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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Finished Gundam GQuuuux. Even though I read in many places that was no prior knowledge was needed, I felt lost a lot of times. I don’t know the characters that were actually important in the end and I missed a looot of context. It felt more aimed at fans of the original. It assumed you know the world, the terms, power dynamics etc, but as someone that only watched Witch From Mercury, I did not know any of it.

    The characters that were posed as the leads were heavily underdeveloped, including their relationships to each other. I think they had potential (a duo of rebellious rich girl together with a refugee is an interesting dynamic to explore), but were shafted in favour of what felt like nostalgia bait. As a result, some of their actions made no sense to me.

    Animation was nice though.










  • Great final episode. A very good end of this arc, all things considered. The resurrection medicine was expected, but loved it nonetheless.

    This season was great, but hard to follow sometimes due to how much there was to keep up with. It’s been building since season 1 episode 1 after all. Loved it though. Would probably be great on a binge rewatch.

    I’m very curious how this continues. The status quo is very different now. Both Xiaolan (poor girl, she deserved to see them off properly!) and Shisui (or Tamamo I suppose) are out of sight, Jinshi is no longer just a pretty eunuch, Gyokuyou is empress (deserved!) and Maomao is back in the pleasure district. I’m sure Jinshi gets her back in the royal affairs somehow, but we’ll see. At the very least, he’ll get cockblocked again next season and I’m all for it.