Cowboy Bebop The Movie - watched
I graded it as pretty good, but I don't really remember enough about it to say anything specific.
Memories - watched
Bleaker than I expected, although since I had no real expectations going in that wasn't hard. I guess Magnetic Rose was the best segment, but none of them were superfantastic. Magnetic Rose itself raises questions regarding how particular memories could possibly have been known by a particular character. Although now that I'm thinking about it, it's possible that they were cut out of whole cloth and the owner was out of it enough to not realise - I've seemed to recall a line from earlier on which would make them impossible, although I could be misremembering it and/or who said it (plus the possibility of it being a lie, etc).
Slayers Try - watched through
Fairly entertaining. Don't remember enough of original/Next to compare. Feels like Xellos was less entertaining this series than in Next.
At some point, they're going to run out of superentities for villains.
Godmars - watched episodes 33 through 64
Mediocre.
The Marume arc ran for too long, and they never ended up explaining anything about the plus/minus forces and why they were supposed to hate each other (unless the explanation is 'They aren't and Gyron was deluded into thinking that way by Zuul and he managed to indoctrinate the rest of them').
I don't understand the train of thought that could lead to characters being written to think that Gyron would be fine with them settling the Dead Planet after the miracle considering he's been conducting genocide against them and endeavouring to have relevant people who are in separate planetary systems killed off, let alone people on Marume's twin planet.
Disappointing to see Earth Zuul in the Earth Arc have completely the same design as Gishin Zuul. I don't really understand whether Earth Zuul and Gestalt Zuul are the same Zuul or not, and I'm not sure whether the Zuul which interfered with Marume was Earth Zuul or if it was a Marume Zuul which we don't see any more of afterwards. Earth Zuul is pretty clearly a separate entity from Gishin Zuul from what it says, at least. Earth Zuul is also much more a dick than Gishin Zuul, which was probably an attempt to make up for the Earth arc having very little villain plot.
You know what the Earth arc had too much of
ghost Marg
hate ghost Marg
So ghost Marg wanted Takeru to find the burning star, which might as well be a request for him to find the two-armed man as far as it looks to me. Spoiler: it was the sun. Earth Zuul was keeping the ghosts of people from Gishin there for some reason.
Spoiler: the ending didn't make any sense.
