Tag: ranma 1/2

In 2025, texting or DMing about chocolate is also acceptable.

I did not do a good job of getting up early like a person who can log in to work on time tomorrow. I did do a shopping, though. Now I have a toothbrush again.

Read (comic collection): By Night vol 1 (John Allison, Christine Larsen, Sarah Stern): Two post-college girls in a small town find something unusual in the abandoned factory, and engage with all the caution and chill expected of John Allison characters.

Read (short): “For a Limited Time Only” (Peng Shepherd): Time travel, but only for Sales and Marketing, not for bringing medical tech back.

Read (short): “A Visit to the Husband Archive” (Kaliane Bradley): A very strange post-apocalyptic world, or maybe the apocalypse is still happening.

Read (short): “All Manner of Thing Shall Be” (Olivie Blake): Time-traveling vampire housemates.

Read (short): “Cronus” (P Djélì Clark): Never let the KKK (or any other white people) get time machines.

Watched (anime): Ranma 1/2 (2024) 2.11-12: Spring of drowned duck, and the final(?) defeat of Mousse. End of the season!

Written (game design): 111.

After staying up way way too late, I got up to get pills and accept the handover baton. Fortunately it had no additional presents, so I was able to go back to sleep forever.

Watched (anime): Ranma 1/2 (2024) 2.5-6: The spring of drowned man, and the dojo destroyer.

Read (novel): Broker vol 3 (Derelict Presence): Possibly the MC has bottomed out on sanity and started improving. The final boss still seems to have no weaknesses unless they can make him rage-quit at life, but his future minions are getting taken off the board.

Read (comic collection): The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol 2 (Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Rico Renzi, Clayton Cowles): Still 50% squirrel, still 100% girl, still unbeatable! Also, Thor fanfic.

Read (short): “Making Space” (RF Kuang): Yikes.

Read (novel): The Casket Girls (Bonsart Bokel): Steampunk mecha girls against interdimensional rifts, needed more editing and/or was not meant to be read without first experiencing some other multimedia facet.

Written (game design): Technically 600 but maybe really 355.

Haikubot only communicates with radio waves.

Watched (anime): Ranma 1/2 (2024) 2.3-4: Big duel with Mousse and Cologne’s obnoxious interference. I can’t blame her for thinking Ranma would be a less terrible grandson than Mousse, but that’s a low bar.

Read (graphic novel): Ignition City vol 1 (Warren Ellis, Gianlucca Pagliarani): As Earth of the 1950s withdraws from the pulp spacelanes, a grounded pilot goes to the last spaceport to find out what happened to her estranged father. Every background is mostly rusting rocketships, and I mean rocketships, none of this antigravity or advanced composites. Also aliens and goons.

Written (game design): 185.

Also the winter Solstice, so a spiffy solstice and a yahoo yule to all!

I didn’t sleep in as much as yesterday, but I did stay in bed being useless for quite a while before going out to get Pakistani-Indian Fusion lunch. Then I came home and was useless in a chair for the rest of the day.

No gaming, Dave is out of town and most people are busy with holidays.

Watched (anime): Ranma 1/2 (2024) 2.1-2: The return of Mousse, and Ranma’s great weakness to the results of Shampoo’s training accident.

Read (novel): Magica Riot (Kara Buchanan): Trans magical girl in Portland. It has all the standard tropes: the team is a band when they aren’t fighting monsters, they have music-themed powers and transformation phrases, etc, but they come across a lot differently in text than in an anime. I guess the flashy animation really is a crucial part of the experience. But, trans magical girl FTW.

Read (manga): The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap vol 1 (Aki, KUREHA, Yamigo): Our heroine, a pretty, intelligent, kind anime schoolgirl, nevertheless has a cursed life in the orbit of the Cutest Girl Ever who everyone worships and thinks the heroine should obey at all times. Then they get isekai’d and CGE is hailed as the hero while Heroine is exiled. Without the inimical presence of CGE, Heroine is free to make friends and learn magic and generally prosper.

Written (game design): 646 words of Mage Errant summarization for  Kaiju Academy, possibly of no value whatsoever.

