What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

[Zaukrie]

Daredevil and Shrinking and Start Fleet Academy. Daredevil is amazing.

 

[Vael]

I have seen Hundreds of Beavers (2024) movie. Highly recommend it, haven't laughed so hard for awhile.

 

[jian]

Now that we’ve got Netflix I’ve been watching the first few episodes of Magic Knight Rayearth, a CLAMP anime series from 1994 about three schoolgirls who are isekai’d to a fantasy world to save its princess and also learn elemental magic and pilot elemental mecha. It’s pretty great.

MKR has some sentimental significance for me because it was basically the first video game and JRPG I played on a home console that I owned (the Sega Saturn) back in 1998. It was the first JRPG I completed (now on 50+ and counting) and it was incredibly immersive and fun, not least because of the Working Designs localisation and of course all the anime cutscenes from the TV series. So yes, I know about the ending.

Here’s the OP from the game:

Spoiler

Despite the lyrics, I think it’s fair to say that our heroines do not share a bold daring dream, unless “getting home by levelling up” counts. And it’s not the bold who break free, it’s those willing to commit tragic regicide.