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So, I've resumed watching Sailor Moon Crystal on a random whim, and not gonna blog about the whole thing, but I've got 3 episodes left to watch and I do have to say season 3 was a huge step up from the first two seasons. Pretty much everything about it is better. The one thing I don't really like (and this is a problem with the manga source as well) is the pacing with meeting the enemies. They meet a villain, learn their plot, and defeat them all within 5 minutes. And usually defeating them is a pretty easy task with no tension or excitement. But yeah, that was a problem with all of Crystal and the original manga stories as well.
I've also been working on a crops guide for Bokujou Monogatari Live & Love, the newly re-released "lost media" flip-phone game based on the popular franchise. And I've been working on my Harvest Moon Let's Play series on YouTube. Annoyingly, I "recorded" two hours of content but forgot to press record. Luckily I have a backup save so I can do it again, but it's been very demotivating, so I haven't worked on it in a couple days.
As for DS9... I'm already kinda tired of writing the blogs. Unlike Pokemon, I don't have a feeling like "I'll finish this some day" and rather have a feeling like "I don't want to do this anymore," so I might cancel that series and just watch on my own...? But for now I'm taking a break from DS9 completely, so maybe when I come back, I'll be more inclined to blog about it again.
I kinda feel like diving back into Super Sentai again. Which of course means not going with what looks coolest or most fun but starting from the very beginning. I've actually tried watching Gorenger a couple times -- the first time I didn't get far, then the second time I watched in Japanese "raw," and got decently far, but got tired of not understanding every last detail and decided to come back to it with subtitles again some day to pick up the parts that I missed.
Strangely, I actually did watch the second Super Sentai series, JAKQ. JAKQ was really good for the first half, and then they introduced the White Ranger and it became a silly kids' comedy show for the rest of the series. Very disappointing. Though the last two episodes were a really cool finale. It was so serious and often dark in the beginning, and then it just turned into the most juvenile comedy show for the second half? Super strange.
So I'm downloading Gorenger now, as well as Battle Fever J. Sadly when I went to the wikipedia article for Super Sentai to see the order of series, they had these little bullet points about each series with trivia like "Debut of a Pink Ranger" and stuff like that, and of course for Gorenger there was a massive spoiler in the trivia section :) So I'm very disappointed in that, and it's not something I'll forget easily, so whoops.
I also have a few other things downloaded that I'd like to watch, like the original Gundam, Bubblegum Crisis, and Dirty Pair. So I might start binge watching stuff, and maybe finishing something will put me back in the mood for DS9. I realized that I could just copy the episodes to my phone so I could watch them there, instead of having to watch at the PC (I often don't want to sit up and it makes me not want to watch stuff, then I end up sitting up anyway and doing nothing???? Yeah, IDK) though it won't be as easy to screencap.
But yeah, I'm wondering if I do manage to finish Gorenger if I should watch JAKQ again and write more about it here.
It's weird because I feel like when I watch stuff, I want to have something to 'show for it.' Like with games you have your save data, and newer games have like achievements and counted playtime and stuff like that. But with shows, you have nothing to "show" you've watched it or no way to chronicle your experience. That's why I like blogging about it; it gives you something more concrete that comes out of watching, like having a save file. Plus it helps my tiny brainpod keep track of what's going on and think more deeply about the plots.
But yeah I just went on the wikipedia article for JAKQ to see what I remembered and uh, just read this:
[Karen] is a Japanese-American female police detective who was assigned to investigate the routes used to traffic illegal narcotics into Japan. During one of her investigations, she uncovered the fact that Crime controlled a majority of these routes, and decided to assist ISSIS in destroying them. Crime attempted to kill Karen by arranging a fatal car accident. Karen survived the accident but lost her right arm. Her father, a fellow police officer, was killed in the crash. Enraged and seeking revenge, Karen willingly accepted Joker's offer to undergo the bionic process and join J.A.K.Q.
Like, doesn't that sound really dark and serious?? And that's just one character's background/bio. (Karen was my fav character~) But for the show to just devolve into silly puns and gags with a completely different vibe... ugh.
