Tuesday, January 16, 2024

New Anime and Movies This Winter That I'm Excited For!

I'm so excited for the sequels and movies this season! Loved these series! Also looking forward to all of these other anime because I've heard about their manga series multiple times. Lol Mikey has been reccing Solo Leveling to me for the past few years.

Anime:

  • Solo Leveling
  • Classroom of the Elite Season 3
  • Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside 2nd
  • Blue Exorcist -Shimane Illuminati Saga-
  • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me!
  • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
  • Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord
  • The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil
  • A Sign of Affection
  • Mr. Villain's Day Off
  • Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
  • Kui Cheng Shoufu Cong Youxi Kaishi
  • SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
  • HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
  • My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie


Movie:

  • Miller's Girl (Jan 26)
  • The Epidemic (Jan 31)
  • Argylle (Feb 2)
  • Madame Web (Feb 14)
  • Dune: Part Two (Mar 1)
  • Kung Fu Panda 4 (Mar 8)
  • The American Society of Magical Negroes (Mar 22)
  • Mickey 17 (Mar 29)

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Mini Reviews: Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality, Senior Green Tea Turned Into an Abused Heroine, I Just Want to Be in a Relationship

Title: Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality
Author: 盐焗大龙虾
Chapters: 117 chapters 
Publication: 2022
Summary from Novel Updates:

Su Yu, a descendant of a royal chef, entered a novel of the immortal world. She became a second senior sister who took over a mountain full of wounded and disabled from her missing senior brother.

According to the original plot, her third junior brother’s golden core was broken. Her fourth junior brother gets into trouble. Her fifth junior brother was deceived… In short, they are dead, casualties, or injured.

Su Yu: Ah, this… our division seems to be over.

Looking at a group of skinny, weak, or disabled juniors, Su Yu, who wanted to retire: What kind of immortals are cultivating and fighting? Come and help me cook! Peace is a blessing!

However, when she researched the ingredients in this world of cultivating immortals and decided to make a pot of delicious vegetables… the spiritual energy in the wok was great and the fragrance spread, but there was a faint circle of energy, which turned into super-quality spiritual pill that could repair broken meridians lying on the bottom of the wok.

Su Yu: !

The seriously wounded and waiting to die juniors: !

Master Su didn’t believe in failure. When she was preparing to make a lotus leaf roasted rib, oil dripped and the aroma was overflowing. But at the bottom, there was a faint gleam of light accompanied a two-foot-long spirit sword, unparalleled in sword energy and a rare treasure once in a century.

Junior brother who gave up cultivation because of lack of spirit swords: !

Looking at the pots and pans full of spiritual pills and spiritual treasures piled up in her small kitchen, Su Yu frowned.

You may not believe it, but I just want to make a dish.

The heroine who sucked her luck but went all the way to decline: ???

Because his cultivation rose too fast, the number one senior brother of Zhiqiong Peak, Xiao Muge, had to go far to the northern glacier to suppress his terrifying cultivation.

A year later, he finally avoided the Ascension Thunder Tribulation and rushed back to his sect, preparing to regain the luck for his juniors, but he almost didn’t recognize his own peak.

His third junior brother with a broken golden core had leveled up into Yuan Ying. His fourth junior, with extremely poor musical talent, had become a complete success… And his second junior sister, who is sullen, cold, and has never been out of her room, is sitting on the throne of the peak leader with her phoenix eyes narrowed. Her red lips raised when she enjoyed her junior’s respectful thanks. “Second Senior Sister is the master of our peak. She has powerful wisdom and is omnipotent. Senior Brother… Who is Senior Brother?”

Xiao Muge: ?

4.5 STARS - I REALLY  LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

This was so funny and delicious! If you're into absurd humor and lots of faceslapping in the beginning as Su Yu starts changing people's opinion of her and don't mind constantly craving food from reading all of the delicious descriptions, then this book is for you!


Title: Senior Green Tea Turned Into an Abused Heroine
Author: You Ying
Chapters: 79 chapters 
Publication: 2020
Summary from Novel Updates:

Lin Xiaocha was a veteran ‘green tea’; she knew her way around playing with love. She could pretend to be cute and innocent, tearing up her opponents, and raised bountiful fish in her green tea fish pond.

