't graduate proudly like the honors students, able to become PhD material in a short amount of time (knowing more than enough anthropology needed to survive in the wilderness). Getting supergenius intellect does take a while to achieve. Not everyone can be Reed Richards overnight and now you know that I take knowledge very personally at my current age.

As for your watching list, I only spotted a few anime that I've known for years. My big Virgo friend is a huge fan of Gundam 00 and she's about as mecha savvy as my semitomboyish North Carolina friend.

One piece is probably my all time favorite anime and the only manga I read weekly so I'm glad you're a fan too, you have good taste. Though I can't stand the fanbase sometimes, people like that guy in the store definitely give the show a bad impression to people that haven't seen it. I've watched all the filler too, it's only 9% of the show and pretty much all of the filler is good quality, one of my favorite episodes is a filler episode ( the one where Zoro basically becomes a mom in water 7 lmao).

I just recently got my watch list under 100 barely so that might partially be why I'm a bit burnt out. I'd like to get it even lower but I like starting new shows more than I like finishing them in a timely manner lol so I rotate what I'm watching a lot. I'd like to trim my plan to watch list down too but that will likely never happen for the rest of my life :P. Though it does help with randomly scrolling through and finding something interesting to watch.

Hunter x Hunter is great, I'm actually rewatching it right now since it's been so long since I've watched it. I haven't seen Inuyasha yet but I know how popular it is. I'm a fan of white hair characters too lol, Killua, Gintoki, Gojo, Accelerator are some of my favorites. Bleach was the very first anime I saw and I was pretty young when I saw it, so it's been a long time. I definitely need to rewatch it to give it a fair rating, especially with TYBW being released which I hear has been getting rave reviews but not gonna watch it till I rewatch the main part since I don't remember much.

Wow milady! I forgot how plentiful your watching list was.

Christmas was great and I think that I'll be taking a break from seafood. As for gifts, my left hand is loving these Maped Visios.

So far, it's been writing hundreds of Chinese characters, part of my jōyō kanji training. I'm still trying to improve my Japanese vocabulary and reading comprehension.

After reading Instant Japanese, I've been obsessed with Word Reference and Nihongodera. Sporcle has been useful too after looking for online Japanese pop quizzes.

I had no idea that playing the first 30 hours of Grandia HD would be this interesting. Justin X Feena forever! Their chemistry came out so natural. It was really funny seeing Feena hit Justin when they were crawling through a shaft and Justin accidentally bumped his face in Feena's heinie when she stopped! 😂

Typical Japanese humor! 😁

I watched anime off and on while I was growing up but only really connected with Bleach and Hunter x Hunter and some american animated shows back then. Took a break for like 10-15 years but randomly got back in to it 1-2 years ago so pretty much all of my list is stuff I've binge-watched in the last 1-2 years. Once I got in to it I got super addicted and blazed through shows at lightning speed. So much so that I'm a little burnt out so I haven't been watching as much lately. Sadly I don't have any friends that are in to anime at all or else I probably would have a lot more motivation to watch lately.

Glad I could make you laugh :)

Your list is really impressive and we like some of the same shows, I hope I can get to where you're at regarding how many anime you've seen and manga you've read!

You're welcome and nice change of profile by the way. Anyway milady, I hope that you've had some very happy holidays.

I got lots more Japanese, Silent Möbius and Grandia HD left to cover.

Hello again milady! I hope that you are having a wonderful spring this Year of the Rabbit.

By the way, I can't wait to read Hajime no Ippo some time. Once I get through with Digimon V-Tamers and I'm kind of excited about future Macross movies.

Happy Birthday Lady June! Most of my friends and family have birthdays between spring to fall.

In other words, your birthday is one of a kind and Aquarians are awesome. Especially my long, lost early adulthood friend.

Apart from that, I wish you the best tiger year ever in advance.

Also, to the people spamming 'RIP': she come back one in a while not dead.

The real OG waifu.

we have lots of shared anime!! :D