It’s a holiday for our colleagues in the UK, but a normal (quiet) work day here.

Even though it’s not a holiday, it’s still The Holidays, so I got pizza. Pizza is festive, right?

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.10-12: Mostly this has been moving faster than the original, I think, but the end of the skating fight seemed drawn-out. I don’t like Shampoo as much in this version: her character design is different and she doesn’t have much personality.

Read: Daily Report About My Witch Senpai vol 2 (Maka Machida): Apparently love makes witches’ magic go weird. Meh.

Read: I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl vol 5 (Kashikaze): Actual romance is happening!

Read: Guardian of Ruses (Kate Stradling): We finally get to see what the mysterious country with its made-up prince looks like to outsiders. Also, more het romance.

Read: Beyond Promised Neverland (Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu): One short epilogue piece for PN, and assorted unrelated pieces by the same team.

Read: Assistant to the Villain (Hannah Nicole Maehrer): Comic fantasy with anachronistic office culture. Or maybe it’s romantasy. Anyway, it’s ridiculous, the villains are more honorable than the good guys, etc.

Written: 112.

But what do they drink in other countries on this day?

Had to work the first half of the day, because someone has to. It was dead.

Went for a stupid walk for my stupid mental and physical health. Tried to also do some shopping, but failed.

I tried to get Chinese takeout for Marith and myself, but OMG it was so crowded! I did eventually get the food, but it took over an hour. I have definitely made better plans in my life, but also worse ones.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.7-9: The rhythmic gymnastics fight with Kodachi with the famous line “Use of brother: valid” and then the skater pair and “I can win anything if it has martial arts in the name”.

Read: My Clueless First Friend omnibus 1 (Taku Kawamura): It’s not chunibyo if you’re in 5th grade! Declarations of eternal friendship are not romance if you’re in 5th grade either, at least if you’re as clueless as this boy.

Read: How to Survive at the End of the World vol 4 (RC Joshua): Now everything that was accomplished in book 3 is in danger, because the universe is just like that. I’m not sure about how the System is depicted in this one.

Read: Heart Gear vol 1 (Tsuyoshi Takaki): Centuries after WWIII wipes out humanity, an inexplicably surviving young girl activates an ancient robot and ends up going on a quest through the dangerous world of leftover robots to save a friend.

Written: 121.

 

 

I think the metric conversion of today is 1734912000.

I could have taken today off, but I didn’t, so I had work. It wasn’t very busy.

Read: The Moon on a Rainy Night vol 6 (Kuzushiro): Gay panic at the deaf girl’s house! (Okay, not exactly.)

Read: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc vol 5 (Sekka Iwata, Yu Aoki): There’s always a government conspiracy, isn’t there?

Read: Don’t Be a Drag (Skye Quinlan): A girl with significant mental health issues goes to NYC to stay with her brother the drag queen and gets mixed up in drama and drag kinging and frenemies and episodes and stuff.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.4-6: Still seems to be following the same story, although faster. We already have Ryoga and Kodachi. Kodachi is pretty creepy too.

Written: 133.

Actually I want to get rid of essentialist ability scores and only have skills, because “I’m good at X” is better than “I am X” especially when you get racial modifiers involved.

Went on a long (for me) walk on streets I had not walked on before, realized that the ability to cast spells should definitely take up inventory slots (not an original idea by any means, but I like the idea of one mage festooned with birdcages holding spirits, another lugging a huge ceremonial staff with trailing banner, etc.)

Got Pakistani-Indian Fusion food from the new place, and OMG it was spicy. Also bone-in, which is not my favorite, but it was good anyway. I will have to try again and see if they have anything that is better suited to my pasty whiteness. Or I could just order triple naan to smother the spiciness in layers of delicious carbs.

Read: Blend-S vol 1 (Miyuki Nakayama): A scary-face girl gets hired at a maid cafe that caters to cliches, as the Sadistic One. Hijinks ensue, I guess.

Watched: Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.1-3: They remade Ranma! The story seems the same so far, although the translation is different and it’s all new animation with not as much fanservice. Kunou seems creepier, but I don’t know if that’s the remake or just it being 2024.

Written: 207.