Pale (More Extra Materials)
Mixed bag, but overall this monthly order has left me with a more positive impression of Pale than I had before.
Pale (Extra Materials)
You HAVE to negotiate with the wolf? What if you don't want any of these things?
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part ten)
One of this movie's most consistent elements is that every version of Alphonse Elric in every parallel dimension is a raging douchebag.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part thirteen)
It stopped being an urgent mission that required immediate violent action and started being futile and not worth caring about as soon as someone saw her in girlmode. Of course.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part eight)
The problem with uneven writing is that you can never tell if a mystery is being raised intentionally, or if it's just an author fuckup.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part seven)
Maybe realities like the world of the movie he's working on, in which there's magic instead of science, where dragons are as common as horses. Maybe instead of a director, that world's Fritz Lang is a criminal. Or a king. Or a woman.
Edward keeps his mouth shut, unwilling to confess that the truth is actually far, far stupider than that.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part six)
If you were to imagine a live action version of King Bradley, would it look even remotely like this man?
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part twelve)
she really, really needs someone other than White Chain to call her on her bullshit.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part three)
Conqueror of Shamballa is starting to shift from "weird, but good" to just "weird." Hopefully it bounces back.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury S1E1: "The Witch and the Bride"
I'm not fond of the shonen-adjacent magic high school, at least in its most common form with its usual associated tropes. That would make this story a hard sell for me, regardless of where I found it.
Coming after a prologue that hews much closer to both what I'd expect from a new Gundam series and what I'd WANT from a new Gundam series, makes it a jarringly unpleasant surprise instead of just a hard sell.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part two)
We're leaning much harder into the historical fiction aspect than I expected. Frankly, that just makes Edward Elric running around in the middle of the story even weirder and more surreal than it already was.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (part one)
I haven't watched the 03 series, and barely know anything about where the plot went toward the end, but like...what could have happened in it that would leave the writers in a place where THIS seemed like a good idea?
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part eleven)
Even moreso than before, I feel like Killy just needs another person to call her on her bullshit. White Chain is almost uniquely unqualified to do this.
Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch from Mercury S1E0: "Prologue"
This series really, really, really wants to be the 21st century's own UC. Does it succeed at this? I don't know.