Hopefully this helps me focus.

Anime I'm Watching.

Since Yugenanime went down, I realized I can trust nobody, not even myself.

Potato Chips Eaten: 39

Watching

Gundam ZZ: Episode 26
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise 3
Iria Zeiram 2
GaoGaiGar:
Diebuster: 2/??
Nichijou: 2/??
Katanagatari 5
macross 7 1
Goodbye Despair Sensei 1
Sekirei 1. Run of the mill mid-2000s ecchi harem anime etc. Based around a battle royale. Inspired by Fate, maybe? Hahaha. Listen, I was sick for a while, and I feasted on such anime.
Medaka's Box 3. As above, but it was based on novels by Nisioisin. I don't sleep.
Starting Tomorrow, I'll...: really good delinquent comedy. Hhah.
Lord of Mysteries: Chinese. The book was the usual incredibly dry prose that is ultimately about playing grindy MMORPGs. I don't understand how some people eat this up. But much in the world is without comprehension to me. I wonder at everything. Anyways, the donghua is salvaging a tiresome book by stunning graphics- I'll stick around for it, I think. Forgot about it and don't think I'll pick it up again.
The Summer Hikaru Died: Ooh. It looks kinda scary. Again, very visually impressive. I'm enjoying the plot a lot though. Update- ended up forgetting about it and not finishing it. I guess I'll try it again later.

Watched

Monogatari Season 2
Hanamonogatari
Whateverthenextgatari
Macross Plus
SSSS Gridman
Gridman Universe
Macross Delta. The power of love really be trouncing everything, huh...
Kizumonogatari. Great animation and presence. Nice boobs.
Owarimonogatari S2 and the next one. The ones I got to see now are Zoku Monogatari and Koyomigatari.
Gundam Seed. The episode where Kira said to Athrun that Birdy was "my most precious belonging, gifted by my most precious friend" was really, really cute.
Blazing Transfer Student. If I were trying to ape a battle shounen set in a school, I'd do it like this; but this feels authentic, without a shred of irony.
Gundam Build Fighters. Animation was great. I wonder, how would a similar story be told about Star Wars, for example? Could there even be ground for something like that, given that Gundam is so closely associated with the cretive hobby of Gunpla, and Star Wars has no equivalent, to my knowledge?
Getter Robo Armagedon. Animation was really good. I'm very curious about the ending; what'd it mean?
Mazinkaiser. It's peak. The OP is great. ANimation is great. Wow. I can see why my dad went crazy over this, man. Episode 4: Koji Kabuto VS PAWG Mind Control. I really liked it. 9/10.
Gundam Seed Destiny. I'm not sure what it's trying to say about society. The fight with Kira vs Shinn, where the Freedom is shot down, is pretty smart and I rather liked it. 6/10. My favorite character is Lacus Clyne and Lunamaria.
Gundam Seed Freedom. Artistically cool. basically the same as the previous entries to the point of parody. I loved it when Athrun baited his mind-reading opponent into an incel rage by imagining his girlfriend naked. 8/10.
El-Melli Case FIles: Animation was middling, I think the characters were kinda bad. Mysteries were okay, I suppose. I liked seeing more of Velvet, and Reinas was really good. Conceptually, I'd like Grey. 5/10. I'm really digging Fate Strange Fake though.
New Getter Robo: not sure what to think of it. The animation was okay-ish; the soundtrack kicked ass, especially the opening. Voice acting was great. Jin Hayato looks very handsome here. The ending sent a chill down my spine- there goes Ryoma! I wish I could be like that... there goes Panko! And vanish...
Summer Pockets: slice of life anime about a swimmer going to an island. I need more slice of life anime, to be honest. Did not finish, as I found out it's based on a VN and the anime doesn't follow one route, but means to adapt many. 5/10.
G-Quax: I liked it more than I disliked it. It felt frenetic, and I dislike metaverse stories. I liked the characters, mobile suit, initial pitch too- that said, I must admit I soyjacked frequently when watching this, especially the last episode. 7/10.
Code Geass Lelouch of Resurrection? Watching the goofy ass Lelouch trying to predict his enemy's geass was really fun. Animation was great too. 6/10 I think.
Ninja and Assassin: Funny, hehe. 7/10.
Venus Wars: It felt much like a preview for the manga, but it got a satisfying conclusion, I guess. Animation and art direction was great and ultimately what I watched it for. 7/10!
Fate Strange/Fake: the summoning sequence sent as many shivers down my spine as it did ten years ago...
Another: a survival game!! I'd devour it back when I was fourteen but still liked it now. The opening rocks. It got kinda silly at the end. Very engaging. 7/10.
Gundam Build Fighters Try: my favorite character was Hoshino and my favorite gunpla was the Lightning Gundam. 7/10.
Gundam Build Divers: Animation was really cool. My favorite character was Ayame, she's basically the only one with a character arc. Plus, she's super cute. I liked it, I think. It made me ponder a lot on how you could tell stories set in a virtual world with stakes that do not devolve into 'if you die in game you die in real life!' Up until the end this show managed, I think, and that was fine- the stake was mostly that they really enjoyed the game and didn't want it to go. I suppose that kind of stakes are similar to death, in a way. Reminded me of late nights playing World of Warcraft. It made me want to play Crosscode. 7/10.
Valvrave the Liberator: battles were pretty good, ultimately wasn't especially grabbed by it. watched it up to episode 11, I think? The scene where he rapes his schoolmate was shocking- ultimately made me want to keep watching to see how they deal with it. She didn't mind it much in the end? 6/10 I suppose. I'll get around watching the final episode but I don't feel in a hurry.
Rumble Garandoll: it was funny- felt like it was a small part of something greater. Maybe they were shooting for a second season. My favorite character was the red haired girl- I liked her energy. 7/10.

