March 2024 Update! (Patreon)

It's almost April!

If you missed it, I published another article on Anifem! About I'm in Love with the Villainess! You can see it here: My Fave is Problematic: I'm in Love with the Villainess. I also talk a little bit about my experience with the story and writing the article here. It was flattering to be approached to write this one.

I need to remember to start posting my articles on Patreon when they come out. Sorry.

It's been an up and down month for me, and now it's almost the end of the anime season. I'll be getting up all my reviews out sometime next month. Most of them will hopefully be fairly short, but the Dungeon Meshi one will likely be long, knowing me.

There's some anime I'm interested in checking out in the coming season. I'm a lock for Whisper Me a Love Song, a yuri that's got a good reputation! Train to the End of the World (girls on a train during the end of the world) looks like it could be potentially interesting and the animation is cute.

Tonari no Yokai san looks like it COULD be exactly my stuff. Yokai? Cat yokai? A nekomata? sign me up.

The retro style of Astro Note intrigues me (guy is courting his landlady, discovers a land lady) and could be wacky and fun. On the other hand, it looks like the male lead might the annoying horny type that I find a turn off. I guess we'll see.

There's also Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (about girls playing music, cool looking art and girls having tons of drama. It's actually funny that there's three anime about girls playing music this season).

Besides that, there's A Condition Called Love (shoujo with a good rep) and I might check out the Spice and Wolf reboot. There's one called Rinkai about a women's cycling team, but the animation looks rough and boring, so that's a probable no.

I also might pick up some stuff from last season I didn't get around to, like 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy, which I've heard good things about. Depends on how stacked the season is for me.

I haven't been watching too month besides continuing with the anime I've been following. I did go to the theater and see Love Lies Bleeding with my partner, and it was definitely that good toxic queer girl drama. CW for abuse though (a little bit between the leads, but mostly as a subplot about the main character's sister).

I've been reading Godkiller this month, which started out really exciting and promising with the main character hunting gods thanks to her dramatic origin story, but then became kind of a slog, with the characters endlessly traveling through the woods and getting attacked by shadow beasts, rinse, repeat. There were a couple exciting bits though, and it seems to be picking up a little for the ending.

I did finish reading Maus. The parts recounting the Holocaust were heartbreaking as expected, but what I hadn't heard of was how much the book explored Spiegelman's complicated relationship with his father, and his anxieties as an artist and whether he was the right one to tell this story. I found that fascinating too.

As far as my book, I'm doing the last proofreading pass on my novel and then it will be ready to submit! Still working on the query and synopsis in the meantime.

Other than that, not much to report on, other than the release of the anime has given me serious Dungeon Meshi brainrot again. You probably all noticed that!

I'm going to remind myself to try to post some bits of the MFA writing lessons I've been teaching here when I have time. Lots have piled up.

See you next month!