Birthday Update and Monthly Log - April 2025
I haven't posted updates on the blog for quite a while, aside from last year's Summer Wars retrospective . As it's my birthday, I'd like to use the occasion to start writing regularly again, particularly to start on the main reason I started this blog: to write memoirs. Expect to see the first entry later this month. For now, here are some of the stuff I watched or read in the month of April. Watched Watched the first season of Full Metal Panic . I'm not familiar with what older fans think of the first season, but I think the directing can be quite interesting? Like, there were some kinds of editing that I didn't expect to see in this show. It feels quite bold. Also, it's quite nice that they have two cours to adapt three volumes of the novels and still have some space for some side stories and anime original episodes. At the very least, this arrangement does favors to the adaptation of the first volume, managing to balance the high school comedy hijinks...