Want to Watch

Rurouni Kenshin Second Season
The Big O
Demon City Shinjuku
eureka 7
idol defense force hummingbird

Manga

Reading

Inuyasha
City of Darkness
Witch Hat Atelier 82

Read

Want to Read

Tomorrow's Joe
Dragon Ball
Magic Knight Rayearth
X
Gundam Crossbone Steel 7

RPGs

Want to Run

Sword World 2.5
Stellar Knights
Astroprism
Satasupe, Asian Punk RPG
Tenra Bansho Zero. I have no idea what it does, and it looks too fighty, but I wanna do it anyways.
Tokyo Nova.
Gates of Krystalia. A self-defined isekai rpg. Skimming through the book, there's rules for farming, building, crafting. Resolution is card based. Notably: romance rules, harem benefits; based around balancing relationship points. Truly, Absolute Cinema Elfgaming. Revolutionary Elfgaming.
Princess Wing. It looks cute and my friends say it's very innovative.

Ran

Revulture. It was very fun. Fights feel like a puzzle.
Fabula Ultima. The play of affinities is fun. It is hard to wrap my head around clocks. Still, I think I liked it.

Books

Reading

Gundam Sentinel. This books stinks. No, really. I've never seen a book devote more words to stench in comparison to the rest. Boy this place stinks for seven paragraphs. I only approach this when writin about muskplay in ERP.
Debt the First 5k Years
Means of Ascent by Robert Caro: Second part! Begun with his WW2 experience, a bit of a summary of what came thus far, etc. I'm probably gonna let it lay low.
Dividing the Spoils: a book much like Ghost of the Throne, about the diadochi- this one goes for longer, though. I'm no historian, just a guy reading histories.

Want to Read

Invisible Cities
Dying Earth
Wizard Knight (Gene Wolfe)
Bakemonotagari
Sutre or really anything by Cormac
Salammbo
Closer to the Knives
Sabres of Paradise

