Another week, another little bit of anime writing. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get around to more episodes this week; I was hoping to get finished with them before the end of the month, but now I’m not sure that’s likely to happen. All the same, the delay is for kind of a positive reason – we’ve finally gotten in the majority of the furniture we were looking for to put in our upstairs living room, allowing us to move our other furniture downstairs to create a basement entertainment area. And for people who aren’t experienced in moving a lot of furniture around, well… it can be very exhausting.
Somewhat related to recent experiences, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind folks of how I handle comments at this blog. You can read the details in the site’s FAQ, but the major points are that there are several terms I’ve designated (which I’m not going to share) that immediately send comments into moderation. I also don’t publicize comments that are hostile toward myself or other commenters, or which argue in bad-faith or try to mischaracterize points that I or other commenters are attempting to make. Take that as you will.
That said, below are the couple of items that have gone up this past week:
- Winter 2022 First Impressions – She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man – A fairly unremarkable entry in the genre of video game-based fantasy. I did enjoy the final couple of minutes which are essentially without dialog; I think it’s an effective piece of storytelling. Unfortunately the remainder of the episode wasn’t very distinctive.
- Winter 2022 First Impressions – Police in a Pod – I wasn’t very impressed by this episode, which spends a lot of time outlining how police are good, actually. This is a pretty fraught topic, to be sure, and I’m personally not in the mindset to enjoy a series that seems uncritical of police culture as it manifests in several places around the world. Also, the characters came across as generally unlikeable.
As always, if you’ve watched any of these, or would like to share reactions to anything else you’ve watched this past week, feel free to do so in the comments. And I hope the week ahead is pleasant for you!
2 replies on “January 23-29, 2022 Week-in-Review”
Moving furniture is very rough, it’s great you’ve got a nicer set-up as a result though.
My partner and I have almost finished a watch-through of The Twelve Kingdoms, and it’s been making me think about how it might be adapted differently if it were being made today. It’s been a really good time though, I really appreciate how early 2000s it feels, both aesthetically and in terms of pacing.
My spouse and I are big fans of that one! We keep hoping that someday the remaining novels in the series will get translated (and licensed by someone other than Tokyopop).