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Not to escalate this further, but I do have to say... Anyone who has even an ounce of trust or faith left in mainstream media after this election is a fool. The bias toward Hillary is so obvious and underhanded, it's honestly revolting. The recent 24/7 coverage of these new groping allegations against Trump (none of which are credible in the slightest, if you take the time to actually analyze the claims and background check those crying wolf) and the complete blind eye turned toward the Wikileaks reveals prove just that. Isn't it ironic that Fox News, the butt of jokes years ago for being so unabashedly right leaning, is now the closest mainstream outlet to neutral? While everyone else, most notably but not limited to Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and New York Times, have stooped to Buzzfeed level clickbait, misleading and cherry picked information, and overall negligence in journalistic integrity in an attempt to capitalize on ignorance to push for a Clinton presidency? And I only call Fox "close to neutral" because they hate both Trump and Hillary, but they're really not all that much better. And for those not in the know, the Anti-Defamation League's current CEO and National Director is Jonathan Greenblatt, former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama. Yeahhh, tots not suspicious. Ehem, but I digress. This is the thread for memes, in which case...

Sure, here's the quick rundown (I've left very short comments on the ones whose first episodes I've seen): 3-gatsu no Lion Ajin 2nd Season Bubuki Buranki: Hoshi no Kyojin (same as last season, overall pretty weak but kinda stupidly endearing in its own weird way) Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season (not gonna lie, it's looking better than the first season, hope to see a Noragami-style turnaround) ClassicaLoid Drifters Fune wo Amu Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku (mahou shoujos in a battle royale *muffled "I say cry" plays in the distance*) Occultic;Nine WWW.Working!! (good to see Wagnaria make a return, even if it's just a spin-off) Yuri!!! on Ice (this was actually really good and, uh, nice to look at, no homo... ... ... .. .. . ok full homo, but only for Viktor) I would have had the second season of Hibike! Euphonium on my list, as I planned on binging the first season right before the fall season started, but school has been busier than I expected and so I never found the time. To be honest, I'm probably watching more shows than I have the time for, but that's never stopped me before (it has). Also, this is the first season I'm watching in literally ever where there wasn't at least one multi-cour leftover from the previous season that I was still watching. Starting off on such a clean slate is certainly a strange feeling...

