I didn't really notice the end of the year is coming in so soon until I saw the voice actor of Ichigo in "BLEACH" say that we are near the final episode of the season?? That might be because this is a shorter season but heck, things have changed drastically since yesterday.

Blah blah my PC died again what else is new so yes this weekend marks my official move into Linux, and it has NOT been easy. *laughs* Well, I had high requirements on how I want to carry my own portable M.2 SSD with a bootable operating system (thanks Zorin OS!) (even with all your stupidity of not figuring out where to install the bootloader lmao) and now I'm just trying to do this weekly post here! Oh, I still need Windows to run the scripts and update my blog hosted at not Blogger now. *laughs*

So yeah, busy weekend and thank goodness it isn't given to work just like how my true love gave to me because it's nothing also *sob* but hey, there's new episodes of Anime! Not music though, I think we are done for the year.

Let's!

I know right, watching girls brush teeth in Anime has never been more normal than in real life- Ah hey. *laughs* In this new episode where we are trying to forget a certain something lol (#AoNoHako11), well we aren't talking too much about Chinatsu also she isn't going to the summer festival with us so let's talk about Hina-chan then!! About time, people, we are already so far off this relationship I can't even. *giggles* Which is great timing too, since this very event a couple of years ago is how Taiki got this parasite he could not for his own damn life get rid of. *laughs* Jokes aside though, but yeah, the flashback gives us a little glimpse into... well Hina-chan already just hinted that Taiki is cool in front of him so what else do you need to know? *giggles* I mean, she did say just inviting Taiki... and the others would be a good idea this year and is already killing her internally lol I know right, but then just forgot to invite the others of course not on purpose *wink* and THEN everyone else ie. Kyou was smart enough to not go just because? Hey, these guys might be friend but you have to remember when a boy and girl go to a summer festival together with the fireworks, they want to bang- Hear the bangs themselves or do a confession so soft the other party can't hear or whatever, go watch every other romance Anime with a summer arc. *laughs* So you know, who else will be going with them? Things have gotten awkward between Taiki and Chinatsu recently (and I swear I also forgot what that is but now that I recall...) so the girls are going themselves haha sorry guys we don't need no bodyguards Japan is very safe *wink*, and then Hina's friend already has her gang and Kyou is MVP this episode. *laughs* So yeah, all is set for these two to have a great time. *giggles* And then badminton practice blah blah who cares of Hyodou is cool we have Taiki and that is good enough. *thumbs up* ALL IN ALL!! *laughs* WE HAVE WAITED TEN EPISODES FOR THIS- AW IT IS NEXT WEEK??? BRUH. *laughs* But yeah other than that, damn this is quite an episode. I mean, it's rather obvious that Kyou will give them them the middle finger because I would if I'm in his situation and I'm already halfway there my bro just cannot invite me to anywhere where it's just with his gf lol *sob* but yeah, at least we know next week's going to be dope. *giggles* I know right, and this isn't even "ToniKawa"-

[TL:DR; "I'm still chasing something, but love's harder than badminton since it's not all one-sided." TRUE bro]

P.S. "But if I sleep, my brain will organize all my memories." And life. *laughs* Yo Hina-chan SAME though "It's because you're trying your worst to be (Taiki's) bestie." Haha I know right even Hina's friend knows she wants more out of this

P.P.S. "I didn't notice earlier, but everyone's falling in love." Haha yeah WITH YOU Taiki *giggles* He doesn't know though "Let's go. To the summer festival." Yeah Taiki will go with you Hina-chan let him get Chinatsu to go too *dabs* (Haha not gonna happen btw in case you wonder)

[Hina-chan special in case you wonder why it was Chinatsu in the thumbnails earlier haha let's do this]