Finished Reading

Zaregoto Strangulation Romanticist
Zaregoto Suspension
Zaregoto Psycho Logical. as usual Nisioisin takes a while in setting stuff up. It was hard to get through but I had a boring work at the time so I could read discreetly, or enough so that nobody cared.
Zaregoto Cannibal Magical. Izumu was really cute. Very sad book altogether due to a certain character dying, messily as usual. It's interesting seeing a plot poking it's head, like a drunkard arriving late to a party.
Zaregoto Uprooted Radical. Nisioisin kinda pulled the third girl out of his ass, btu then again, Zaregoto means nonsense. It makes sense from the perspective of the protagonist burying her memory. Anyways, cute ending. It left me wanting to read more of the same author, but I found out that most of his works are untranslated. I wanted to read Densetsu.
No Country For Old Men: It's one of those books that made me appreciate the movie more also. I liked having more time to dwell in the mind of Bell, and ultimately the longer conversations that Anton had with Wells and Carla Jean- especially the latter. As usual for Mister McCarthy, top notch usage of the English tongue. Finished it 6 hours spread along two journeys back and forth. 9/10.
Sekai Series. Nisioisin of course. I read it in a hurry; first book was fine, delightful prose and character interactions as always. I think the gist Nisio was going for was "imperfect, irrational crimes". Second book was really fun as the protagonist was a literally-me-core. He even likes Gundam, haha. Third one had me cackling at every episode with the 'actually-all-that-was-a-book' gimmick; I liked that one too. Fourth one was interesting- to see the character frm the second book grown up... unfortunately that's all that's translated thus far.
Gundam Frozen Teadrop 1: Just the prologue. It's kind of a boring read; but admirably not as bad as every other gundam novel I've read. I could see myself picking up another chapter to see if it improves. It was kinda funny how Trieze and his buddies were hopping into war... at the age of 10. I mentally aged up every character by 10 years to stop giggling. It wasn't horrifyingly bad like the rest, though, and that puts up a rank for me, at least.
Dogura Magura. An associate I highly respect recommended this one saying it's an evil book that'll drive you insane. I'm a little in and I'm starting to believe this. The schizophrenic writing style that puts you in the mindset of a mentally ill person is difficult to follow but of course that's the point- I wonder when we switch to a narrative we can follow, lol. I'm gonna stick with it out of stubbornness rather than genuine enjoyment, I think...
Path to Power by Robert Caro: Engrossing story of Lyndon Johnson, a rogueish politician. Only man alive that could make a bureaucratic dispute enthralling, this Robert Caro... it ran from his birth to WW2. His first senatorial campaign made for compelling read- it gives the impression that Lyndon Johnson revolutionized the mechanisms through which money flows from commercial interests to politcians. 9/10, I'll read the sequel.
Ghost on the Throne: A history book on Alexander's successors. Will read for inspiration for another tabletop RPG. I like how it discourses on Alexander's ideology (admits that it might be false), but the idea that he thought and understood to be creating a state encompassing the known world with deliberate plans for population migration and mixing is not something I came across before. It feels like there's many readings to Alexander and this is a charitably high-minded reading; but I like it. Thought of Histoire my first manga a lot during this read; the harrowing fate of Eumenes was quite sad. These guys were merciless. It ends around the time Alexander IV is killed and I would have liked a book on the entirety of the diadochi period.

Vidyajames

I like using duckstation for PSX emulation; Blastem for SEGA; Visual Boy Advance for GBA. RuTracker is where I find most of the torrents for the rest. I have never paid for a videogame in my life.
The only things I pay for are instant ramen and gunpla.
I'm super bad at playing games, to be honest. I suck at every videogame I've played. I'm also bad at sticking to them- they're all so fun, after all.

Playan'

Xenogears. Actually, kinda dropped this one.
Fire emblem Sacred Stones. Actually, play this infrequently.
Final Fantasy 6. Actually, kinda dropped this one.
Super Robot Wars 30. Actually, got bored of this one. Too easy!
Ace Combat 3. Actually, finished and liked this one.
Phantasy Star... 4?
Armored Core 3 to Last Raven. I had a lot of fun. Tried the ps1 game but got filtered in one of the missions, but I stuck with Armored Core 3. Silent Line was really fun; I actually liked Nexus way more than I thought. Last Raven was fun too I really liked the bitter ambience in that one. Nexus felt like a golden age crashing down. Unfortunately, I can't get past the Leviathan route in Last Raven. So I swapped to Formula Front, which is thus far I think the entry I like the most setting-wise. The sports league setting is super fun! I love it! I'm imagining it ain't AI-controlled mechs but rather actual pilots. Not done with it yet though.

Want to play

CrossCode
Chrono Cross
Final Fantasy 7