Our visitor’s, as of late, are AI crawlers constantly scraping the sites and consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth and when our bandwidth limit is exceeded it cost even more. Keeping those sites at bay is becoming a ‘full time job’, plus my real life affairs, its taking more time than I find acceptable.

My current issue with the websites…..

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers

With the passing 15th anniversary of the Haruhi franchise and no mention of new content, the decision that Bakacast would no longer continue and a general malaise in anime, don’t get me wrong there has been some good series released, but the themes have become quite repetitive, so maybe it’s time to move on.

I was thinking of sticking it out until Haruhi’s 20th anniversary but… Watch this space…

Note: This is not a request for funding, this has been my project from the start, to its finish. Thank you for your past, present and future support

Haruhi Suzumiya Franchise Reveals Full Music Video for Invincible(ish) Happiness!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-07/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-launches-crowdfunding-for-new-song-music-video/.217631

Follow up posts (from A.N.N.)

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-22/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-crowdfunding-adds-goal-for-2-more-songs-with-music-videos/.218196

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-27/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-meets-crowdfunding-goal-for-2-more-songs-with-music-videos/.218349

Image from her X account.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2024-01-03/voice-actress-aya-hirano-actor-masashi-taniguchi-announce-their-marriage/.206130

Well I made it through 2023, barely. Here’s wishing you all a prosperous 2024… And as far as future plans. Do watch this space…

So what will 2023 bring? For me it’s surviving to see 2024. A Peaceful world would be nice as well. I’ll continue to view anime although at a much slower pace than before. Future plans, at the moment there are none… however nothing, within reason, is off the table. With that said… Watch this space.

Greetings. before I get started I feel a little explaination is needed. This post will only cover Winter and Spring 2021. Why you ask? Well shortly after I made the last post, I lost my sense of taste and smell.

An intrusive swab up my nose confirmed I had contracted Covid -19 (the original version).
January, Febuary and most of March were, and still are, a blur. I have to thank Dustin for putting us on hiatus because I would have been unable to really participate until late July… maybe. I’m better but still not back to my pre Covid self…

So what did I watch… For Winter…

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation… or Rudeus’s harem adventures… (Sigh)
Wonder Egg Priority… Laid an egg (2 sighs)
Yura Camp Season 2 and 5 – Toubun no Hanayome II (4 thumbs up)
Ura Sekai Picnic… again a (Sigh)
Hortensia Saga… (1.5 thunbs) reincarnation magic should never exist.

So now for Spring…

Dragon, Ie wo Kau… Dragon goes house hunting (3.5 thumbs) Princess was a bit annoying.
Super Cub… (5 Thumbs) Believeable and well thought out IMO.
86… (4 thumbs) need to watch season 2
Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannon desu (5 thumbs) Sei is believeable and head strong lady.

Oh I managed to catch up on a few older movies…

Liz and the Blue Bird
Saga of Tanya the Evil
Hibike! Euphonium
Violet Evergarden (Movie and Side Story)

That’s about it for now.

I wish everyone a safe and sane Holiday Season… and a prosperous New Year.

I tried to list 5 shows a season. Summer was rough and continuing series (multi season) I didn’t list, except Fruit’s Basket.

Winter 2020
BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. (A late addition.)
Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!
Infinite Dendrogram
Koisuru Asteroid
Plunderer

Spring 2020
Arte
Fruits Basket: 2nd Season
Kakushigoto
LISTENERS
Tamayomi

Summer 2020
Deca-Dence
Kanojo, Okarishimasu
Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai!

Fall 2020
Hanyou no Yashahime
Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls
Kamisama ni Natta Hi
Majo no Tabitabi
Tonikaku Kawaii

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Hey, folks, this episode is releasing…really late. Even by my standards. We get into what’s going on with Bakacast in the episode itself, but the short version is: I’m totally burned out. I tried various ways to keep the show going, but ultimately after 398 episodes (or more than that, if you include the episodes I lost to my hard drive crashing), it was getting harder and harder for me to watch the shows and actually provide a decent analysis. Even the shows I really liked felt like a chore to watch. Ultimately, the problem was that Bakacast became a thing I felt like I had to do instead of something I wanted to do.

So we’re taking a break. I don’t know for how long, and I’m not sure what Bakacast will even look like, format-wise, if I decide to start recording episodes again. But before we went on hiatus, we decided to record an episode looking back at the last decade of anime—which coincidentally happens to be almost exactly as long as we’ve been doing Bakacast—and giving accolades to some of our favorite shows of each year.

Oh, and also we review the final episodes of some winter season shows. Did I mention I got this edited very late?

Time Stamps

• 04:46 – Beastars 11 – 12

• 10:51 – My Hero Academy S4 10 – 13

• 20:39 – Chihayafuru 12 – 13

• 27:20 – Anime of the Decade Awards