Winter 2022 TV Schedule

Hey everyone!! It's finally September which means that the Winter 2022 TV Schedule is about to start!! As per usual I'm going to be posting what shows I will be watching!! I'll be posting the air dates for all the shows I will be watching. These all air from January to the end of March!

SUNDAY

Kimetsu no Yaiba: Entertainment District Arc - Anime

Let Me Be Your Knight - Kdrama (Series Finale January 23)

MONDAY

Princess Connect! Re: Dive - Anime (January 10)

The Gilded Age - 9 PM on HBO Max (January 24)

TUESDAY

Life With An Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into A Total Fantasy Knockout - Anime (January 11)

The Genius Prince's Guide To Raising A Nation Out Of Debt - Anime (January 11)

FBI - 8 PM on CBS
FBI: International - 9 PM on CBS

Superman & Lois - 8 PM on CW (January 11)

Our Beloved Summer - Kdrama (Series Finale January 25)

The One And Only - Kdrama (Series Finale February 8)

WEDNESDAY

In The Land Of Leadale - Anime (January 5)

Love Of Kill - Anime (January 12)
Orient - Anime (January 5)

Police In A Pod - Anime (January 5)
Tokyo 24th Ward - Anime (January 5)

Legends Of Tomorrow - 8 PM on CW (January 12)

The Book Of Boba Fett - Netflix (Series Finale February 9)

The Flash - 8 PM on CW (March 9)

Rookie Cops - Kdrama (January 26) (Series Finale March 16)

THURSDAY

Peacemaker - HBO Max (January 13) (Series Finale February 17)

Star Trek Discovery Season 4 - CBS

The Orville - 9 PM on Hulu (March 10)

School 2021 - Kdrama (Series Finale January 13)

FRIDAY

The Case Study Of Vanitas Season 2 - Anime (January 14)

The Legend Of Vox Machina - Amazon Prime (January 28)

Reset - Cdrama (January 11) (Series Finale February 3)

SATURDAY

My Dress Up Darling - Anime (January 9)

The Faraway Paladin - Anime (Season Finale January 1)

F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers - THDrama (Series Finale April 2)

Through The Darkness - Kdrama (January 14) (Series Finale March 19)

User Not Found - Kdrama (Series Finale February 12)

STREAMING

All Of Us Are Dead - Netflix (January 28)

Irregular At Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc - Anime (December 31)

Vikings: Valhalla - Netflix (February 25)

xoxo Allie 

Summer 2021 TV Schedule

Hey everyone!! It's finally June which means that the Summer 2021 TV Schedule is about to start!! As per usual I'm going to be posting what shows I will be watching!! I'll be posting the air dates for all the shows I will be watching. These all air from June to the end of August! This time around I'm going to be listing the Asian dramas I'm watching (and keeping it up to date) and meanwhile if you're interested in my reviews for the American shows and Japanese anime I watch, check out my What Shows Am I Watching This Week list. Those in pink are the ones I'm reviewing weekly.

SUNDAY

Combatants Will Be Dispatched! - Anime (Series Finale June 20)

Moriarty The Patriot Part 2 - Anime (Series Finale June 27)

Legends Of Tomorrow - 8 PM on CW

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha - Kdrama (August 28)

The Devil Judge - Kdrama (July 3) (Series Finale August 22)

MONDAY

Battle Game In 5 Seconds - Anime (July 12)

Fruits Basket Season 3 - Anime (Series Finale June 28)

Higehiro: After Being Rejected I Shaved And Took In A High School Runaway - Anime (Series Finale June 21)

Koikimo - Anime (Series Finale June 14)

Odd Taxi - Anime (Series Finale June 27)

Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles - Anime (July 5)

TUESDAY

The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent - Anime (Series Finale June 22)

Stargirl Season 2 - 8 PM on CW (August 10)

Superman & Lois Season 1 - 9 PM on CW (Season Finale August 17)

The Flash Season 7 - 8 PM on CW (Season Finale July 13)

At A Distance, Spring Is Green - Kdrama (June 14) (Series Finale July 20)

Crossroad Bistro - Cdrama (July 11) (Series Finale August 3)

Doom At Your Service - Kdrama (Series Finale June 29)

Police University - Kdrama (August 9)

Promise Cinderella - Jdrama (July 12)

You Are My Spring - Kdrama (July 5) (Series Finale August 24)

WEDNESDAY

Drug Store In Another World: The Slow Life Of A Cheat Pharmacist - Anime (July 7)

Tsukimchi: Moonlight Fantasy - Anime (July 7)

Loki - Disney+ (June 9) (Season Finale July 14)

What If? - Disney+ (August 11)

Mad For Each Other - Kdrama (Series Finale June 21)

Sweet Teeth - Cdrama (August 16) (Series Finale August 25)

You Are My Glory - Cdrama (July 26) (Series Finale August 16)

THURSDAY

Peach Boy Riverside - Anime (July 1)

The Aquatope Of White Sand - Anime (July 8)

Brooklyn Nine Nine - 8 PM on NBC (August 12)

Gossip Girl - HBO Max (July 8)

iCarly - Paramount+ (June 24)

Titans Season 3 - HBO Max (August 12)

Crush - Cdrama (August 3) (Series Finale August 12)

Hospital Playlist Season 2 - Kdrama (June 17)

Law School - Kdrama (Series Finale June 9)

Monthly Magazine Home - Kdrama (June 16) (Series Finale August 5)

My Roommate Is A Gumiho - Kdrama (Series Finale July 15)

Sell Your Haunted House - Kdrama (Series Finale June 3)

FRIDAY

I'm Standing On A Million Lives Season 2 - Anime (July 2)

My Next Life Is A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom Season 2 - Anime (July 2)

So I'm A Spider, So What? - Anime (Season Finale July 3)

The Case Study Of Vanitas - Anime (July 2)

Those Snow White Notes - Anime (Series Finale June 18)

The Bad Batch - Disney+ (Season Finale August 13)

Imitation - Kdrama (Series Finale July 23)

Litter To Glitter - Cdrama (July 16) (Series Finale August 13)

Make A Wish - Cdrama (July 8) (Series Finale July 24)

The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim - Kdrama (July 30)

The Witch's Diner - Kdrama (July 16) (Series Finale August 13)

SATURDAY

86 Eighty Six - Anime (Season Finale June 19)

My Hero Academia Season 5 - Anime

Pretty Boy Detective Club - Anime (Series Finale June 26)

Remake Our Life! - Anime (July 3)

Tokyo Revengers - Anime

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Anime (Series Finale June 19)

Welcome To Demon School Season 2 - Anime

Blue Birthday - Kdrama (July 23)

Check Out The Event - Kdrama (August 14)

Nevertheless - Kdrama (June 19) (Series Finale August 21)

So I Married An Anti Fan - Kdrama (Series Finale June 19)

STREAMING

DP - Kdrama (August 27)

Leverage: Redemption Season 1A - IMDb TV (July 9)

xoxo Allie

Spring 2021 TV Schedule

Hey everyone!! It's finally April which means that the Spring 2021 TV Schedule is about to start!! As per usual I'm going to be posting what shows I will be watching!! I'll be posting the air dates for all the shows I will be watching. These all air from April to the end of May! This time around I'm going to be listing the Asian dramas I'm watching (and keeping it up to date) but you can also check that out my What Dramas Am I Watching This Week list for my Asian drama reviews. Meanwhile if you're interested in my reviews for the American shows and Japanese anime I watch, check out my What Shows Am I Watching This Week list. Those in pink are the ones I'm reviewing weekly.