I don't think I'll watch it again, since I don't want to suffer through that second half, but I will probably watch the JAKQ/Gorenger movie after finishing Gorenger.
Anyway, just wanted to ramble while I drank my soda lol. Now to retire to the couch and finish SMCrystal.
I've also been working on a crops guide for Bokujou Monogatari Live & Love, the newly re-released "lost media" flip-phone game based on the popular franchise. And I've been working on my Harvest Moon Let's Play series on YouTube. Annoyingly, I "recorded" two hours of content but forgot to press record. Luckily I have a backup save so I can do it again, but it's been very demotivating, so I haven't worked on it in a couple days.
As for DS9... I'm already kinda tired of writing the blogs. Unlike Pokemon, I don't have a feeling like "I'll finish this some day" and rather have a feeling like "I don't want to do this anymore," so I might cancel that series and just watch on my own...? But for now I'm taking a break from DS9 completely, so maybe when I come back, I'll be more inclined to blog about it again.
I kinda feel like diving back into Super Sentai again. Which of course means not going with what looks coolest or most fun but starting from the very beginning. I've actually tried watching Gorenger a couple times -- the first time I didn't get far, then the second time I watched in Japanese "raw," and got decently far, but got tired of not understanding every last detail and decided to come back to it with subtitles again some day to pick up the parts that I missed.
Strangely, I actually did watch the second Super Sentai series, JAKQ. JAKQ was really good for the first half, and then they introduced the White Ranger and it became a silly kids' comedy show for the rest of the series. Very disappointing. Though the last two episodes were a really cool finale. It was so serious and often dark in the beginning, and then it just turned into the most juvenile comedy show for the second half? Super strange.
So I'm downloading Gorenger now, as well as Battle Fever J. Sadly when I went to the wikipedia article for Super Sentai to see the order of series, they had these little bullet points about each series with trivia like "Debut of a Pink Ranger" and stuff like that, and of course for Gorenger there was a massive spoiler in the trivia section :) So I'm very disappointed in that, and it's not something I'll forget easily, so whoops.
I also have a few other things downloaded that I'd like to watch, like the original Gundam, Bubblegum Crisis, and Dirty Pair. So I might start binge watching stuff, and maybe finishing something will put me back in the mood for DS9. I realized that I could just copy the episodes to my phone so I could watch them there, instead of having to watch at the PC (I often don't want to sit up and it makes me not want to watch stuff, then I end up sitting up anyway and doing nothing???? Yeah, IDK) though it won't be as easy to screencap.
But yeah, I'm wondering if I do manage to finish Gorenger if I should watch JAKQ again and write more about it here.
It's weird because I feel like when I watch stuff, I want to have something to 'show for it.' Like with games you have your save data, and newer games have like achievements and counted playtime and stuff like that. But with shows, you have nothing to "show" you've watched it or no way to chronicle your experience. That's why I like blogging about it; it gives you something more concrete that comes out of watching, like having a save file. Plus it helps my tiny brainpod keep track of what's going on and think more deeply about the plots.
But yeah I just went on the wikipedia article for JAKQ to see what I remembered and uh, just read this:
[Karen] is a Japanese-American female police detective who was assigned to investigate the routes used to traffic illegal narcotics into Japan. During one of her investigations, she uncovered the fact that Crime controlled a majority of these routes, and decided to assist ISSIS in destroying them. Crime attempted to kill Karen by arranging a fatal car accident. Karen survived the accident but lost her right arm. Her father, a fellow police officer, was killed in the crash. Enraged and seeking revenge, Karen willingly accepted Joker's offer to undergo the bionic process and join J.A.K.Q.
Like, doesn't that sound really dark and serious?? And that's just one character's background/bio. (Karen was my fav character~) But for the show to just devolve into silly puns and gags with a completely different vibe... ugh.
I don't think I'll watch it again, since I don't want to suffer through that second half, but I will probably watch the JAKQ/Gorenger movie after finishing Gorenger.
Anyway, just wanted to ramble while I drank my soda lol. Now to retire to the couch and finish SMCrystal.
