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Skating lessons keep being cancelled because our snow only falls on weekends
I have apparently been reading at an average of 1 book/week so far this year, which is more than I usually get through and so I don't think I'll keep it up - that does include a Japanese book though (like, actual book with prose, not a manga), if one aimed at ten-year-olds. The last ARC ended up being one of those books that started off very well and then kind of biffed it when the author started talking about things outside his area of expertise and making mistakes that could have been fixed by going 'wait, is that true?' and searching Wikipedia to find the article about the thing he said didn't happen.
I've been watching a few random OVAs from the 80s (nothing particularly interesting) and Z and I have been watching Frieren. All I'd heard about it was that it was an absolutely amazing 10/10 anime on the level of FMA, and to be honest, I think it was overhyped. I'm really digging Frieren's relationship with the other female characters, and I wish they would be explored more; the show keeps trying to highlight her relationship with Himmel, but so far as I've watched he's not a very interesting character. There's too much of the kind of fanservice I don't have a lot of patience for anymore - I would have stopped watching a few episodes in if Z wasn't watching it with me, because 'lolol a little boy flips up a grown woman's skirt and her love interest is jealous lololol' isn't fucking funny. Some parts of it are genuinely well-written and well-animated, but there's also weird pacing in parts, and multiple 'strength/weakness shows up with zero prior discussion or foreshadowing right when it's useful to the plot' reveals. I don't know how to feel about it overall yet. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd gone in without the high expectations.
Lot of my free time this last week has been spent working on my![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
highadrenaline assignment, but when I'm done writing for the day, I've been playing FF 7 Rebirth now that it's made its way to PC. Things didn't start off well - I'm still mad that the mouse and keyboard controls are so atrocious they're almost unusable for some parts - but after grudgingly switching to controller for 99% of the game, I've been enjoying myself. I keep thinking there's one minigame too many, yet I like them all. While the Tifa/Cloud shipteasing scenes aren't doing anything for me personally, there have been some really nice moments between Tifa and Barrett that I appreciated, and overall I'm enjoying the character dynamics a lot. Plus it's nice to have the blend of serious and silly moments like in the original. Sephiroth slams a giant snake onto a tree like a shrike and also Cloud has to flip off a dolphin's back.
Also, everything about the chocobos is perfect. Their cute little slides and kweks? Feel great. The wee chocobabs that you can pet? Adorable. Nanaki riding one like a person even though it makes no sense anatomically? Hilarious.
I've been watching a few random OVAs from the 80s (nothing particularly interesting) and Z and I have been watching Frieren. All I'd heard about it was that it was an absolutely amazing 10/10 anime on the level of FMA, and to be honest, I think it was overhyped. I'm really digging Frieren's relationship with the other female characters, and I wish they would be explored more; the show keeps trying to highlight her relationship with Himmel, but so far as I've watched he's not a very interesting character. There's too much of the kind of fanservice I don't have a lot of patience for anymore - I would have stopped watching a few episodes in if Z wasn't watching it with me, because 'lolol a little boy flips up a grown woman's skirt and her love interest is jealous lololol' isn't fucking funny. Some parts of it are genuinely well-written and well-animated, but there's also weird pacing in parts, and multiple 'strength/weakness shows up with zero prior discussion or foreshadowing right when it's useful to the plot' reveals. I don't know how to feel about it overall yet. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd gone in without the high expectations.
Lot of my free time this last week has been spent working on my
highadrenaline assignment, but when I'm done writing for the day, I've been playing FF 7 Rebirth now that it's made its way to PC. Things didn't start off well - I'm still mad that the mouse and keyboard controls are so atrocious they're almost unusable for some parts - but after grudgingly switching to controller for 99% of the game, I've been enjoying myself. I keep thinking there's one minigame too many, yet I like them all. While the Tifa/Cloud shipteasing scenes aren't doing anything for me personally, there have been some really nice moments between Tifa and Barrett that I appreciated, and overall I'm enjoying the character dynamics a lot. Plus it's nice to have the blend of serious and silly moments like in the original. Sephiroth slams a giant snake onto a tree like a shrike and also Cloud has to flip off a dolphin's back.Also, everything about the chocobos is perfect. Their cute little slides and kweks? Feel great. The wee chocobabs that you can pet? Adorable. Nanaki riding one like a person even though it makes no sense anatomically? Hilarious.