The past few days have been quite hot and humid, and my room has become a life-sized oven, where I lay slumped in front of the computer, getting basted by hot air with every passing moment. It feels as if that mold is about to grow from the walls of my room and I had been rather uncomfortable for the past couple of days. It is quite cloudy outside, though the incessant chirping of cicadas suggest that there will be no more rain for a while. It does not matter too much though, because the weather outside does not really bother someone who is going to be in his room for the majority of his summer break.

The past couple of posts haven't been very good. I read and re-read those posts and decided that they were not particularly well-written or thought-out, though I did appreciate the composition of certain passages that, I think, have been worth the amount of time I had been spending consciously composing them in my spare moments. In retrospect, my earliest posts were awful. To be precise, I wished that I had not been the kind of person that I had been a year ago, and as I am writing down this sentence I am contemplating whether I should delete them from this journal, forever. I absolutely loathe the individual I was back then, and my heart is full of regrets for even having written down such putrid nonsense. There is definitely a sense of self-loathing going on here, but I consider this a very natural thing to happen to someone of my age. To be precise, I feel much better about myself now compared to the person I was before, and I don't think I can be any happier than how I am right now. Perhaps a haircut could do a lot for me, but there's no need to worry about that right now, since it's raining again and inevitably I would be deterred from any outdoor activities for quite some time, I think.

I had been watching Smile Precure for the past week or so (I cannot remember when I first picked it up), and I think the show is quite wonderful. There is little doubt, of course, that the show was designed with small children in mind – to be precise, the show was designed to sell plastic toys to small children, though none of this has anything to do with my enjoyment of this wonderful series. As formulaic and repetitive magical girl anime tend to be, they remain uplifting, cheerful and at times, quite humorous. My favourite girl is Yayoi. I really enjoy watching her cry ('sobbing' might be the most appropriate word here, since she rarely cries for a reason other than crying for the sake of doing so). I absolutely adore her cutesy antics. I like how she would hold her sketchbook in front of her chest and she would be knocking her knees together because of how embarrassed she was. I would love to pinch her cheeks if she was real. Oh, and I also love her sweater. I imagine that her sweater would have a really nice scent to it. I really like all the girls, actually, though I find Miyuki quite annoying at times (although she is the funniest one). That's my two cents on Yayoi. I think I must have some sort of infatuation with girls that have blonde hair. Crazy, I know.

This season's anime has been pretty good, actually. I don't really have much to say about Chuu2's ending. I don't think the ending can be considered mediocre, though I certainly did expect it and I honestly wished the show remained a comedy all the way through. A lot of the drama that revolved around Rikka's father was unnecessary, I think, because it felt as if KyoAni wanted to add drama for the sake of drama. Was KyoAni trying to make a 'realistic ending' to the show so that it'll end up with a life-lesson of some sorts? Maybe. In any case, I was rather disappointed with the ending, enough said.

There's not really too much to say, either, about Aikatsu and Girls und Panzer. Aikatsu was surprisingly realistic for an idol anime, and it seems they've put in extra effort to show that behind every successful idol lies hard work and determination. I absolutely love how the backgrounds were rendered, though, and I actually really like the character designs. The ED also had a really wonderful back-beat to it. Girls und Panzer is the unexpected gem of the season. Before I was into anime, I was into tanks and armoured vehicles and that sort of things. The show was really a dream come true and I enjoyed every episode. The last three episodes are going to be wonderful, I'm sure, but there's going to be a long wait till they air and I don't think I can wait that long.

I had a lot of awful things prepared for Urobuchi when I heard how others described Psycho-Pass as something that only Urobuchi would do. Psycho-Pass wasn't that bad, to be honest, and it was actually quite entertaining, though I'm sure Urubochi wanted his show to be thought-provoking and not merely a gore fest. I don't really know why we need another cyberpunk  anime, since the pinnacle of that genre ended with the whole Ghost in the Shell franchise, but I genuinely hope that Urobuchi would do a good job with the show.

There's honestly nothing else to say about everything I'm watching this season. They have all been disappointing (I'm only three episodes into Shinsekai Yori so I can't say if I like the show for certain) and I'd rather not waste my time here. So that's about it for today, take care, and I'll make sure I'll put up more worthless opinions next time.