Tag: ranma 1/2

It’s a holiday for our colleagues in the UK, but a normal (quiet) work day here.

Even though it’s not a holiday, it’s still The Holidays, so I got pizza. Pizza is festive, right?

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.10-12: Mostly this has been moving faster than the original, I think, but the end of the skating fight seemed drawn-out. I don’t like Shampoo as much in this version: her character design is different and she doesn’t have much personality.

Read: Daily Report About My Witch Senpai vol 2 (Maka Machida): Apparently love makes witches’ magic go weird. Meh.

Read: I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl vol 5 (Kashikaze): Actual romance is happening!

Read: Guardian of Ruses (Kate Stradling): We finally get to see what the mysterious country with its made-up prince looks like to outsiders. Also, more het romance.

Read: Beyond Promised Neverland (Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu): One short epilogue piece for PN, and assorted unrelated pieces by the same team.

Read: Assistant to the Villain (Hannah Nicole Maehrer): Comic fantasy with anachronistic office culture. Or maybe it’s romantasy. Anyway, it’s ridiculous, the villains are more honorable than the good guys, etc.

Written: 112.

But what do they drink in other countries on this day?

Had to work the first half of the day, because someone has to. It was dead.

Went for a stupid walk for my stupid mental and physical health. Tried to also do some shopping, but failed.

I tried to get Chinese takeout for Marith and myself, but OMG it was so crowded! I did eventually get the food, but it took over an hour. I have definitely made better plans in my life, but also worse ones.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.7-9: The rhythmic gymnastics fight with Kodachi with the famous line “Use of brother: valid” and then the skater pair and “I can win anything if it has martial arts in the name”.

Read: My Clueless First Friend omnibus 1 (Taku Kawamura): It’s not chunibyo if you’re in 5th grade! Declarations of eternal friendship are not romance if you’re in 5th grade either, at least if you’re as clueless as this boy.

Read: How to Survive at the End of the World vol 4 (RC Joshua): Now everything that was accomplished in book 3 is in danger, because the universe is just like that. I’m not sure about how the System is depicted in this one.

Read: Heart Gear vol 1 (Tsuyoshi Takaki): Centuries after WWIII wipes out humanity, an inexplicably surviving young girl activates an ancient robot and ends up going on a quest through the dangerous world of leftover robots to save a friend.

Written: 121.

 

 

I think the metric conversion of today is 1734912000.

I could have taken today off, but I didn’t, so I had work. It wasn’t very busy.

Read: The Moon on a Rainy Night vol 6 (Kuzushiro): Gay panic at the deaf girl’s house! (Okay, not exactly.)

Read: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc vol 5 (Sekka Iwata, Yu Aoki): There’s always a government conspiracy, isn’t there?

Read: Don’t Be a Drag (Skye Quinlan): A girl with significant mental health issues goes to NYC to stay with her brother the drag queen and gets mixed up in drama and drag kinging and frenemies and episodes and stuff.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.4-6: Still seems to be following the same story, although faster. We already have Ryoga and Kodachi. Kodachi is pretty creepy too.

Written: 133.

Actually I want to get rid of essentialist ability scores and only have skills, because “I’m good at X” is better than “I am X” especially when you get racial modifiers involved.

Went on a long (for me) walk on streets I had not walked on before, realized that the ability to cast spells should definitely take up inventory slots (not an original idea by any means, but I like the idea of one mage festooned with birdcages holding spirits, another lugging a huge ceremonial staff with trailing banner, etc.)

Got Pakistani-Indian Fusion food from the new place, and OMG it was spicy. Also bone-in, which is not my favorite, but it was good anyway. I will have to try again and see if they have anything that is better suited to my pasty whiteness. Or I could just order triple naan to smother the spiciness in layers of delicious carbs.

Read: Blend-S vol 1 (Miyuki Nakayama): A scary-face girl gets hired at a maid cafe that caters to cliches, as the Sadistic One. Hijinks ensue, I guess.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.1-3: They remade Ranma! The story seems the same so far, although the translation is different and it’s all new animation with not as much fanservice. Kunou seems creepier, but I don’t know if that’s the remake or just it being 2024.

Written: 207.