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So, it both feels like a long while since the last viewing report, and like it hasn’t been nearly a season yet. It also feels like I haven’t watched much. But nearly everything I’ve seen this last season has been extremely good.

Pluto — Holy cow, this is excellent. We’re still only midway through, though Smudge binged it back when she found it on Netflix. There is a lot of background and character development being packed in here even while slowly building the main plot, and letting the pacing proceed at a fairly deliberate pace.

Star Trek: Picard — This sat for a while, waiting for a hour-long block to watch it. But we’re now two episodes from the end of second season, and it has been very good. There keeps being something about it that bothers me—something about the cinematography, but the writing is decidedly good.

Delicious in Dungeon — Smudge and I just started showing this to the guys. Dave is feeling uncertain, but is still laughing, and Baron is really enjoying it. It helps that things like the series’ take on living armor sounds like something he’d come up with.

Star Trek: Prodigy — Me and Smudge are almost done with season two, which has been a surprisingly good sequel story, complete with unexpected guest stars. That said, I think I need a copy of Temporal Mechanics 101. The writing is actually doing some very interesting things with the time-travel nature of the story, including the differences between older and younger counterparts, that I wish they’d actually bring to the fore, because they’re saying some important things about how people paint themselves into corners.

My Hero Academia — We are solidly into the final stretch here (my guess is we should need one more season after this), and the writing is holding up. There’s been some very good plotting to ‘depower’ our villain just enough to make the final fights possible. However, we also have something defined as ‘not a superpower/quirk’ that is a massive violation of conservation of mass. I think that needed a redo.

Konosuba — Somehow the latest season managed to be yet another round of hilarity. You’d think by now the jokes would running a bit dry, but it’s still managing to be fresh and fun. The full format is the best though, because this season also reminded me that the series is better than the Megumin sidestory and the movie, even though those were good.

Pokemon: Horizons — Thanks to the closedown of the Pokemon Channel, Smudge and I have not seen a lot of Journeys, and frankly, we only found it okay (I would like to see the end of Ash’s journey, but we had a long ways to go). Anyway, I caught the first two episodes of Horizons on YouTube, and got Smudge into it. I appreciate the varied cast of kids and adults (Smudge is thinking Mollie is a runaway Nurse Joy, which is now headcannon), and that the series seems to have ‘aged up’ from the original, if just a little. We’re still in “Part 1”, so a lot will depend for us on where it goes from here.

Centaur World — Smudge started showing this to me a bit ago, and I’m now most of the way through season two. I don’t know what drugs they were on… and I don’t think I care to find out. Definitely some interesting thought and planning went into it all though, and it’s well put together into a weird package.

Heaven Official’s Blessing — I think I’m mostly through season two of this too? Not quite sure. Smudge likes it enough to introduce me to it. While I do like it, it hasn’t entirely grabbed me.