Summer 2016 Final Impressions This is the last of these I'll be doing, mainly because school is taking up all of my time. I was lucky even to have this finished on time for today. All in all, this season was one of the best in recent memory. There were a lot of very good shows, and only a few that were disappointing. 1. Mob Psycho 100 What starts off looking like a budget version of OPM quickly turned into one of my favorite anime of all time. The animation is the best I have ever seen in a full series anime (not exaggerating, I’m serious when I say I think it’s the best). It’s consistent from episode one to episode twelve, with no dips or drops in quality. The artistic directing is far better than anything in OPM as well. The story has some surprisingly amounts of depth and the characters are endearing. Only downside is that the humor is still similar to OPM’s, so in my opinion not too strong, and the music is also a tad lackluster, aside from the opening song. Still, anime of the season right here, potentially year. 2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Every year there’s that one anime that’s so popular, it’s apparently not as good as everyone on the Internet says it is. Well, Re:Zero is that anime for 2016. It’s been one heck of a ride, and all in all I really enjoyed it. While I personally felt it peaked after the intro arc and during the beginning of the second arc, that’s not to say that everything that happened afterwards was bad. It was all right, just not to my taste. The animation is good, and occasionally exceptional when it needs to be. The story itself is far from finished though, so the conclusion naturally doesn’t feel like much of a conclusion at all (hoping for a second season eventually). Worth checking out even if just for the hype. 3. Amaama to Inazuma Last season was a season of disappointing slice of lifes, while this season was a season of very good ones, the best being Sweetness and Lightning. Between this and Shokugeki no Souma, I was virtually always hungry this past summer. This show has lots of sweet (and sometimes strained) dad and daughter antics going on. It touches upon themes of family, though nothing too heavy or complex. The cooking portions are adorable as well. Honestly, I probably only liked this as much as I did because of best girl Kotori but shhhh no one has to know… Decent animation, average music, but too dang cute not to like. 4. Amanchu! What a gorgeous show. I didn’t expect to relate to a show about diving as much as I did. The themes of trying new things, friendship, memories, and love were so poetically and beautifully woven into this seemingly episodic, mindless slice of life that spent more time on high school than on diving. But it somehow works, and it’s everything Flying Witch wishes it could have been. The key frames are just vividly detailed and appealing, even if the animation itself was, for the most part, average. Also, the music during the diving/swimming sequences (two times in particular I recall) were some of the best compositions I have ever heard in an anime. 5. Tales of Zesteria the X Ufotable proves once again that they’re the only studio that would probably be able to faithfully adapt Game of Thrones into an anime. Not that something like that would ever happen, but still. While Zesteria’s characters and plot were bland, the animation and CGI integration was far better than it was with the recent Unlimited Blade Works adaptation, if you can believe that. Gorgeous scenes, paired with one of the best and most varied soundtracks I’ve heard in an anime made for some ridiculous moments of simultaneous eye and ear-gasms. To be fair, I think the music was ripped directly from the video game soundtracks, but it doesn’t change the fact that the score was phenomenal. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. 6. Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara There’s not much difference between this season and the first season, apart from this season only being single cour. Only reason it wasn’t as good as the first was because the majority of the season was spent on the tournament arc, which was kinda fun the first few times but started feeling stale and repetitive halfway through. What made the first season so great was getting to know and bond with the massive cast of characters through other activities, not just one vs one cookouts. Still, the animation was good and the cooking was still over-the-top crazy, so it was a fun experience, just not what I was expecting. 7. Kuromukuro It’s a shame not many people paid this anime much attention, because it was pretty good. It reminded me of Robotics;Notes (both in terms of atmosphere and music, as well as in terms of how it was received). It’s a mecha show that focuses less on mechs and more on slice of life high school antics. The animation is clean and the character designs are very endearing. The conclusion left enough room open for a second season, though it’s self-contained enough to work as a standalone. There were a couple of soundtracks, a few during the fight scenes and one during an emotional scene, that were notable very good. For an anime original that lasted for two-cour, I found it pleasantly surprising. 8. Orange Animation quality took a huge dive after the first episode, which never recovered unfortunately. Aside from that, the anime was decent if not a bit predictable. Some parts could have been better if not for the distractingly bad animation, which can really take the drama or tension out of a scene. The characters were alright for the most part, though the two MCs were a tad too dense to really connect with them. Music was decent as well, and the character designs finally grew on me. In general, this wasn’t a bad show, just overhyped by the manga readers and not given the adaptation it deserves. Props to the studio for extending the last episodes by a few minutes as to not rush the ending, that was nice at least. 9. 91 Days This is near the bottom of my list, but only because this season was so fantastic. Seriously, in any other season this show would be at the middle, but such is the luck of falling in the summer 2016 timeslot. 91 Days started really well and ended really strongly, but had a weak middle. A lot of anime originals seem to face this problem, as most writers have the beginning and end of a story mapped out before the middle. If more thought and effort had been put into the journey between point A and point B it would have been a far more compelling show, but otherwise it sits at average. Fantastic opening song though, probably my favorite of the entire season, even with Tales of Zesteria the X’s two fantastic openings. 10. Ace Attorney This anime started as it ended: not at all good for those new to the series, but decent fanservice for those who’ve already played the games. I’ve already talked at great length about this in previous posts, and my opinion hasn’t really changed. Only watch it if you’ve played the games, otherwise stay away. 11. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!! You were the chosen one, Silver Link! It was said that you would destroy bad animation, not create it! This was the biggest disappointment of the entire season. I was really looking forward to the fourth season of this series, since everyone said that this is where it got good. As far as plot goes, yeah it was pretty good. But god damn, did it look fugly. The penultimate episode, the one which was supposed to cover the biggest fight scene in the entire series yet, was hideous. Like, Tokyo Ghoul Rout A levels of bad, and that was baaddd. It ruined the atmosphere and really ruined a lot of what the season was leading up to. FeelsBadMan. At least the flashback movie will be better, I hope. 12. Rewrite /r/im14andthisisdeep: The Animation. Nah, but in all seriousness, I appreciate what this anime tried to do, but its themes are just, really old and pretentious. They might have been good in the early 2000s when environmentalism hit a feverish peak, but today it just seems silly and childish. It’s like a mix of all the bad things about the Nasuverse and the Keyverse mashed into one silly mess. Fan service juxtaposed with “deep” philosophy of people’s impact on the environment just doesn’t make for a compelling premise anymore. Will I watch the second season? Yeah probably. -- And for the record, ReLIFE would have been the second best anime of the season (between Mob Psycho and Re:Zero). It was only left out of the list because it released all of its episodes simultaneously and I had already given my full thoughts on it in a previous post.

OMM: DICKS OUT ?!

Today I took one of the most stressful and brutal exams in recent memory, and I have another one tomorrow which I still need to study for because I spent all of today working on a group project that everyone procrastinated on. I've also been running on 7 hours of sleep for these past 48 hours, but the good thing is I successfully encountered and caught both an Exeggutor and a Blastoise today!! All things considered, I'd say life's pretty good.

I actually never eat lunch. I have a big early breakfast and a big early dinner, which are usually enough to get me through the day. I have a snack or two if I need it though. And nah, I encountered it and caught it easily since it was only CP 87, haha. And I'm level 25 right now, but only because living on an urban college campus is OP. Gained so much more exp so much more efficiently since coming back to school (not that I mind).

