"Too long a spring, a quarter of an eternity, comes to an end."

I saw the Cowboy Bebop Netflix trailer yesterday (okay as of writing this, it was actually today but y’know what I mean: it was before I slept), and it’s nice and all to see so many characters (lots of them being antagonists) return, as they’re all shown in the intro, but……. didn’t they say it wouldn’t be just a 1:1 remake? If so, why: why is the intro pretty much just that? I mean it looks cool, I like the look of it, but is it really worth pouring all that money into a series only to just do what’s done before? I still want to be really optimistic, and I’d totally watch a 1:1 live-action remake but, from a creative point of view, this project in itself seems redundant. 

I’m typing this from my uni accommodation! It’s a perfect sized room and plenty of space to display my favourite things but, for some reason, the summer weather’s decided to stick around well into September and, since the window barely opens, it is immensely warm in here at all times of day! At least there’s a saving grace in the form of a mini-fridge, but there’s only so many beverages that it can chill at once. Thus: a vice to wrestle with has manifested, but at least there's not a multitude to deal with all at once.

So now that I’m here, I hope to get one productive creative endeavour completed each and every day, both for fulfilment and organisation’s sake. Easy steps first though: for the foreseeable future, every series episode seen or manga chapter read will count as a productive step, because occasions like that used to be really rare for me. So: here’s to learning.

(Maybe it’s because I’m still getting used to having a busy schedule.)

The fondest memories I have from this time last year are finishing Final Fantasy VII Remake (despite receiving the game over a week before its release date back in April, it still took me all the way until September to get it finished), watching Samurai Champloo in the span of 3 weeks (yes, that’s an actual record for me. I mean I finished Cowboy Bebop an entire year and a half after I first watched it). It’s a given that it all feels like yesterday, and I’m still so happy I was able to forge such happy memories. What’ll be the 2021 equivalent of such memories? I fear they’ll still be few and far between given how I’ll need to be up for 9am classes every single day from now on: they “there’s no time like the present” because sometimes it can feel like there isn’t time in the present at all.

Well, not enough of it, I mean. 

There is such a thing as walking too much too soon.