I have been doing some catching up on backlog this week as work settled down a bit (especially with my manga reading). I managed to watch most of the shows I wanted to this past week. First off, the non-seasonal I watched:

• Squid Girl - I knocked a couple more episodes of this out. It’s been quite a while since I last read the manga, and I don’t think they are going in any particular order, so some shorts I remember reading, and others I don’t. It’s been nice in a turn your brain off kind of way.

Now, for this season’s shows:

• My Happy Marriage - This show has been pretty consistently good so far this season. A kind of crazy cliffhangar last episode, so looking forward to the next one.
• Ameku M.D. - A better episode this past week, but it was an incredibly misleading opening and episode title.
• Apothecary Diaries - It’s kind of surprising that corpses and fungus were key components to both mystery shows this week. In any case, Apothecary definitely delivered the mystery better.
• Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf - This show doesn’t reinvent the wheel by any means, but it definitely delivers on what it promises. Surprised at how much I am enjoying this.
• Guild Receptionist - Finally some lore this past episode to explain her compulsion to be a receptionist. Interested to see if they can actually make sense of the story in this one.
• Bureaucrat to Villainess - Biggest surprise for me this season. It has exceeded my expectations so far.
• 100 Girlfriends - This series always finds some way to keep upping the insanity.
• Beheneko - I checked this show out and it is wild. I don’t think it is for me, but I simultaneously surprised at both how interesting the world and other characters are as well as how absolutely degenerate the show is. Never change Japan. If you like this show, then good for you.