Hello all! I planned for this to go up on Friday, but unfortunately I just wasn’t happy with the quality of this post until now. Hence, the delay. Hopefully in the coming months this will not become a common occurrence.

July was a weird month for me. I ended up watching a decent amount of shows and movies (ok, like two movies), and my reading was dominated by graphic novels. As for gaming, that was all over the place. Let’s get to the wrap up.

What I Watched

July brought back the amazement that is Sword Art Online Alicization: War of Underworld, the final cour (season) of the third SAO series. It has been a long time coming, as it was delayed from April, with episode 36 airing right before New Years, and episode 37 premiering July 11th. It was well worth the wait. Now we just need vegetable-Kirito to wake up and wreck havoc.

We also were graced with the return of Digimon Adventure:, the reboot to the long running Digimon franchise. I’m a bit behind still, but I’m loving how old characters are being reintroduced, and oh the development. It looks amazing, and I can’t wait to see it stick around for a while longer.

For all my nostalgia feels, one of my favorite series from my childhood (and the first one that I fought with a large company to keep on air for a little while longer). Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! returned to the universe on July 17th on Disney Plus. I may have cried. I watched it to completion in like a weekend. I have no issues with this.

On the movie front, this month started with Hamilton. I don’t think I need to articulate just how much I enjoyed this musical. I’m still singing along to several of the songs. I just cannot help it.

The other film I saw is one that I think I’ve watched about five times since last weekend. I finally watched The Old Guard, and I absolutely loved it. It’s an amazing adaptation, though I didn’t know it until I read the comics as well.

What I Read

I’ll keep a lot of this brief, for a couple reasons. There’s a lot, and I can group a bunch of it together.

On the manga front, I was the most successful. I managed to get through volumes 2-4 of Bloom into You by Nio Nakatani, which I’ve talked about in some of my Reading Rush wrap ups. I also read Sword Art Online Progressive volumes 1-2 by Reki Kawahara (the manga version). This was also good, and also from Reading Rush. Finally, there was Our Wonderful Days volume 1 by Kei Hamuro, which is kinda like Bloom into You, which makes it amazing.

For novels, the best one I read all month was This Coven Won’t Break by Isabel Sterling, which is lesbian witches in modern Salem. Yay! The other novels I read were right before or during the Reading Rush, and all were disappointing in their own right. Those were Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons, Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller, and Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes

The final thing I read this month was in response to finally watching The Old Guard on Netflix. I read all the graphic novels for the series, The Old Guard #1-5 and The Old Guard: Force Multiplied by Greg Rucka. While I enjoyed them, and enjoyed the film, I think this is another case of me liking the film more. I did enjoy the graphic novels, no joke. I just liked the film a tad bit more.

What I Played

This month was a very Lego heavy month. I beat Lego Batman 3 (thankfully), started and 100%-ed Lego The Hobbit (UUUUGH), and started Lego Dimensions. Batman just took too long, and the Lantern Planets give me a headache. Hobbit is annoying for it’s nightmare of a red brick system, which makes me scream and cry when things drive me bonkers.

As for Dimensions… it just a humongous game. I have already beat the main 14 levels (Gary Oldman plays the villain, and he’s amazing!). I have 1 of the 28 “extra” levels taken care of, and four out of thirty Adventure Worlds completed. So… that’s about 20% of the game. No seriously, I have 200 gold bricks exactly… out of 1016. This will take me all of August to finish.

Besides Lego, I also played a couple of random, terrible vaporware PSN games that I don’t want to even give a name, except for The Unicorn Princess, because that belongs in the fiery pits of Hell. I swear. Kill this game with acid baths.

Summary

Basically, July was a month that is now over. I read a lot, watched something amazing, and played enough Lego. I’m actively trying to do more with August, which hopefully will be seen more soon. I’ll have more content going up on my Instagram soon, as well as here. Oh, and perhaps Twitch, if my computer decides to stop being annoying with streaming…

Until next time!