Well That Was Nice...Ish

TTG finally had a nice episode where Trigon agrees to stop using Raven to open portals and just be her dad. Too bad Robin had to ruin it by being Jake English in Trickster mode. The compilation of fractured Greek tales was interesting, if not annoying (I liked Khary's performance, though). Scott's voicing a Robin (Damian?) in the new Lego Batman movie, and Troy Baker has replaced Will Arnett as Batman. I was expecting to hear Will, so it was weird, but Troy's not a bad choice. While I'm glad Scott is in it, seeing the trailer after watching these episodes of TTG made me not like it as much. If only TTG!Robin wasn't so grating and annoying.

I finally finished reading both Homestuck epilogues. One was a trek, the other a slog. I started with Candy, in which John chooses not to do what Rose says, and what unfolds can only be described as a bad soap opera on purpose. All the while, you know that much more interesting things are happening in the other epilogue whether you read it first or not (damn you plot/black hole event horizon). If you read Meat first, at one point narrator Dirk tells you to stop, read Candy, and come back. It really doesn't matter, though. Meat hits many of the same story beats as Candy, but it feels more like a Homestuck story. The postscript to each one ties into the other. Both end with some version of "the prince needs to be stopped," which makes me wonder if there will be another story where parties from both epilogues set off on another mission or if Hussie intends to leave it there forever. Did we really gain anything meaningful out of it other than more content? I can definitely relate to Rose's condition, though she's like that 24/7 whereas I only suffer 1-3 days out of a month. And my girl Aradia is still around, so that's cool.

Fruits Basket combined the culture fest episode and the sleepover episode. It was changed so that Arisa and Saki find out about Tohru living with the Sohmas via Momiji and Hatori showing up rather than her sitting them down and telling them at the top of the episode. We were never going to get something like the episode from the first anime, but some people were really looking forward to Shigure sing-songing "high school girls" and were denied (though John Burgmeier did say it in a recent BTS clip on Funimation's YT channel - apparently he gets asked to do it a lot). The episodes do feel longer, so it actually feels slower instead of rushed like the beginning of Brotherhood.

Another Top 10 Random Encounters is in the works, but they're already doing rounds of polls on their own right now. Right now I'm up to 6 or 7, so that could be helpful. Or they could make a few more that rock and I'll save it for the end of the year.