chakan hey!! I just polished off a DS9 rewatch last month that I started in October.
There were a few episodes that I maybe had never actually seen and some I really didn’t remember in detail, and others that made so much more sense in context. I was reminded afterward that I should really watch Babylon 5 already if I like DS9 so much—that its plot is more focused thanks to Straczynski’s singular vision. I still adore DS9, but characterization wavers more than I think people like to acknowledge, and some of those screenwriters should never have been allowed near the writers’ room (Profit and Lace, Sons of Mogh, Let He Who is without Sin…). Also yearn for the alternate dimension where the showrunners didn’t have to mitigate Rick Berman’s sabotage all the time.
I mostly watch anime, don’t you know!! A few I have watched and enjoyed in the past year: Erased, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, most of Witch Hunter Robin, half of Iron-Blooded Orphans, started Beck, saw Bloom Into You before reading the manga. Erased and O Maidens were both wonderful and engrossing in completely different ways. I remember really loving how Erased’s characters were handled, thinking the interactions between the kids were really sweet (also that Ajikan op is a classic banger) and O Maidens does character-driven teen slice of life wonderfully—would you expect anything less from Mari Okada?? Bloom Into You makes me cry that it has to be a one-of-kind production. When is someone going to adapt Octave already??? I should really finish the rest of what I got on the go because I’d been enjoying all of it (especially seeing gundams rampage through downtown Edmonton).
I might start watching Cyber City Oedo 808! It’s not what I was looking for but the op is killer and I think it might scratch the itch that Bubblegum Crisis/Crash! left so long ago.