(…not necessarily in a good way…)

Shy 2, episode 1

(please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck…)

There’s a faint whiff of Kufufu at the end, but this episode is so full of reminders of who Our Heroes are and what they do that the only thing that actually happens is Shy shying shyly to a shy reporter. Also, An Ambiguous Katana Girl walks on stage, and a previously-unmentioned American bull-themed hero gets stirred in as if he’d been there all along.

Verdict: this week was pretty empty, and I keep looking at the action shots and thinking Shy could really improve her costume with a high-leg cut. Not optimistic, but I’ll give it a chance to actually do something next week.

(I stopped collecting Shy pics when the first season fell off the cliff, so here’s a reminder of seasons past)

The Spice Of Waifu, episode 14

New season, new OP and ED, and more active flirting between Our Partners. Dude, when your wolf-waifu says she’ll share a bed, you say yes; pay no attention to the food-budget excuse she makes.

Rest of week…

• Wednesday Thursday: Red Cat Ramen
• Friday: Dungeon People
• Saturday: Robo-Waifu
• Sunday: Pom-Pom Girls

How quickly will they fall?

Second biggest trainwreck of the season

The New Gate looked cheap and uninspired, but they failed to meet even my low expectations, as I checked out the final episode and found the laziest, sloppiest character art I’ve seen in years. Every face was drawn differently in every scene, and none of them were good. The story was terrible, and even the busty harem gals weren’t reliably appealing.

They apparently ripped through the source material at a ridiculous pace (covering at least 9 manga volumes; the light novels haven’t been licensed, so I don’t know how many of those, or which they used as their source), cutting deep into the bone, so whatever original thoughts went into the books were the first things to go.

(FJB’s debate performance was waaaaaay out in front on this award)

Found more Irish…

When I built the family tree years ago, there was a lot less data on Ancestry.com, so I hadn’t traced my Mom’s family as far. Looking into it now, with people having paid to get access to international records, it turns out that Thomas McGrath arrived in Maine about the same time the McCausland brothers did, and he was Catholic. And his emigration may not have been by choice (I’d need a premium membership to read those records). Or else they were all just fleeing the 1740 famine for literally greener pastures.

So I’ve got both regular and unleaded Irish in the tank, and both sides ended up moving from Maine to Ohio over 200 years ago. If my dad’s mom hadn’t been Manistee Polish, I’d be pretty exclusively Native Buckeye back to at least 1820.

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