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I recently finished Kyousou Giga. It was good but felt a bit short and underdeveloped. I liked the weird setting that integrated budhism and crazy color pallets.

Might start Sekai no Senki next.

I have been watching Pokémon: The Johto Journeys on Youtube. Unfortunately, it is the dubbed version, but it'll suffice.

watching one episode at a time of ARIA the Natural and Hidamari Sketch whenever I feel like it, plus occasionally watching a couple episodes of the Touhou Memories of Phantasm series with a friend

I've been watching Black Lagoon and SAO on and off for a while, the former more seriously, and the latter as a way to put something on before I go to sleep.

I watched Char's Counterattack, and found the use of Quess as a character to be particularly meaningful

quess' behaviour treats the affection of men she meets in a way like a primal hoarding of resources, not wanting others to get in her way, in a method similar to how hobbes said that a man in the state of nature will desire every further power he can reach, because the only way to ensure that he doesn't lose what he has now is to gain more
in this way, while char says he thought he failed to be an adequate father figure to her, the reason the two seemed to resonate with each other is because that quess' typically immature anger and pettiness is a mirror to char's own state of mind, especially I think he carries a level of resentment that amuro has managed to become popular (actually liked by people, as while char is valued as a political leader, he has no real friends to speak of) and successful in his absence
in this way, I think when char invokes lalah, she herself is not the most important element, but rather it is his resentment towards amuro from having taken her from him, which becomes a source for char's own counterargument to amuro's belief in positive change, and as such when he speaks of how she "could have been a mother to me", he does not necessarily want that on the level of providing comfort/affection (or the other reading I have seen in the sense of 'a mother to my children'), but rather what he wants is a mother's unquestioning and unconditional love, something which he sees amuro as having, and though he can cloak it in a political context, char responds in a way that aligns him with quess, believing that if he cannot get his form of desire, then he will destroy earth so that nobody can have it

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Chu-chu the monkey represents Anthy's eating disorder.

Since its friday 13th, can we stream Friday the 13th too?