It's well past time for my traditional look back at what I watched in this past Fall season,to follow up on my early impressions and my midwayviews . This past fall season was unusual because Ipassed on Bloom Into You during the season and then became verytaken with it when I watched it all just afterthe end of the year. Since I watched it so close to the season (andbefore I started the Winter 2019 season), I'm declaring it a Fall 2

As before it's time (and well past time) for myviews of how this season has shaken out so far, following up on myfirst episode reactions . The short versionis that it is not a good season for me so far (for various reasons ) and as aresult of that I am a week or two behind on the two shows from thisseason that I'm still watching.

Decently okay:

• The Magnificent Kotobuki : This is a perfectly entertaining show onan episode by episode basis;

Bartosz Ciechanowski's Color Spaces ( via ) is a nice explorationof the issues involved with computer RGB colour spaces. I found itespecially interesting and clear because it has some interactiveillustrations of various concepts involved.

(In theory I knew all of this, but in practice it's nice to have aclear refresher every so often.)

As before I'm collecting here all of mytweeted reactions to the first episodes I've seen (in the order that Isaw them).

• Boogiepop and Others episode 1: That was okay, I guess; it certainlywasn't actively bad, but I don't feel terribly inspired by what Isaw. Stuff happened. Some things made sense; other things might bedeliberately obtuse. There's a lot of mystery and little reason to care. →

• Kemurikusa episode 1: That was a

I skipped Overlord when it first aired , butthen back in the summer season I startedwatching it for no particularly strong reason; as I said at the time,it's ridiculous and overpowered in a way that amuses me. At that pointI'd watched up through episode 7 and stopped. At the end of the year,in the between-season doldrums, I finished off the rest of Overlord 'sfirst season (after being annoyed because it had moved from Crunchyrollto Funimation in their great split

Right at the start of 2019, I decided to try out Bloom Into You (which I had initially passed on ) and wound up quiteenjoying it. In the spirit of not doing all of my blogging on Twitter , I'm copying my tweets about Bloom to here.

Overall, Bloom Into You is the best high school romance show I've seensince Toradora . Romance shows almost never work for me (which is onereason I didn't even try out Bloom at the start of

Looking back, I think that I fell for Laid-Back Camp right from thereal start of the show, after the first episode's OP. The whole sequenceof Shima Rin biking along (on a compact bike, loaded down with gear)through the autumn surroundings, then setting up camp and settling in,all amidst quiet beauty and just in general quiet was compelling forall sorts of reasons. I like seeing people set up things like this, andthe show loved camping (complete with its little educational

Black Magic M-66 is a fun little 1987 action OVA of an early 1980s short storymanga by Masamune Shirow. Among other things, it is one of the fewanime adaptations that is directed or co-directed by the manga author ; Shirow iscredited as co-director and for storyboards. The story itself is prettystraightforward, and is usually summarized as 'the efforts of a femalejournalist to save someone from an out of control military android'. Asan early

In the spirit of not doing my blogging only on Twitter , I'm copying what I said about SSSS.Gridman 'sending and it as a whole to here. The actual tweets start here , andthere are interesting discussions with people who replied to methat I'm not copying here.

There are some spoilers here, but that's how it goes. Some expansionon bits of the tweets that involves spoilers is hidden behind HTMLabbreviations .

SSSS.Gridman episode 12: Oh wow. Certain