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Wasn't quite sold on this last week, but this episode was SO GOOD. I loved that they didn't try to explain what the alien was up to and just let them continue to be mysterious.

Very good updates. Thanks for the work you do!

Really depends on your taste. For me it was super boring, but I could see it being funny to someone else.

Now that (almost) all of the anime have premiered, I'm in the phase of cutting down my list to a manageable size and selecting my picks to present to my friends as a tasting menu for what to watch together this season. This time we've got two of our three (sometimes four) spots locked in already (Apothecary Diaries and Windbreaker), so the competition will be tough, lol. Currently, the new stuff I'm excited for is Gorilla God's Go-To Girl, Ninja and Assassin Under One Roof and Too-Perfect Saint, but Moonrise is also looking promising (I'm not a binge watcher, so no spoilers!), and it's good to have Shoshimin back.

And, as always, here's my trash pile:

It seems like they ran out of budget for this episode, but it was kinda funny how they got around it sometimes, with things like the fight noises over top of Sophia's mostly static reaction face.

Regardless, I'm really enjoying this one. Definitely one of my favorites for the season.

I enjoyed the first episode, but this one i felt was dragged down by the characters just not being very likeable. The action continues to be exceptional, and it seems like the plot is getting rolling, so I'll give it another episode.

Now that the plot is getting rolling it's a little underwhelming, especially since it seems like a suicide squad knockoff. It feels a little like no one except our crew of misfits is really taking this "find Skinner" thing seriously, which seems really strange; it's not like it's a secret, after all. It also seems strange that hapna was so widely available when it can get you high. Even if it isn't chemically addictive and didn't have side effects or overdose risks, you'd still want to keep it pretty well regulated to prevent abuse or like DUIs or whatever, right? And I'm really hoping that they don't end up ignoring Skinner's point about trying to save the planet, since it's really easy for stories to counter "we need to make drastic changes to stop bad things from happening" with "it's wrong to kill people!" - true, but like, also, we should save the planet from climate change.

I'm glad they revealed Enomoto as the childhood crush so soon. I had assumed it was her, but expected them to drag it out for at least half the season, lol.

It's interesting having a show explore the differences between romantic and sexual attraction, because society conflates them so much that it can be really confusing to have one without the other (especially for teenagers).

It's always so fun to see how different everyone's fighting styles are. They express their personalities so well just in the way their bodies move, and Cloverworks is really showing that off very well.

That new eunuch is definitely Suirei, right?

Also, the talk of getting Maomao onto Jinshi's side makes it sound like he's gearing up for a large political struggle - potentially a more direct conflict with Loulan's father?

I really didn't enjoy the song this time and it inspired me to actually look up some classical music, since I've never really paid attention to who wrote what within the field.

Well, it turns out I just sort of don't like Mozart's bright and cheery style and none of his stuff really hits for me, lol, which means I'll likely be having a bad time whenever Mozart (the character) is taking center stage for an episode. I ended up really liking Beethoven's stuff (moody and dramatic), as well as Chopin's (complex and layered). Liszt I liked less, since its complexity felt more like showing off than anything else.

I do find it interesting though that Mozart and Beethoven seem to have swapped vibes from their composer namesakes. Mozart's music seems largely upbeat, while Beethoven's feels very brooding, which doesn't match at all the characters from what we've seen.

After being unimpressed last episode, I found this one really engaging.... up until they decided to throw in the creepy gay villain trope. I seriously can't stand that kind of character, and it was sort of surprising after Yaomay appeared to be coded as trans in a fairly positive way (though that might turn out to be incorrect). I really like the ways that the various characters are interacting with the themes of identity and memory, but if there's gonna be some undercurrent of homophobia I'm not sure I'll be willing to stick around to see how the mysteries unravel. Might give it one more episode, though.