alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

victory!!

oh yeah, bulbapedia? shows what you know.

I did it! I probably did not need to grind that long, but it went very smoothly having done so.

unrelatedly i decided to try the iOS auto light/dark mode setting and apparently the minesweeper app i play is kinna gorgeous in dark mode.

and for my actually-for-today #DecRecs , I offer... another TV anime.

Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight is a TV anime (and an anime film) set in an all-girls musical theatre training school, directed by Tomohiro Furukawa, who came up under and has collaborated extensively with Kunihiko Ikuhara. Like Ikuni's work, it makes extensive use of surreal, highly stylized elements, although it's more transparent than Ikuni's stuff. Also like much of Ikuni's stuff it's very lesbian.

It is very good although I really need to get around to actually finishing it. For a bit more background on Ikuhara, Furukawa, and the Takarazuka Revue (which the show is in part a critique of), I additionally recommend the (spoiler-free) post tumblr person canmom wrote up in advance of showing some people the TV anime.

also there's a giraffe that understands things.