SUNDAY

Combatants Will Be Dispatched! - Anime (April 4)

Moriarty The Patriot Part 2 - Anime (April 4)

Legends Of Tomorrow - 8 PM on CW (May 2)

New Horizon - Cdrama (May 27)

Vincenzo - Kdrama (Series Finale April 25)

MONDAY

Fruits Basket Season 3 - Anime (April 5)

Higehiro: After Being Rejected I Shaved And Took In A High School Runaway - Anime (April 5)

Koikimo - Anime (April 5)

Odd Taxi - Anime (April 5)

To Your Eternity - Anime (April 12)

TUESDAY

The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent - Anime (April 6) 

The Flash Season 7 - 8 PM on CW

Superman & Lois Season 1 - 9 PM on CW (May 5)

FBI Season 3 - 9 PM on CBS (Season Finale May 25)

Doom At Your Service - Kdrama (May 10)

Navillera - Kdrama (Series Finale April 27)

WEDNESDAY

Mad For Each Other - Kdrama (May 24)

Please Feel At Ease, Mr Ling - Cdrama (May 20)

THURSDAY

Law School - Kdrama (April 14)

My Roommate Is A Gumiho - Kdrama (May 26)

Sell Your Haunted House - Kdrama (April 14)

Sisyphus: The Myth - Kdrama (Series Finale April 8)

FRIDAY

So I'm A Spider, So What? - Anime

The World Ends With You - Anime (April 10)

Those Snow White Notes - Anime (April 3)

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier - Disney+ (Series Finale April 23)

The Bad Batch - Disney+ (May 4)

Imitation - Kdrama (May 7)

SATURDAY

86 Eighty Six - Anime (April 10)

My Hero Academia Season 5 - Anime

Pretty Boy Detective Club - Anime (April 10)

Tokyo Revengers - Anime (April 10)
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song - Anime (April 4)

Welcome To Demon School - Anime (April 17)

So I Married An Anti Fan - Kdrama (April 30)

Taxi Driver - Kdrama (April 9) (Series Finale May 29)

Time Flies And You Are Here - Cdrama (May 20)

STREAMING

Lucifer Season 5B - Netflix (May 28)

Shadow And Bone - Netflix (April 23)

The Way Of The Househusband - Netflix (April 8)

Friends Reunion Special - HBO Max (May 27)

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 11

It seems like a weird choice to start a new arc when we're 3 episodes from the season finale cause there's no possible way that this new arc can be fully experienced in that short amount of time! With the parasites being caught last week, it seems like not only did the visitor arc come to an end but also the school year and therefore Lina returned to the states while Shizuku came back to Japan. All of the third years we've met in the first season like Mayumi, Mari, and Katsuto graduated making me wonder if we'll see them much from now on cause it's not like they're actually part of our main circle of friends! With the start of Tatsuya and Miyuki's second year of high school, we see that Tatsuya, Mizuki, and Miki were all bumped up from Course 2 to Course 1 which makes sense though Erika and Leo are still in Course 1 which at first seems unfair but when you think about it, the courses are meant to rank students based on their magic ability and while Erika and Leo are competent and badass in the field, they fight using non-magic abilities most of the time. We also met a new character named Minami who's working for Maya though if I remember correctly, she was being mourned by Miyuki and Tatsuya making me wonder if she's supposed to be genetically engineered like Tatsuya.

FINISHED The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8

Shit okay this season finale absolutely blew my mind and that's cause of one person: LUKE FREAKING SKYWALKER!!!! I was so so so so so curious if this show would ever have him show up cause on paper it would make so much sense to connect the two with how Grogu is looking for a Jedi master and how we know that in canon Luke wanted to rebuild the Jedi Order but in reality it would be harder cause Mark Hamill isn't young enough to play Luke right after the Return Of The Jedi. There was a lot of speculation over whether the show would just cast someone to play Luke and be like the magic of moviemaking to ignore it or if they would use their deaging program and in the end it was the second option which okay I know a lot of people will complain about but honestly to me it was better than both the other times we've seen young Leia (in Rogue One and Rise Of Skywalker) and at the end of the day it's more about the message we're getting than the effect! Luke was so badass coming in and destroying all the Death Troopers and even Moff Gideon realized he was out of luck! The final goodbye between Din and Grogu was so sweet and I loved that he even went as far as to take his helmet off to say goodbye. It really does look like Din's starting to learn to be more flexible. It also looks like we will be moving forward with the taking back of Mandalore storyline next season but like seriously the new rule about the Dark Saber only being owned by the person who fought for it is a little ridiculous cause if I remember in Star Wars Rebels, Sabine won it and then gave it to Bo Katan cause she didn't want to rule and there was no fuss made. Maybe the Din and Bo Katan can fight in single combat for her to get it cause seriously I will lose it if this show wants Din to lead Mandalore over Bo Katan. We also seem to have lost Boba and Fennec who we will see again in their solo adventure series.

xoxo Allie 

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 10

This week is a little hard to review cause we spent most of it simply fighting the parasites and though it was all very exciting, I'm not sure whether it'll make a great review. In the end it looks like Miyuki destroyed all the parasites except for 3, one of which is Pixie and the other two went to the Yotsuba and the Kodou each. It's interesting cause I think I've finally figured out why so many people were spying on Tatsuya in the last few weeks cause in my mind I was picturing the fact that every one of the nine clans were Japanese so there was no need to fight other Japanese for the removal of these parasites but in actuality it looks more like every clan is out for themselves for the most part and each one wanted a parasite to study. I'll be curious to know if anything comes of this research. I guess we should also note that Miyuki used something that Lina described as Lunar magic and she seemed to think it was really rare and unique and it calls back to the fact that a few weeks ago we learned that not only does Miyuki have a release button on Tatsuya's full magic but Tatsuya also has one on Miyuki. Part of me wonders if somehow Tatsuya is supposed to be a clone of Miyuki or the other way around so that's why the two can merge so clearly. Lina also went through some stuff this week cause she's been struggling for a while to figure out if the USNA army is still where she wants to be after everything and though she didn't actually make a decision this week, Tatsuya did open her eyes to the fact that she does have more options.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 7

