Anime

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The painful math of availability: when you start calculating the cost of pre-ordering a recent series about to land on disc, versus how much of your wishlist could squeeze into the same price.

I’m a touch tempted to nab the pre-order of That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Season while the first part of season one is both available and cheaper than release pricing. But at the same time checking my Amazon list: the same price range when you factor in shipping (and Prime) would equal nabbing two series–older ones more likely to disappear. Where as Rimuru might disappear before I get around to acquiring it someday.

Many series see a western releases these days but I’ve generally find availability becomes a problem within the decade. One of my favorites is quite expensive and very scarce if you want the Blu-ray, and the series only aired ~5 years ago; even its license holder only offers DVD versions on their store front :'(. Many older series often I can only find DVD releases if they made a bargain bin recycle or apply a bit of careful hunting. One in particular on my shelf kind of fit both scenarios but over a decade ago, having been adapted from a visual novel that is now ~15 years old and quite damned unavailable today.

This leads me to worrying about how much good stuff might simply disappear.

Actually that makes me think about Robot Jox. As a film that impacted me greatly as a child, I kind of leapt at the DVD offering and was disappointed by the ultra-craptacular release. It was nearly unwatchable. And then bloody amazed when the Blu-ray came out with an excellent transfer–for a film so little known that I never really expected a post-VHS anything to happen.

Sigh. It’s both a good and a bad thing that I don’t buy many discs per year, be it anime or film. Actually, I’m pretty sure Marvel’s release schedule would bankrupt me otherwise, lol.

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Going by my place this far, probably ~140 some pages into That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Vol. 1 (light novel), I can’t help but think there’s still hope for me yet.

When I was a kid, I was the kind that could binge read Dune and its appendexes with Glee. As an adult I find that I don’t tend to consume many books. Much inverted as well, in that as a kid there was always a shortage of novels to read and as an adult my reading list is never zeroed.

Over the past lustrum I’ve generally noticed a pattern of sorts. Where games, TV, or books tend to consume what passes for my leisure time in cyclic spells rather than simultaneously. E.g. for a few months you’re more likely to find me in front of a game than the others; for a few months you’re more likely to find me watching videos than the others; and so on.

For the most part that doesn’t tend to bother me much. My queues are always filled leaving me with the questions of what do I have time for and what do I want to do: not a lack of content. But how wacko the graph of my reading habits would look over the past twenty years or so is kind of worrisome.

Dangers++

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Sigh, floating around the Internet I find there are a lot more light novels translated then I had hoped. In fact there’s even a notable one who seems to have distribution with most major e-book and remaining channels for p-books. Which is kind of nice as I prefer have preferences when it comes to those e-book platforms.

Better or worse danger when a series you enjoyed is also available :/.

I am reminded that the upside to being a kid was always having time to read. The upside to being an adult is having money to buy a book every now and then without having to trade any in at the used bookstore (good luck finding those). The quasi constant is unless there is never enough storage space for physical books.

Sadly, one of my favourite stories originated as a LN series and to my knowledge has never been translated. The anime and manga adaptions did make it over the English, and I have both, but the original source material remains Japanese only and well beyond my parser level :'(.

Horrible temptation: Rimuru style

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Horrible temptation befalls me!

Doing a quick Google Search to see of there are any affordable cushions like those featured in the OVA/OAD, I see that the Crunchyroll store has a pre-order up for the first part of season one. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime is also supposed to return for a second season next year, I believe. Plenty of time to get discs of season one, probably.

By the time you factor in shipping costs it also looks like the Crunchyroll store’s plushie would be cheaper than Amazon. Although I’m kinda afraid the dogs would claim it as their personal pillow….lol.

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime – s01e24.5 – Tales: Veldora’s Diary.

Cycling back to finish the season, and catch up to the recent OVA, I’m kinda enjoying the extra episode in between.

After Ifrit got gnoshed back in episode 7, we only saw a glimpse of Veldora greeting him. The point five episode serves kind of like an annoying commentary track as Veldora and Ifrit chat and play Shogi. Despite being a bit of a villan, Ifrit ends up rather polite company for the Storm Dragon.

Given the “Interesting” personality that Veldora exhibits in the series’ beginning, and that he doesn’t really reappear in a serious way, I find this strangely fitting. Hey, if you spent over 300 years locked in a cave, you might become a lonely tsundere of a dragon!

Strangely interesting episode ^_^.

Edit: oh my @#$% was the finish funny 🤣.

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Passing Thoughts: if I could be a monster, I’d probably want to be made out of coffee. Some kind of coffee monster. But then I’d be in danger of a Pizza the Hut locked in his own stretched limo kind of end.

Actually now that I think of it being a slime wouldn’t be so bad if being like Rimuru was an option. And I bet absorbing tons of coffee would be easy 😂.

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Seen “Hi Score Girl” on Netflix yet?

Reminder seeing this listed a good while ago and filling it under “Watch later, maybe.”

Many of the games depicted flash my brain back to my childhood. There’s more than a few, probably most of the ones shown that either landed American Genesis and SNES releases. Not to mention the reoccurring bits of Street Fighter II; which probably was the fighting game my brother and I played the most of in the early ’90s.

Catching up on Fruits Basket

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Fruits Basket – s01e14 – Thats a Secret.
Fruits Basket – s01e13 – How Have You Been, My Brother?

Catching up on the last several weeks, I find episodes 13 and 14 both remarkably great and strongly contrasting. These are both episodes I’d clip if Crunchyroll had something like Hulu’s “My Episodes” feature.

13 is a fairly light hearted episode fueled by twisted humor, in a sense of twisted. While rather endears it to my funny bone thanks to the antics of the senior generation. I’m pretty sure that Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure would have been an entertaining handful in their youth.

14 on the other hand if painted in a totally different, more somber shade. The story of Momiji and his family is one that I think serves well to bring out his statement in the end. Humanity would do well to remember Momiji’s view about memories; Tohru’s reactions being both very human and very Tohru, IMHO. The visit to her mother’s grave also stands in contrast to the rest of the episode while keeping the somber attitude despite some rather fun “Crimson Butterfly” highlights along the way. We can but conclude as usual that Tohru’s mother was quite a person.

Both are great episodes, but for different reasons.

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Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? – s01e01

While a touch unusual a spin on a familiar concept, I admit that as a member of the NES generation I find this quite amusing. Especially the reactions when Mamko selects her weapons. It’s a bit over the top but leans in the direction of funny and that suits me just fine.

I’ve generally figured that when my generation gets old, we’ll either be some rather interesting or particularly weird old farts compared to our grandparents.

Actually, now I rather feel like rewatching KonoSuba ðŸ˜œ