Oh, we are cutting between the flashback and the actual fight again, huh, that's kinda weird. Oh well, can't be weirder than the deja vu of not defeating the enemy right here. *cringe* In this new episode where despair is in the present tense (#BLEACHTYBW37), well we kinda fixed it with the same formula we dealt with Barragan that king of the Arrancar before Aizen took over him so what else is new. *laughs* But yeah, this one has a different and honestly saying, better story, so maybe we talk about it. For starters, if the story didn't give you enough context, Kyoraku is a playboy. *laughs* I mean, he still is back then when Nanao-chan entered Seireitei, and with that pink coat on him tha was passed down by her mother, it's no surprise that she wouldn't recognize him at first sight. Apart from that, let's talk about Nanao-chan. She cute. *giggles* I mean past her is cute, nowadays not so much did you even see her dunk on Kenpachi trying to find Yachiru?? B*tch doesn't even respect men. *laughs* Anyways haha this was definitely a bad joke, but what was an even worse joke is the curse of the Ise family. I guess the mother was right in falling in love with Kyoraku's brother (lol) and making him die for no reason(?) and then realizing that their curse is due to using the sword for ceremonial purposes, then decided that not holding on to the family sword in the family is the wisest choice anyone could make. Well, we can't really prove that wrong since ever since then her mom and herself did not fall in love with anyone- Wait. *giggles* So yeah, this is the lore they will keep you hanging, so don't ask me if we are getting any couples shipped in this series. Well, we would, but not these two. *laughs* Oh shit, does that count as spoiler alert? Oops. *giggles* ANYWAYS coming back to these two, Nanao-chan's lore in the academy is very similar to mine, but of course unlike her, I had a sword. *dabs* Haha but also unlike me, she got chosen to be in the 8th squad which is combat-based instead of what she intended which is to be in the Kido Corps. I know right, Tessai would have had a wonderful vice instead of this pink dude. *laughs* But no, the lore must go on, and that's likely why Nanao was placed by Kyoraku's side, kind of as a teasing partner because why not this series doesn't have romance and we need some at this corner of the series lmao, but also, to sort of disprove? Maybe, that the sword's absence will break that Ise family curse, and even if not, Kyoraku would be there for it. So of course he would be surprised to hear Nanao-chan talk about the sword which I mean if you still assume this girl doesn't know anything about her family we are really stretching it here, Kyoraku. *giggles* So yeah, essentially this is a holy sword without much power displayed apart from the most important thing as seen by Lille's downfall and that is if they can see it, is that this sword reflects power better than whatever mirror you have in your room. Which really reminds me of how that Vaizard Hacchi gave Barragan a piece of his power back to him as he was infected by their godly power, so clearly Lille didn't read enough lore from the Arrancar Arc fights. *giggles* This episode also will explain why no zanpakuto is ever in twin form. Not Hitsugaya in that movie, not even Ukitake, not even Kyoraku as we see now. Ask Namaiya, dude, he knows. *giggles* This is because Kyoraku's zanpakuto spirit Ohana had to create another spirit to hold this very sword, and without that (though I can't prove it) Kyoraku would likely only have one sword in power. Damn, these few episodes have been WILD. I have been hit on a wave of nostalgia of voice actress I knew of a decade ago fulfilling their duty including Nabatame Hitomi this episode... thanks guys, this is just great I'm so glad they decide to finish animating this series. Other than that, oh boy what a great episode, seeing Nanao-chan in action makes me cry as much as I saw (RIP) Nemy last week so damn, this animation is living up to its standards as promised. Which gives me good faith that the final season will be even better with all the other fights that I would argue are more interesting than these. *giggles* Haha yeah. But sadly, we might have to end with Bazz-B's confrontation with Haschwalth it seems, so maybe let them tell you their story on how they ended up on the same path but not really.

P.S. "Are you telling me a vice caption will fight me alone?" Hell yeah she will. *giggles* Lille doesn't know the lore, he doesn't know. "You're so pathetic, hiding behind your own surbodinate." I mean, he did grab her from behind and that's quite a chad move so *dabs*

P.P.S. "Wow, I'm in 3rd Squad! Vice Captain Aizen is so cool!" LOL is that Hinamori by chance? Haha no way she doesn't think he's cool she- We're not going to speculate. *giggles* "But that captain of that squad is a weirdo with long hair." OOF Rose get f**ked "That's just a matter of personal tastes." TRUE THOUGH but seriously where's some chick with me as their weird taste? *cringe*

[I don't think we need to talk about the source material analysis because this is ON POINT unlike with Lille's aiming BOOM GOTTEM haha but I would like to praise Nabatame Hitomi for doing her own kid role because why not dude, and Sakura Ayane VOICED KID KYORAKU?? *mind blown*]

