Yet Another Top 10 Random Encounters

They've done another poll, so that means it's high time I did another one of these too. Honorable mention goes to Emergency Meeting: An Among Us Song, specifically for the bonus challenge video. I did think the ending was a bit corny. Another Honorable mention goes to Phasmophobia the Musical, featuring NateWantsToBattle, for the spooky atmosphere.
 

10. Minesweeper the Musical - I thought this was catchy and it made me nostalgic for playing it as a kid (and not really knowing how to play it, so this actually helped)
 

9. Amiibo the Musical - Another catchy tune illustrating AJ's amiibo obsession. An alternate ending truncates the song with murder and a terrified Miss Bird running screaming from the house.
 

8. Friday Night Funkin' the Musical - An interesting entry. I chose this one more for the colorful costumes, acting, and set.
 

7. Ice Scream Man‭ [‬An Ice Scream‭ ‬Song‭] - I think the first was better than the second, an introduction to the game’s lore as kids tell a story around a campfire. It’s a bop.
 

6. A Proper End: A Stanley Parable Song - It was fun to watch AJ flailing around and trying to push buttons. He's replaced by their cat in the end.
 

5. Luigi's Mansion the Musical - The roles of Luigi and the professor were acted well, and the humor in it was great. “It’s not right.”
 

4. God of War the Musical - AJ and Nate as Kratos from the original and new installments of God of War. It’s hilarious.
 

3. Cooking Mama the Musical - Very catchy and funny. “Mama quits."
 

2. Goose on Holiday:‭ ‬An Untitled Goose Game Song - I love everything about this video. It's catchy, funny, well-acted, and the costume Gwen made is amazing.
 

1. Spooky‭’‬s Jump Scare Musical - This song was well-written and well-executed, and it did a good job of endearing Spooky to the audience (or at least me). “I did it to SCARE YOU!" 

Penultimate Entries

I have not yet watched the Sailor Moon Eternal movies, but I'm going to. I also need to find a day to sit down with my husband and watch the seven-hour Critical Role Campaign 2 Finale. That being said...

I liked the fight in 139 where they’re all shouting things at Lucien trying to awaken Molly with the power of friendship. It was very anime, and Matt says this is his love letter to Final Fantasy, as there is a second final boss form to Lucien. I can’t wait for Jester to tell Molly that she found her dad just like he said she would. She and Caleb [almost] died in that fight, and Caduceus came in clutch after almost dying himself.
 

Episode 10 is probably the best episode of Fruits Basket the Final so far. Haru just casually ordering a pizza while the Kyo/Yuki fight was going on was hilarious. The old maid was a lot more sympathetic. I thought I remember her just being coldly disappointed in Akito for how she’d changed in the manga, but here she laments not being able to change herself. She too doesn’t know any other way to live after spending her whole life in service to the Somas. I wonder which maids are responsible for giving Shiki the note that says "Your mother is human garbage." Probably not her.
 

After giving it some thought, I officially shipped my insert character with Isa. I tried it with both Lea and Isa, and I've come to the conclusion that Sayuri x Isa was best for both of them. I've been trying to get her look down, but I always seem to default to service industry colors (white shirt, black skirt). The original idea was that Namine is blond with blue eyes, so Sayuri would have brown hair and brown eyes. The difference between her and Tifa is that she sucks at fighting. What I was really going for was Rin wearing Tohru's clothes from the summer vacation arc of Fruits Basket. Thus, Sayuri's relationship with Isa emulates Haru x Rin, at least esthetically. Fundamentally, they're a little bit Kyoru as well, with Saix's berserk mode being compared to the monster cat or black Haru.

For some reason I want to draw fan art of Vaggie drinking an Oreo milkshake. On the video front, the Fruits Basket one is finally finished, and depending on the last three episodes, I might make one more. I made a seven deadly sins-related stinger, and I'm trying to figure out what video I could make to attach it to. Or I could just throw it in the stinger compilation video like I did with the Patti Lupone clip.

It's A Lot

Union Cross is over, and honestly, I’m not sure what I just saw. Player trapped four willful darknesses in the datascape along with them, but unfortunately everyone in the datascape is not sleeping - they’re dead and their Chirithy turned into Dream Eaters. Player’s heart joined with a new heart, which happened to be Xehanort’s. Since the timeline is screwed up, I don’t know when anything happens. I was hoping to see Skuld as Subject X, but it looks like she was Xehanort’s mom after all (unless Braig/Luxu took her back in time to when Ephemer founded Scala). She hands the baby off to someone in a blue robe, who takes him to Destiny Island where he grows up but then the blue robe drops dead. Brain lands in Scala where Ephemer has been memorialized with a fountain statue, and someone named Sigurd says his arrival was foretold. We see Marluxia in a field of flowers looking like he doesn’t have a care in the world, but then they cut to an unconscious Elrena on the cliffside where the evil queen dies, and there’s lightning around. Don’t be there, El! Someone help her! And then of course Ven is facedown in the Keyblade Graveyard, and we know what happens to him from there. Luxu goes on to possess Brain, maybe? I thought he was just supposed to give him the No Name.
 

Damn it, Kyo. Two episodes after telling Tohru he wouldn’t be disappointed in her, the episode title is “I’m Disappointed in You." It was spaced out more in the manga, but the anime doesn’t have that kind of time. At least that one maid had the correct reaction to the situation - screaming for help because Kureno got stabbed. At least Akito had the same reaction after the cliff crumbled beneath Tohru. Masterful acting by Colleen as always, as well as Momiji laying into her. Akito is responsible for her own actions, but I find it interesting that she got the knife and her emotional baggage from her mom.

RWBY Chibi came back because things got too real again in the main series. This time, however, it’s part of an anthology cartoon series that may or may not also include RTAA. Looking forward to seeing Yssa talk about Hamtaro games.
 

Key Lime Kit Kats are great, even better than the M&Ms. Still not sure I’d like the lemon meringue Kit Kats, but maybe if they came in regular size instead of bags of minis I would be more open to trying it. Or maybe those Dove candies I’ve seen advertised online.