Fate Samurai/Remnant has a remarkable lack of pig-throwing.

Me, too, David Bowie.  Me, too.

Is there a story-reason why her outfit looks so fuckin' dirty? (I don't like Monica Rambeau's outfit either but at least it looks like she takes some 409 and a scrubbing brush to it.)

Has the manga ended? I googled and it doesn't appear that way. It looks like there was something written like an ending but it was just a hiatus.

Watched some of Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement since the author of the story is also apparently the same one behind that potion anime I'm watching. I'm not sure what the point of this is. It's not really funny, it's not a slice of life, it doesn't have an overall plot, it doesn't have much in the way of any action or adventure, and it's also not visually or musically appealing. She supposedly has a goal in mind to save up all of this gold to retire and it doesn't make sense to me. Trying to figure out why, it occurs to me from reading other impressions on this show:

-Her powers are OP. She can teleport between worlds (anywhere she's seen), she heals from anything, and she can read/speak all languages.
-She's young. She's lost her family but it's not like they left her destitute. She has a house and money to the point that she can save fat stacks in her safe at home.
-She's not approaching the movement of Earth-goods to fantasy-land in a smart way. Which should get her burned at the stake, to be frank. For example, trying to sell an entire necklace of pearls beyond the quality the fantasy-land can possibly produce. Or bottles of soap.

Per the first two points above, it doesn't make sense that she'd be driven to retire. Yes, that money won't last forever and she could get stuck in the other world, so use those skills. The most obvious one being becoming a translator or some sort. The second most obvious is using her powers to acquire skills. Doesn't need a plane, a bus, or a car. She can look at a location and zap herself there. And she's so young that she faces few to any barriers. If this starred an 80-year old man or a 45-year old housewife or a burnt-out white collar worker in his 30's, those would be far more interesting approaches than a high school girl with her immediate needs taken care of and no responsibilities. It's not like she so much as has a pet to feed.

I realize her family's dead and that's sad. That she needs to deal with them being gone and that she recalls the advice of her dead brother (although her parents should get to chime in, too) is such a bittersweet moment from this show that actually carries the weight of human emotion. But this is also the only emotion in this show.

She should've had other struggles to really show her desperation at needing to save gold. Like her living situation drastically changing or the family leaving her with debt. Or her going to the other world being 100% random that it happens at any moment so she needs to be prepared with food and shelter. Why did she get healing powers? That had nothing to do with anything. And why wasn't her built-in Duolingo just exclusive to the fantasy world? She has too many advantages and is too well off (financially) that the premise feels super weak.

I heard the LN's better so I'm gonna assume it is and that the anime glossed over a lot of pertinent info.

I decided to try I Shall Survive Using Potions and watched the first three episodes. I was put off by the art but read a couple of opinions on it that liked it so I gave it a go. Overall, it's actually decent. The humor can be a tad cringey but the art is really the worst thing about it. At first it looks like it'll be chibi or something but, nah, it's mainly just this one chick who's been given the proportions of a child. And the weird thing is sometimes other characters will also have the wonky proportions, such as her two closest friends back on Earth. And then all of these other characters appear and some of them are a bit cartoony like she is while others are, just, uh, normal? Almost like a character designer missed a memo and was designing for a different show. If you can ignore the art, it's pretty okay. Although the comments from LN fans indicate it's left out some stuff.

I watched the S-rank adventurer one with girl and her dad. It's all right. If the whole show is this girl never seeing her father, it's gonna get super old super fast. By the end of episode one, the concept already felt stale.

Okay, I'm so glad to be wrong. Four episodes in and there's something somewhat resembling a plot. She even got to go home and see her dad. I was so worried this show was just gonna be eleven or whatever episodes of her not getting to see her dad. I'm relieved.

I thought you would love zombies. Anyway, they've already zombified the franchise. May as well stick actual zombies in it.

Bibliophile Princess. I was skeptical of this one.  It looked bland as shit but so did Heretical Last Boss Queen and Sleepy Princess and I loves those two. Nah. This's bland as shit. Fourteen minutes in and nothing's fucking happening other than the princess got engaged and met Irene, who I am to understand is bad or some shit. I don't know because I wasn't interested enough to find out because this show's fuckin' boring. I get it. She loves books. That don't mean I wanna see her sit down and open and close books; pick books off of shelves; get books as gifts; etc. That's boring. Four years literally pass by and NOTHING happens. Jeez. Like someone watched Beauty and the Beast and thought people looooove bookish heroines. Okay, but do you understand that other things happened in that movie? We didn't just watch Belle silently grab books, sit with books, choose books, and get books without other stuff and characterization happening concurrently. Shiiiiiit... This show thinks I wanna sit here and watch some bright-ass anime with washed-out colors where a dull-ass chick sits and reads.

I've tried your way but I find I'd rather skip parts entirely than watch a show or movie quickly. I call this the "nothing of value was lost" method. And if I'm lucky to find a synopsis, I can read through it quickly and move on not worrying that I missed anything. Alternatively, a synopsis may help pinpoint the best place to skip to in a program.

Finished Sleepy Princess and really liked it. I need more seasons of this. The dub was excellent, too.

Looking though some stuff from prior seasons:

Handyman anime is okay.  It doesn't seem to have a plot from what I saw and that doesn't really interest me.  But it's not bad or anything.  Just not what I felt like watching.

I also watched Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway.  MEHHHHH. Wish this wasn't about a damaged teen runaway and adult man but whatever. It's not awful but not the type of story I care for.

A Returner's Magic Should Be Special was boring. I've read some of the manhwa and was interested in this but that first episode was dull as fuck. How do you make fighting a dragon to the death and going back in time ten years earlier this boring? I might check in on later eps to see if this gets better.

Tearmoon meanwhile has a massive tone problem. Sometimes it's serious and then it's wacky. Hurr hurr. Did I really need to hear how the dumb chef makes his soup? Then we get a touching scene between Mia and Anne and her answer to rewarding three years of steadfast devotion from her servant is "ur muh handmaid nao." Yay. A promoted servant. Fabulous. I get what it wanted to convey but doesn't accomplish the emotions it probably wanted in the least. Most Heretical Last Boss Queen did it better with three servants in its first episode than this show could do with one.

I couldn't sit through Kingdom of Ruin.

Our Dating Story was kind of dull. I like the girl's design.  She cute, damaged, discount-Marin. I'm okay with the general concept, too. But the sniveling guy and his two pathetica buddies are no bueno. Their voices probably make them worse that their designs and personalities. Jeez.

Speaking of voices, 16bit Sensation has one of the worst MC voices ever. I don't care what this is about.  Make it stop.

I keep meaning to see Under Ninja and forgetting.

Paradox Live the Animation. What the fuck is this? The they/them was kinda cute. But man, there were a lot of punchable faces in this one. Once we got to the annoying bat, I called it quits.

Oh, and I saw the Yuzuki family one. The one with the four orphan brothers. It's okay, I guess. The least offensive one out of this entire post. But I'm not really interested or invested in anything that's happening. This seems like the perfect anime to make things look cozy (as in the backgrounds and environments) and nothing is cozy-looking here. It's all sterile and empty. Too bad.

I didn't care for Deranged Detective. For me I want to solve the case with the detective. Either that or make the characters interesting enough that I don't give a shit about the case. This one does neither for me. The crime was stupid. Sure the kills were easy but what about moving the bodies? That couldn't have been easy. It's stupid. I don't care if these two guys are Guel from G-Witch and Arthur from Boss Queen. Love their voices but I could care less for their characters in this. The detective talking to the corpse was kinda fun tho'.