Entries tagged with fandom: love live!

So when I left work on Thursday I took my laptop and other parts of my desk home with me, and yesterday I worked remotely from home. It looks like that's the setup I'll be working with for the forseeable future, and I've stopped by the grocery store a handful of times this week so I'm all stocked up on food (including fresh fruit and vegetables) that'll comfortably last a couple of weeks at least. The only thing I'm really short on is coffee, since I don't have a coffee maker and the local grocers stopped carrying the gallon bottles of cold brew, so I had to just grab a handful of the smaller bottles to ration.

I have tickets to the screening of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna on March 25 that has inexplicably not been cancelled yet, but I'm almost certainly not going even if it isn't. My original plan, as I detailed in my last entry, was to binge the other Digimon seasons before I went to see it, but I think I'm gonna put a pin in that for now. I'm going to finish Digimon Savers over the weekend, and then I think I'm going to switch gears and start watching the Fourth Doctor era of Classic Doctor Who in earnest. I'm especially eager to watch the serial that was directly referenced in the most recent finale of the revival, and I'm curious to see how that twist impacts my viewing of this era of the show. And, hey, I need something to binge while I'm working remotely!

Part of me is bummed I didn't go see Onward last weekend like I wanted to, since it looks like I'll never see it in a movie theater at this rate, but it's also not a movie I was really anticipating in any major way. I have tickets to see a screening of the first three episodes of the new season of Fruits Basket in theaters, which also has yet to be cancelled, but I can just watch those week to week on streaming.

Really, I'm just trying to channel my energy into things to keep my mind off of everything. My dad is working remotely now which removes a lot of stress, and I've been playing an obscene amount of both Love Live! School Idol Project and Love Live! All Stars. I've even made a separate twitter account just to talk about Love Live! I'm honestly really happy I got into it, because a rhythm game is definitely a better use of my time than other mobile games I've sunk time into.

Maybe I'll finally get off my ass and finish The Sword of Destiny audiobook so I can finally watch The Witcher too! Ditto His Dark Materials. I think channeling my energy into clearing out my backlog is what's gonna keep me sane.

So while I have yet to watch the season finale for Doctor Who (and subsequently kickstart my long-awaited Fourth Doctor watch), I have decided to pull the trigger on perhaps my most ambitious content binge ever: The rest of Digimon. I've already watched the first four seasons subbed in Japanese (Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, and Digimon Frontier) along with their corresponding movies, including Digimon Adventure tri and Digimon X-Evolution. Ever since tri was announced, my tentative goal had been to do one season of Digimon per year, but I slacked in 2019, and on March 25th I'll be attending a theatrical screening of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna, which serves as a finale of sorts for that subfranchise.

So my aim now is to binge the rest of Digimon before I see that film, which includes Digimon Savers (48 episodes + 1 film), Digimon Xros Wars (79 episodes), and Digimon Universe: App Monsters (52 episodes). In the past two days alone I've managed to do 14 episodes of Savers, which is by far the hardest to do as its the only one of the three that's not streaming anywhere, so I'm actually pretty optimistic that I'll hit my goal. Of course, this means I won't be resuming Classic Doctor Who until the end of the month, but that just means I can savor it for longer.

These three series are also interesting territory in that they're the seasons I never watched dubbed as a child. Xros Wars was dubbed as Fusion when I was already an adult, and Savers was dubbed as Data Squad when I was in high school so I'm not sure why I never got around to watching that one specifically. I have to say that I'm really enjoying it though, despite the tonal change that's inherent in every incarnation of Digimon. I'm really looking forward to all three, to be honest. The only part I'm nervous about is the final portion of Xros Wars (the last 25 episodes which essentially function as a next gen sequel to the first 54) which is apparently supposed to be really bad... but it also features cameos from the protagonists of the other seasons. So there's that at least.

I will say, though I know that Digimon fandom is full of hot takes and drama like all others, the property is one that has brought me immense joy over the last twenty years, and it's exactly what I needed after the recent Star Wars fallout. Even if people have quibbles about the quality or certain characterization/storytelling choices, it's one where I can sit back and relax and just have fun taking it all in. Like, I even loved tri, flaws and all, which is apparently the hottest of hot takes, so I think I'm in for a good time the next few weeks.

On an unrelated note, I've also fallen deep into Love Live! hell the last couple of weeks, and even attended a screening of the concert they held in Japan last week (and I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST). I'm still taking a break from writing, but I think once the weather warms up and I can sit outside again and just ~flow~, I'll wanna take a crack and writing for both that and for Digimon, since I'm feeling pretty inspired by both lately. I just hope that I'll have the same feelings about Doctor Who when I watch the finale tonight, but if not there's always Classic Who to look forward to!

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