Currently Watching...

Honestly, these days, I feel like I hardly have the energy and motivation to do much beside go to work and binge watch TV shows. I'm still working out from time to time, drawing, writing fanfic, etc. but it just doesn't grab my attention like it used to. Perhaps I'm just in a funk. Regardless, I have been enjoying watching TV these days, and here's the lineup of shows I'm currently watching.

First up, the shows I'm rewatching: Haikyuu!! (of course), The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Seinfeld, and Avatar the Last Airbender.

Haikyuu and Saiki K stand out to me right now, since I only first watched them within the last 15 months or so and I've already rewatched them entirely once. So this is my third viewing in about a year of both of these shows. I'm watching Haikyuu!! a bit more quickly since I'm watching it at my own pace right now and I'm watching Saiki K with my husband. We took a break between season one and two of Saiki K because that is when the show switches from having an English dub available to only having subtitles.

On the flipside, Seinfeld is a great show to watch while eating dinner or folding laundry. Nothing ever really happens, so it's almost like funny background noise. We're currently on our second rewatch, having picked the show up again once it was added to Netflix. The first time, we watched it on hulu. Of course, at this point in my life, I've seen most episodes more than twice since it's been in syndication for forever. I've grown up with Seinfeld and know most of the "plot" beats by this point, but it still makes me laugh.

As far as a A:TLA goes... I'm basically always in the middle of rewatching it. I cannot even count how many times I've seen the show since it's undoubtedly my all time favorite.

The shows I'm now watching for the first time include: Blue Period, K-On, Komi Can't Communicate, Derry Girls, and Modern Family.

I actually just started Blue Period today. It's a show about a high school junior who just decided to get into painting and make a life of it. I have to say, I really don't get it so far. The main character goes from mocking the art club students for picking a career they cannot possibly make a living at, to deciding he wants to go to art school himself, almost overnight. His skill level varies from talented sixth grader to AP art genius at any given moment as well, which is most apparent to me in the second episode. He also seems to pull all-nighters, drinking, smoking, and watching soccer games on TV with his underage friends, then turns around and goes to school all day, and finally goes home and studies for hours. When does the kid sleep? I cannot figure out who he is supposed to be and why he wants the things he wants. I'm only two episodes in, though, so maybe these things will start to add up soon?

K-On is much less frustrating. It's just a cute, pointless show about a girl's rock band. I like to watch it when I'm feeling down and when I have nothing else to do. The show is happy and lighthearted, but I have to read subtitles, so I can't be distracted.

Komi Can't Communicate is running currently on Netflix with new episodes each Wednesday. It's pretty funny, with goofy little vignettes reminiscent of Saiki K, but there are no psychics in this show. It still relies on ridiculous character stereotypes for its humor, so I think Saiki K fans would like it too.

Derry Girls is not an anime. It's also a Netflix series about trashy Irish Girls. It's a little but vulgar at times, but it's really stupid and funny too. It's almost absurdist at times, kind of like Seinfeld.

Modern Family doesn't even need to be described. It's just a classic. I've seen a lot of the episodes on TV over the years, but this is the first time I'm actually watching the show through. It fills a similar hole as Seinfeld: my husband and I watch it together and we enjoy it while folding clothes or something like that.

I also recently finished a few shows: Jujutsu Kaisen, My Dress Up Darling, and Tsurune.

Jujutsu Kaisen was a really frustrating show to watch. Even though I was watching the Dub, I still felt like I had to pay laser focused attention or I wouldn't understand what the heck was going on. I started the show around Christmas time and I remember trying to wrap presents while I watched it. That proved to be a big mistake. I feel like the show has incomprehensible shifts in tone as well. The teachers will go from telling the students that like seven people died to having them play a baseball game in the very next scene. The characters seem desensitized to death, and since they don't seem to care, the audience doesn't either. It makes me wonder what the point of anything is? Also, my favorite character got killed off half way through the season, so I kind of got discouraged trying to watch it at that point. But I finished the first season and I'm not sure that I'll continue when the second season comes, even if the animation is really good.

My Dress Up Darling has already been thoroughly discussed on this blog, so I won't go on and on about it, but I will say that I enjoyed it enough that I wound up reading the manga. I really think the romance is precious and I can't wait for either a second season or more manga chapters.

Tsurune is a show about a high school kyudo club (archery). Honestly, I found the sport a little boring and the character interactions unimpassioned. But there were some really beautiful moments and the ending was actually really satisfying.

That's all that I've got going on right now in my life! Inform me if I should be checking any other shows out!