Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 4

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 5) – The show must make sense of its convoluted situation.
Super Cub (Ep. 4) – Ah, that’s relaxing, exactly as expected.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 4) – Lucky you, grandma.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 3) – That was some brutal confrontation.

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Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 3

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 4) – Not great when your story requires Evil Twins.
Super Cub (Ep. 3) – A bit more of the same.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 3) – Dull, except shamisen stuff.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 2) – Never liked hyper-energetic kids.

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Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 1-2

One Phrase Impressions

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 1) – lots of obligatory sci-fi world-building/exposition.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 2) – the Bear is just too shady.
Super Cub (Ep. 1) – unexpectedly wholesome product placement.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 1) – shamisen overshadows the characters and the story.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 3) – a time jump and even more exposition.
Super Cub (Ep. 2) – look – the bike fetched you a friend!
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 2) – settling in Tokyo with more shamisen in the spotlight.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 1) – … yeah…

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Musings and Reflections – end of Winter 2021

The start of the New Year was the time when after some time off I came back to see whether I still like anime. I guess this winter season was a pretty good for me to return to it – there’s lots of shows that are sequels – which I couldn’t watch because I haven’t seen the first seasons or simply didn’t caught up with the current season. I’ll definitely get back to Attack on Titan some day, Re:Zero and Non Non Biyori are also my possible targets, and everything else… Well, there’re many ok shows but anime that seem to be right up my alley aren’t that numerous. So yeah, such a season left me either a small number of shows that I knew should be good (and were)  – that’s you, Yuru Camp, or should be pretty good (and more or less – probably less – were) – hey, HoriMiya. And yeah, that one wonderfully (yep, pun intended) memorable show that I binge watched after it (sort of) ended. I doubt there’s anything else I might come back to later on. Still – a pretty normal season compared to ones I remember.

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Week 13

One Phrase Impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 13) -A bittersweet goodbye
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 13) – I guess it ended? Somehow?

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Weeks 10-12

One Phrase Impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 10) – A camping trip to best all camping trips
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 10) – Is it really about Hori and Miya?
Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 11) – Sleepy Rin and lots of food
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 11) – Inconsequential fooling around
Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 12) – Izu’s pretty picturesque, isn’t it?
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 12) – A Christmas episode? Whut?

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Week 9

One Phrase Impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 9) – Rin’s family is awesome
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 9) – Thought provoking, though not sure that in a good way

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Week 8

One Phrase impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 8) – Solo, but not alone
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 8) – Supporting cast having their time to shine

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Week 7

One Phrase impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 7) – Solo-camping fun
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 7) – Everybody has problems, eh?

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Musings and Reflections – Winter 2021 Week 6

One Phrase impressions

Yuru Camp 2 (Ep. 6) – Camping sure can be dangerous
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Ep. 6) – Change of style and Kirito-chan

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