Hoimo

Wow, how strange to hear Gotou Yuuko use her Mikuru voice again. I recently heard her in a minor role in HanaShura and she used this old lady voice that immediately made me feel ancient, but now I realize she can do whatever she wants with her voice and it wasn't a sign of her (or my) age. I'm still young! 2006 wasn't 19 years ago!

Estimate Me: 2025-07-08 (Shreds of cheese) Rank #26 of 85 🟨🟩🟩

Should have corrected for the pile a bit better, went over because I assumed it was about 3 shreds thick everywhere.

Isn't that Bugs' sister from Albania?

Justwatch reliably tells me "this isn't available for streaming in your region". Sonarr tells me it's an AMZN Webrip and I can Just Watch™

Edit: But like, no shade on Justwatch, it works as intended. It's the streaming services who get worldwide licensing rights and then don't bother targeting my little region.

I'm impressed by the soundtrack and sound design. For most things they had a great manga to copy from, but the sounds are all brand new. It fits the animation and style very well though.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-06 (Pips on dominoes)
Rank #11 of 92
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This one was very regular, I could see the exact number of tiles and the only guessing involved was the distribution of the pips. Though I did mess up by assuming every side had at least 1 pip, which I later noticed wasn't true.

It's trash and I love it. I hope we'll get some yuri love triangle plot, I spotted what looked like a Yuu daki in Suzu's bed? She's also clearly tsundere for Yuu.

The cast reminds me a bit of

Hitoribocchi

but this episode didn't immediately show the quality of jokes and pacing that made Hitori such a memorable show (that we didn't forget about, right? It's Hitori Bocchi, she's the girl who sits in the corner seat. We were friends!)

I try to find all four groups before locking anything in, then I guess which group is which color.

Purple

Hm, that's probably it. Those don't register as rhymes for me, but I don't have native proficiency.

Connections
Puzzle #756
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Purple

I get the other three, but Prussian? How do we pronounce this and what does it correspond to?

Estimate Me: 2025-07-05 (Chain links)
Rank #24 of 179
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I'm surprised I only got #24, though if 23 other people used my method, they'd already perform the same or better of course. Still have to get lucky enough to hit the correct answer.

If you liked every one of those shows, I can guarantee you that you'll like the rest of B99. Early seasons focus a lot on Jake, Holt and Amy, but later seasons get more variety in leads and storylines. There's a bunch of very good recurring concepts too, comparable to the Community paintball episodes. The series only gets stronger as it progresses imo.

Estimate Me: 2025-07-04 (Cornflower seeds face)
Rank #45 of 108
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Was looking forward to a new one, after practicing yesterday. I somehow skipped right over the answer again on the third guess, but not far off either way.