Re: What have you been watching or reading?

Feanor wrote:

> In the early 2000's, an otaku friend of mine exposed me to Tenchi
> Muyo for the first time (probably on vhs tapes), but I didn't really
> like it. My main memory of the show is: girl character was mean.
> After many a moon, finally tried it again recently. I watched the
> 1993 6 ep OVA. I get it now. It's funny and fanservicey without being
> hentai even though it's pretty nakey. Ryoko is indeed still mean at
> first, but becomes not as bad as I remember. She seems to actually be
> okay and I want to like her. The leaps in anime logic are kinda hard
> to swallow, but the lore has potential outside of it's pulp
> randomness, so I want to try out the actual series some time.
> 
> On Dynsasty Reader a few weeks ago, I read a random oneshot GL manga
> where these two girls came home, took pills, and died (spoiler). That
> was pretty depressing and seems like an ultrarare conclusion.

These days I've gotten into reading the English translations of novels
(web and light) using novelupdates.com as my initial starting search
point to find stuff.  Lately I've had fun reading some of the what I
guess are take-offs of the Pokemon universe involving "beast taming" -
Beast Taming Starting from Zero.  Another one I liked was called
"Surviving as a mage in a magic acadmey".  The protagonist of each are
a reincarnted individual.