Wow, if not for my mom still wanting to be in my room this morning, I would've just stopped playing Locomoto earlier, but hey, now I REALLY cannot afford to play that game now because we still have Anime and music to talk about for the week!!

Specifically next season also, but we have to wrap this season up! The celebrations are wild last night seeing the special livestream for "HibiMeshi" and how many social media posts they and "mono" have put up? Remember, we only had this much budget like, after the pandemic. *cringe* Haha anyways if this is too much, maybe check out the fanfic I did yesterday and pray for the day that some woman will choose to hug you instead of hugging a pillow. *laughs*

Anyways enough talk we are behind time, so let's conclude the month and season of Anime! And then maybe I will think of what to talk about music this week because I haven't been listening since I gave myself half a week's off. *wink*

Okay this one came just in time to end the current season, and I think doing this before the final episodes of this season would be a good way to anticipate the new stuff which is uh... sequels again apparently haha but there's more, and I will talk about them at length here, sit tight. *giggles*

So in Japan airtime chronological order, let's do the quarterly thing where we mock sequels that never end, hate on the shows kids love, and appreciate whatever is left of the new stuff I wouldn't mind just watching a one-season adaptation of. *silence* That last one doesn't exist by the way, I'm just coping here. *sob*

Okay maybe not Anne, she is a true lady with those German jugs. *laughs* In this final episode where we won't have time to show a recap now that all the action is done with (#KuroshitsujiWitch13), at least we can be relived to re-live the world where the Queen was still alive. *cringe* Alright that might be the worst joke I've made all month, let's move on. As a wrap-up for this story, of course we are already in London and dear Hopkins has already made a mess out of what we expected from Sullivan so whatever let's just move on, and the etiquette training being pushed to Sebastian while Ciel deals with his work as a Lord in England (by the way) is probably the worst idea based on what he has learned from in the past, since as Lizzy popped by his place only to see him on top of another chick (lol), Sullivan isn't him even though they are similar in age, and boy was it rough to see her struggle though I rather laugh at how Sebastian managed to fend off Wolfram just because he can only speak in English. *laughs* So yeah, all's well is well, the Queen cried in pain wanting Albert to talk to him again ie. John holding the puppet haha, and Sullivan got to eat one of the best pastry in the world. Just one. She can clear the table but we are not letting her do that. We are also not letting her reveal the formula to the more potent Sulin gas she created which we managed to take from the Germans, and just telling the Queen that you know, we just invented mustard gas the same time England probably figured it out, or else otherwise how would they even know what to tell Sebastian and Ciel when they were in Germany, right? *taps brain* Anyways, much deception, and Ciel did give her a good warning from here going forward, which is pretty similar to the stuff he does really: Make use of everyone, believe in no one, and negotiate with others on what future you wish to see. In Sullivan's case, hopefully to save the world. So we're building the nuclear bomb, got it. *laughs* All in all... what a journey, huh! We even got teased with the next story arc here. *giggles* Okay no more spoilers I know this part just as much as I remember the rest of this season anyways, so don't quote me on anything. Still, man, we went from serious to war crimes to jokes real quick, this formula ain't dying anytime soon, and I'm glad to be here even after so long on its animation adaptations. Seriously thanking Crunchyroll for making this budget possible if you have never noticed the credits, and hey, we have no news on the new arc yet, but if they are dedicated to see this through, I'm sure we will get to see where I last left off on the source material. Yana-chan-sensei? I'm waiting. *wink*

P.S. "As I've repeatedly told you, we'd like you to prioritize class over the rage." I mean, we do have a demon in rage here so class isn't that important, Sebastian. *wink*

P.P.S. "Sullivan-sama, your lessons to prepare for tea with the Queen have officially begun. We do not use informal words such as yummy." *salutes* RIP kid Sullivan haha

[Ending the season with a Sullivan compilation!! You're welcome and I'm calling the cops ahead of time before you see this lol]

