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It’s time to review what I’ve been watching over the last three months again. As always, this is given in rough descending order of recommendation, though there’s nothing here I don’t recommend; they’ve all been worth watching.

The Owl House — We’ve just finished off season two. The build up to the Day of Unity was really well handled, and it brought together a large number of separate arcs. Now, we’ve got the wreckage to deal with, and we’re shunting over to another pair of arcs that have largely been on hold.

MHA: Vigilanties — Me and Smudge are now into the second season. This is a new story with the same characters, though we just got through a multi-episode flashback to the start of Eraserhead’s career. That was good on its own right, but it did halt the ongoing story. I can forgive that, especially since one of out themes here is how he comes to be teaching at UA in five years. Meanwhile, the main story has been good, if not, so far, as special as the first story. We still have time before it all needs to come together at the end, and we’ll see how that goes.

Kipo In the Age of Wonderbeasts — Me and Smudge are now mid-third season, and it has continued to be well done and well-paced. “Who holds a dance in a war?” “…Kipo.” The characters continue to be great, and the main story is proceeding without getting stuck or becoming too headlong and breathless.

She-Ra — And we did it. Me and Smudge got through the end of the series just before it got pulled from Netflix. Smudge feels it ends entirely too abuptly, and indeed they wrap things up with indecent haste at the very end. Other than that, everything short of the denouement itself, is handled well. There’s definitely some good subtle character arc bits with Adora during the end.

To Your Eternity — We’re still in the middle of the latest series. I was really uncertain of the very modern-day shift for the setting. However, the plot has been developing nicely, and we’re getting an interesting story.

May I Ask For One Final Thing — The author was getting a lot off his chest (fists?) when he wrote this. It looks like we’re headed for an examination of what an isekai story looks like from the other side (i.e., the natives’ viewpoint), but that’s not the main point. The main point is an elegant lady getting to beat up a bunch of over-privileged nobles.

Shadows House — Smudge and I saw the first episode when it came out, and decided to hold it for the guys. We’ve finally gotten to watching it and it is being good. There’s a lot of questions, and I doubt we’ll be anywhere near answers when the series finishes up. But the atmosphere is well done, and a diverse cast of characters has been introduced.

Blood Blockade Battlefront — We are now halfway through the second season (& Beyond) with the guys, and they are enjoying it. I had forgotten that it had a bunch of smaller stories exploring the secondary characters, and that has been very nice.

Pokemon: Horizons — I think we just hit part four of Search for Laqua, and the ‘legendary six’ have finally been collected. It’s been a mixed bag getting there, but the episodes directly after that have been good.

Maya and the Three — I’ve only seen about four episodes so far, so it’s just getting going, and we haven’t even assembled the ‘three’ yet. I don’t entirely like the character design style, but I certainly do respect it. It is certainly a fun production, and back in the style of bridging American and Hispanic culture that these days we need more of again.

Full Dive — I am not bothering with the full name. The high concept is a big expensive MMO that failed because it was entirely too realistic. This isn’t a deep look into game design, but they certainly understand how a lot of that would work out. It’s a farce played for laughs, and is doing a good job at it. The series is certainly better than it looks.