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01.07.23 – What the Heck Happened to Tokyo Ghoul?

Today was not busy for me. I finished my laundry last night so all I really needed to do was to the store to do some grocery shopping and then portion the meat and put them in the freezer. And that was what I did. 

My hun and I were able to hang out earlier today, which was nice. We got to watch some anime episodes. 

I finally made the decision. I decided that I do not want to watch The Case Study of Vanitas. I gave episode 11 a chance. I really did. But I had to stop it when the episode the 7:12 mark. I cannot. I was just done. I am not going to rehash my complaints about the anime. There was nothing wrong with it – the anime has a 4.9 rating on Crunchyroll for crying out loud. It just did not jive with me. So we decided to drop it.

Tokyo Ghoul:re. My hun and I decided to start with season 3. And I have thoughts. Obviously, there is a time jump from the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3. There are some changes. The huge one is Kaneki. It tripped me out for a bit when he was introduced as Sasaki. And the only reason why I know he was Kaneki is because Sasaki is having internal struggles as well, with the other part of him – a very huge one, locked in his head. Some shuffling with where the characters are now kind of surprised the heck out of me – Hinami, Uta. I mean, the really annoying thing to me is the fact that they added pretty much unnecessary characters. They are not needed in the story. Or maybe they are but I highly doubt it. They were just there to make a point that CCG dabbled in artificially creating one-eyed ghouls like Kaneki to fight against ghouls. You have a moody guy obsessed with getting promoted, an airhead for a team captain, an overly weak one who needs to be freaking rescued, and a freakin child who has no work ethic. I cannot. The only thing that is really making me want to watch this is Ken Kaneki with his internal struggles and reconciling his human and ghoul sides, Shuu Tsukiyama with his depression of losing Ken Kaneki (yes, I am going to say losing Kaneki because he seems to be a man who lost his love), Juuzou Suzuya and his surprising maturity, and I am still waiting for Amon to freaking show up because I refuse to believe he is dead. There were no remains on the street, and I doubt freaking Kaneki ate him during their fight last season.

Haikyu!! I do not have to say anything about this anime. We keep enjoying each episode. Definitely really exciting, and we love seeing how the Karasuno volleyball team adapts to the hurdles especially now that it’s the inter-high competition arc.

And since I decided to drop Vanitas, I had to choose another anime to watch. I chose Mars Red. We watched the first episode and it was a bit slow and theatrical. So I just decided to drop that one and pick up Bleach again. Do not get me wrong, I might pick up Mars Red again but on my own and when I am in the mood for something like that. 

Bleach. We needed to watch The Lost Substitute Shinigami Arc before jumping into the The Thousand-Year Blood War Arc, which I have been itching to watch since it came out. But since we have not watched Bleach in a while, we decided to watch the last episode of The Arrancar Arc for a refresher. I’m really excited to continue on this anime. It has been a while.