What is this, Japan real estate? *laughs* Okay this won't make sense now I changed out the intro quote LMAO though in this final episode of the season (#AharenSanS212) is a lot of things, I'll tell you that much. It's property inspection. It's grand parenthood. It's being a teacher in the school you graduated in. It's Futaba-chan in high school. I can list more but I think this is more than enough for 5 years, don't you think? In case you haven't noticed, we are concluding this story with Raidou's future prospects. In a recollection of Aharen Reina being alone with her grandchild so did she breakup with him or...? *cringe* Uh turns out I was right haha uh oh this is not funny anymore, this episode is ALL of the above so sorry for making you guess anything if I did, and let's go through them as much as possible. Firstly, Raidou wanting to be everything. This is basically his future goal, to experience as much as possible, and it all started with just being with Aharen-san, apparently. Since he never knew what he wanted to become, he tried everything. Even in the future where he is already a grandfather, he still wanted to go to Mars and went through training after being a novelist? (And this is real IRL by the way, the author had to know this to write it in) He is still trying out new things even after all these years. So the property inspector thing is also real. So basically as Aharen-san has thought she cannot compare to him, he's THE jack of all trades, which makes him more attractive than ever to the ladies... Ladies? *laughs* I know right, what is Aharen-san even worried about. People just see the esteem between her and Raidou and just collapse before they even get close. Also she was here first. I think that's... how all love stories work, even in real life. *sigh* Haha I meant myself, thanks for asking. I'm sure this story can go long enough to do another season, but we gotta wrap up. So, to wrap their relationship. We know so far that Raidou admires Aharen-san because she can do anything. Be nice to people we already knew she is such an older sister role she is one herself (lol), a girl with many skills and even though she misses at times, it's because of Raidou that supports her, making her go so much further than her introverted and quiet self graduating from middle school, if you would recall. However, Aharen-san admires Raidou for the same things essentially, and worried that she might be in the way if he has that much potential to want to do anything and everything which makes her feel like she doesn't get him enough, and that she was in the way. SO! In case you need me to enforce the title of this series... What if I told you she could not decipher Raidou even after all these years?? *laughs* Wait, his given name is "Shota"?? I'm calling the cops. *laughs* Oh, and since we aren't getting the opening theme song here again... Screw you, ZuttoMayo, maybe next time I'll give your songs. *giggles* Apart from all those which holy heck what just happened haha, after what I saw in next season's Anime preview last night (fourth wall break) I did think about what was the best among all these this season, or even, maybe among the sequels, and I think this one won just because we got so much more than we asked for. And this is before I watched this. And now that we have been here, I can only be more appreciative of it. Literally, screw all of those comments wondering why this got the sequel instead of their favourite Anime. Dude, unless you don't watch the romance genre, I don't know what you are complaining out. It has jokes, it has quirkiness, and most of all, it's still touching. And all because we chose to talk to the girl beside us in class. *silence* I wish I had that power haha maybe I didn't bother her enough. *giggles*

P.S. "I'm not a surveyor. I'm a property inspector." What? *laughs* "Shove a stake in it, surveyor! This land's all mine!" I'll shove a stick up your a** if you don't leave now- And then hard cuts to a Yakuza 0 fight scene haha if you know you know

P.P.S. "I never thought I'd have the kind of youth they show on TV or manga." I don't. *laughs* "I thought I'd always just be watching from the outside..." I always have, ever since "Toradora!" almost 17 years ago. *sob*

