2025.8.31

• Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu is good. It's definitely one of the rarer ones of these modern days - a simple, complete (instead of slices-of-life), slightly engaging feel-good story, with no heavy "tragedy points", a moderate amount of development, and a mildly tsundere main girl (Unlike those "classical" tsundere where the tsun often develops into literal violence towards the male protagonist in the end, here the tsun part is really, really mild! Surprisingly refreshing...). The story stayed within the theme of space exploration and somehow didn't end with a romance (cliché), which I appreciates a lot. I think 2020~2022 are the years of Vtubers not only for me (I was a Nijisanji EN fan and you all know how that went down) but also for a lot of people, so in my impressions this has never been as popular as it should, which is a shame - smaller shame than Princess Principal, but a shame nonetheless.
• Occultic;Nine is very good. I don't know why it's so low on MyAnimeList, but everyone who's seen more than 20 shows should've already notice MAL's ratings sometimes are just as ridiculous as Pitchfork's, only with it being crowdsourced and thus being able to be argued as "less evil". I's a good story, but there's too much dialogue. Is it because it's trying to stuff too much story within 12 episodes? Steins;Gate got 24 after all... If netflix were to make a live action show out of the same story they can obviously stretch that into 3 seasons with quadruple the runtime...

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