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

Time for an update and some reflections. I can’t think anything to say on the video game side of the blog so this post will just be going over the anime side.

Anime Episode Reviews

Recently Finished:

Progressing through Sunshine!! got a bit sluggish. I didn’t write a lot of first impressions for Summer 2023, though it is the most I’ve written in a long time, but I was trying a bunch of shows and I did experiment with the episode review lineup throughout July. That said, I was very determined to finish Sunshine!! by the end of the month and I’m happy to have managed to do so.

Currently Covering:

Since I’m starting YOHANE THE PARHELION and getting back to Horimiya, I decided to drop my episode reviews for Atelier Ryza and Zom 100. I’m working again starting at the end of the month so I am little worried how this lineup will fare but for now, it’s manageable. Even though I started Yohane late, it’s still airing so I am willing to cover it in bullet points. Doing so could let me squeeze progress on another show. That said, I’m still on break so I don’t know if I should or need to resort to that.

I haven’t committed to covering Horimiya: The Missing Pieces but if it would obviously take the original show’s place once covering that is done. To be honest, I’m a little doubtful I’ll be able to catch up on Missing Pieces if I get to it. It’s possible I’ll finish the original series right before work resumes. By the time I am done, there’ll be a lot of aired episodes of Missing Pieces to watch. We’ll see.

Up Next:

  • 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.

Changed the rundown a bit to specify what is immediately on the horizon, which is currently a bunch of Love Live!. I don’t know why 2023 is the year where I catch up on this franchise but there you go.

I might actually start Superstar!! after I’m all caught up on Yohane. It’d be weird to cover two Love Live series at the same time but given how covering Sunshine!! went, I want to tackle Superstar!! ASAP. As for why I have Nijigasaki Season 2 in between both seasons of Superstar!!, I just want to return to tackling these series by release order. That said, I might keep Nijigasaki on hold depending on the release window of Superstar!! Season 3. If I’m already covering Nijigasaki Season 2 by then, I’ll try to finish it ASAP to make a beeline for Superstar!! Season 2.

TBD:

  • Granbelm – /13 eps. (Will re-date the Eps. 1-3 reviews)
  • Lycoris Recoil – /13 eps. (Will re-date the Ep. 1 review)
  • 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.
  • The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady – 7/12 eps.
  • The Quintessential Quintuplets 2 – /12 eps. (Will re-date the Ep. 1 review)
  • Restaurant to Another World 2 – /12 eps.
  • SSSS.Dynazenon – /12 eps.

Obviously subject to change. Also, this is in alphabetical order so it is not an indication to the order in which I tackle these shows. 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.

I may want to get to Magical Revolution soon; I’m approaching six months since the last episode review.

As mentioned last update, I am mulling over covering some of these shows. The only reason the list is the same as last time is simply because I haven’t given enough thought on any specific show to make a concrete decision. On one hand, it’s already taken me a long time to iron out the backlog so I might as well have all these shows up for consideration. On the other, I’m taking a long time so part of me wants to abandon some things so I can be done sooner. We’ll see. I’ll probably give the list more thought once I’m done with Horimiya and Love Live.

Episode Review Poll

I said back in January that I don’t plan on doing polls for the foreseeable future. Now that I can see myself finishing Horimiya, I am starting to reconsider. I also must admit that I did write down some candidates in case I do. If I do a fourth poll, I’ll probably post it on Twitter/X when I’m down to the last half or third of Horimiya. I am concerned about the turnout as this blog has been less visible than it already was but I’ll of course honor the result. Another concern I have is timeliness. I don’t want a repeat of what what happened with Horimiya so if I don’t feel confident about writing on time, I might not post a poll.

MyAnimeList Re-Posts

I’ve been mulling over this for years but I finally decided to re-post and backdate some old First Impressions I wrote on my MyAnimeList account in Spring 2017, before I actually started this blog. You can find it by clicking on the Archives navigation bar and selecting April 2017. Right now, it’s just three first impressions of shows I ended up finishing (Alice & Zoroku, Hinako Note, and The Royal Tutor) but I may add a few more. These are old posts that don’t reflect my opinion on the whole show in question but I decided to re-post them for posterity.

Select Episode Re-Reviews

Something I’m thinking of doing is writing select episode re-reviews for shows where I did not cover each episode individually such as the first season of Made in Abyss. Like, if there’s a show where I covered the second and third episode together, I would re-review each of those two episodes on their own. I wouldn’t re-review the whole show, either because of a lack of time or the potential redundancy, but I would re-review certain episodes to meet my OCD guideline of one post per episode. Again, I don’t know if I’ll do it, the backlog is large enough as is, but it’s something I’m considering.

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