This ED feels like you are browsing an artist’s past commissions rather than an animated ED.

I had to know what you meant by that and wow. As promised. Do the characters actually walk around like that in the show?

I watched a small handful; here are my favorites, in no particular order:

• Bureaucrat to Villainess OP - The ED is nice too (I love the bit at the end with his family), but to me the OP is just full of charm.
• Hundred Girlfriends ED - That was just incredibly cute.
• Apothecary Diaries OP - I assume that much as the previous OP, this’ll hold a lot more significance once I’ve seen more than one episode of the season. In the meantime it’s a pleasant song with pleasant visuals.
• Apothecary Diaries ED - This one mostly stuck out because it’s so different from what I feel we usually get. I don’t even like it more than average, but I really appreciate it when they try something unusual. I feel like this happens a lot more with EDs than OPs.
• Medalist ED - It’s really cute, but not as cute as the Hundred Girlfriends ED if I’m being honest.

I don’t really expect anything to come of this, but it would be great if it led to better conditions for animators.

How is I Have a Crush at Work so popular? Is anyone here keeping up with it? I watched the first episode and it didn’t seem that good.

It definitely is trash, it’s just exquisitely crafted trash.

I’ve started a few new shows lately:

I have a Crush at Work - meh. I watched the first episode and dropped it.

Armored Trooper Votoms - I’ve watched two episodes so far. Hard to evaluate off of that, but I think I’ll keep watching a while longer.

Terror in Resonance - Pesky terrorists doing terrorist things. Why are they doing them? What is their goal? The show has dropped some vague hints, but so far it seems very unclear. It seems to want me to believe that nobody is being killed in these attacks even though there’s rubble falling onto sidewalks from dozens of feet in the air. I guess “a good terrorist doesn’t kill other people” or something like that.

P.S. I would totally watch 3rd Girl Fighter Wing if it’s an actual anime

They did a 1 episode OVA of it.

Ugh, I signed up for Crunchyroll back in the day when I only used two or three passwords for everything instead of using a password manager. Welp, time to finally change a bunch of passwords I guess.

Prospera is now having a picnic with Suletta and her keychain sister, despite the fact that she just wiped out an entire fleet and almost had both her daughters kill each other

That felt weird to me too. What is Prospera doing in anything but a prison? And she even still has a relationship with her daughters? At least let the rich face consequences in my fantasies!

So far I think they’ve only announced a model for the GQuuuuuux itself, though others will doubtless follow. A few youtubers have gotten their hands on the kit, and impressions seem mostly positive. It looks like it’ll have great articulation, but some of the finer details will be achieved with stickers rather than increasing the number of plastic pieces. That isn’t unusual, and the stickers are decently nice so it’s not a huge deal, but it’s nice to not need to bother with them. Of course you can paint those parts instead, but there are plenty of people who won’t want to do that.

It’s actually been out in Japan for a few days now, so hopefully we’ll get some English reviews soon.

I agree that this show got too complex for its own good. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that maybe it was originally intended to have more episodes and that’s why the second season felt so rushed.

As an aside, The Witch From Mercury has some of the best budget model kits Bandai has ever made. Something like the High Grade Aerial kit, which can be found for <$20 USD, would be a great choice if someone wanted to give building gunpla a try. If there’s another suit you liked more, well, pretty much all of the high grade Witch From Mercury kits are both affordable and great.

The animation was gorgeous, but I’m kinda annoyed that I got tricked into watching an isekai.

Edit: The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb! The cut off part reads something like, “While struggling with her storyboards, she loses consciousness. When she awakens she finds herself in the world of an anime she saw as a child, Tales of Destruction.” I can see why they wouldn’t want to be lumped in with all the other generic isekai that are constantly being churned out, but I don’t appreciate being lied to.