This episode was insane if only for the themes that it presented and the ripples it made. On the surface level though we didn't get a prison break like I expected, we did have what amounted to a side mission in order to get Moff Gideon's coordinates. Cara freed the prisoner we needed to take us to an Imperial base in order to hack an Imperial terminal and every time we see how much of this world is still overrun with Imperials I am honestly so sad cause it really does highlight once again that this peace and freedom that we achieved at the end of Revenge Of The Jedi was barely a blip in the timeline. The New Republic really did learn nothing from the fall of the Galactic Republic and ignored the Outer Rim just as much so of course the Empire camped out there growing strong until they could take over and become the First Order! The irony of all this is that my musings on the Empire though important in the long term isn't even the biggest takeaway from this episode. Din took off his Mandalorian armor and then showed his face to a lot of people, and yet still returned to his armor at the end and this is so so so important in terms of this show and Din himself. Over the course of this season we've seen Din meet all sorts of different Mandalorians that don't follow the Death Watch creed like he was raised on and it opened his eyes to the fact that being Mandalorian isn't as black or white like he first thought. If this happened in season 1, Din would fully believe that he's no longer worthy of his armor and that he's failed but now we see that he's more flexible about the rules and I'm sure that this is the start of him picking and choosing which rules he will follow. It's also important to note that the idea of Mandalore being destroyed came up once again and we know from earlier this season that Mandalore shouldn't be likened to Alderaan cause Mandalore still stands and it adds more fuel to the idea that maybe once Din accepts that Grogu can stay with him, he'll go help Bo Katan save their home world! 

xoxo Allie 

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 9

I think it's honestly hilarious how politically heavy this season is cause I never really would have expected it from the first season where it was all about the fun and games of attending a magic high school and now we're here fighting other governments and crime syndicates! We met Raymond this week who is one of the 7 Sages (7 of the of most powerful magicians in the world who have the ability to connect to this worldwide information network) and he told us that the man behind all of this chaos is Gide, another of the 7 Sages. He wants the world to no longer trust magic and wishes for the Great Asian Alliance to take over the world so he's the one who riled up the humans into being anti-magician (thus leading to those black hole experiments in the states to combat magicians) and he was also the one behind everything that happened last season with the invasion. After we stopped him, Gide lost all his eyes and ears in Japan which is why he is now trying to send these parasites to build a new spy base. Raymond obviously doesn't agree with this so he wants to team up with Tatsuya and Lina in order to kill all the parasites and cut Gide off in the knees. Meanwhile the 3 parasites we caught that were then stolen by the Saegusa Family in probs an attempt to understand them and then use them for their own benefits were murdered by Lina after both the Yotsuba and Raymond passed over intel. Maya probs just wanted to stop the Saegusa from getting more powerful but I'm not sure what I think of Raymond and his motives yet. 

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 6

This episode was honestly so intense that I thought it was a finale or even a penultimate episode for so much of it before realizing that no the penultimate episode is next week and it's that the craziest thing. Based on the way this show is going it feels like it'll be another jail break episode next week cause apparently Din needs to get one of the men he put in jail last season out so he can find Grogu but the thing is he really should have given his holo number to Bo Katan last time cause some more Mandalorians really wouldn't be a bad thing right now since her goals aline with Din's at the moment. They both want to find Moff Gideon and get something back from him. I do have to say it was seriously surprising though to see Boba Fett appear in this episode cause I really expected his one and only appearance to have taken place in that final scene in the premiere but he was back and he brought Fennec with him which made me happy cause more Ming Na Wen is always a good thing! It makes me even happier that he's going to be teaming up with Din in order to save Grogu so he'll be here until at least the finale! I also have to mention that I'm really confused about what Grogu did on that Seeing Rock cause that was not how I had seen the Force work before and I wonder if he did call out to other Jedi or if it was more like he connected to the Force in it's purest form. Either way he's no longer on the planet so unless whatever he did sends the remaining Jedi his current location, I'm not sure if we'll be seeing any more Jedi this season to my disappointment.

xoxo Allie 

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 8

I want to start this week's review by shouting out how smart the villains are! We finally figured out what group was behind the parasites and it turns out to be the Chinese but I'm not sure if I can believe what they claim to want. Like Pixie told us, parasites take on the desires of their hosts so if the Chinese provide hosts to the parasites that want to kill all humans in order to protect magicians from being experimented on, then it's basically like the original magicians have all powerful parasites to do their bidding. The thing is that like Tatsuya explained, the parasites have had no problem hurting magicians up to this point so it's possible that the leader was completely lying or it's possible that he was telling the truth and the magicians were just casualties. What's also interesting is that Maya is definitely moving pieces around behind the scenes and all I want is to learn more about her cause she fascinates me the most in this show cause we know so little! I do wonder if she might have overplayed her hand with the Colonel as there's no reason for the Yotsuba themselves to step in and get the USNA to leave unless what the USNA want is the Yotsuba's property. Perhaps that's the goal? Like there's no way the Colonel wants to go to war with the most powerful magic clan so knowing that Tatsuya is under the Yotsuba protection might be the safest route for him. Meanwhile it looks like Honoka unlocked some secret magic powers that the Japanese military who were spying on them mentioned was some sort of elemental magic.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 5

Who else was pumped as hell to watch this episode?? I had a feeling that Ashoka was going to show up just based on the fact that Dave Filoni was directing this week and like obviously he would want to be a part of the live action debut for this beloved Star Wars character that he himself created. I also was right in guessing that Ashoka would be a one-off character and that she wouldn't actually take Baby Yoda with her to train cause duh this show would not be the same without him. We did learn though that Baby Yoda's name was Grogu and he apparently was around before the Clone Wars. He trained on Coruscant but was taken away to safety before Order 66 though he's apparently lost his memory since then so it's a blur as to who saved him and what happened to him before he was captured by the Empire. I'm still not sure if I love the idea of Ashoka sticking to the old Jedi traditions cause she of all people should have known that the old way might not be the best way and she's also seen plenty of Jedi like Ezra and Kanan who are emotionally attached to others and were fine. I also did like the shoutout that someone finally called out Din for practically being Grogu's father cause he has been one practically since they met! We did get a new mission though and that's traveling to Tython to find another Jedi and allow Grogu the chance to decide for himself what he wants to do. I wonder if this Jedi that he'll reach out to will be Ezra or maybe even Luke. I could see Grogu joining Luke's training camp that Ben destroys though I can't imagine that Mark Hamill would show up!!

xoxo Allie

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 7

This week I had the thought that it's really kind of ridiculous that the USNA could sneak all the way into Japan and try to assassinate one of the highest ranked magicians in the Japanese military but then again I suppose if they kept it secret and killed him before the Japanese military had any idea, they could always play dumb. Unfortunately for them Tatsuya was way out of their league and he was able to not only defeat Lina but also all the troops that were sent to capture him as well making a copy of all the footage they got of him and deleting the rest. With this evidence I'm fairly certain that the Yotsuba clan blackmailed the USNA into leave Japan maybe by being like you are illegally in this country and trying to kill our Japanese citizens without any right. What's interesting though is that it looks like they left Lina and I wonder if that's cause the Major thinks that Lina's been compromised (which technically she is with how she fell in love with Tatsuya and became such good friends with the other students) but at the same time we saw her in the military in the Irregular At Magic High School movie so maybe she'll help stop the parasites and get reinstated. It was also interesting to note that the Saegusa clan was following Tatsuya too and I wonder if this is more of what Mayumi hinted at in the first season with how the nine ruling clans were not happy with Tatsuya being a badass who's not affiliated with a clan (or so they think.) Another important thing to note is the parasite that jumped into Pixie explained how the parasites actually have no motivations or desires until they enter a host body which makes me think once again that this whole thing is a big elaborate plot on the part of the bad guys who want to rule the magic world.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 4