I know right, girl wants to make a movie and can't even animate- Just use AI, dude. *cringe* In this final episode where we don't make images with AI since they can't make 360-degree images anyways *dabs* (#mono12) we can however make a POV horror short movie so let's! And I'll stop you here right now if you want to proceed because spoiler alert, this episode is mostly about pranking the only two people F**KING DUMB ENOUGH to believe in it. So Kiriyama and Amamiya. *laughs* I mean I did too so count me in. *laughs* For starters, as Shikishima has pointed out, she introduced to us phantom member Tajima, who only like appeared for the paperwork, would make even less sense to even show up in person (not even through a ritual lol) let alone help them out with the short movie by being what was closer to a professional actress? Yeah, should've thought of that in the first place. *laughs* And then, the shooting. Since fake Tajima did hint on a more serious story while they visited the dam and instead of just freaking out we should just jump down the waterfall and never be seen again... As I said, should've taken Kurokuma-sensei's story, at least these guys couldn't have sabotaged that. *laughs* And last but not least, this prank of all pranks that lasted a week after, was all because Makinohara-senpai was dropping by to see Amamiya. Yup, we got jebaited RIGHT from the start, and thanks to Shikishima I guess haha sorry not sorry, they decided that the best way to make Amamiya take more photos and/or forget about her senpai is to make her think she was filming with a spirit? *silence* No comment. *laughs* But yeah, I guess the last part did get to me too, summarizing all the "things" they have taken, travelling places, meeting the one manga author through the online auction app and then some... I wish we had stopped at that, honestly. *laughs* No seriously, why is this series about horror, and why are they doing it so casually over the weekend? *silence* I wish I hadn't watched this. *laughs* But if I HAD watched this and did not prepare what was to come, I still WOULD NOT be prepared to deal with well... everything it seems. This Anime in a nutshell is about everything. I mean, "thing" is in the title. But if I really had to talk about what it is, it's travel mostly, and I wish it didn't have the horror stuff, though I could understand how that might play a part into telling stories of locations and such. To be fair, we can't always have tournaments and/or travel weekends or whatever they be doing, right? But seriously though, for something that hardly has a theme aside from slice-of-life? This is as hard of a sell as Shikishima's next camera which hasn't existed yet. For now. I don't think I want to see redemption of this too not even as a sequel, because honestly? I rather it stay as my impression of all the characters and maybe theme songs, since that's what really sold to me in the first place. Yes, this was still a great auction transaction. *laughs*

P.S. "Have you all seen one?... Then you have to watch one! Here's my recommendation." https://myanimelist.net/animelist/aozakish *laughs*

P.P.S. "If I buy a camera through an online auction... I can have a shot at pulling a super-rare character like Haru-san?" That depends on if Ueda Reina has a camera to sell. *silence* We're talking about Mercari, right? *giggles*

[To wrap this up, characters round-up! Sadly no Taishou but that cat is everywhere so]

Wow, how much Mako-chan has grown huh, being able to go to eateries herself now, so proud of her, really. *giggles* In this final episode where I watched spoiler free of their before-after party livestream lol (#HibiMeshi12), we celebrate the end of the year, welcoming the new one, and the times the girls have spent time together over the past year. Remember when it was just Mako-chan freaking out at being seen by her childhood friend Oshinko- I mean, Shinon-chan? If not for that, we might not get all of this, honestly. *giggles* And then the rest was history because as they piece up photos to put on the cork board which Shinon bought to hang in their club room, we more than see why they are such a great group together, defying all odds which says a lot when you have super introvert Nana-chan. *laughs* Even in this episode their rapport shone through the horizon as they leave the shrine after their new year visit, it constantly reminded us that there'a always something that makes this group possible, from the meal last night thanks to Mako and Kurea, and before that cleaning up of the club room thanks to the secretary giving them access even though no one's in campus but them lol and then Kurea-chan had to poke them to not fool around and actually clean, to even having Kurea to drive them to the shrine she knew had lesser traffic- Why is it all Kurea-mama? *laughs* Really makes you wonder why Shinon got her driver's license. *giggles* Even as Aizawa Saya mentioned in the livestream yesterday night coming in through the show halfway, I'm sure fans will also remember Nana-chan's presence even though she wasn't the initial image of gyaru as mentioned by her when she joined in. Yup, that was in an episode of their side YouTube series with her in it, so I'm sure you'll find out where. *wink* Tsutsuji is just a character in herself and interestingly I got more into her as the time comes and thanks to Inui Natsune doing the "enaruru" voice last night too haha that's what Tsutsuji refers to when on energy drinks, and Shinon is just a hype girl, what else do you need me to talk about. Anime girls should ALL be her. *giggles* All in all... it's a shame we got Nana jumping into the new year but we didn't get to see her panties. *laughs* Sorry that I had to make this joke, it's too good to miss and this is not Shinon's fault. *laughs* But this is a simple episode to end with since this is original series and they can decide how to wrap this up, and wrap up they did, from the kotatsu to the kotatsu to the- Wait. *laughs* I really wonder if they will get enough rep for this to have a sequel or not, or what it even will be as they hit No.1 in trending on social last night, humble brag. *dabs* New members as hinted by the outro? Probably. Look what Azu-nyan did to the "K-ON!" series 15 years ago. *cringe* Haha anyways I still think this is a great series just to watch, the personalities, cooking, and most of all, just them hanging out together the dynamics, definitely will make you walk away thinking "Koufuku Graffitti" is as good as this is. (Spoiler alert, it's better hehe) So yeah, if this took a while to come out as hinted by the ending theme released half a year ago, then it was worth the wait. Maybe by then I will have to watch this again so I can jump in sync with the video when Nana-chan did it lol no way dude

