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Reading Day
Oct. 28th, 2020 01:49 pmMost of what I've been reading lately are the works of the students in my Loft class, but, on a lark, I decided to try out a free month of the Funimation streaming service, so I've been watching some anime.
The only thing I finished watching is Cowboy Bebop. Believe it or not, I have technically been an anime fan since the American broadcast of Star Blazers / Space Battleship Yamato in 1979, but I had not seen the Cowboy Bebop anime until this week. Yeah, I have some feelings about it. In case you are somehow like me and have not yet seen this, I will put my thoughts under the cut.
( Spoilers for a show older than many of you.... )
So, that's that one.
The other anime I started watching is called Millionaire Detective: Unlimited Balance.
It's pretty fluffy, but I'm enjoying it.
I'm also following a show that's being simulcast from Japan. It drops every Thursday and is called Akudama Drive. This show is initially why I decided to give Funimation's streaming service a try. I was on the Twin Cities Anime Fan discord and someone mentioned it in the list of shows new this fall. I went to the description and saw the words "a cyberpunk dystopia" and figured that was enough for me, right there. However, the story is kind of intriguing--it started out hyper-violent in a way that makes it hard to recommend to a huge number of my friends, but it has since settled into a heist... which is one of those plot tropes I will always, always watch. Add to that the main character is a kind of modern day Bilbo Baggins. She gets caught up with someone mysterious (over food, takoyaki to be exact,) and then ends up saying that she's a master swindler/criminal when she is not....and yet every time she needs to use her skills, something random happens that makes her seem like she's absolutely what they think she is. I'm amused by that. Next week is the critical 4th episode were everything could turn on a dime, but right now I'm still enjoying it.
How about you? Read/Consume any interesting media?
The only thing I finished watching is Cowboy Bebop. Believe it or not, I have technically been an anime fan since the American broadcast of Star Blazers / Space Battleship Yamato in 1979, but I had not seen the Cowboy Bebop anime until this week. Yeah, I have some feelings about it. In case you are somehow like me and have not yet seen this, I will put my thoughts under the cut.
( Spoilers for a show older than many of you.... )
So, that's that one.
The other anime I started watching is called Millionaire Detective: Unlimited Balance.
I'm only a few episodes in, but the basic premise has the classic rookie/veteran police partners trope with some fun new twists. Basically, our hero, Kambe Diasuke, is ultra rich and decides to buy his way onto the police force. He gets partnered with a young hothead who is the kind of guy who believes in truth, justice and the Japanese way so hard that he actually also can't get along with regular police officers and so has been busted down to The Modern Crime Division's lowest department. They have a capital D, Dynamic and their cases, so far, are solved with money and the barest of detective work.
The end of each show shows a ledger of how much money Diasuke spent to solve the crime
The end of each show shows a ledger of how much money Diasuke spent to solve the crime
It's pretty fluffy, but I'm enjoying it.
I'm also following a show that's being simulcast from Japan. It drops every Thursday and is called Akudama Drive. This show is initially why I decided to give Funimation's streaming service a try. I was on the Twin Cities Anime Fan discord and someone mentioned it in the list of shows new this fall. I went to the description and saw the words "a cyberpunk dystopia" and figured that was enough for me, right there. However, the story is kind of intriguing--it started out hyper-violent in a way that makes it hard to recommend to a huge number of my friends, but it has since settled into a heist... which is one of those plot tropes I will always, always watch. Add to that the main character is a kind of modern day Bilbo Baggins. She gets caught up with someone mysterious (over food, takoyaki to be exact,) and then ends up saying that she's a master swindler/criminal when she is not....and yet every time she needs to use her skills, something random happens that makes her seem like she's absolutely what they think she is. I'm amused by that. Next week is the critical 4th episode were everything could turn on a dime, but right now I'm still enjoying it.
How about you? Read/Consume any interesting media?
