I’ve Begun My New Christmas Tradition Of Building The Cool Lego Set That My Wife Got Me. This Year

Between this, Chainsaw Man, Bleach, Spy x Family part 2, and Stone Ocean part 2, my fall anime season is set.

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Will’s Anime Watchlist for Winter 2025

Little late on this but now we know what all we’re watching. Here we go!

New series:

Sakamoto Days (Netflix) (HYPE!!!!!!)

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective (Crunchyroll)

The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World (Crunchyroll)

Zenshu (Crunchyroll) (GO WATCH THIS! IT’S SO GOOD!)

From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! (Hidive) (WATCH THIS TOO! IT’S VERY FUNNY!)

Series continuing from last season:

Blue Box (Netflix)

Shangri-La Frontier season 2 (Crunchyroll)

Dragon Ball Daima (Crunchyroll)

Returning shows:

The Apothecary Diaries season 2 (Crunchyroll)

Others I’ve been meaning to catch up on:

Undead Unluck (Hulu) (Dubbed because I’ve seen the sub and read the manga)

Bleach TYBW Part 3 (Hulu) (Dubbed because I’ve seen the subbed. May just wait until we get a release date for Part 4)

Summer Time Rendering (Hulu)

Beastars: The Final Season (Netflix) (Waiting for part two to come out so we can watch them all at once)

And that’s it! A lot of great shows this season!

Saw this Tiktok from Viz Media featuring Xander Mobus (english voice of Bazz B) and Robbie Daymond (english voice of Haschwalth) and felt the need to share. Pretty sure they’re big episode is next week.

I love the concept of Baratie not just bc it's a sea restaurant and that's cool but because their policy is the absolute antithesis of "the customer is always right." Oh you wanna be a jerk to the staff? Get decked, loser. Being terrible on a date? Congratulations, our sous chef will steal your girl. Ordered a wine that pairs badly? Ignored, we're picking a better one. It's like objectively the funniest way to run a restaurant and I can't stop thinking about it.

I’ll be finishing up my playthrough of Paper Mario tonight! It should be fun! Next week I’ll be starting a new playthrough! Stream’ll start at 7:30 pm (CT).

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Well, it took four and a half years but I finally caught COVID. It’s just mild symptoms but I’ll still need to isolate for about a week. Hopefully it’ll pass pretty quickly. In the meantime, let’s look at the positives. I’ve got a backlog of games and anime to work through so that’ll be fun.

My personal headcanon for Ash Ketchum has always been that regardless of if his dream ever came true he'd never truly stop traveling and learning. Because despite "becoming a pokemon master" being his goal if you actually sit down and watch like Any episode of Pokemon the thing that always holds true is his curiosity and desire to learn everything he possibly can related to pokemon. And he'll try anything to! He did contests and the battle frontier. He'd do those silly little shows with Serena if they'd let him.

So I like to imagine him continuing on in life as this nomad who people don't automatically recognize as anyone important ya know? Just this goofy guy going from place to place always lending a helping hand and hes got a cute lil pikachu on him. And hes often lost somewhere with a friend just exploring the woods to see if he'll find anything cool. Ya know, as hes always been, but older now. And its only once hes drifted once more do you maybe stumble into an article on the pokeweb about him and are like... that guy??

“The Mighty Bowser” Progress Update

We have a tail, shell rim, and chest plating! It’s really starting to come together!

Midwestern roads suck. Especially in late fall/winter.

My wife, sibling-in-law and I left a few days early for Christmas stuff with my in-laws. We took our time because it’s a few days before we were originally gonna leave since the weather is gonna be worse later this week. We grabbed dinner, picked up some things from my parents house on the way and went through the Holiday Park in my hometown. It was another 45 minute drive to get to my in-laws. No big deal. Y’know, under oridinary circumstances.

Now, it had been raining a little bit. Nothing big, just some light sprinkling. However, the temperature is 30 degrees fahrenheit and that rain starts to turn into sleet. Not only that, it starts freezing on the roads. This drive just became significantly harder and longer. We nearly spun out a couple of times (no accidents, we got there safely) so I have to inch the rest of the way there. My in-laws live in a very rural area so not only do we have to deal slick highways, we have to deal with slick country roads. Oh joy.

Once we get there, about an hour later, the gravel road that makes up the driveway is also slippery. This is less of a problem for driving and more a problem for walking and unloading our car of all of our stuff. We got in just fine, no one got hurt. But man, I am still kinda high off of the adrenaline rush. Having to drive that slowly took all of my concentration and focus. I am drained. On the bright side, my in-laws have six dogs and they’re all very good puppers. Plus, my sibling-in-law just got a kitten so yay! The rest of the week should be fine since I won’t have to drive as much.

Happy Holidays!