LMAO main guy in Anime asking what he is feeling is right now. You think we should tell him? No? *laughs* In this new episode where we have to make this main couple relationship something noteworthy (#MeidoSama11), we are, we will, just give it another episode we are near the end. *giggles* I know, you want to ask your sister about it? *laughs* Anyways, this episode is filled with sadness, because I'm pretty (not) sure Hitoyoshi started whatever floodgates there are in Yuki-san's eyes as she can't stop being sad the moment she feels disappointed by... well anything in this case. Seasons changing, cats fighting, Hitoyoshi not sleeping enough, her getting wet... *laughs* You know, everyday stuff we won't cry to unless you are lesser than 5 years old, but maybe Yuki-san is just living that life right now as a new human out of her assassin life, to be frank. But yes, in case you have not wondered, they both need help. Because this episode is all about their relationship in general, and how Hitoyoshi himself needs to get away from it but has no idea how to. With his experience? Heck, I can get out of this easier. *laughs* You want to sleep together? Let me turn on the aircon so we can cuddle. *giggles* Okay no more examples, Hitoyoshi already wants to switch places with me. *laughs* Anyways you get the idea, it's a weak human supporting another weak human, and if he can't get the message across to her, chaos ensues. And not like Riko did help when the new year came over, I really thought she would considering she was such a love master before with all the surveys and date consultation and shit. *giggles* Turns out, she's just a brat, so welp, doggo still MVP. *dabs* At this point the crying really looks like a joke, not gonna lie here, they might have overdone this a bit. And turns out Naka-san is the one helping her out after Yuki-san somehow figured to just go to the shrine without Hitoyoshi because who cares this lazy bum can just sleep through his birthday for good. *laughs* We will talk about him soon I guess, but what Naka-san told her about apart from the average fortune (technically means "future blessing" so you know *wink*) Yuki-san got and got her crying again not surprising this is what I thought too it just needs to not be the best and she will be sad, is that she might be holding it back all this time. Not being disappointed haha no, but more like, she doesn't know what to do from here on. She does know to pray to be with the Yokoya family from here on though, so that's a good start. All in all... boy, how much they paid to get Ueshama to cry this episode? *laughs* But serious talk though, we don't really see much of the point in this and how this will be resolved at any point, so with the dad's call missed and Hitoyoshi's birthday already creeping in, it will be interesting to see what point of ending are we talking about here, considering we don't have a conclusion to this since this source material is still ongoing. Really depends on this as the dealbreaker, even though I would argue we are already rather screwed from the beginning in the storytelling- I KNOW RIGHT TELL ME THE DAD IS ONE OF THE NINE ASSASSINS lol I highly doubt so but he can be the assassin's son or something, which makes Hitoyoshi more related to Yuki-san in comparison which doesn't sound too bad? I have no idea by the way I'm just yapping and extending this paragraph haha see you then

P.S. "Hitoyoshi, what you are feeling isn't love. It's just a desire for companionship." OOF FRIENDZONED!! *laughs* But really though yes I would like a lifetime companion. *wink*

P.P.S. "I have to put an end to this. For my sake and Yuki-san's." OH NO haha I'm sure they will be fine lol *cringe* "Are you fed up with me, Hitoyoshi-sama?" OH SHIT lol bro how dare you

FLASHBACK!!! Haha I guess we have to know about Tetsuko's story first, huh. No need to know firsthand, I don't wanna be her reason to move to Tokyo. *laughs* Anyways in this new episode where episodes are a focus and cut scenes are underrated (#MuraiNoKoi10), looks like the couple (hehe) have finally get around together with the main squad in this school trip, in case you forgot that Hirai is also missing from this action he doesn't need. *giggles* I know right, Yayo-chan is good enough. *thumbs up* But we can't have her for every man in this world and not like she's an idol or I want to marry one (lmao), but yeah, let's talk about the others, namely Murai. For Murai... things aren't going too well. He did just tell Tetsuko that he likes her for the nth time this series I can't even, but also that Yamakado is totally right in knowing that she is just trying her very best to not be a victim of a teacher-student relationship case which can get both of them expelled but who knows, we can still do it in secret. *laughs* I like how Yamakado then knows she was drunk talking about Hitotose and NOT him even though now that I think about it maybe Yamakado is just jealous of Tetsuko's love for a 2D character and he wants a piece of the action? Hirai might be right, this b*tch might have some rack worth of touching. *laughs* ANYWAYS haha, for what Kiriyama is planning should be obvious to all but the ignorant, that of course he is getting Murai to escape the curfew for the school trip (because you should be sleeping at night not roaming around) to view the meteor showers and such, so that he can have some alone time with Tetsuko who has to do her duty since Kiriyama said he spotted some students leaving the premises, and he is technically correct because that'll be Murai. *taps brain* Now that his plan is planned and executed full course, let us see how they meet up- WHY THE F**K DID TANAKA ASK THE HEAD TEACHER TO HELP HER?? *laughs* And that's where the problem of the season came up. Yes, the season, this is not even just an episode thing now, this is likely going to break this main girl. *giggles* For now we have heard the full story of Yamakado reading people like a book (lol), he read it well on Tanaka as she explains her sad story of her dad leaving the house, mom being a b*tch what else is new (lol) about it, and the brother Mao being her MVP. Truly though, is it that hard to be recognized after living this long? Yes. *laughs* I mean, the mom's dead before she could spit on her face and become a teacher whichever comes first, and turns out it's the former. *silence* Alright not talking about dead people here though, but Yamakado is definitely spot-on in consoling her this way such that it placed a freeze spell on Murai and Hitotose's love meters in order to fill up his one on Tanaka. *laughs* Sounds weird, isn't it? We have never seen such development before, too. So now that? Even with Murai not giving up on his feelings towards here and having a habit of not quitting that love which I respect and I wish I still had on my middle school crush (lol), I highly doubt Hitotose will disappear from her life along with Murai and TenTen for comparison, but yeah, now what? All in all... oh boy, what a change of events. *laughs* Also I like how they have to slot in this f**king photographer so we can progress the story. It's like the author thought to themselves what should they do to make this relevant and not like the dude did not ask for consent before showing this photo to the public? *laughs* I know right, and this is likely ending the series what looks like, which might result in Tetsuko losing her job and adulthood depending on how you look at it *dabs* so let's look forward to that!! *laughs* Though I would argue Tanaka? You can go the easy route. We have Yamakado here we can divorce him again. *giggles*

