Current season:

My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In For Me is okay all in all, but the MMC is starting to grate on me, the rest of the characters are drably cliched and the story hasn’t engaged me.

May I Ask for One Final Thing?, on the other hand is excellent, and at this rate I’m not going to be surprised if it ends up the hit of the season. Scarlet is a tremendous character, and Julius is every bit her match, the fight scenes are both glorious and hilarious (Scarlet spinning a corrupt noble around by his heel with a chamber orchestra playing in the background was a highlight, as was Scarlet punching out a dragon then making it her pet), and the plot looks poised to take off. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

The only other thing of note I watched last week - because it happened to remind me that it existed at a moment when I had nothing else grabbing my attention and the time seemed right, I dipped back 20 or so years into my TBW and watched Paranoia Agent. And it was worth it. It was very early-2000s, with lots of symbolism and an only tenuous connection to reality, and it lagged a bit with a couple of filler episodes at about the 2/3 mark, but was otherwise engaging and stylish, and it ended strong.