[TL:DR; According to MyAnimeList as of posting, this Anime scored higher than "mono" so go figure. *dabs* AND ZatsuTabi?? Haha nice]

P.S. "I don't want to clean." Yeah same. *giggles* "To be honest, I'd like nothing more than to sit back eating snacks while you handle it." Me to my parents on Friday mornings- Oh, and it's eating breakfast, Shinon-chan. *laughs*

P.P.S. "Is amazake really non-alcoholic?" Well Nana-chan it's not... on most recipes. *giggles* "Well, because I'm underage, so if I drink alcohol, I'll get in trouble." Saya-chan it's okay I won't narc we can have drunk s*x IRL too- *laughs* Also this is not a joke Aizawa Saya is not underage I can do her whenever I want-

[Moeno Azuki no Meshi Umashi!! Oh they went to that Chinese cuisine establishment Mako-chan went! Now we just need to put Moeno-san in a Mokotaro outfit (yes that one they used for the food cart recently lol) just so we can cover her huge appetite fitting of the mascot themselves. Remember, the staff had to wait for her to finish eating, they even sped it up, dude. *laughs*]

(*Links to Apple Music Japan, in English where applicable, of current year unless specified)

I will need more time to listen in to these because damn is getting into Nagi-san a challenge after you listen to Chilli Beans (but I guess it doesn't matter I just wasn't in a mood to give the former anyways), so I'll talk about them more next week. I can safely give the latter a couple of songs, if that's what you are keen to hear. *wink*

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

I'll take note on Suda Keina they didn't disappoint me the last time I had to listen to their album so let's see if they hold up. I think we all missed the live streaming on YouTube whether if it's Ikimono or wacci but I don't really care, I don't have that much time on social I want to play video games also. *giggles* And then the rest is a meh I guess. Can't wait to get shell bombed next week with Anime theme song news. *laughs*

(*Release type in square brackets, else assume single song release)

Eh, this is fine to start the new month, I gotta wrap up "mono" anyways and I know Aniplex is here to do me a solid so I can have something else to like without thinking of its potential horror... genre. *laughs* Other than that, I suppose Suchmos will be the underdog if its revival EP is going to be good, and I have zero expectations of Kyari-san just because the preview months ago wasn't great, so let's see if I can try again.

Man, seeing music artists come back and sing and release new songs again (and I mean Aqua Timez) is making me *cringe* and I don't know why I would. I rather wish they died with my great memories. *shrugs* Anyways this is as much as I can think of going into the new month, can't wait to have to do more work tomorrow. *sob* See you guys next week then, and until next time... maybe I will be able to finish Locomoto by then. It's not easy with the slow load times and side quests but I'll try. *laughs* If you would excuse me I have phone wallpapers and AI art to plan for next week so haha bye

P.S. I did promise a Locomoto video game round-up(?) and we will continue the new Rune Factory game sometime, but meanwhile, let's talk about how much I love this OG Switch jank!! Crashed 3 times already btw and ignoring the autosave issue lol thank goodness can still load manual save: