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Also, one of my favorite scenes :

Dib: Even that taco place you love so much! Zim: what? I think place is diiirty. Gir loves it. GIR: YES I DOOO!

Yup also watched with a friend I try to do anime nights occasionally with him and his wife. We both totally got sucked in with the story and the character types they had. Nothing was over the top which was a good thing for me.

That chase scene with nezuko

This is funny to read from Mox and bomb just because it's such a stark contrast to the manga-readers' dominating opinion. A lot of people didn't like Taiju and Yuzuriha as much and find the series doesn't start getting it's footing until Senku goes to the village. I was always sort of in between. I actually love Taiju and dig Yuzuriha, but I still think the story and characters get better once he gets to the village. Still haven't caught up from episode 5, but I'm looking forward to binging the first chunk of this arc hopefully tomorrow. EDIT: Can I also say it's nice to be able to read all your comments without worry of spoilers even though I'm behind on the anime? Because it's nice.

Volume 8/27-36

Ha, they referenced the gorilla-strength bit in Ep 8

I was actually a bit unimpressed? Which is a shame, because I had been waiting for this since it was announced. Complaints aside, I did enjoy this, and the more I reflect on it, I think I was just caught off guard by the slight character changes and the uber crisp animation. With another watch, I could see myself appreciating it, but I think the majority of my complaints just come down to Jhonen being a bit rusty and less familiar with his original character concepts. If there's any sort of continuation, I'm still in. Really, though, I'm hoping that the Squee! short film that he talked about however many years back comes to fruition. I'd love to see what he could do when he doesn't have to cater to children.

Binge? It's literally just a single, near-movie length episode. Was hilarious though. Glad they got Jhonen Vasquez to write it. Tied a lot more to the original series than I was expecting too and references stuff from it. Was expecting a random one-off thing that could be from any point during the original, but it continues off of it.