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title: "machikado mazoku: moe masterpiece"
published: 2019-10-18
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it's been too long since i've posted. far too long. so i'm just going to talk
about something i won't have to have as much actual textual content because i
have enough screencaps and pictures by now to get away with it. so apologies if
anyone is reading a text-only version of this. i do really recommend using a
feed reader that will allow you to read the post with the original css i
created for it (which is a living document, really, but i always do my best to
make sure i don't change something in ways that will smeg up older posts) and
images, or viewing it via a web browser (only really tested on firefox on my
machine, and a tiny bit of testing on a few android mobile devices, so your
mileage may vary).

already my intro is just boring and rambling. i must have really been itching
to write something.

![this is actually fun!](/images/this-is-actually-fun.jpg "a screencap from the show i'm talking about today with situationally appropriate subtitles")

oh smeg i lost my train of thought. i am sure i had something to say.

at least i thought i did. have a follow-up, i mean, or at least a good place to start.

![i'm not *that* stupid!](/images/im-not-that-stupid.jpg "or maybe i am")

i've been brooding over what to include in this post so much that my thoughts
and ideas don't have any particular order or topical consistency. so i'm going
to wing it. (like i've done for every other post i've written in this blog of
mine. imagine that.)

## why i think まちカドまぞく (yes that's how they spell it in the anime; see below) is so excellent

![まちカドまぞく](/images/machikado-mazoku.jpg)

first, there's the obvious reason that it's very cute. and everyone knows cute
is the only true justice in the world. secondly, the humour was great (despite
the mediocre subtitles i had to work with). it was fast-paced, quick-witted
humour.

![a nitpicky but easy to show example of mediocre subs: her name is yuuko, not yuko](/images/yuko-yuuko.jpg "the sub quality i watched really was mediocre at best by my standards. this example doesn't illustrate how bad they are at times.")

**this show could have flopped** ***so*** **easily**. but it ***didn't***. i
loved watching it as it came out recently and i enjoy re-watching it as well.
i'm out of stuff to say so i'll end with some more pictures (i fell asleep in
the middle of writing this).

![shamiko calling out movie logic](/images/shamiko-calling-out-movie-logic.jpg)

![rooting for the home team](/images/machikado-dont-give-up.jpg)

![empathy of a demon girl](/images/shamiko-empathy.jpg)

![おしまい](/images/the-end.jpg)

**stay tasty o/ and sorry for the hastily thrown together post <3**