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I started watching Ooku on a whim and got through it over the holiday. (It's only 10 episodes!) It's about an alternate history of Japan where a plague wiped out most men and continues to keep the population gender-imbalanced, and women began to take over their roles in society. The story centers on the Ooku, the male harem of a female shogun.

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I just wrote a promo post for this for

ficinabox, so I thought why not make a Fandom 50 out of it? What I didn't say over there was omg, I finally found it. I found another Hiruma/Senku/Haru that wasn't written by Inagaki. It's Hiruma #4, architect Hiruma!

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It's the ballet show by the creator of "Gilmore Girls" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"! If you've watched them all (like I have) then you kind of know what you're in for. Vibrant set design and costuming, witty fast-talking, fun and flawed characters blitzing through their lives and struggles and relationships at a rapid clip. With every successive show, the creator seems to bring more of the same to a bigger and brighter stage—except this time she also added a M/M ship that, sigh, I was predictably and embarrassingly taken in by.

( I danced that for you. )

I'm only a few episodes into this show so far but really love it and would recommend. I went into it knowing nothing except that some of my friends liked it, so I had fun discovering the unusual storyline for myself, but I don't think knowing the general idea would have hindered my enjoyment.

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I have been playing way too much Pokemon TCG Pocket. I mostly used to play it for the simple pleasure of card collecting. They do a great job with the animations, as a Pack Opening Simulator. There's a lot of illusion of choice, like when you go to open a pack, there's a circle of them for you to choose from - you can spin them around and find the that's flipped backwards (clearly special!), or you can rotate them around yourself and do your own rituals of superstition. The animations and sounds are all very tactile and satisfying, like the foil crisply tearing, and the shuffle of your new cards slotting themselves away. They have nice-looking rare versions of cards, like gold ones, and full art cards with immersive animations. And their latest series of booster packs introduced shiny cards, which are very pretty and fun to collect too!

But then came the new PVP ranked mode.

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The most recent movie I watched on Netflix was "10 Cloverfield Lane", which is not one I would have chosen for myself, but enjoyed nonetheless in a nail-biting way. (Is my fandom50 just going to turn into all Netflix reviews? Ah well.) It begins with the protagonist, Michelle, waking in an underground bunker with a man named Howard, who claims to have saved her life—and that some kind of disaster has made the world aboveground uninhabitable, so he can't let her leave. She'll have to stay down here with him for the foreseeable future.

Throughout the movie, both Michelle and we the audience are trying to figure out whether Howard is telling the truth, in whole or in part. Even as Michelle begins to uncover some dark secrets, we still wonder how much of the situation is true and how much is manufactured. Even in the end, I still have questions about his actual version of events, but being left without solid answers is the intended effect, I think. (To top things off, I've never seen the "Cloverfield" movie, so I came into this even more clueless—nor did I know whether it was at all related to this one despite the similar name.)

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I optimistically signed up for

fandom50challenge even though I hardly ever post on DW! My first entry is about Trillion Game, a show that I got into the same way I got into Dr. Stone:

Step 1: fall randomly and deeply back into an old fandom of mine, Eyeshield 21. As you can imagine, 20 years on, this was an absolute ghost town. Understandable: the canon ended, it had its weaknesses that didn't entirely hold up over time, and American football is kind of lame.

Step 2: go questing for more of the same. Part of what intrigued me so much about Eyeshield 21 were a few specific characters and dynamics—and in 20 years, I don't think I ever found them done quite the same way elsewhere. So I went hunting for other things by the author, Inagaki Riichiro.

Step 3: profit??? This worked out once with Dr. Stone, which was fantastic! So I decided to try my luck with his current manga, Trillion Game.

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