![]() If I get this to come together, you’ll be seeing it soon! It was a loud, hilarious, amazing game between three utterly tired people, and it inspired me to conceptualize a video series which would take the form of a videocast played over games of Mario Power Tennis. It was amazing because it was such a massive battle of attrition, with all of us wanting to be done, but not wanting to lose, and playing mind games with one another-taking advantage of things like when our friend would start texting and we’d get pissed and score on him ruthlessly. It was 5 sets at 6 games a set, so we ended up playing one match for well over an hour. This month we played a doubles match with my brother and I against our friend and a computer player. My brother and I used to play it a lot when we were younger, accompanied with long-winded conversations by myself (according to him). Mario Power Tennis is, to me, the ultimate example of how something totally simplistic can be fun and exciting, and is one of my favorite multiplayer experiences in gaming. (“That’s because I’m a depressing person!”) Just as important as the themes and the fact that it’s an air-tight, beautifully constructed show, is the fact that it has one of the best casts of characters in anime, ruled over by the unforgettable Saori Chiba, who provides most of my favorite scenes in the show, and many of my favorite lines in anime. Most of my fiction writing contains exploration of these themes, and this series had a big influence on that since as far back as when I read a bunch of the manga, long before the anime came to be. Gender identity is a fascinating subject to me, and no series handles it better or more thoroughly than this one does. Having seen it again, I think it probably belongs in my top five favorite anime (if such a thing were to become a thing again). When I started up Aoi Hana as part of my Secret Santa recommendations, I decided to rewatch and finish Hourou Musuko with a friend (which we ended up doing in one sitting). I watched most of this when it was on TV and greatly enjoyed it-even put it in my canon-but strangely never finished it. (For instance: MLP is back, but wasn’t on when I started the journal, so I’ll be talking about it here but I won’t talk about the still-running Game Grumps, because I talked about it in September.) +++ Media Hourou Musuko I also did a lot of rewatching and stuff, so in this post I’ll be including media which I’ve already seen, or am continuing to watch, which I didn’t cover before. This was my busiest month ever, with a slam-packed November holiday schedule leaving me at work or asleep way more than I’d have liked.
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