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I apparently haven't done one of these since March, which is both a surprise and not a surprise at all. ^^;;

Gundam Build Fighters, Build Fighters Try, and the Special Build Disc - a marathon rewatch, these are still a lot of fun and a gloriously weird love letter to gunpla. The Special Build Disc collects various ONAs and just... is a lot of fun.

The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be 3 & 4 (Yasuko Yamaru) - this wraps up the series and it's just the right length. Cute series, has some weird twists, but the romance is just right.

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family 5 (TAa, etc.) - a lot of really wonderful character stuff in this one. Rider is so cute.

Gundam SEED Freedom - I apparently watched this again for research but I don't remember exactly what I was looking for. *shrugemoji* Also this remains hysterically terrible as an actual movie.

The Good Witch of the West - this was not a bad series, but most of it just didn't stick with me. It's an adaptation so I suspect something was just lost along the way. Seriously I can't remember enough about it to say anything else, it just... didn't stick.

Bride of Lochbarr (Margaret Moore) - one of the medievals I picked up back on indie bookstore day, this one had a few unexpected twists but was overall pretty good. Since I've been so stressed, it's good to have some brain-candy reading. (I've generally liked Moore's stuff but most of it isn't 'read more than once' stuff, either.)

Busou Shinki - I couldn't figure out why I had this until I remembered the Shinkis I used to see back fifteen years ago and oh, oh- This was a pretty fun series and ha! I ended up buying a used Shinki so I could finally have one. (I might be tempted to more, or maybe the newer Megami Device models, idk. Feels weird to build a Shinki?)

Zeta Gundam & A New Translation - so despite many attempts over the years, I had never actually seen Zeta Gundam. It's... it's a lot. It's at least twice as many plots and subplots as it needs, and it gets pretty brutal. I was expecting to dislike Kamille after the first episodes but he's actually pretty great. And I ended up really liking the Zeta Gundam itself, too. I ended up really disliking Beltorchika, like, I was not expecting that reaction? But yeah, liked Kamille, laughed a lot about how I'd mis-osmosed like 98% of the actual show despite having played through bits of it in games and whatnot, and had an entire experience. And then watched A New Translation because OW FUCK THAT ENDING FUCK. Like I will literally never watch that last episode again.

I have the first season of Bastard!! in right now, and then I should probably get back to my SEED Destiny rewatch, and then IDK. Just whatever is next in the pile, I guess. (And CCA but that won't take more than a morning.)

I should also do a separate post for last quarter's JFF offerings.

I went to the doctor, explained why I was there, and got a prescription to hopefully fix that. Also had blood work done which is back and while a couple of things aren't quite where they should be, they're not, like, off in the woods wandering around in the dark. I will take all of this.

July was indeed too fucking hot.

( July )

and then, August, which is at least starting out with the temperatures a little more manageable.

( August )

I dropped out of sunshine_revival after the first day... Good idea, did not personally jive, alas.