I should be annoyed that we took a detour from Trask to Ashoka but honestly I didn't expect that we would get two huge cameos back to back not to mention the fact that the Razorcrest was a complete mess so obviously step one would be for Din to get it fixed! In fact I ended up enjoying this episode a lot cause we got to see old friends again and we progressed the plot with Moff Gideon too. We found out that the reason the Empire wanted Baby Yoda was so they could experiment with it's blood to make as I'm assuming more Force-sensitive people cause they knew what a terrifying force Darth Vader was but I don't know if it works that way cause though we do know that children of Jedi usually are Force-sensitive, is it as simple as DNA or blood? Doesn't that really just suck the magic out of Star Wars?? Either way he ended up getting a spy to place a tracker on the Razorcrest and I high key hope that he swoops down to attack when Din and Baby Yoda are with Ahsoka! I also have to say that it's so ironic cause if only Din knew that Gideon had the Dark Saber cause then he could have told Bo Katan that Gideon is after Baby Yoda so if she stuck with him, she'd eventually find Gideon and get the Dark Saber back. I also liked the small plot point where Cara Dune got an open invite into joining the New Republic though part of me wished they had talked about Leia if they were also talking about Alderaan! 

xoxo Allie

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 6

You know what the most fascinating part of this week was? The realization that I never thought about whether or not there were people in this world that couldn't use magic and whether or not they were bitter about that!! In hindsight of course there would be groups who are anti-magicians and of course the military is probs not the biggest fan of magicians cause they are loose canons which is why the major focus this week was on the fact that someone was trying to expel magicians from society through biased news reporters. What I'm confused about is what the plan is in the long term cause last I remembered this world is run by magicians and Japan is run by 9 magical families so who would have the power to try to push them out and how would they even dream to stop magicians? This is a world where bombs and bullets can be disintegrated! In other news I think we discovered who that group was from the premiere that was trying to produce magicians that could use magic without CADs through a bit of exposition from Lina and that name is the Seven Sages. They're not exactly humanists but more like people who like disorder and it's most likely possible that like Tatsuya said, they attracted the parasites over after the black hold experiment. As a sidebar this was also the Valentine's Day episode so we got to see a lot of cute moments across the board though poor Miki was heartbroken when he wasn't the only one to get chocolates from Mizuki and I was little sad that Erika didn't give Leo any!

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 3

This week was seriously everything I ever could have wanted from this show and I'm high key heartbroken that the show-runners didn't go with this as their show premise. Din arrived as Trask and he found the Mandalorians he was looking for though to his surprise they weren't the kind of Mandalorians he expected. As it turns out, he was raised as part of the Death Watch which were the faction of Mandalorians that didn't believe in the more pacifist government style of Duchess Satine during the Clone Wars and then became Darth Maul's Shadow Collective towards the end. It totally explains this plot point of how strict Din was about not taking his helmet off when we've seen plenty of Mandalorians across the Star Wars universe that did though I have to admit when he awkwardly talked shit to Bo Katan herself about how they weren't Mandalorians cause they took their helmets off when she is literally the heiress to Mandalore and can probs trace her lineage back to the purest bloodline and he's just a foundling it was embarrassing as all hell to watch and felt similar to someone who's taken on a culture lecturing those who are born in the culture about what they're doing wrong. Speaking of, I absolutely adored seeing Bo Katan in live action and I love that she's hunting down Moff Gideon to take the dark saber back though I wished the show would have explained how she lost it cause last we saw in Star Wars Rebels, Sabine gave it to her. It sucks that this is probs her only appearance for the season but maybe just maybe we'll go back to her at some point later on in this show's run. I mean we can only drag out the I need to bring this child back to it's people storyline for so long and you would think with how much Din cares about being Mandalorian, that he would eventually rally to the idea of helping other Mandalorians take back their home planet! At the end Din got what he wanted when Bo Katan sent him to find Ashoka and of course I'm really pumped about her coming appearance but I also have the terrible feeling that Asokha's going to be like I'm not a Jedi and I don't want any part of this so you deal with this child on your own.

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 5

The ultimate struggle with this show is how technology heavy the magic in this world is and how much the show likes to play with that leaving me confused half of the time about what we're even learning about. We learned this week that Tatsuya's theory on magic in this world says that people are actually absorbing energy from another dimension and the black hole experiment actually tore a hole in the dimensional wall allowing things to come into this world from another. I think this means that I guessed right last week in assuming that the USNA black hole experiment didn't actually fail like the scientists thought but brought over parasites that can possess people and use magic without CADs cause it can open up holes to the other world on it's own. The question now is how sentient these parasites are and whether or not they've got some goal instead of literally just being parasites and attacking whomever is available. I can't help but think that earlier on in this show it felt like there was a group that was benefiting off of these parasites but maybe that was just supposed to be a red herring? I really did enjoy the fight we had this week with our whole cast fighting the parasite and the way different powers were highlighted in different ways making me think once again how I glad I am that this show doesn't just portray Tatsuya as the only capable hero not to mention the fact that this show likes to have ships other than every girl being obsessed with Tatsuya like the harem anime I thought this show would be at the beginning.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2

Well this season is definitely doubling down on the fact that it really doesn't want to tell a cohesive story cause for the second week in a row we're watching Mando and Baby Yoda meander along to their goal while taking multiple pitstops. This week they have to transport a Frog Lady from Tatooine to Trask a planet with Mandalorians but they can't travel lightspeed cause the Frog Lady is carrying eggs which apparently will die if at lightspeed. One thing leads to another and they get recognized by New Republic ships as the ship that helped with the prison escape last season and so Mando has to land on some ice planet. As per usual, the ship breaks and hijinks occur and Mando has to fight a giant Ice Spider which was honestly horrifying to look at. Just as all hope was lost, the New Republic pilots show back up and save the day but proving that they are different from the Empire they end up letting Mando go cause he also brought in 3 war criminals besides letting some escape so all's well that ends well? As a sidebar I have to comment on how truly horrifying it was to also watch Baby Yoda eat so many of Frog Lady's eggs cause dude those were so not the funny moments that this show clearly wanted them to be! I'm also generally disappointed that we didn't actually see the ship getting to Trask but I'm hoping that next week when we do that we'll actually start moving forward again with meeting the Mandalorians Mando wants to see. I'm still forever going to be waiting for Sabine or Bo-Katon but I can't imagine that they'll be out on Trask rather than Lothal.

