I’m down to two shows, which is still twice as many as I was following at this time last year. The best remains Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department. However, despite its squicky premise, Life with an Ordinary Guy… hasn’t made me throw up yet. It helps to know your isekai clichés.
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A note to aspiring showbiz billionaires: America loathes the cultural revolution that has been forced on it in the last few years. There is an immense fortune to be made by offering a slate of return-to-normalcy entertainment, just as the biggest television hits created after the tumult of the late Sixties were Happy Days, The Waltons, and All in the Family, which outfoxed itself to become, against its own intent, the first anti-woke sitcom.
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An artist I recently discovered: Pinckney Marcius-Simons. If you have to pigeonhole him, he’s an American symbolist; his paintings would make good covers for old high fantasy novels. There is a selection of his work here. He illustrated A Midsummer Night’s Dream by painting over the pages of a French translation. You can view it here.
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So buy the DVD. Buy the book. Buy the CD or vinyl. You get to keep it. The digital powers may be able to make your words disappear, but to take away the stuff you can hold it in your hands is impossible.
Exercise: How many series can you name that Crunchyroll no longer streams? Here are a few to get you started.
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