wolgraha week 2025
Aug. 4th, 2025 05:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
( First Meetings/Introductions )
( Hurt/comfort )
( AU )
i just reached chapter 3 last night, so i should stop putting off making a post about it.
i've had a hard time getting into this game through no real fault of its own; i've had stuff going on and i haven't been able to dedicate time to it, even though i thoroughly enjoy it every time i sit down to play. so here's some thoughts through the start of chapter 3.
First up is My Husband & I Sleep in a Coffin (the online translations are called I & My Husband Sleep in a Coffin, but someone at 7S understands how English grammar works & I'm going with the correct version). Only a couple of chapters in & really liking it so far. The LI is delightfully deranged. The first volume comes out in a few weeks, so I probably won't read all of it. Just enough to be sure I like it, then I'll wait for the book, read that, & then read the rest of the unofficial translation.
For instance his dead master leaves a letter telling him how to cure the poison & I guess provides a letter of introduction (I assumed Han Li forged it but there's a secret letter hidden within it so unless he knew what paper Han Li was going write on this makes no sense) but hides a letter in it telling them Han Li is bad. The family also knew he was dead somehow but Han Li seems to act like he isn't at first. The wives plot his death but then forget all about that & want to keep him around because it's cool he killed their husband seeing as he's honest about it, & have him kill a bunch of random people & make out like the jade isn't something they can get their hands on like that. And then one of the daughters gives him it, he uses it, & then gives it back again & that's it. And that all happens in one episode (plus a few minutes of the next so they can have a cliffhanger). I have a feeling like this would all make a lot more sense given proper time to play out & with characters having a chance to react to stuff.
Or when he shows his new buddy the cultivation book he was given & asks him about the token. Not only does the guy have no info, but he apparently can't read the words on the page right in front of him, even though you'd think he's be interested in a golden ticket into one of the sects. And instead of just going 'Oh well I thought it sounded interesting' & moving on, Han Li feeds him info, just so the guy can blurt it out in front of someone else (& then be killed off). Again, I wonder if this is something where the bad guys suspecting he had a token would have been more organic if allowed time to play out.
These might still have been fine - the benefit of them rushing through the master's family part meant I didn't have to deal with them for too long, & I'm fine with some handwaving to move a plot along.
But the real problem is that I didn't feel invested in any of the characters or their interactions/relationships. Li Feiyu goes from sneering at Han Li to declaring eternal brotherhood within a couple of episodes with only a few short scenes between them. I don't need every little thing spelled out & can infer a lot, but I don't get any sense of them forming a bond at all. And that lack of emotional investment includes Han Li himself. I can push through a terrible plot or too slow/fast pacing or bad comedy or a thousand other drama sins IF YOU JUST MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTER(S). And I don't, because of the way stuff just seems to happen & he doesn't get a chance to react to or process stuff (aside from the death of his master & finding out what happened to his friend, & even those pass way too quickly).
I'm bored, even though there's a lot happening, because I don't care about any of it. I should have figured it was a bad sign when the episode count was reduced twice, from 38 to 34 & then to 30.
There's a chance I might try again & check out some spoilers towards the end of its run, just to see if things improve once it's found its footing (though I gave it 6 episode & normally even the slowest burning of dramas have hooked me by then).
Luckily The Wanted Detective/Calming Waves (they've gone back & forth so many times) is airing on Friday, so hopefully that'll fill the void.
The fourth BnHA movie, taking place after the U.A. Traitor arc which places it sometime during the events of S07 of the anime, if I'm not mistaken. (Though anime movies tend to not really mesh with series timelines so I try not to get too fussed about continuity.)
If I were to condense this movie's story into one sentence, it'd be "A mafioso impersonates All Might and Deku was so offended by this that he decided to end this man's life."
It's a bit exaggerated, I'll admit—I highly doubt we'll get to see Deku go around murdering people—but the finale smackdown Deku unleashed on Gollini ... ( Some mild spoilers for the main series. )
The movie's plot is pretty standard but it has amazing animation in the bigger fight/action sequences. My favorite has to be when Giulio's fighting against Gollini. The moves are so fluid and pleasing to the eyeballs 😌 Second favorite is the big final fight between Deku, Bakugou, and Todoroki vs. Gollini. Dude had no chance whatsoever after ticking off All Might's top three overpowered fanboys.
My biggest takeaway from this movie is that Kirishima apparently has a long-lost older brother from Italy. You can't show me Giulio and expect me to not immediately think that he has some sort of connection to Kirishima. You can't.
Random stuff:
what do you mean it's monday again. we just did this??
my week appears to have flown by, hmm. i'm not sure where july went, frankly. i have been wholly unsuccessful in my webdesign goals for the month, but i'm giving myself some leniency on that because i've been in terrible pain that's just barely started to let up. sitting at the pc for long hours has really not been in the cards lately.
other than that though, not a whole lot going on. i did pick trails in the sky the 3rd back up yesterday, only to find myself in a minigame i couldn't beat. (more on this when i make a post on the game.) kinda put a damper on things, but hopefully i can progress more soon.
mogtome season is winding down in ffxiv; i've been doing a lot of nier runs for glamour purposes and have mostly struck out, so there's more in my future. (this is not a complaint, i love the nier raids despite how much i strongly disliked nier.)
i finished the incandescent by emily tesh and absolutely loved it; strong recommend. i've since been diving into tesh's novellas, which haven't scratched the same itch... but i think this is more to do with subject matter than writing quality. i need to pick a novel to read next, though i've no idea what i'll end up on.
that's about all i've got this week.
Look, I love Halloween & autumn as much as the next goth, but it's July FFS! And the amount was just excessive.