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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The Irregular At Magic High School Season 2 Episode 4

I'm not entirely sure if we got any more answers this week than what we had already known in terms of the parasite plot but we did get some important character moments. Lina and Miyuki ended up dueling in order for Lina to answer some of Tatsuya's questions which did make me happy cause Miyuki is a badass but always seems to be overshadowed by Tatsuya so when she not only gets screen time but time to showcase her power, I'm happy. I do think it sucks a little that she and Lina were so close in power but Lina did mention that she would lose if the duel went on so I'm not all that upset by it. What was interesting to note is that the control the siblings have over one another isn't actually a one-way thing like I thought cause Tatsuya was also able to give Miyuki's control back to her making me wonder if Miyuki was also experimented on but to a lesser degree than Tatsuya. Also interesting to note is how Miyuki mentioned that Tatsuya is starting to feel compassion for people other than her which is strange cause his programming shouldn't allow that which begs the question is he getting stronger than his programming or is Maya turning down the effect cause of some long game she's got planned? In terms of the parasite plot it seems that Shizuku discovered that the USNA were doing some sort of experiment on black holes and after this experiment failed, the parasites started appearing making me think that this black hole actually ended up opening the world to the alternate dimension Yakumo Kokonoe mentioned last week where spirits come from. We also learned from Lina that the parasites are defectors from the USNA which were probs infected by these spirits and turned into parasites. I'm still curious to know how/if this relates back to that group we met early on that is studying magicians and the ability to perform magic without CADs.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1

So we're back with a second season and if I'm being honest it was a bit of a slow return but that's only cause I had so many expectations for this season based on what I had heard and we didn't exactly jump off to a big bang. It honestly felt a little more like a midseason episode than a premiere and I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing especially since I was a little surprised that the showrunners decided to stick with their formula from last season despite the complaints. A lot of people had problems with this show cause they thought it was too slow and meandering and while I had similar agreements at different moments throughout the season (especially early on), I enjoyed the unique take this show had on the Star Wars universe and as the season went on, there were more and more interesting episodes. I mean I wasn't exactly thrilled that there was no real end goal that Mando had to reach but since it was so unlike any of the Star Wars movies or cartoons I've seen, I did want to give it props. I was even more excited with this second season with the announcements that Ashoka, Boba Fett and Sabine and Bo Katan from Star Wars Rebels would be appearing but I really should lower my expectations cause duh with this show they'll all probs just appear for one episode a piece before disappearing again because they're all big names and if they stuck around, maybe they will overshadow Mando. All that said, this week's major plot followed Mando as he traveled to Tatooine to find another Mandalorian that could help him figure out Baby Yoda's race but rather than finding a Mandalorian, he found a native Tatooine man who was wearing Boba Fett's armor. In the end Mando was able to get the armor back but more importantly as he rode off into the sunset we saw that Boba Fett was watching him!!

xoxo Allie

Top 10 Movies Of 2019

Hello all my lovelies! I hope you all had a great holiday season and now it's that time of year again where I list my favorite movies and tv shows of the year! I've been doing these for about six years now so you should know the drill but if you don't, I'm going to be listing my Top 10 Movies of 2019 from 10 to 1 with number 1 being my favorite movie of the year! If you're interested, I also have Top 10 Movies of 2013, Top 10 Movies of 2014, Top 10 Movies of 2015, Top 10 Movies of 2016, and Top 10 Movies of 2017, and Top 10 Movies Of 2018 as well as my Favorite YouTube Videos and My Movie OTPs & Ships lists! Anyway, let's get right to it with our top 10!

The Lion King

Coming in at number 10 is Lion King! Disney live-action movies are kind of like a coin toss. Sometimes they're amazing and sometimes they're terrible and unfortunately this one landed closer to the terrible side than the amazing one like Beauty And The Beast. Part of the problem was that Lion King is one of my most adored Disney animated movies so the fact that the "live action" version was basically a shot-for-shot remake really lended to the fact that the original was just so much better! It was hard to see any emotions in the photo-realistic animals and tbh most of the voice cast wasn't strong enough to show us those emotions and I'll never not be bitter that they decided to make Be Prepared which is one of the best Disney villain numbers into a spoken version! Having said that it was a fun enough jaunt and paired with the fact that I didn't watch that many movies this year, that's why it ended up on my list.

Shazam

At number 9 is Shazam! Is this a surprise? I know a ton of people adored this movie but honestly I think it was too safe if that makes sense cause I just felt meh during most of it. I like the concept and I like the uniqueness of the origin story and how most of the movie was just Billy being silly before he finally had to fight the villain but it all felt like something I'd seen before even if in fact it was more unique than most superhero movies. Having said that I did enjoy the villain and his fall into villainy totally made sense and I loved that the theme of the movie was about family so we got the entire Marvel Family.

Captain Marvel

Coming in at number 8 is Captain Marvel! Maybe this is unfair but like Shazam I was meh during most of this movie. I liked the plot of this movie and how it used Nick Fury and that we got to experience more alien worlds but Carol was just so boring as a lead. The entire movie everyone kept telling her to watch her emotions and all we got from Carol was a stoic face and I was sitting there like dude what emotions?? I loved Jude Law and was totally crushed when his character became the epitome of douche-y sexist bro but I was also low key bitter that the movie decided to switch things up and have the Skrulls be the good guys rather than the slightly better than Kree version in the comics. Having said that I do have to admit that I thought it was creative the way the movie went about showing us Carol's origin story through a case of amnesia and basically going backwards through her life and of course her powers are the damn coolest so there's that.

Knives Out

At number 7 is Knives Out! Dudes you know my love for murder mysteries and somehow this one almost squeaked by without me knowing about it but as soon as I realized that it was one, I was all in and I have to admit that I was low key disappointed by the whole thing... I didn't love that the story started as a series of flashbacks rather than us seeing the party sequentially which I know was probs the movie trying to be creative but tropes are well loved for a reason! It was interesting however having the whole mystery being told through the eyes of one of the suspects rather than the detective which gave us a sense of urgency but the pacing was a little strange cause there was a whole chunk of the movie where I was like wait are we almost done? Having said that I did love all the characters though and the way they were acted and portrayed and like a special shoutout needs to go to Chris Evans looking absolutely delectable in every single scene of this movie!

Jumanji: The Next Level

Coming in at number 6 is Jumanji: The Next Level! I adored the prequel to this movie so much that I was low key afraid to check this movie out but after I did I was so glad cause it was just as fun as I wanted it to be. I think half the fun of these movies are just watching the actors play weird characters and you can practically see how much of a blast the cast it having. Ironically this is one of the only action movies in which the plot and action matter so little cause we're all attached to the characters! I loved the idea of all the main characters ending up in new video game bodies cause it allowed them to have to relearn how to do well in this game and in a meta sense gave us a reason to go back and have a sequel so that it wasn't just a repeat of the first movie. Honestly I'm still stunned that this movie didn't flop!

Spiderman: Homecoming

At number 5 is Spiderman: Far From Home! Though I think I enjoyed Spiderman: Homecoming a lot more than this movie I still had plenty of fun! I really liked the version of Peter we got in this movie and how tired and worn down he was cause it's like he's just a kid and he's mourning the man who helped him become who he is and I totally understood why he latched onto Mysterio so quickly even though Mysterio was walking around with a villain sticker practically plastered to his forehead. I also loved seeing Ned and the whole cast again but I do think the romance with MJ kinda went from 0 to 100 in this movie and the whole Europe setting was totally underutilized cause there was nothing in this movie that said that it couldn't take place in NYC. I really loved the ending though cause it leaves so many cool places for the MCU to go.

