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Well, that's one hell of an unresolved implication about Anna's and Grace's mothers to end with. I'm catching a whiff of Unfinished Manga Syndrome here.

though I’m not sure if it’s a split cour or not

Livechart indicates that it's not split.

Given the number of people who have developed pink sparklies towards him over the course of the series, it's a good thing that our ojisan's wife is an understanding sort!

I completed Erased last week.

I had to dredge around for a while before I realized which series this was (I have it filed in my brain under the more-wordy original title, "Boku dake ga Inai Machi"), and yeah, it's pretty well-done for what it is. In retrospect, I kind of wonder if Tokyo Revengers doesn't have a bit of this series in its DNA.

It kills insects and microorganisms (just like it kills almost anything else). So the net effect would be preservative, and it's still used as such in a few obscure contexts despite its toxicity—the American FDA allows very small quantities as a preservative in eye makeup, for instance.

Given the mess on the floor of that one room, there may have been a considerable amount of cinnabar (mercury sulfide) pigment present. And liquid mercury was widely used in Chinese alchemy. Plenty of possibly routes for contact, either accidental or intentional.

Okay, so . . . non-decaying corpse? My first thought is that there were high quantities of mercury involved, doubly so since it was mentioned earlier in the episode.

Eh, it's not that bad. Lacking depth and sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it isn't offensive, the plots are easy to follow even if they're less than brilliant, and the characterization is consistent. Mediocre, mildly amusing brain candy that I'll probably have forgotten about altogether by this time next year.

I'm probably going to stick with it to the end unless it manages to crash and burn in a highly spectacular manner by doing something revolting. So far, it's just made side excursions into the silly, like delivering a "dramatic" monologue inside a burning building. I can handle that.

Not any further off than it's been from the beginning, I don't think. At least, not so far.

It's the kid second from the right, beside the space mercenary type, who's the most jarring—looks like someone plonked a 3D model into the middle of a 2D cel. I think they might have gotten away with the other four if that one wasn't there.

And appropriately, everything that already lives there is out to kill him. 🤣

It's trash. Stockholm Syndrome disguised as romcom, pretty much. See previous episode discussions.

I believe it's brother legally, son biologically.

The thing to keep in mind about 86 is that it's a very grimdark kind of show (themes of racism, lots of character death). It's a good show and worth trying, but if grimdark isn't your thing, don't be surprised if you bounce.

Hmm . . . so what else has no one recommended yet that's worth trying. Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, of course. You might find the earlier installments in the Aquarion franchise (Genesis of Aquarion, Aquarion EVOL, and Aquarion Logos) somewhat amusing—they're more on the silly side, but so are some of the shows you listed (the first series especially has some very silly-weird stuff, like the episode where the characters are cosplaying each other).

Older shows that you haven't mentioned and might be worth looking at would include Patlabor and Escaflowne.

And as someone has already said, do finish Gurren Lagann—it's worth it.

Oh, come now. Surely he did the traditional split-the-water-with-a-sword thing . . . while somehow keeping their mount from being hit in the face with it . . .

Okay, I give up.

Good thing the fire took that into account and didn’t spread to the wooden floor.

Not quite as unrealistic as it seems, maybe—fires tend to burn upward when they can. I would have been more worried about the ceiling catching than the non-gasoline-soaked parts of the floor. But yeah, really dumb and stupidly risky overall.

The first six items on the list are things that I'm actually watching. Did I drop into an alternate timeline when I wasn't paying attention? 😲

I hope that the flood of pink sparklies we saw at one point doesn't mean there's a super-hidden route to capture the principal in the original game. 😱

And whether it covered getting firebombed by an inept arsonist. I have a funny feeling that it's going to be a while before he can afford a new car, poor bastard.

Yeah, not even Violinist of Hameln pulled that one. (They did have one character who wore a half-face mask all the time so that they could get away with not animating her lip movements as even a simple flap, and I think I remember several conversations where the speaker was deliberately shot from behind.)

Of course, there's no way Zenshu has VoH's extreme budgetary constraints, where they literally had to make 1 ep's worth of funding cover 2 eps of footage.

As far as I got with it, there was absolutely no porn, and less skin on show than your typical modern high school romcom.

The setup goes like this: noble daughter is engaged to the crown prince, without anyone asking her opinion on the matter. After being forced through several years of unpleasant training, she finally escapes, but now everyone in her life is pressuring her to go back "for her own good". It's the fact that they're pretending that the forced marriage benefits her and she's just being stubborn/stupid that makes it icky more than the fact of the forced relationship itself.