P.S. "The girl was too immature to understand that this was the result of overexpectation and overreliance on others." OOF also my story haha but not really no one loves or relies on me I already know "...she gave her bass guitar to her one true friend, an elementary school boy." Wait, what?? She gave it to Murai? *laughs*

P.P.S. "I'm not sure if I get it, but when Murai who likes Tanaka suddenly went blond, he turned into Tanaka's favourite video game character?" Haha yeah this is basically Episode 1 by the way "Brilliant deduction" Haha thanks narrator

[I feel like I should credit that intern's kid for drawing the last part of this episode so TETSUKO SPECIAL hehe]

(*Links to Apple Music Japan, in English where applicable)

Let's move on. *laughs*

(*From Twitter/X; Information accurate as of writing)

MORE BIRTHDAY SINGLES!! *giggles*

In case you don't know when's my birthday already please do not find out I don't want any celebration anyways (lol), but at least we will pit all those who are participating next year in 2 months time when I have to give all of them hoping they are good. *silence* Other than that, Polkadot Stingray's new song isn't bad at all I might give that actually even though I said we're done for the year lol, THE ORAL CIGARETTES did start the album up with an emotional tune and not like it hit me, but it's still better than MusicRay'n 3rd gen which really makes you think if they are begging for a music label to take them or something.

Or maybe they are just less cool of the artists they sang covers of. *shrugs*

I will do a short update on whether I gave anything on this. Either way, this will not arrive in time for a single review if this were to be on my shelf. As I said last time I heard the music video? This Blue Christmas is not for me. *dabs*

You know? We take a lot of things in Windows for granted. *laughs* Because I did not even realize (even though I did try this out on a virtual machine earlier this month) (at work) (lmao) HOW ANNOYING DOING THIS IN LINUX WAS, dude!! *giggles* I was missing media codecs all because I did not tick a check mark so I can get the OS installed faster. And then, taking screenshots for the thumbnails above was only getting harder also because I was unable to configure the hotkeys AND not take a screen without the subtitles which is a thing with *ahem* Mastroska video files because this is sadly not MPC-HC my beloved partner in crime lol trust me dude I tried Wine on Linux yesterday and it was as bad as I remembered. All this led to the usual Anime review timings (ie. watching first time and taking screenshots, write-up, renaming image files, uploading...) being significantly longer even compared to when I had to do this on my Surface Pro for those 2 weeks my old PC had to do servicing and with that immediate sorting in the files when you rename them WHICH ALSO is a problem here? *ugh* I can go on all day like how I already am refraining myself from making GIFs because on Windows it's just an offline app away... *sigh* Haha this is the price to pay for spitting on Microsoft's face and AI, I guess. All this is like a mess in my room I refuse to clean up even on New Year's Eve, not gonna lie here. *laughs*

On happier news my white hair population is increasing already let's not think of that for a bit, I did have a great dream sleeping with a woman though. Whoever it is though? Thank you. *laughs* But yeah, it's not enough to recall so I'm not writing a post about that, don't worry I know I can still do that but I'm old and I don't remember my dreams no more so *shrugs* I will update when I see good ones again, even for a glimpse. *giggles* See you guys next time then I have written enough of an outro I will write more as in document what I need to do to redo ALL of this again to flush things out (lol) (this isn't Windows so no recovery procedures, let alone OS reinstall) so hopefully forcing myself to adopt to the new norm will make all this worth it.

It won't. I'm in pain, I want to improve my workflows but somehow I'm taking steps back. *sob*

P.S. I MANAGED TO FIX MY WORKFLOW FOR PUBLISHING THIS ON TIME!!! Haha okay maybe not the search feature but that can wait. *giggles*