So, here I am sat at home on a bank holiday weekend without anything to do.

Well, OK, that isn’t strictly true. I mean, it’s not exactly the high-impact antics of an anime convention double-bill, but I do have some three weeks worth of cartoons to catch up on at this point. Most evenings this last week, however, have followed a pattern of me staring, horrified, at the mountain of content that I’ve got sitting around to be watched, mentally acknowledging that the situation is only going to get worse the more I put it off (particularly given I’ve been watching more this season than any other in recent history), and still electing to go the low-impact, low-effort route of playing more Neptunia Victory instead.

Which is probably why my game clock has jumped up by some twenty five hours, and my anime backlog as gone down by precisely three episodes of Gatchaman Crowds – on the subject of which, episode 6 has some of the most unintentionally hilarious animation that I’ve seen in a while.

This does mean, however, that I’m left somewhat bereft of things to write about. I was going to go through the whole Otakon experience from the point of view of a British guy throwing a whole bunch money at it (others have, frankly, already done a better job of writing things up from a general experience point of view than I would, though I will say that anyone who thinks that Skybridge is congested should try visiting London MCM on the height of a Saturday evening), but now that the accommodation feeding frenzy has already taken place, it’s probably a bit too late to jump on that. Maybe next year, if the stars align correctly once again, and I make it back to Otakon again in 2014.

Which pretty much means that this post is simply to acknowledge that I didn’t die at some point over the last three weeks. Yay!

PS – Yeah, the Yoko Kanno concert was great.
PPS – I now know more about anime Penguins than I ever thought I would!