I couldn’t find anything particularly significant about this day, so I got a bit lazy.

After a lot of pain, the LoreBook Reshuffle is finally at an end…as far as the public articles are concerned. All the public articles have been gone through and re-written to make them better.
Reflecting on my decision to do this, I have come to the conclusion it was probably a bad idea and I’m never going to do anything like this again…in English, at least.
The issue is that very little new stuff was created, I was just doing the same thing again.
The upside is that everything should now have the same general quality and it made me realize I can write way more if I really force myself to, so that’s good.
Currently only the Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai article is ‘incomplete’ reshuffle-wise, but that’s just because I decided to hold that off for after I re-watch the series again and after I finish re-reading it.

I will gradually start adding articles to the wiki is various stages of completion. During the Reshuffle, I realized how dumb it was to not make some articles public when I remembered how bare-bones the Charlotte article had been for so long. My current criteria is if something has the same amount of content, or more, than Charlotte then I’ll make it public.
Soon-ish, I’ll be making a lot of those articles public.
The articles I believe that are most likely to go public at this time are:

• Code Geass
• Evangelion(!)
• Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor
• Little Witch Academia(!)
• Mandagon
• Mili(!)
• Shūmatsu no Izetta

I’ve decided that the review-only-article compromise I came up with was stupid and I’ll gradually be adapting many of those reviews into their own articles. What’s clear to me now is that some of those reviews will also be deleted entirely, because outside of a few sentences I have little else I’d want to say on them.
It’s possible the Review Collection will get deleted as well, but I don’t know about that just yet.

In a previous news post I complained about how none of the media managers on the market are decent. Sometime after that, though, I tried Plex. I can now safely say that Plex is the best media manager available on the market and none of the open-source alternatives are anywhere close to the quality of Plex.
It’s still not perfect for anime but Shoko + Plex makes it work.

Sometime ago I discovered a series called Coppelion and I decided to check it out. After watching the series, I decided to read the manga. Having finished both, I can honestly say that I enjoyed myself greatly.
The series is overall really good, but falls short in a number of ways^A). The thing that annoys me the most is the clear anti-Nuclear-power messaging, as I’m in favor of Nuclear power overall.
Another thing that sort-of bummed me out was that I expected the series to be more grounded than it ended up being. Perhaps an opportunity for me to make my own story?

Another potential future article! I watched the OVA not really expecting much and finding myself surprised and disappointed. Overall, I think it’s the best example of gunfights and blood in anime (additionally showing that the medium can handle those) but the story itself leaves something to be desired. I may elaborate further in the future.

The LASTEXILE franchise (including Ao6) started driving me insane. I decided to go through the entire franchise and, after doing so, I started thinking about what I had just gone through. I’ll say right now that the series is deeply flawed (perhaps more so than Coppelion) but each entry has different reasons why. That’s where I started losing my mind because I could hardly comprehend how each of them managed to be significantly flawed in completely different ways.
There will certainly be articles dedicated to these now that I’ve discovered this, but I can’t say for sure when.