I remembered your words from last week the ENTIRE time. Bechdel Test Failure XD
To be fair, most shows fail the Bechdel test.
But this show’s treatment of women seems particularly noxious, but again, to be fair, women in RL motor racing are pretty much treated as car decorations.
It’s still confusing, but at least the plot feels like it’s going somewhere.
A FUG trap to do what to Bam/Yoru/Jue Voile Grace?
Why even bother with green-and-black tracksuit guy, if FUG and Mad Dog hold all the cards? Maybe he was the only participant on their half of the island who wasn’t in cahoots with them?
I thought this was an exciting episode.
The Ferrari slowly reeling in the 86 as conditions dry out.
That reminds me of a Formula 1 race where Michael Schumacher’s slower Ferrari was set up for the anticipated wet conditions better than the normally-faster McClaren or Renault of Fernando Alonso(?)
That was a thrilling race, and this episode captured that suspense well.
No, women don’t think of anything except how to please their men… :-/ 😒
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Tracks:
A World Of Joy by Dave Rodgers feat. Kaioh
Maybe the Haitians’ employers in Springfield should have campaigned harder against Trump.
Or maybe even Ohio politicians in their state’s economic interest?
But no…
BlueSky’s been getting a ton of press lately.
Their PR department must be working overtime.
Not a peep about Mastodon though.
Blue Lock’s goal was pretty spectacular! It probably wouldn’t happen in real life, because physics, but let’s not worry about that.
Itoshi Sae’s not getting on with his teammates.
Maybe that’s something our protagonists will end up exploiting?
This episode was predictable, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Gram’s straight face while facing off against nameless swordwoman was amusing. “Ho hum, been here, done that”.
Sales droids are everywhere…
I don’t think that I should take this show seriously as lessons in business, but it’s interesting…
She’s right to be suspicious of them.
This guy will say anything to get a sale, and hope the team collectively bail him out…
If they ever have a downfall, it’ll start like this…
I thought they were going to bring in bard girl to sing and lift everyone’s spirits, but I thought this worked better.
What happened to “Don’t tell the Sin Archbishop your name?”
Maybe now is the right time?
Mildly interesting: The subtitled version that I watched had a “mistranslation for clarity” for the benefit of the English reading audience.
The subtitles said:
Teacher Q: “Who knows what one plus one is?”
All A: “Me!”
The verbal Japanese dialogue goes:
Q: (implied What is…) “One and one?” “Ichi to ichi wa…?”
A: “Ni!” (Japanese for two)
I don’t understand the point of this new Kokoa character. Okay, she’s a spoiled rich girl, but what is her interest in Fossa Magna, Berry Blossom, Chrome, etc? Is she just bored?
My midseason tierlist (after 6-7 episodes)
S Tier
A Tier
B Tier
C Tier
F Tier (dropped)
I feel like I should be watching:
Watching randomly:
I think Re:Zero is following the same episode structure as last season, where Subaru is thrown down the pit of despair into a seemingly insurmountable problem, and then he’ll find some way to get out of it.
That’s why it’s really hard to watch right now, and honestly it’s about the same time when I quit watching last season. I haven’t even watched how that ended, but it looks like he survived the rabbits okay.
Yeah, maybe take a break from torturing yourself, then wait until all the episodes are out and find out how he survives this time…
At least his family knows where he is…
To get around Macrovision, you had to have a gadget called a genlock or time base corrector that repaired the video’s frame signal so that a VCR could record it properly.
Genlocks and TBCs were also very helpful when dubbing unprotected anime tapes.
They didn’t entirely solve the video signal degradation to the copy, but they did make the copies much clearer.
Generally pre-record original anime tapes from Japan weren’t copy protected. I seem to remember that one or two that were, but I can’t remember the titles.
What a great article!
I always thought the annoying dimming was some kind of copy protection scheme, like the old Macrovision from back in the days of VHS.
Even if you don’t want deign to give Trump himself credit, he’s got very smart lieutenants working for him, like that Susie Wiles who co-managed his by-all-accounts “disciplined” campaign and was named Chief Of Staff a couple of days ago.
It’s probably most famously the name of the lead heroine in the Sailor Moon anime and manga, hence it’s a girl’s name, and on the hurricane/typhoon name list.
I have no idea how many Japanese girls are actually named Usagi.
Maybe an anime fan had input to the name list, and we can expect Typhoon Madoka some time.
You do realize why Trump is doing these wild nominations is to distract from whatever else he will have cooking when he takes office.
Less flashy, but more consequential things like even more tax cuts for billionaires, pardoning himself for anything and everything, installing corrupt MAGAts in place of career civil servants, Supreme Court nominations, gutting securities/education/food/communications regulators, gutting the State Department and other instruments of our foreign policy, anything else in Project 2025, etc.
Trump could care less whether it ruins life for the 99% of us.
You don’t mess around with Global Tetrahedron.
I hope the UAF makes good use of it in the month or so before Trump takes office…