Yeah, a lot of the music, sound effects, and some visuals like the ones you posted were pretty nostalgic. Was weird hearing and seeing them alongside modern high-budget animation.

I just watched the first episode of the TV show yesterday and it was pretty good! I’ll probably just keep watching the TV show, but maybe when this movie comes out I can watch it with my wife.

• Kowloon Generic Romance - Both episodes I’ve watched have left me saying “that was weird af”, but in a good way. The pacing is less good. I think I might pick up the manga it’s based off of.
• Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux - A solid first episode. Lots of parallels to the start of Zeta Gundam. I’m excited to see where it goes next.
• Witch Watch - A cute series. Wish it were animated a bit better. Super good-looking OP though.
• Yakitate!! Japan - My god. This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I’m only three episodes in but it’s just so dang charming. Want to watch a kid with with the superpower of slightly warmer than average hands create the greatest breads known to man? Want to watch him do it surrounded by a bunch of other crazy characters? This is your show.

Fun stuff. The animation is only serviceable, but it at least does a good job of adapting the manga’s jokes.

Thinking of my favorite seinen it comes out to Medalist, Skip and Loafer, Witch Hat Atelier, the One-Punch Man webcomic, and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. I definitely land more on one side than the other here, though I’ll definitely give Vinland Saga a try someday since I’ve only heard great things about that.

I wasn’t even able to watch the whole first episode. Every time the main character opened his mouth I got the urge to do something else.

That was a weird first episode. I’m down for episode 2.

The manga was probably serious 10% of the time, gags 90% of the time. If that doesn’t appeal to you I don’t think this story is good enough that there’s any reason to stick it out.

Picked up two shows this week:

• Witch Watch - It’s fun and cute. Not the greatest thing in the world, but I enjoy a good gag anime every now and again. I think it suffers from the episodic pacing of the manga though; it felt weird when it jumped to a completely different story halfway through the episode. The OP is beautiful btw. Watch it once even if you don’t watch this show.
• Yakitate Japan - I sat down to watch Kowloon Generic Romance with my wife yesterday and then we watched this instead. It was pretty funny. Main character wants to be a baker. Luckily he has the cheat skill of “slightly warmer than average hands”. A fun show from 2004 that feels like a show from 2004. After we watched the first episode my wife made 3 loaves of bread. Good stuff. We’ll definitely watch more of it.

We’ll probably be giving Kowloon Generic Romance another go, as well as Gundam GQuuuuuux, and of course we’re still watching Apothecary Diaries.

Oh yeah, the poseability of these kits is incredible. Some people have a lot of fun with it.

All of Roboworld leadership from Redline definitely qualified as badass. Most everything else in Redline too tbh.

Frieren would win Best Slice of Life from me hands down if it weren’t for the fact that most of its slice of life episodes were in the first half of the season that aired in 2023.

Anyways, this is gonna be a busy week for me. Things I feel compelled to watch before casting my vote:

• Look Back
• Re:Zero Season 3
• The Dangers in my Heart
• Orb

In addition to all the manga I’ll be reading there’ll hardly be time for anything else!