She also mentioned that America doesn’t have a leg to stand on in regards to Ukraine. Pretty rare to see this type of guest on Democracy Now, especially this close to the election.

I was never really a big fan of GITS for its action sequences, but they are a nice touch. I think you’re right in your second point. The only anime that comes to mind in that milieu would be Kaiba (Kino’s Journey too, but that’s a totally different premise).

What would you recommend instead of GITS? I’ve always had a soft spot for it considering it was my first “adult” anime.

This month:

Last Exile: WW1 aesthetics, but taking place entirely in flying ships. Tons of passable CGI with very ok dogfights. It’s pretty average, but you do get one of the leads as Haruko from FLCL. I’ve had this one on my to watch list for over a decade, so I’m pretty disappointed that it turned out to be passable at best.

Oshi No Ko S2: I’m also disappointed with this one, but for a different reason. The first episode (movie?) of the first season was absolutely stellar. Psychological thriller par excellance. It seems to just be a harem with pretty animation now, I guess? I feel like it has all the potential to be something great, but it misses so many layups that I might just drop it considering what is supposed to be coming in the manga. I’m particularly irked with Kana being written to fawn over the main character, when she has the depth to be more than that.

I’m looking forward to starting Dan Da Dan sometime soon considering the studio behind it.

This was in a place that I had been before and had experienced the same treatment, which us why I brought the recorder. I left my backpack in the spot I was sitting to get up for a few minutes and they rifled through it. They found it about an hour and a half in to the recording.

The talking shows up on Audacity. One would think a decibel rise would be enough.

For context, I have no idea why they didn’t delete the recording outright. One of them came back to turn the recorder off after about 2 hours and fifty minutes, seemingly to taunt me.

For your reading pleasure: https://archive.org/details/aberrationinhear0000pain

The movie covers a third of the actual story. It was made while the Manga was being published, so it left a ton out out of necessity. The biker gangs are more fleshed out, and there’s a good amount of post apocalypse story telling. It is long as hell (2000+ pages), but there’s still nothing like it.