0062 | in which I try out Precure, watch Digimon, & get super-emotional over Ogremon (& Leomon)

► I've started watching Go! Princess Precure. Yesterday, I needed something to watch while doing my nails (so I didn't get impatient & ruin them), but I didn't want to start anything really big since I'm already in the middle of rewatching Digimon with my brother. (More on that below.) Despite being really, really, really into the magical girl genre, I've actually somehow never managed to get around to watching any of the Precure series, so when I saw that there was one currently airing that only had three episodes out so far, I figured that this was the perfect opportunity to start watching it.

( some of my thoughts + gifs below the cut )

And that's about all I have to say about it. It's nothing super-special so far, but it is cute and fun, which is enough for me.

...I spent far too much time looking for gifs for this post.

► As I mentioned above, I've also been rewatching Digimon Adventure with my older brother in the evenings. I haven't seen it since I was a kid, literally— there's so much that I'd forgotten! We're also (mostly) watching it in Japanese, which neither of us have done before, so that's been interesting. Whenever something strikes us as being very different from what we remembered, we go back and rewatch that scene in English to compare the two.
( some thoughts on the two versions )

One thing that's really struck me in this rewatch is how young all the characters are. When I last watched Digimon Adventure, I was the same age as the characters, and didn't think much about horrifying experiences they're going through.

Now that I'm an adult, though, all I can think is: holy shit how are they not all traumatized?

Running for their lives on a regular basis, never knowing when their next meal will be, watching their partner (in the case of Takeru & Angemon) being killed by an enemy, being hit on by grown men and women when they're trying to hitch-hike a ride home, watching their friends they've made over the course of their journey sacrifice their lives for them in the Dark Master arc (I cannot blame Mimi for freaking out and thinking it's all too much for her there), and other things I can't think of on the top of my head right now— they're just little kids. I just want to give them all hugs and blankets and tea, poor kids.

Last night, we just finished watching episode 47, and there may have been some actual tears going on. ( cut just in case someone still considers this a spoiler )

And now I'm super-emotional over it again.

Tonight should be fun, though— Hikari's my favorite character, and I remember the next episode being one that was super good for me on that front.