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Animedragon

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  1. I've now finished my rewatch of A Place Further Than The Universe. This is a really beautiful series with a wonderful story about four high school girls who join a scientific expedition to Antarctica, but this is no "cute girls doing cute things" anime it has a very serious storyline. We follow the girls as they overcome obstacles to gain their place in the expedition, we experience the excitement they have at joining the ship and see them experience the "joys" (if that it the right word) of being on a ship in seriously rough seas. We see them experience the beauty of Antarctica, and learn of the dangers of living in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. But while the series has a serious storyline it's not without some very subtle humour and some quite emotional scenes.
    Anime series this good don't come along very often and it's definitely one of the best series I've seen this year and one that I'll certainly want to watch again.

  2. This sort of thing doesn't seem to happen much in the anime I watch, but the two that come most readily to mind are Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn from Sailor Moon and Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura.
    I think there may have been some split personalities in Madoka Magica Rebellion, but that movie was hard enough to follow without thinking about split personalities.
    The main character female characters in This Ugly Yet Beautiful World have some form of dual personality and the male lead transforms into some sort of monster, but I'm not sure if that counts as a split personality..

     

  3. I've just finished watching Angel Beats. This is probably one of the strangest series I've seen for a long time. I'm not really a fan of isekai series but this started off looking like an interesting series, main character dies and wakes up in a high school in the afterlife with no idea why he's there and what's happening.  
    For most of the first half of the series I had no idea about what was going on, it seemed that what passed for a plot was just an excuse for a load of dramatic fights where almost everyone got killed, but that was OK because they were in the afterlife and they were dead anyway so they couldn't be killed and they'd be back for the next episode.
    Then in the final few episodes the creators seemed to realise that some form of coherent storyline was needed and desperately pulled something together which gave the series a reasonably decent ending.

  4. 4 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

    Finished Insomniacs After School. It wound up being a really sweet love story between two highschoolers struggling with personal baggage that keeps them up at night, finding solace in the night sky & each other. At times it felt like something tragic was being foreshadowed but it ended without ever being confirmed or denied. And I’m fine with that. 

    I've been reading the manga for this one and am definitely looking forward to watching the anime.

    4 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

    My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Level 999. I actually had a fairly high opinion of this series for much of the season, but sadly it fizzled out in the last third or so. In the end, I just couldn’t feel any romantic chemistry between the two leads

    This one seems to have had some very mixed reviews, but I think I'll add it to my watch list out of curiosity.

    4 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

    Going to give The Dangers in My Heart another chance largely due to the fact that it remained one of the season’s higher rated series. I generally don’t let popular opinion have too much of an influence, but since my initial reaction was one & done, it probably deserves at least a bit more consideration.

    This one looks like it might be interesting. It got some good reviews on MAL, but then again I don't always agree with the reviews on MAL.

  5. 7 hours ago, Nebulous said:

    Hey all!  Its July already.  2023 is going by too fast.  Pretty soon the holidays will be here.  

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    Doesn't time fly, it's half-past 2023 already!

    Looking at that picture reminds me that I know people who are already planning Christmas events!

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  6. As someone who is retired I no longer have a job, but here are some of my thoughts about the job I had.

    The big negative was that it was a customer facing and customer driven job which meant that we were often working to the customers, sometimes unreasonable, deadlines and sometimes had more work coming in than we could really cope with and turning work away wasn't an option. Some customers could be quite demanding and while we did try to explain how long things took to do there were always a few stroppy individuals who wouldn't, and didn't want, to listen. Although thankfully the majority of our customers were polite, understanding, friendly and usually up for a chat and a laugh or two.

    On the positive side it was an interesting job that I enjoyed doing and being a customer driven job it meant that if there were no customers we had no work to do but generally the work ticked over at a steady rate with the quiet times roughly balancing out the madcap "headless chicken" times. Over the years I worked in a number of different places and, with a very few exceptions, my colleagues were a friendly bunch and we all worked together as a team and helped each other out. 

     

     

  7. Owning you own home gives you security of tenure. One of the things I've noticed here in the UK is that quite a lot of private landlords are in the "buy to let" market, they buy a house with the intention of letting it out, the theory being that the rental income covers the cost of the mortgage and other expenses. But increases in interest rates are making this idea difficult and some landlords are finding that the rental isn't covering their costs. This results in either the landlord putting the rent up or just deciding to cut their losses and sell up.
    Personally I can't think of much worse that finding a letter on my doormat one morning that says "Sorry you'll have to move out because I'm selling the house".

  8. 3 hours ago, Key Visual said:

    Nice catch! Always don't have the right camera on me. Did catch some raccoons when I was on vacation last year :)

    I must admit that I was surprised he waited for me to get the camera, I expected him to have gone by the time I got back.

    Nice raccoons and other critters.

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