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Days: 34.0
Mean Score: 7.71
  • Total Entries209
  • Rewatched35
  • Episodes1,911
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Ranma ½ (2024) 2nd Season
Ranma ½ (2024) 2nd Season
Dec 23, 7:50 AM
Plan to Watch · Scored -
Girls Band Cry
Girls Band Cry
Dec 22, 5:23 AM
Watching 9/13 · Scored -
Uchuu no Stellvia
Uchuu no Stellvia
Dec 22, 4:59 AM
Watching 17/26 · Scored -
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Days: 2.5
Mean Score: 7.44
  • Total Entries28
  • Reread0
  • Chapters313
  • Volumes46
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Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii kana
Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii kana
Yesterday, 7:13 AM
Reading 42/? · Scored -
Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite
Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite
Nov 29, 5:07 AM
On-Hold 2/9 · Scored -
Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita.
Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita.
Nov 18, 6:53 AM
On-Hold 16/32 · Scored -

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cxdr Dec 19, 5:03 PM
it's a relief, eh! maybe now Saeko can go to therapy and Miwa and Kumagai-senpai can fulfill their promised yuri. surely there are good things ahead. anyway, have a wonderful time in volume 5!
cxdr Dec 18, 9:06 PM
Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii kana · Reading 36/? ・ Scored -
First time reading this I started 2021-06-01 and got through 15 chapters (about 1.5 volumes) before I got distracted by life stuff.
how'd you find the swerve??
cxdr Nov 23, 6:37 AM
good luck and god bless! i'm comin' back from nippon with vol. 5+6 in tow, let's bookclub, baby
cxdr Nov 22, 6:20 PM
Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii kana · Reading 3/? ・ Scored -
First time reading this I started 2021-06-01 and got through 15 chapters (about 1.5 volumes) before I got distracted by life stuff.
hell yeah let's goooo
cxdr Oct 29, 7:13 AM
Kimi no Iro · Completed 1/1 ・ Scored 8
this movie is kind of awesome honestly. it's sweet and funny and the music is sooo good, like. naoko yamada stop making me feel sad that I never joined a band in high school challenge level impossible. I wish this was like K-On and we had a whole effective album's worth of music from these dorks. as it is we get three very nice songs.

it is kind of interesting to me how the movie doesn't really have any...conflict? nothing bad literally ever happens. I dunno what to make of that, but I did kind of feel like something was missing, narratively, as a result. so I feel like it's a cute, kinda feel-good movie (almost overbearingly so), that doesn't really challenge me in any way. certainly not a bad thing but. not going to change my life.

anyway. Totsuko is also gay af and we love that for her. amen.
AMEN. when is yamada naoko going to let the girls actually kiss
cxdr Oct 15, 11:13 PM
Watashi no Kawaii Koneko-chan · Reading 5/? ・ Scored -
damn that escalated quickly
lmao
cxdr Dec 30, 2023 4:46 PM
Mawaru Penguindrum · Completed 24/24 ・ Scored 8
love you Ringo, failgirl supreme. everybody else in the show: what are you doing?

hard show to rate. some great antics and character moments along the way, but almost just as many ones that were total nonsense. and the final moral we've worked towards delivering is actually just kind of...obvious? remember to share your food, folks.
welcome to rock and roll night!
cxdr Aug 17, 2023 6:07 AM
Yuri Kuma Arashi · Re-watching 2/12 ・ Scored 8
I have no idea what is happening in this show but I guess I like it? god I don't know. I need to watch it again and take notes. what IS a bear? what does it MEAN to be invisible? it turns out the promised kiss was literal but was there more to it than that?
(Asenshi subs are the way to go, don't forget that)

rewatched: 2023-08-14 to
listen, if you ever need to book-club this, i'm your bear
cxdr Nov 2, 2022 2:28 AM
Still Sick · Completed 26/26 ・ Scored 7
Technically I only finished reading on 2022-10-30, but I literally took a 5 month hiatus from reading when I had only two chapters left to go, because [TV static noises]. If you think this means it *really* took me 201 days to read this series then like, whatever. It can be that, to you. But I don't wanna see a number that big when only 42 days at the start and 1 day at the end were actually spent in any proximity to the act of reading.

Anyway let's talk about the book. Overall it is pretty fun! Probably worth an 8. However I did have some problems with the structure of the story and the way the manga was drawn/formatted, which all added up to negatively impact my experience enough that I feel this has to be bumped down to a 7. (On a re-read, where I know better what's meant to be going on, maybe it could one day recover.)

One of the big problems I ran into a lot was with the speech bubbles. Often I couldn't tell who was meant to be saying what, or when a sentence was only thought instead of spoken aloud. Conversations also read kind of jarring sometimes because asides weren't really well indicated and it felt like the topic was whipping around really quickly. That could be a translation issue, but the poor placement and pointing of the speech bubbles certainly isn't.

By comparison to some other manga I've read (esp. Bloom which I noticed was always really good with this), mid-chapter time jumps are *really* poorly indicated, often not at all. You just have to deduce over the course of the next several panels that we had just skipped ahead a few hours or days. This takes me out of the story when I have to puzzle over this. It should be made as obvious as possible.

[PLOT SPOILERS NOW]
I feel like Shimizu doesn't really end up reckoning with the fact she thought she didn't actually like girls? That was this big thing she made a point of in vol 1, and reiterates in vol 2, but kind of just, seems to get over in between chapters 10 and 11. From "I can't accept this" to "hmm but can I tell Maekawa that I might like her now?" which are *quite* different things! I really wanted to hear more about her thoughts getting between those points since it seemed like it would be a big deal to her, and I'm frustrated it didn't happen.

Chapter 19, where Maekawa is drafted into a random artist's studio for a night, is very weird and I feel like stretches my credulity to its limits. Maekawa somehow settles in to a project she's never seen before and suddenly is able to meaningfully organise people (something she doesn't actually seem to do at work) as well as contribute to getting it finished, all in a single night. She repeatedly thinks "what would Shimizu do?" and tries to do that, but I don't understand how that translates into her doing those things *well* on her first try! It's just too silly.

Of course, this chapter has secondary purposes, in forming a sort of "respectful friendship" template for Maekawa's new story, and then leading into Shimizu's mistaken reading of the situation based on her own festering insecurities, and that all being brought to a head. If we *have* to do a plot line about relationship insecurities exacerbated by comical mixups, then I have to admit this was a good setup. But I'd still prefer not to have done such a plot line at all since it is *so* clichéd, lol.

After that, though, seeing our couple together is very lovely. And Maekawa going to talk to her dad is a great chapter, and hits real good emotional payoff.
that "comical misunderstanding" thing irked me too! i was so glad it was resolved quickly. i do wonder how much confusion gets added in translation... i want to grab my copies and see how i feel about the points you made but they're in over in tokyo T_T anyways, glad you didn't hate it...!
MainSequence Oct 24, 2015 10:31 PM
I love your pony ;)
It’s time to ditch the text file.
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