Here Lies My Hopes and Dreams for My Blog – July 2023 Edition

I neglected to give a site update in June so here’s one for July.

Real quick, Twitter is being obnoxious again by employing an asinine read limit on Tweets. I don’t believe this affects my ability to share links to my blog posts but I can’t deny that using Twitter is getting more obtuse.

Anime Episode Reviews

Recently Finished:

Currently Covering:

Up Next:

  • Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow – /1 ep.
  • Horimiya – 1/13 eps.
  • Love Live! Superstar!! (Season 1) – /12 eps.
  • Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (Season 2) – /13 eps. 
  • Love Live! Superstar!! (Season 2) – /12 eps.
  • The Quintessential Quintuplets 2 – /12 eps. (Will re-date Ep. 1 review)
  • SSSS.Dynazenon – /12 eps.
  • Lycoris Recoil – /13 eps. (Will re-date the Ep. 1 reviews)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica – /12 eps. (Will re-date the Eps. 1-9 reviews)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movies – /3 eps.
  • Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 – The Eve of Awakening – 8 eps.
  • Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Final Season – Dawn of a Shallow Dream – 4 eps.
  • Granbelm – /13 eps. (Will re-date the Eps. 1-3 reviews)
  • Restaurant to Another World 2 – /12 eps.
  • The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady – 7/12 eps.

As mentioned in previous announcement posts, this list is subject to change and I’m not necessarily going to tackle everything in this exact order. I may also cancel covering one of these shows for whatever reason I may see fit (and not going to lie, there’s a few I’m mulling over right now). There are a bunch of movies and OVAs for other shows that I plan on covering in episode reviews. I just don’t have them listed here but the list is pretty long as is.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to blog much in May and June so backlog progress has been very slow. Not covering a Spring 2023 show to better tackle the backlog ended up going to waste, which I regret, though I suppose I would’ve had a hard covering something seasonal anyway. Since it’ll be a while for me to get through Love Live! Sunshine!! and Horimiya, I’m thinking of covering some other Summer 2023 show in the meantime. It’s doable since I’m on vacation right now and for once, I can probably cover more than one seasonal show as well. Regardless if I’ll do, I’ll write a couple first impressions for anything that caught my attention and if I can write about them in time.

#AniTwitWatches Archival

Something I’ve been on-and-off doing is archiving on my tweets for #AniTwitWatches, a now-retired community event led by Jon Spencer over at Jon Spencer Reviews. I copied down my tweets for The Perfect Insider a couple months ago and I just started doing the same for The Rolling Girls. After that, I plan on copying my tweets for Girls und Panzer (yeah, I’m ashamed to admit it but I didn’t participate as much as I would’ve liked to).

What I’m trying to decide is what to do with my personal back-ups. Right now, I’m leaning towards posting them in backdated posts here on the blog. One issue I have, and I’m perhaps being too careful here, is I don’t think I’d include replies people wrote to my tweets word for word as I don’t have permission to do so. Plus, it’d be a little tricky formatting them into the WordPress editor. I thought about writing new episode reviews in bullet points based on the Tweets though there’s two issues. One, I did group my thoughts on certain episodes together so it might be tricky dividing into separate reviews. And two, the reviews wouldn’t really be based on the Tweets should I have to do substantial work on the former. We’ll see. I’m sure I’ll reach a conclusion on this.

Video Game Posts

Last month, I posted a review on the PC version of Honkai: Star Rail. Feel free to give that a click and read it through. I specified this in my review but I did write the review before I reached the Trailblaze Lv. 60-65 and the final two Equilibrium levels though my thoughts on Star Rail‘s endgame remain largely the same. I’m not necessarily planning this but I can see myself updating and re-dating my review if there’s enough new thoughts to share about the game.

Aside from the review, and this is a big if, I kind of want to write a few guides/reviews for some of Star Rail‘s playable characters. I haven’t whale a whole lot for gacha pulls so I won’t be able to attest to a lot of Light Cones and Eidolons. That said, can anyone blame me for not dishing out the cash to get those drops?

Other than Star Rail, I’m still on and off with Genshin Impact so work on my guides/reviews for the game’s characters remains on hold.

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