A few things I've been watching over the past couple weeks:
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Devilman Crybaby: After the creepy, horrible
Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy experience, I needed an anime pallet cleanser. Devilman Crybaby was excellent. Buckets of gore with monsters tearing people to shreds and lots of sex, but none of it felt exploitative or just gross like Bastard did. Really strong characters and an interesting story. Art style wasn't my favorite, but it grew on me by the end. 7/8 tentacles
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Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. I love, love, love Iron Chef but this reboot was just...okay. The new Kitchen Stadium was very cool, Alton Brown and Kristen Kish were fantastic hosts (Kish was especially good), the Chairman was hilariously over-the-top, and the cooking was fascinating to watch. Maybe it's just because the formula has become a bit stale, but it just all felt kinda meh. None of the Iron Chefs were particularly interesting, and the judges were mediocre. I don't think I heard them say a single negative thing about a single dish throughout the entire competition. Everything was "exquisite" and "the best I've ever had" and "absolutely perfect". It also felt really gimmicky, like they didn't really know what to do with it. The first four episodes all had themes to them (i.e. "tailgate", "medieval", "farm", etc), but then they just sort of dropped that idea entirely midway through. They did a few other things to mix it up, none of which really worked very well. I'll always enjoy watching Iron Chef, but this one was pretty disappointing. 4/8 tentacles.
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Love, Death, & Robots: Finally got around to finishing Season 3. It was the most uneven season, with some episodes being completely mindblowing (Jibaro, Bad Travelling) and others being completely uninteresting (The Very Pulse of the Machine, Kill Team Kill). Definitely worth a watch, but know that not everything will click. 6/8 tentacles
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Baking Impossible: A really interesting concept of combining cooking and engineering but terrible execution. Challenges like creating a boat make of cake that can actually sail for 45 seconds should be really cool, but the production and the way it's edited is mostly just jarring. It's a long competition and they end up trying to cram 9 hours of baking and engineering from 10 teams into about 30 minutes. It ends up just being a jumbled mess that's hard to follow. In the first episode, one of the two teams whose cake actually make it through the challenge afloat wasn't even introduced during the "get to know the competitors" montage. It's like they just randomly showed up. The things they make are amazing, but the production is bad enough that it makes things really tough to watch. 3/8 tentacles
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Farzar: A mature take on 80's sci-fi cartoons...that is spectacularly horrible. I got through three episodes of fart jokes, geriatric sex jokes, poop jokes, completely unneccesary violence and gore, and lame characters. Lance Reddick deserves better than this. 1/8 tentacles.
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.