Avengers: Endgame

At number 4 is Avengers: Endgame! Though I might be like the only person on this planet that wasn't blown away by Endgame, I was still so into watching this movie and having a blast doing it! I loved that this was a culmination of 10 years of our lives and that it gave such lovely endings to so many characters that we won't see again and gave so many characters a new path to walk. I wasn't the hugest fan of the whole time travel aspect of the movie cause it felt too much like one of those let's look back on all we've experienced kind of things but at the same time we got so many beautiful moments in the final fight with Thanos that I can't help but be excited. I do think that Thor was reduced to close too a joke for all the trauma he had been through and I just can't see him giving up and walking away from his people at the end of the film but I do think that Steve's ending was perfect for him cause my romantic heart thinks that he deserves to spend his life with the one woman he loved!

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Coming in at number 3 is Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker! Surprised at how high this movie ended up being? Low key so am I! I haven't been the hugest fan of this new Star Wars trilogy and Last Jedi was honestly meh but I actually really ended up enjoying this conclusion to the Skywalker Saga. Maybe it has to do with my extremely low expectations going in but I didn't have any complaints with this movie and unlike many others I didn't nitpick at the plot holes cause I just straight up turned my brain off. Yeah yeah Palpatine returning was out of nowhere and yeah yeah a lot of this movie felt like course correcting from Last Jedi but I loved the way Rey and Ben were the heart of this movie and the return of Palpatine and Rey's parentage and the way that the movie used Leia after Carrie's passing! Leia's passing made me cry as did the final scene between Ben and Rey oddly enough which was super unexpected cause I never liked Ben until this movie!

Aladdin

Coming in at number 2 is Aladdin! Remember when I talked about how some Disney movies are hits earlier? Well this is one of those! I just can't describe to you just how much fun I had watching this movie and this is coming from a girl who's favorite Disney animated movie is Aladdin! I was a bit worried at the start of the film cause I didn't particularly think Mena who played Aladdin seemed like an Aladdin in posters but as soon as I saw him act, I was blown away! He was this perfect mix of smooth and dorky and charming all in one. Jasmine was stunning and just as feisty as I wanted her to be. I loved the small changes to the movie and how Jasmine was placed at the center and how her new goal was to become Sultan and how the movie picked some of the Broadway songs to throw in. Will Smith as the Genie was amazing and I loved that it was so different than the Robin Williams's genie. The colors and cinematography was perfect and if I had only one complaint it would be that I wasn't the hugest fan of this Jafar.

Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

And finally, at number 1 is Pokemon: Detective Pikachu! I mean how could it not have been?? I am a huge Pokemon fan having grown up with the cartoons (I was a Pokemon Advanced generation lover) and the games so of course I had to go see this movie but the surprise was in just how much of a blast I had! I mean yeah yeah the plot was totally ice thin and yeah yeah the final twist banked on the main character not recognizing his father's voice but seriously I could not care less about any of that! I loved seeing all the different Pokemon reimagined into real life and how they were the perfect mix of cute and real. I loved the world that the movie built and the way the Pokemon existed and helped. I loved Pikachu and his caffeine addiction! I just don't have enough words to describe how I squealed every other minute while sitting in the theater!


I'll see you all tomorrow for my Top 10 TV Shows of 2019!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 12

This week's episode was all about the hunt for the perfect Battler aka club! I think it's so creative that this show is basically a slice of life but in a magic school so at first glance you don't notice how you're basically going through the same trope-y episodes as a school slice of life! Now don't get me wrong, I adore slice of life school dramas so I'm super down but I just love how it never feels like a slice of life episode until I think about it afterwards. Having said that I'm super hoping that we end up getting a beach episode of something similar cause that would slay me. I really thought that maybe Iruma would end up joining the Student Council cause Ameri is there and if Battlers are used to go up in ranks then Iruma would need to join a real one but I think that he'll end up joining the Magical Apparatus one which low key sucks cause I want Iruma to do well and with only one member of that Battler, it's not as fun as if he joined the Student Council! I do wonder if the new character we met was the one who made that ring for Iruma and if he did how it ended up in that owl! As a sidebar I was a living for Clara continuously trying to join the Succubus Battler and Azz dragging her away like you have no chance with it cause not only was it hilarious and a nice callback to a previous episode but it reminded me how much I loved that Clara centric episode and how much I low key want her to seduce Iruma!

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 11

This episode really did this to us huh?? It ramped up the stakes and the story only to stop and leave the best for next week which is the finale! I was complaining last week that it made no sense that Special 7 was targeted by the police force and now we find out that the Public Safety leader was a follower of Warlock from the start so that's why he always hated the Special 7 unit but I do think that this was a bit out of nowhere cause if this character had been shown more we would have been more shocked. Instead when the reveal happened I was like oh okay I think I know who this dude is. Luka was also returned to normal through the power of Nijou's love which I know I should be complaining about but it makes sense cause Luka's love for Nijou was his strongest emotion so of course that's what would help him break the brainwashing not to mention the fact that last week we saw that he's been getting flashes of his life only to ignore them. The biggest reveal though was defs the fact that Boss was a dragon! I know the dragons are supposed to have nine heads aka 9 people with the dragon power but I wonder if we're supposed to think that there's only three in the human world right now (Boss, Warlock and Seiji) or if there are others out there.

FINISHED Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 12

Though the finale of this show aired this week it terms of story it feels like we ended on a bit of a cliffhanger in that it felt like the show wanted to make a season 2 cause the overall mystery was solved but not everything was wrapped up. As we found out last week Miyase was the one who was distributing Plus and trying to frame Kujo for it. Apparently that scientist that helped make Zero and Miyase's mom were in love but Kujo's dad separated them and I'm pretty sure he raped Miyase's mom based on what we saw about how scared she was when she saw how much Miyase looked like his father and so when Miyase found out he decided that he needed to get revenge on the Kujo family. Like I never suspected Miyase as the bad guy, I also never expected him to be the kid that had the package! In the end though we figured out what was happening and obviously stopped Plus from hitting the streets Miyase got away and because of that STAND was almost destroyed before it got off the ground but in the end I think STAND was okay cause Aoyama mentioned how he was planning on joining STAND now that he solved the Anonymous Case. Overall I had fun with this show and I liked the mystery but I do wish that there was a romance for Rei preferably with Aoyama who totally freaked out the most when he found out that Rei and Miyase were together so my shipper brain is low key content.

FINISHED Assassin's Pride Episode 12

The finale for this anime aired this week and tbh it was fairly disappointing. I had a feeling that this show wouldn't end in a satisfactory way cause there was so much to plot to deal with and so little time. We know for a fact that Melida received Kufa's mana in episode 1 but we had no idea if Melida was an illegitimate child or not and I feel like we still don't know cause we know for a fact that Melida has no mana but does that mean that she's not an Angel? Her father mentioned that he had a relative that was part of the Samurai mana class which in his mind means that Melida is of his blood but like is that true?? Why was there such an emphasis on Melida being a supposed incompetent girl if in the end it meant nothing in terms of her lineage? We also know nothing about that Duke who was leading the charge on outing Melida as a bastard cause his plan obviously didn't work cause Melida was a badass who was trained by Kufa but like he just killed everyone who was in his way and pretended like he had no idea about what happened. Is this an attempt for a season 2? I did like that Melida was able to prove her strength and show the others that she wasn't incompetent but I do wish we had gotten more. Overall I had a fun time with this show if I ignored the overarching plot and just watched the show at face value.

