Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part two)
Are they actually a pair of ghosts, haunting the lifeless ruins of their old city?
Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part one)
Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life is an increasingly prevalent little subgenre.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued more)
Too bad the only "answers" he can give at this point are hidden glyph-magic lessons encoded in weather events.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued)
This episode does two things. One is getting Luz and Hunter the information they need to make the next part of the plot happen. Which it does an annoyingly hamfisted, but technically sufficient, job of. The other is being a character study of Phillip Wittebane, and at that it does far better.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World"
It's honestly pretty prescient for a 2022 release. The trends were obviously already pointing in this direction, sure, but Tara's portrayal here is much more spot-on satire of the second Trump presidency than it is of the first.
Gaslight District (pilot)
I'm well aware that pilots - especially indy studio pilots - tend to be much weaker and more kludged together than the shows that ensue. I think that that's the case for this one. I hope it is. Because, while there's a lot that interested me in this pilot, there are also a couple of things that rendered it nearly unwatchable.
My Little Pony Fanworks: "Lullaby for a Princess" and "Children of the Night"
These two are interestingly oppositional takes on the same MLP backstory material.
Dungeon Meshi S1E1-3
This tickled my funnybone extra hard on account of me having had a similar idea a few years back.
Mob Psycho 100 S2E9: Show Me What You've Got ~Band Together~
It's not what I was wanting or expecting, but if Mob Psycho 100 wants to take a break for an episode or two and just have stupid shonen action scenes where nobody actually gets hurt and we plough through a series of grotesquely drawn villains who take turns going "n-n-nani???" before being defeated, I suppose it's earned that right.
The Owl House S2E13-14: "Any Sport in a Storm" and "Reaching Out"
The state abduction attempt turns out to be a...prank? Object lesson? Something like that?
The Owl House S2E11-12: "Follies at the Coven's Day Parade" and "Elsewhere and Elsewhen"
"Fullmetal Alchemist-y" is becoming more and more a propos.
FLCL Alternative (continued)
I'm sorry, but you cannot have Haruko Haruhara play the role of the wise mentor while still having her act like Haruko Haruhara.
FLCL Alternative
The subtitle "Alternative" is a well chosen one. It takes many of the original series' conceits, and says "what if instead of doing that, the series did this?"
The Apothecary Diaries S1E1-3 (continued)
The atmosphere is excellent, the characters are excellent, and the mysteries and detectivework could be really engaging if they got more focus.
The Apothecary Diaries S1E1-3
Before being captured and sold into slavery, Maomao's main hobby was doing medical experiments. Mostly on herself, for want of other test subjects.
Jonah: a Veggietales Movie
Jonah is a hard story to adapt, Veggietales did better than most.
It's just a pity that the production of it basically ruined the company.
The Owl House S2E10: "Yesterday's Lie" (continued more)
I don't know what the thesis statement is yet, or even if it has one. So far, the show's left room for a lot of nuance, showing us weirdo outsiders who are unjustly persecuted, weirdo outsiders who are justly persecuted, the social insider counterparts to both, and how organizations twist themselves into pretzels around all of the above.
The Owl House S2E10: "Yesterday's Lie" (continued)
She appears to her mother and comes completely clean.
The Owl House S2E10: "Yesterday's Lie"
Is this sterile perfection what Luz's mother Camila had been hoping for? If so, then it's fair to ask if she ever actually loved her daughter at all.
The Owl House S2E9: Eclipse Lake
I like that the show is able to use Hunter as a pretty effective antagonist even after starting his face turn back in the palisman episode.