It’s the GLORIO blog’s 13th anniversary, and we explore both the darkest and silliest sides of humanity in the Summer 2025 season. It’s a good one!
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Show Notes
0:00 Intro featuring a Summertime tradition
Returning
24:46 DAN DA DAN Season 2
36:45 Call of the Night Season 2
48:27 New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
New
1:01:43 Gachiakuta
1:15:52 The Summer Hikaru Died
1:34:01 Nyaight of the Living Cat
1:42:24 Takopi’s Original Sin
2:00:26 CITY the Animation
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With cats it’s not that they can move their organs around, it’s that their collarbones are not directly attached to their skeleton, it’s only attached via muscles, so they can move them much more freely and making their head essentially the widest part of their body (unless they’re very fat). It’s kind of like if we humans could move our shoulders ahead and back in more than 180 degrees.
Aaaanyway, I’d been looking forward to Nyaight of the Living Cat because what I’d read of the manga was very funny, but the show was a disappointment to me – I guess it’s because instead of playing it very very straight faced, most of the time it makes it obvious that it’s HAR HAR FUNNY GETIT??! Which just kind of defeats the purpose for me. Like, sure, the manga does it a bit, too, but also the manga very much leans into the visual horror tropes, dark, gritty, etc. which makes the joke of “but instead of flesh-eating zombies it’s adorable cats turning humans by being their adorable selves” work. But I guess this is a personal preference thing!
I don’t have the context of the manga so it worked for me I guess, I thought the humor was actually a lot more dry than I was expecting.
I completely bounced off of P&S. I just don’t find that style funny anymore.
City is definitely my jam, though Amazon Prime Video has to have the worst streaming app in the business. Contemplating either waiting until the end of the season and then binging, or picking up Call of the Night in order to justify the prime membership.
However, my real standout is Takopi. It’s all so well executed. The black comedy sits on that razors edge of too far, but it just works so well.
Glad to hear you seem to have come around on Takopi since the First Look post!
The second episode of Panty & Stocking did have me frown a bit — I think Trigger’s hyperkinetic style and the outrageous absurdity of it all is still pretty effective, but it did have me wondering whether the raunchiness really adds anything of value. In contrast to what Imaishi may think, a dildo isn’t, like, inherently funny.