FINISHED The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 8

What a finale guys! We seemed to have pretty much gotten rid of everyone from season 1 so that we can have more of a clean slate for season 2 and I don't know if that's a good thing or not cause the only real complaint I have about this show is the fact that Mando doesn't have a permanent or even semi-permanent crew! Not only are the guild leader and ex-Rebellion member staying on the planet we first started this show on but we have pretty much lost every single Mandalorian that this show introduced us to cause apparently instead of moving to a new location after they were exposed in the early episodes, they decided to return to where they were so that they could be slaughtered. I couldn't decide if I knew the name Moff Gideon before in some other canon but the strangest part was when he ended up not only surviving both a bombing of his ship and a crash landing of his ship but the fact that he has a darksaber! I didn't know there was more than one out there and the last I heard of one was in Star Wars: Rebels where Sabine held it and that took place pre-A New Hope so either there's another one that Gideon found or he stole Sabine's. I low key hope that Sabine can pop up later in this show cause I'm sure she'd be an adult now and since she was a cartoon, we can cast whoever the hell we want! My favorite scene though hilariously has to be the opening where those Storm Troopers were fighting over whether one could look at Baby Yoda or not but I also loved everything with Nurse IG unit too! Overall I did really enjoy this show and it finally feels like we're getting a plot for season 2 with finding out Baby Yoda's species and returning him to his home so I'm content!

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 5

This episode wasn't as fun as the last one cause the twist at the end was something I thought was pretty well known in terms of Harley's origin story but I guess the show just wanted to spell it out for people who didn't actually know the truth. Though Joker did cause Harley to fall in love with him, it was Harley herself who actually jumped into the vat of chemicals to prove her love for him so it all depends on semantics about whether you believe that Joker was responsible for Harley or if Harley was herself. I do still love this world and the characters and how they end up in the strangest situations which is really winning me over cause you all know how much I love silliness in a show! I did love seeing all the flashbacks to Harley as a child though I don't know if I ever knew that Harley wasn't completely sane as a child cause my head-canon was always that the chemicals did it but I'm not married to this idea so I'm cool with this new version of Harley who was pretty messed up from the start. I also love the new lair that we got but I'm surprised that we ended up going that route cause I did love Ivy's old place and I hope that we get to fix up the new one like makeover style!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 6

You can't see me right now but I'm snickering as I write this review. This episode wasn't supposed to be as funny as it was if you look at it on paper but seriously this show knows exactly how to tickle my funny bone! People are obsessed with Cautious Hero and I'm watching it too though not reviewing it but it does nothing for me tbh while this one kills me every week. I love that Iruma is now able to use magic based on the ring he got from the owl demon last week which like straight up I should totally have seen coming cause duh a ring that siphons off magic from other demons?! It makes Iruma so much more fun to watch and allows him to not only fit in but participate in class now. I was living for when he made a cherry blossom tree erupt and destroy the tower that he was in but like was any one else thinking that somehow his magic blood thing would do something? I was low key sitting here being like Iruma bleed on that plant and see what happens cause my brain didn't even think of the magic ring. The funniest part of the episode though was hands-down the stuff we got with the Student President who I expected to be this tough leader but ended up being so soft and I adore that. I straight up died when she went on and on about these sacred human texts that her family passed down through generations and then they ended up being mangas. I didn't realize that most demons thought that humans were a myth but it definitely explains why they're all so fascinated by Iruma without knowing what he is. I especially loved how the Student President thought that humans have this charming ability and that now she thinks that Iruma did it to her when it's like you sweet summer child you just have a crush!

Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit Episode 6

Okay so I'm thinking Nine's evil plan might be something similar to Father's plan in Fullmetal Alchemist in that it seems as though dragons can be summoned with magical circles. We know that Nine's ultimate goal is to bring dragons and magic back into the world and in this episode we learned that a small circle with a few deaths caused a small dragon to appear so it stands to reason that a giant circle in the city would lead to a giant dragon appearing. It's possible that the points on the circle are where Nine are doing these terror attacks so each terror attack's outcome isn't all that important cause they're still progressing towards calling on the giant dragon they want. I'm just not sure how they're planning on controlling the dragon or if their goal is just to bring it back for chaos or if dragons are intelligent enough to know who helped them and bestow gifts. I also have a feeling that Seiji's otherworldliness is related to these dragons. Maybe when the Nine summoned a dragon at that airport all those years ago, Seiji was dying and that cop who saved him somehow put the dragon's magic or essence into Seiji thus saving his life and ridding the world of the dragon that was summoned. It explains why he was able to stop the magical bombs a few weeks ago and what happened this week with being able to block a dragon's breath. He also had the same reptilian pupil as the Nine boss did which throws up red flags for me. The boss also clearly knows more than he's saying cause not only did he have all this knowledge on dragons but he also did some sort of chant that woke Seiji's powers.

Stand My Heroes: Piece Of Truth Episode 6

This was more of a chill episode which was strange cause you would think that with only 12 episodes this season that the show doesn't have time for filler episodes but at the same time I guess with all the craziness we learned last week we needed a moment to breathe. What does suck is that it seems like we're not actually done with meeting more reverse harem men but at least it's only Kujo's right hand men that are left and based on the opening song, there's four of them and while at first glance I thought one of them was the REVEL leader, they just have similar hair colors. Anyone else low key worried about Rei having to go talk to Kujo on her own? I'm really hoping that Aoyame goes with her cause even though I'm sure that Kujo's not going to like kidnap her on one visit, it'd be helpful to have him by her side to read the room cause Rei's default is to give people the benefit of the doubt like with Kujo's two right hand men that she met at the festival this week. It makes me super curious about what STAND's motives are cause they're clearly going after the same drug case that the narcotics unit is working but in a more subtle way I think. But back to what I said before about Rei meeting Miyase and Kirishima. She was super unsubtle with her questioning of Miyase and he clearly knew it though she tried to play it off by acting like an airhead but the whole thing was off based on how she started it all by giving him her name card which says she works in narcotics. Maybe she'll lean more into the airhead thing next week when she meets Kujo cause men seem to let their guard down in front of women especially when they think they're just a secretary or something.

