Hugtto!PreCure episode 19 was surprisingly relevant for Pride Month, I liked it. I also notice how it looks like PreCure has been influenced by the recent trend in Western Superhero tv shows and movies to pretty much just have all the supporting cast be in on it.
Katana Maidens episode 19 was pretty interesting as well.
Legend of The Galactic Heroes episode 8 does provide us with some Yaoi. Literally, there is no heterosexual explanation for him playing with his hair like that at the end. That said I’m also not opposed to a threesome including the Blonde’s sister. In case you can’t tell, I’ll probably never memorize these characters names.
Steins;Gate 0 episode 7 put some more focus on Ruka. Some might not get my repeated references to Steins;Gate’s handling of Ruka’s gender identity being a confusing problem. Their being groped for comedic effect from time to time is just a surface level aspect of it.
The issue is the original show went down the route of suggesting Ruka’s preferred gender identity was Female, but then implies they just felt that way because of their attraction to Okabe. The sentiment that Gender doesn’t ultimately matter I can support, the issue is how dismissive that can seem of Trans Women. I guess I would like to ultimately think of Ruka as Non-Binary or something like that, which is why I’ve been using they/them.
I’ve been revisiting some Pretty Cure pilots with the help of Rabbit. This franchise was super Gay from day one.
And I’ve now seen Subbed the first episodes of every season but the only two that continue a prior continuity. None of them are bad, but I seem to be the only person who finds Heartcatch the least compelling.
I also watched some more of the movies. I have now seen the first 5 Allstar movies, the first Yes 5 movie, and the Suite movie. The movies are all pretty fun.
And then I finished Glitter Force Doki Doki. It reminded me of a lot of similar themes from The Last Jedi, Batman V Superman and The Dark Knight “there’s not gonna be any fireworks”. And while the part of me sympathetic to the critics of those films kind of wants to go “look how this show for little girls handled them better”, I ultimately view it as a vindication. Clearly those things aren’t so inherently dark and nihilistic as Snyder haters think, it’s just harder for some people to see the hopeful optimism in them if it doesn’t have the color pallet of a cartoon.
And I also feel like saying that the Yuri ultimately is not very subtle. What really grabbed me was how it kind of even addresses the “girls do it to practice and then grow out of it” when Regina says things like “I was a kid then” but ultimately the love between does prevail.
Magical Girl Site episode 11 was pretty intense. My final verdict on this show utterly depends on how it ends.
Next I’ll probably finish the first Glitter Force, then focus on either Symphogear or the Canadian Dub of the original Pretty Cure for awhile.
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