She was selected by the system to fulfill the wish of the heroine of an abusive novel, to target the hero and the supporting male characters who were obsessed with the white lotus. And if she were to complete the missions, she would receive generous rewards.

Initially she thought this would be a breeze, her riches were right in her grasp. However, just when the task was about to be accomplished…

She found that she…

Targeted! The! Wrong! Person!

Lin Xiaocha: Don’t panic, I’ll do it again. It’s not a big deal.

Until–

Lin Xiaocha: “Xianjun, why lock up Xiaocha?!”

The cold and pure max-level boss: “Didn’t you say you would stay with me forever, that we would be inseparable in life or death?”

He kissed Lin Xiaocha’s earlobe. “This lord is very sure.”

4 STARS - I REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

I loved how Lin Xiaocha played all the guys around her like a fiddle. She was so good at it and wasn't pretentious about her skills to hook men or why she was such a money grubber. That's why it was great seeing her slow character growth from treating the world as just a book to showing her true nature and caring about people.


Title: I Just Want to Be in a Relationship
Author: 连朔
Chapters: 96 chapters + 6 extras
Publication: 2017
Summary from Novel Updates:

In the last life, Movie Emperor Yu listened to the company and listened to his manager in order not to expose his sexual orientation. Until his death, he never had a relationship.

Yu Qing Huan didn’t want to be a money making machine in his current life. He wanted to travel to the best place, see the best scenery, eat the best food and then find the best man to live a happy life together.

Hou Qu is a genius savant who can easily learn chemical formulas just by glancing at them. One day, he gets lost in the busy streets and Yu Qing Huan helps him.

Little does Yu Qing Huan know that his wish to stay out of the limelight may not ever be granted as he had unknowingly been locked on by a hungry wolf hidden in the shadows because of his single act of kindness…

4 STARS - I REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

I think this was one of the first Cnovels I read that got me interested in the Cnovels. Loved it as much as the first time I read it!

Monday, January 8, 2024

Books I Want to Read This Month

So I didn't actually read any books off of this list last month... Instead, I'll try to do better this month! I'm really interested in reading Solo Leveling since the anime comes out this month!

  1. Solo Leveling vol. 1 by Dubu & Chugong
  2. Solo Leveling vol. 2 by Dubu & Chugong
  3. Solo Leveling vol. 3 by Dubu & Chugong
  4. Solo Leveling vol. 4 by Dubu & Chugong
  5. Solo Leveling vol. 5 by Dubu & Chugong
  6. Solo Leveling vol. 6 by Dubu & Chugong
  7. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 1 by Fujita
  8. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 2 by Fujita
  9. So You've Been Publicly Shame by Jon Ronson
  10. Scum Villain's Self-Saving System vol. 1 Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
  11. Scum Villain's Self-Saving System vol. 2 Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
  12. Bailin and Li Yun by Jayessart
  13. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Novel vol. 1 by Fujino Omori
  14. I Name Him Me by Ma Yan, translated by Stephen Nashef
  15. Home Body by Rupi Kaur

Thursday, January 4, 2024

December in Retrospect

Didn't read as much as I thought I would last month, but it's probably because Shelle and I were addicted to watching Cdramas lol.

I read: 

  • Don’t Hide From Me! by 今闲
  • Reborn To The Start Of The Apocalypse To Farm by 暖荷 
  • The Omega Can’t Pretend to Be a Beta After Accidentally Witnessing the Major General’s Susceptible Period by 翡唐
  • Non-Human Seeking Re-employment by 梅花六


I watched: 

  • Who Rules the World (2022)
  • Watch A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life (2023)
  • Blue Beetle (2023)
  • The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent Season 2  (2023)

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

HAPPY 15TH ANNIVERSARY!!!


15 years is a long time dedicated to something. I'm constantly surprised by how long I've been blogging. Sure, some years are more sparse than others, but the fact that I continue to come back and post about my interests and life updates is probably something that will continue for a long time. So to whoever is reading this, thank you for stumbling upon my page whether it's for me or my notoriously popular creepy pick-up lines post lol.

And Happy New Year!