Batwoman Season 1 Episode 6

It's interesting how an episode can feel so meh for so much of it only to really hit you in the feels at the end and make you question whether the episode you watched really wasn't as terrible as you thought it was. If Batwoman does one thing right, it's the family aspect of this show. Kate and Jacob and Beth are the core of this show and I'm honestly such a sucker for sad moments between family so I tend to cry anytime any of it appears on screen and this week that was the final Kate and Jacob scene. I was crying right alongside Kate and Jacob as they cried over Beth cause it was just so believable and I've said before that I wasn't sure if their relationship was the one I was expecting but I do have hope that it might get even stronger. I was sitting here hoping so hard that Kate would tell the truth about who she was to Jacob during the gas chamber scene but no dice yet. Sophie is still the worst and I hate so much that she's the first one to figure out who Kate was. I blame her for breaking Kate's heart back then and for pretending like she isn't anything now while simultaneously needing Kate to tell her everything all the time. I wish it had been Mary or Jacob instead but the ship has sailed and I gotta get on board. The Alice and Mouse stuff wasn't great either but it's interesting that Katherine's big new weapon is one that'll pierce Batman's armor cause it's so crazy that despite everything Batman has done for Gotham, they still hate him so much. Also didn't Bruce make a version of this weapon a while ago? It's interesting that despite everything Alice doesn't blame Kate for not saving her and puts all the blame on Jacob cause as we learned this week Alice wants Kate to join her and Mouse and it low key sucks that Mouse knows who Kate is now too.

Ugh of course Sophie can't just let it go and needs to blackmail Kate. And Kate girl Sophie is the worst. Move on!!

The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 1 & 2

Instead of just getting the pilot, we got two episodes this week and I had a blast. The saying slow and steady wins the race comes to my mind as I think about how to start this review cause both episodes were definitely slow but they were so much fun to watch and I have a feeling that the slowness is only going to attach us more to the characters and the world so when shit goes down, we'll really care. First of all I want to thank everything that this is set post Return Of The Jedi cause if I had to watch ANOTHER goddamn show set between Revenge Of The Sith and A New Hope, I was going to lose it. Another thing I want to shout out is what feels like an astronomical budget for a tv show cause the visuals were so pretty! Now onto plot stuff. So if I remember correctly about Star Wars canon Mandalore was destroyed by the Empire pretty early on so it looks like the remaining few have created a base in some other planet (that doesn't have a name which tbh none of the planets we visited had them on screen) and the main character seems to be hunting bounties in order to provide for the colony. It's also really interesting that there are still Imperial members and Storm Troopers around cause duh of course they would be! The Emperor and Darth Vader were killed in ROTJ but that doesn't mean that the Empire was completely destroyed yet. But what really blew my mind was the child we met that is the same species as Yoda. It is so cute I could die. Also isn't it so weird that we never learned what kind of alien Yoda was in literally any corner of the Star Wars canon? It is force sensitive as we learned but I'm curious to know if it's just another in the species or a clone that maybe the Empire lost and want back. I do know that it can't be a reincarnation cause it was born the same year Anakin was and since Yoda didn't die until more recently, the timeline doesn't match up. I'm also curious at the fact that the Mando was confused about it's force abilities cause like you would think with Vadar and Luke running around, Jedi wouldn't be a myth anymore.

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 6

In true Riverdale fashion what started as a fairly typical grounded romp into a prestigious academy turned into crazy fanaticism and deaths all around. I mean seriously. Jughead was all excited to enter the writing competition only to find out that his grandfather was the one to write the first book of the series and when he confronted the writer who claimed to have written it, the writer went on this long tirade about how the poor don't know how to appreciate what they have and are constantly trying for him. It then devolved into Jughead's teacher killing himself and all of the students acting like cultists and truly not giving a shit and I'm sitting here like what the hell did I just experience? Is Jughead's whole story this season part of his mystery story that he's been writing or is this just Riverdale per usual? Betty on the other hand went to Chic and like I said last week it was a truly stupid idea cause of course Chic lied about everything. What was interesting though was that it seems like Charles and Chic are in love so I wonder if Charles came back just to get revenge on Riverdale and Betty specifically for Chic. Plot twist but Charles is also not who he says he is and next season we'll get a new Charles cause this show will never show us the real Cooper-Jones child. I'm still giving zero shits about Archie and his whole thing but it always amuses me when Archie and Hiram work together and it's clear that Hiram was the one to attack Dodger even though he told Archie that he's no longer in that business. Also we're like straight up pretending like Cheryl hasn't completely lost her mind right?

Next week is the Thanksgiving episode and Betty and Jughead might finally be working together again to figure out what's going on in Stonewall and I can't wait cause I love when they do their mystery dynamic duo thing. Dodger's mom is also apparently coming and she's going to be blaming Archie for what happened but like he's the one who called the ambulance so like duh woman!

Assassin's Pride Episode 6

What is up with all the anime having oddly placed filler episodes this week? I mean what even was this episode? The whole plot line was that Kufa and Rosetti found out that the girls were having a sort of after-tournament party just for the girls past curfew so they decided that it would be a good idea to scare the girls half to death in order to teach them a lesson about sneaking out. The fact that this was the plot was ridiculous cause beyond the fact that it made for a silly episode, Kufa and Rosetti really couldn't let the girls have even the slightest amount of fun after all they went through? I mean they trained so hard that they deserve to let some steam off. I knew pretty early on that it was probs the instructors playing a trick especially when Melida kept thinking that all they had to do was get up to the surface cause then Kufa would save her. Honestly if I'm being more impartial about the whole thing I have to say it wasn't a terrible episode but I think the problem is that I just expect more from this anime cause it started out so strongly and there was so much I was interested in learning more about but for the past couple of weeks we've focused so heavily on the silliness that I'm staring at the episode count and wondering when the real meat of the story will show up. I mean Melida still doesn't know that she's sharing Kufa's mana or that he's a vampire or that her father is trying to kill her. That's gotta come up sometime right?

Titans Season 2 Episode 11

If I'm being as impartial as I can be I might say that this episode wasn't half bad but if I'm letting my emotions in, I wasn't a fan of pretty much anything I watched. I just can't connect with almost any of the Titans since they broke up cause I feel like the way they acted was insane and illogical and just plain mean and idk what the show wanted us to feel but I'm so over all of them except for Dick, Gar, Kory and perhaps Connor tbh. Everyone else is all so terrible and judge-y and I'm tired of watching them constantly shit on Dick. I did think it was creative of Bruce to get some of the Titans together cause it was the first Batman thing I've seen this Bruce do though I'm not sure why he didn't call Hank or Jason. Speaking of Jason, I think this Rose/Jason thing happened way too quickly but I was proud to note that I was right in thinking that Rose was a plant in the Titans and that Jason inadvertently convinced her to stop spying which is hilarious in terms of Slade cause it's like you really lost two kids to the Titans huh. I was also right in guessing that Jericho was alive and inside Slade and Dick figured it out too this week which I'm interested to see where it goes. Other than the conclusion, I was really over Dick's whole story this week but I did think it was hilarious that Rachel and Kory showed up to rescue him and he had already escaped cause duh Dick's a badass. But on another note Rachel was getting psychic dreams of Dick's death when he was perfectly fine (though self-flagellating) but Gar who's literally being tortured and mind controlled didn't send her demon powers any red flags? It was even weirder when she heard that the tower was destroyed and blood was everywhere and she didn't worry about Gar at all. Poor Gar definitely has more feelings than her. I'm high key worried about what's going on with Gar because even if Donna and Dawn get him out, what's up with the mind control??

xoxo Allie