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They started the season saying it was going to be a tragedy but it still got me when it happened.

Same. That episode destroys me. I rewatched it recently and it got me as much as the first time.

Plus, we have no idea what being stuck in a lich’s body does to the human psyche, so he has at least that much excuse for the evil he does do outright and knowingly.

That’s the thing that made me start thinking about this. There’s almost an interesting angle there with his body seemingly mysteriously changing how he feels, but they never do anything with it. I think some kind of internal struggle and mystery around it could have been a good plotline. I didn’t finish watching it, but there was another trash isekai about a guy becoming an evil boss from a video game he played (A Wild Last Boss Appears) and there was a bit of that going on with the personality of the real character he’s inhabiting slowly overtaking his own. Although at least for what I saw, they didn’t really do much more with that either.

I’ve been watching “A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even” separate from my group. I have a bit more room for trash in my schedule.

That said, I feel kind of odd about the show. It sort of reminds me of my issue with Overlord: We follow the protagonist most of the time as someone to root for, then they do some absolutely heinous things that feel like they came out of nowhere, then we go right back to them being vaguely sympathetic. I’d say it’s one of the problems with doing a villain as protagonist TV show because it’s hard for time spent with the protag not to make a connection. However, I feel like there have been some good examples of shows where the protag is the bad guy or becomes the bad guy either due to a “road to hell is paved with good intentions” or “corrupted by circumstances” plot devices.

The one that most comes to mind is Breaking Bad. It’s a long road from push over high school teach and family man to ruthless drug kingpin and we’re there every step of the way to see how it happens.

This show and Overlord don’t really feel like that. The protagonists just kinda do evil shit every once in a while and nobody really acknowledges how fucked up that is. The most recent episode really hammered that home for me.

idk, I’m just overthinking a trash show. It’s just that sometimes I can’t help but watch some of these and think of what they could have been with more competent… everything.

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I generally don’t take many pictures. I just have this one from the Frieren cosplay meetup.

This week I went to my first anime convention: Anime NYC. It was alright. I don’t regret going, but I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to go again. It’s like 90% people selling stuff. I’m more used to gaming conventions where there’s a bunch of stuff to do because companies are showcasing upcoming games.

I did enjoy seeing all the cosplayers though. There were so many. A LOT of them were either from gatcha games or really popular stuff like One Piece/Demon Slayer, but I did also see quite a few from shows I liked.

A few Jojos ones, but save for one Star Platinum, only from part 5/6. I guess it’s easier to cosplay the characters that don’t have muscles that put bodybuilders to shame.

One Violet Evergarden. I was with my mom who I recently introduced to anime and she loved this show, so she was happy to see that.

There was a Frieren meetup that we went to see. (It was weirdly difficult to find lol.) Funny thing is the character composition. There were only two Frierens in the entire group. Most were Stark or Fern, then one Himmel and I think two Eisens.

There was also a meetup for Apothecary Diaries, but it was at the same time as a panel we went to instead.

On the way over to the Frieren meetup we saw the Blue Lock meetup and I found it kind of funny because I’m reasonably sure literally every cosplayer there was a woman. I didn’t really consider it’s appeal to female audiences, but now that I think about it I guess it makes sense.

There was one person is a big Garfield mascot costume with a bikini on top of it.

One guy was David from Edgerunners.

One Megumin.

And some others, but you get the idea.

Also holy shit, I haven’t been in the Javits Center since I was a kid. I did not appreciate just how fucking MASSIVE that place is. It takes like a minute or so to walk from one end of the building to the other.

The Zombie Land Saga movie finally came out on streaming, so I watched it recently. It was super good. I love the series, but I’ve found that I dislike a lot of anime series movies because they just feel like several episodes of a TV show stitched together. This is one of the few that don’t fit that description. It feels like a properly structured and paced movie.

::: End of S2/Beginning of Movie While it’s not really a criticism, I found it odd that they retconned the ending of the 2nd season with the ship not appearing at the concert, but instead much later. I think I get why they did it. They probably didn’t even have this movie written or planned when they made the 2nd season and realized later that it would make for better pacing for the movie if we started in a calmer time rather than right after the big saga flood disaster. :::

Also I thought they did a good job with the sci-fi stuff. I was totally expecting the aliens to be generic little green/grey men in flying saucers, but they made an effort to come up with something different and fit it into the story.

I’m kind of curious if this is the end of the series or not. It definitely seems like it could be a sendoff, but

::: ending spoiler The decision to bring things back to status quo with Tae makes me think it feel like it could get continued. Like that feels like a very “We wanted a cool development to happen but we can’t change the status quo too much in a movie” kind of decision. :::

I’d definitely love to see more of the show or at least a new thing by the same creative team. I always love good original anime and we definitely don’t get enough of that.

I can’t remember. I feel like I’ve seen it on at least one other place though.

Hey, sometimes they also bring shampoo!