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2023 - A way late year in review post!

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alright! Let’s just get these all out of the way in one big post, shall we? No need to create a bunch of backdated entries for a few years ago, and by setting that precedent now I won’t feel the need to for the OTHER years I want to backdate as well.

books

I am ashamed to say I don’t have anything recorded? I know I was reading my usual webcomics, but most other series I had been following all ended and I hadn’t picked up new ones yet. I don’t think that it’s actually possible I went through the year without reading anything of note, even if it was only one or two books, but… I guess maybe?

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2025 - Year in Review, Shows

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m bad at movies, but shows? I can watch an episode of a show while falling asleep, or while eating dinner, or … any number of other smaller tasks. Much easier! Even if you watch a movie-length number of episodes at once, well, that’s still easier to start and stop than pausing a movie and trying to not lose your place. I’m going to be a lot more loose with spoilers here than anywhere else, so if you see a series mentioned at the start of a paragraph and DO NOT WANT SPOILERS for it, skip that one.

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2024 review: part 3, shows

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Moving right along! Shows. As a note, I did not reliably finish many! I could have absolutely done better about that, normally I did get at least a season or two.

One Piece is a delightful long running anime that I have already gushed about as a manga. I will elaborate a little bit on the filler – G-8 in particular is an arc that is so delightful I could have sworn it was canon on first watch. Not all of it is that quality, but One Piece’s structure (island to island, no direct power scaling) means that early in the series it was incredibly capable of just adding a few episodes of made up content here or there with few-to-no problems on overall pacing. As the series moves on, that stops and the more traditional “we slow down dialog and overextend run cycles” kicks in, but I still think it’s an enjoyable watch on a week-to-week basis. Megumi Ishitani, and anything she touched in regards to the show, are incredible. One Piece Fan Letter is probably my single favorite episode of anything that I saw this year, and that had some incredible competition. As far as which audio track to watch, it’s really hard to pick my favorite version of the Straw Hats. No disrespect to the incredible Yao (first Straw Hat to retire), but Franky’s English rendition is incredible, and Ian Sinclair as Brooke (or any other role he’s ever done for that matter) is unmatched. Jinbei’s Japanese voice carries more weight to it, adding to some of his already coolest scenes in the series. I really don’t think you can go wrong, but seeing as the English dub isn’t caught up, prepare to have to switch at some point.

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2019 shows

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:10:22 -0800

Oops. There’s just been a lot going on so I haven’t gotten around to these, and I know they only mean much to me, but I like having them shared.

Not a whole lot of anything to comment on here, we re-watched a lot of things with the kids primarily, but Dragon Prince (which had some of the same backing as Avatar) was a delight. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of it as the story continues to develop. The new Carmen Sandiego was also fairly enjoyable, as someone who loved the old show as a kid, though our kids got a bit bored of it?

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2018 shows

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:01:19 -0800

Shows!

Lego Elves was surprisingly good. Little Witch Academia was adorable. She-Ra was AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING, Noelle Stevenson worked absolute magic with that reboot. Hilda was fantastic and full of Gravity Falls feelings. The Dragon Prince was a great spiritual successor to Avatar?

Look, we all know I’m lying if I say that I mostly started watching any of those with the kids. I did not.

I didn’t track web series this year, but if I had, they would have mostly been Katherine of Sky’s let plays.

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2017 shows

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:08:24 -0800

I didn’t start a whole lot in the way of new shows this past year, but Gravity Falls and Korra were both amazing to finally watch through to completion. We haven’t finished watching Little Witch Academia yet, but I’ve been having so much fun with it.

The Hero Yoshihiko has its ups and downs, but a lot of problematic moments between the enjoyable scenes. I mean, there was a lot of problematic media in terms of shows that I went with in 2017.

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2016 shows

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:08:24 -0800

I didn’t start many new shows this year–though I did finally get around to watching The Legend of Korra and Gravity Falls! I’m a bit sad I missed them during their original runs, they were fantastic. Steven Universe was incredible, as usual, and RWBY is getting by without Monty passably enough.

As garbage as most of it is, I had to (?) force myself to watch Portlandia before moving here. Some of it was hilarious, most of it was awful, very little of it didn’t also apply to Austin.

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