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Fall was a pretty good season, anime-wise.

Zombie Land Saga - I never expected to love a show about zombies so much, but Zombie Land Saga is downright hilarious with just the right amount of absurdity and heart. Plus, the idea of zombie idols is kinda brilliant. I thought IDOLiSH7 was going to be my favorite idol anime of the year, but this show surpassed it. I'm really hoping it gets a second season. It ended at a good point, but the final scene was definitely a sequel hook.

Double Decker! Doug & Kirill - This show started off really strong, but lost a little steam near the end, although I still really enjoyed it. And I have the say, the character designs were simply gorgeous!

Tsurune - Tsurune started airing a little later than most of the shows this season, so it still has a few episodes to go, but if you were a fan of Free!, then you'll probably also like this show, which is basically an archery-version of Free! Not that that is a bad thing in my book. Archery isn't quite as exciting as swimming, but Masa is really hot...

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san - It's always been a bit of a dream of mine to work in a bookstore, so it was fun to watch this series and see what it is like. Some of the customers that showed up were hilarious. I also enjoyed picking on all the censored mentions of real-life companies and manga series.

Ace Attorney - Decent season, I guess, but suffers from the same issue as the second half of the first season in that Mitsurugi was barely in it. I just can't really get into these other prosecutors.

Sword Art Online: Alicization (continuing) - Word of warning: Episode 10 is really tough to watch. Even censored... Well, it's disturbing.  But the overall storyline so far is pretty good, and I'm looking forward to where it will go. I think this series is supposed to last for several seasons, which is pretty rare nowadays.

As for next season, I'll be continuing with Alicization, of course, and I'll probaby catch up with the second season of Mob Psycho 100 once I finish watching the first season on Toonami. Looks like there's a new season of B-Project, too. New shows that look promising are Domestic Girlfriend, Promised Neverland, Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen, and Dōkyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Hopefully Crunchyroll will get at least some of them.

And now, for my Top Ten Series of 2018! There weren't any series this year that I would rate a perfect ten, but I think all of these are worth checking out.

* means I didn't watch the show while it was airing but picked up later due to good buzz.

1. Zombie Land Saga
2. Major 2nd
3. A Place Further Than The Universe *
4. Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card
5. Hinamatsuri *
6. My Hero Academia
7. School Babysitters
8. IDOLiSH7
9. The Ancient Magus' Bride
10. Double Decker: Doug and Kirill
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I mentioned in my last entry that I hadn't decided what new anime to watch this season, so here's an update on what I've decided to watch: Double Decker! Doug and Kirill, Sword Art Online: Alicization, second season of Ace Attorney, Zombie Land Saga, Tsurune, and Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san. So far, a much better season than the summer!

I kinda wish I hadn't announced that I was writing again. It seems like ever since I decided to make it public, I haven't been able to write as much as I had been writing when it was a secret. It doesn't help that I came up with an idea for a sequel to the story I'm currently working on ("Friends With Benefits"), and it's all shiny and new and I really want to work on it, but that would be kinda dumb when I need to finish this story first... Ah, well. I did post a new -- well, technically old -- story on FF.net yesterday. Remember "Consummation", the story about Keitaro's and Takara's first time? I posted it a long time ago at AO3 but not at FF.net because I didn't want to up the rating of "Spirit of Fire", but I've gone ahead and finally posted it as a one-shot for any SOF fans that don't visit AO3.

It's been a while since I posted about my latest purchases of Sailor Moon merchandise, so here's a round-up!



This actually just came in today -- a Helios/Chibi-Moon cup! (A pic of Pegasus is on the other side.)



I realized that I had plushes of all the other (non-Starlight) senshi except Chibi-Moon for some reason, so I decided it was about time to rectify that oversight. I love that she's holding the Crystal Carillon!

More pics under the cut )

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