I tried that Barbarian one and found it very flat. The amount of time they spent dancing around the idea of her entering into an existence of sexual slavery like, "Ooh! Tee hee hee! Maybe...?" was insufferable. Then we cap off the episode with a flashback where she's a generic ojo with all the trappings and I was just done. Won't be back.

I went and watched all the Spring '26 trailers on AniChart, these are the ones that stood out to me, excluding anything I've previously mentioned being interested in.













Now you might be thinking, "What? Is he just gonna watch everything?" But no, there are way, way more shows starting in the next couple of weeks, it's honestly fucked.

Excited!

Went to see Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era last night. What can I even say? It was actually pretty good.

Sorry, it's called Mao.

Jujutsu and Frieren both skipped this week, I'm going into withdrawal.

Saw Scarlet tonight. I'd say I liked it overall, but I'm not at all surprised by the mixed reception it's been getting from critics. Some scenes that were clearly meant to be affecting come off as schmaltzy or just fall flat. And similar to Hosoda's previous film Belle, the CG animation is still very inconsistent, oscillating between truly breathtaking sequences and mediocre video game graphics. Also, there's a quasi-isekai element to the story that I really didn't care for.

If nothing else, watching it has made me want to revisit Hosoda's other stuff. It reminded me that Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island is probably my favorite of all the One Piece movies by a long shot.

Yeah, I appreciate how pretty that Love on the Spectrum one is, but I think it was the fifth episode I was watching last night, and I was just like, "Man, I'm bored. This is boring." Maybe it's partly because Netflix dumped the whole thing at once and I've been doing an episode a day. Overkill, you know?

At the opposite end of the looks department, boy is Trigun Stargaze ugly. I think it might actually look worse than Stampede. What's the deal with Orange, anyway? Their output is so inconsistent. Land of the Lustrous is still the best thing they've ever done as far as I'm concerned.

Okay, so it's really just a matter of me making assumptions based on my incomplete Fate knowledge then.

But yeah, my understanding was that Saber is a female knight who wields Excalibur. I knew there was a red one that has a different personality from the typical blue one, but that's about the extent of it.

I hear it. Something about it makes me think of modern country.

Lupin Immortal Bloodline. Didn't do my homework, had no idea it was the conclusion to the existing modern film series. Also didn't know there had been another film in said series just last year, so I have to go back and watch that now.

Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is kind of awful. Not sure I'm up for the subject matter.

I probably mention this every time KMFDM comes up, but Nihil/Xtort really was the sweet spot for me. So after being consistently underwhelmed with their output for the last 30 years (!!!), this new one does sound pretty good.