What OMM thread?? And I realize I have only found a single Cleafairy all this time I've been playing. It's the second oldest Pokemon I still have in my inventory (behind only my starter of course). I'm sorry for your loss. And playing PoGo is exactly how I spend my lunch breaks when I'm not cramming for a test or quiz. Those buddies aren't going to walk themselves... Edit: Well speak of the devil. Ran into my second Clefairy tonight.

Hm, I'm starting to think it may not be a nest, but rather a Frequent Spawn Point. I'm not entirely certain of the differences between a nest and an FSP myself (or if there even is a difference, but from what I understand nests either have a species spawn at periodic and predictable times or have a species spawn so regularly (even multiple times at once) that predictability becomes irrelevant. Because of school, I haven't been able to test the "nest" that much, but I know that the Bulbasaur definitely do not spawn at regular times of the week or at predictable points during the day. They spawn randomly, so it's really hard to predict when you can walk down there and nab yourself one That's why I'm beginning to think it's an FSP as opposed to a nest, though the line differentiating the two categories is blurry at best. Good thing is, whenever I'm in the area and see a Bulbasaur on my nearby list I know exactly where it'll be and don't have to run around like a headless chicken to track it down. Can confirm, school is currently kicking my butt. What "On My Mind" thread? I've never heard of an OMM thread before.

It's pretty great that I'll be able to watch this live since it falls right between my first and second classes of Thursday, but WHY IS THIS ABOUT THE 3DS AND NOT THE NX??? NINTENDO NO BAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (oh who am I kidding, I'm totally going to get hyped over this even if I know nothing of great import is going to be revealed)

I may have found a Bulbasaur nest on campus today. I'll need to further test this over the course of the next few days, but once I confirm they spawn often and regularly enough to constitute as a nest then I'll promptly report it to The Silph Road Nest Atlas (unless someone beats me to it). I would have preferred it being a Charmander nest, but I suppose pickers can't be choosers.

-- OMM: Everyone else is enjoying Pokemon Go while us New Jerseyans are boiled alive

I JUST CHOKED ON MY UGLY LAUGH OH MY LORD

Aw, it's too bad you didn't like it. If you want me to be completely honest, I can't really remember why I found it so good when I first watched it. I haven't seen it in well over four, perhaps even closer to five, years now and only vaguely remember some parts that entertained me. But then again, it was one of the first anime I had ever watched and at such an impressionable age as well. Anything with epic music, an edgy plot, and hype scenes was enough to hook me in. And expectations probably have a lot to do with it as well. I watched it with zero expectations and came out like "woahhh" but if I had put it off for years and finally got around to it after constant pestering by friends, there's no way I would have looked back on it as fondly as I do now.

OMM: Just finished Conquest Lunatic a few minutes ago, and I just... That was by far the hardest non action/reaction-based video game I have ever played, hands down. That was so mentally draining, I'm surprised I managed to even beat it at all. It doesn't help that I made some of the biggest blunders at some of the most critical moments, which nearly destroyed my motivation to complete it. My brain is so saturated with Fire Emblem right now, I almost don't even want to play Revelation on Lunatic......... ... ... . . . almost.

OMM1: Pokemon Go is finally out in South America! Just in time for the Olympics! Forget about Zika, I'm just looking forward to the spike in cellphone muggings. OMM2: Why is Argentina's government so much cooler than the United States's? OMM3: Just four more chapters and the endgame, and I'll finally be done with Conquest Lunatic.

There's not too much to say about this since it's only a 28 minute long pilot, except that it was really good. Some people are salty that the animation wasn't as good as the trailer's and that the episode didn't focus on Anthea, even though it was known that this pilot would be a prologue to the "actual" story of Under the Dog since, like, the very beginning (it's listed as episode 0 for a reason). I really hope that this eventually gets funded into either a television series or OVA/movie series, though I'd probably prefer the latter for the sake of quality. This pilot was never meant to be a standalone anime. It hints at only bits and pieces of the world, and a lot was intentionally left vague. The animation and musical score were both fantastic, and the artistic directing was phenomenal (great use of show don't tell). All in all, an amazing watch, and not nearly as disappointing as critics make it out to be if you've actually been following the progress and promises of the Kickstarter Project from beginning to end.

THIS ISN'T EVEN HIS FINAL FORM I don't usually nickname Pokemon, but I might have to make an exception this time

"hello to Patsuko!"

OMM: Seventeen chapters into FE: Fates Conquest Lunatic mode and I'm starting to regret my life decisions. Birthright Lunatic wasn't too bad, if not surprisingly easy (thank the gods for Ryoma and his speed, like wow). But I have completely underestimated Conquest Lunatic. I thought if I could handle the infamous chapter 10, I could handle anything. I was wrong. But it's too late to turn back now. If I stop now, those six hours spent from midnight to six in the morning beating chapter 17 will have gone to waste. On to chapter 18 it is......

OMM: tfw you can't tell if your liege lord is a king or a queen

aNNIE R U OK