Animedragon

Observation

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..

What are the best dad jokes? Home groan ones.

Cinema

Tricentennial

It's the first one of a series. The second season will be: "Reborn as a washing machine" ...or perhaps I shouldn't give them any ideas!

I've started rewatching A Place Further Than The Universe, which is one of the very best series I've seen this year. It's got excellent artwork and animation, a great story and a good cast of characters.

I really like the lyrics of this song from Charlotte.

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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.

Kookaburra

I've been reading the manga for this one and am definitely looking forward to watching the anime. This one seems to have had some very mixed reviews, but I think I'll add it to my watch list out of curiosity. 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.

Perpetual

Striking

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!

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.

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".

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.

Celebration

I've now finished my rewatch of Hyouka which is a highly enjoyable series and definitely one I'll keep on my rewatch list.

Yaw

Erudite

Continuing my rewatch of Hyouka I noted that several episodes took place during the school's cultural festival when the whole school was turned into a fairground and all normal school classes, lessons etc were suspended. I've seen this in several other anime series and not really given it much thought, but this time I thought, to borrow Eru Chitanda's phrase, "I'm curious" so I did some research on the Net. What I found was that the cultural festivals shown in anime are a pretty accurate representation of what actually happens. Then I got to thinking that I might have enjoyed school more if we'd had similar festivals, then I realised that for a whole lot of reasons it would never have happened.

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Vampire