A thoughtful response to current anime.
Last episode on Ginyoku no Fam, the Sky Pirates had just rescued/kidnapped the princesses of the good-guy monarchy from the clutches of the bad-guy federation by blowing up their ship and crashing them into a lake, allowing them to fly below the steam-radar of the enemy ships. Now they have to return home to warn [...]
I appreciated the aesthetic of the original Last Exile, but I found it hard to get engaged with the plot and characters because of the haphazard way in which it was presented. There was only one character who was really memorable, and I really didn’t like the direction they took with him at the end. [...]
I had like ten pages of discussion of the new season typed up, and then I accidentally closed my browser and somehow WordPress’s autosave didn’t manage to save any of the work I had spent hours on. So instead of a long effortpost, you get the executive summary of what’s hot in the new season [...]
