You're Under Arrest

Honestly this is a problematic fave of mine as well, I call YUA one of my "comfort anime". I think I was introduced to this anime through literally a Modern Talking AMV, or maybe it was the "Kawaii Polizei" AMV.

I like the trans character and can find some like cosmic irony kind of humor in how she gets treated sometimes, but other times it's like... phweeh, that wasn't a particularly nice thing to do to her!

Ranma 1/2 (1989)

Pog, I've been thinking of continuing it, but I probably mentioned that last month, too.

Tokimeki Tonight, Dragon Ball Z

I saw the first episode of TT and the first episode of OG Dragon Ball a long time ago, and I keep wondering if I should continue them, too.

Gravity Falls

Mabel and Dipper are both good kids, I don't know what people are on about. I remember mentioning that I had rewatched the first episode of Gravity Falls not too long ago, but I haven't continued my rewatch since then.

Anime:

Finished:

I finished High School Fleet by myself. It was decent, not top-tier but I was definitely too harsh on it when I was first getting into anime. I also recently finished Ameku MD: Doctor Detective with my mom — aside from the scene in the burning building it was pretty consistently a good 'un. The episode with the kid with cancer really fucked me up.

Paused:

I tried getting back into Angelic Layer but it really isn't interesting me that much, so I've put it on pause, again.

Continuing:

Sailor Moon is the only anime I've been watching alone lately. I finished episode 36 earlier today, and honestly I'm starting to get fairly invested in the story. By this point we've got the Big Reveal about Usagi and Mamoru's backstories, and we've got a total of five sailor guardians and two kitty cats in the gang, and I'm already starting to grow fond of the newest additions to the team. So yeah, I won't call Sailor Moon the GOAT of mahô shôjo — that honor still belongs to Cardcaptor Sakura — but Sailor Moon is definitely still up there.

My mom and I have been continuing Samurai Champloo, Ojamajo Doremi, Cells at Work: Code Black, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, and Do It Yourself!. That last one we've ended up in the "don't want to watch the last episode cause we don't want it to be over" phase with; Samurai Champloo my mom has also only grown more and more fond of, despite "that kind of show not usually being her style". We've just seen my own favorite episode, the one with the graffiti and Andy Warhol parody.

And I might as well mention now that mom and I are still watching The Boondocks, and we still haven't finished season 3.

Started:

I also recently started watching Squid Girl season 2 with mom, but to my surprise and chagrin, the season 2's dub voice cast is completely different from season 1's — except for Squid Girl herself and a random dog! And I just cannot get past the one character having a familiar voice but everybody else sounding completely different, especially with the somewhat questionable audio quality or mixing. So we've just ended up watching the show subbed. And I'm gonna say now that Squid Girl season 2 doesn't seem as good as season 1 to me, but at the end of the day it is still more Squid Girl, so you can only complain so much.

Blorptube:

On Blorptube I've recently started arranging watch parties for the 1982 cartoon Once Upon a Time... Space (or Galaxy Patrol PJ / Ginga Patrol PJ) — which counts as anime because it's a Japanese co-production. I'm using the official YouTube uploads, which unfortunately caused a problem once as one of the episodes ended up being the French dub, and we had to rely on the machine translation of the machine transcription of what the characters were saying. Otherwise, while OUAT...S is a fun show, the music use and audio mixing is just way off, like there were times I could hardly understand what characters were saying in English because of the blaring, omni-present synth music. Synth music which is good in isolation, just used poorly.

OUAT...S is a continuation from Once Upon a Time... Man, but rather than being an educational cartoon it's pure sci-fi. It's also the first OUAT show to feature Mercedes and I believe also Pierrot, who will be seen again in future cartoons in Albert Barillé's canon. Mercedes in particular I couldn't help but notice gets, like, all the sakuga in OUAT...S — and another person in the chat said that OUAT...S REALLY wants you to know which characters have boobs.

On Blorptube otherwise I've been arranging watch parties for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and we're going to finish season 3 and start season 4 the coming Saturday. Moreover, we're also gonna watch the first Equestria Girls movie then, and Equestria Girls is basically the closest MLP G4 gets to being a typical anime: imagine putting Uma Musume (I'm assuming — I haven't actually seen it) with Precure and some third thing that's basically an amalgamation of every slice of life comedy anime about teen girls ever made, in a particle collider, and that's basically the picture.

Otherwise for the Saturdays we've finished JJBA, I wasn't really following along on that; and we've started watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, which I also haven't followed along on super closely because I literally just finished watching that with my mom like a month or two or three ago.

Manga:

With my mom I've been reading Laid-Back Camp and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken. They're OK, but not necessarily as good as the anime.

By myself at work I finished reading Yotsuba&! and got back into reading Aria, both in the original Japanese. These are both really precious manga that come highly recommended from me, reading them in Japanese is also a great learning resource — everybody says that for Yotsuba&! but it really holds for Aria as well.

Honestly, I've been meaning to get back into the Aria anime as well, but I kinda feel like the story might work better as a manga?