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so since I posted that I actually just skipped ahead to DiU (I just finished Bastet for context), intending to just watch a few and see if it was any better... and then I finished it in 3 days lmao.

Ugh it's so so so good. It was so compelling in a way Stardust Crusaders was not. I suppose I just liked the characters better (Okuyasu is best boy), but also the art style was also super super amazing. I could literally look at that green sky all day. That final battle was hype as shit too

@jackv211: huh? I'm very aware of the origins of Jojo as well as the fact that future arcs feature more girls. Doesn't mean I can't complain about it in Stardust Crusaders, though. I have a bigger problem with Joseph and Jotaro than I do with the lack of women anyway.

Plus, considering Stardust Crusaders takes place in the 80's and they fight with, basically, manifestations of spirit or w/e the lack of women is slightly less... valid, I guess? Especially considering one of the stand users is a literal baby.

Finally got to the halfway mark of JJBA: Stardust Crusaders, and... I do not like it as much as Battle Tendency. I love Stands as a concept, of course, and I enjoy the characters who aren't part of the Joestar Bloodline, but Jotaro isn't great and they ruined Jonathan ;_;. Maybe it's that I'm watching the dub instead of the sub (purely because Avdol is voiced by the guy who voices Gundham from Danganronpa 2), but he's just so boring compared to his younger self.

Also, I suppose this has been a thing in the entire series, but it's really noticeable in Crusaders; boy there are not a lot of great women characters. Especially the whole 'yeah the one person who has a stand and can't take it is the mom and we have to save her' aspect. Ugh. It's not a show ruiner or anything, and I realize that Jojo is a shounen series and a lack of women usually comes with the territory, but...

@sombre: Yes to all of that! Plus Lisa Lisa is amazing, Wham is amazing, I don't know that I've ever laughed at an anime more than when Stroheim fuckin' showed up on Vulcano Island out of nowhere.

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JJBA: Part 2 is very very good.

Just finished Yuri Kuma Arashi.

METAPHORS. So many metaphors

Also it's super pretty, both artistically, musically, thematically... even the character designs, which WERE pretty samey, I enjoyed. Mostly because they were done by a yuri legend but still. A lot of good shit, much of it flew past my head, but watching youtube videos to dissect themes is part of the fun!

Bloom Into You ended exactly where I thought it would, and it continued, till the end, to be amazingly beautiful.

Season 2 better happen :(

Wrapped up a few of the shows I was watching:

JJBA: Phantom Blood didn't start especially well so I got stuck for like 2 weeks(I found their childhood exploits pretty dumb and I REALLY didn't like Jonathan), but it definitely improved over the course of it and the ending made me excited to get to the next part. I really liked Speedwagon

Akanesasu Shoujo, in a complete surprise (considering Uchikoshi had his name attached to it), had a really fantastic ending and the show ended really strongly starting from Chloe's fragment onward. I really jived with the emotional beats of the story, and I ended up really liking most of the characters, but especially Asuka and Yu. The action was alright and the show still doesn't start especially strongly, but I would definitely recommend it, especially for anyone who likes alternate history stuff and/or who likes to see characters talking to different versions of themselves.

Release the Spyce was... eh. It was very uneven. There were some great high points, but also some pretty bad points too. The last episode in particular was a good microcosm; the first half was pretty great, and the last half was basically a mediocre anime epilogue thing you've all seen dozens of times before, only way too long but also not long enough? Idk. It's okay. If you thought Totally Spies needed to be more gay then you should probably watch it

Zombieland Saga was great. Saki best girl

Still gotta finish up Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san (though I assume it'll be the same as it always is, so... if you like CGDCT shows you should probably watch it? it's cute and gay and it's mildly funny) and Bloom Into You (continues to be a perfect adaptation of a fantastic manga).

if there was a best music poll I would probably register three accounts just to vote for Revue Starlight, tbh

If Bloom into You doesn't get a second season I will probably cry. Like, legit. Ugh... Episode 12 actually made me realize I like the anime better than the manga, which is like the first time I can remember that ever happening.