Ragashingo @Ragashingo@starside.social
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This season, my main watch is Journal with Witch. It's such a calm, insightful show that highlights that the ways people deal with grief and life don't have to be textbook cliche or make sense to others to be valid.

15 year old Asa loses her mother and father to a car accident outside a convenient store and soon finds herself under the care of her introvert novelist aunt Makio. Watching the two figure out how to live together in the aftermath has been very pleasant.

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It took five episodes, but the show eventually did show us exactly what happened to Asa's parents. Looks like they were parked in a waiting spot and got rear ended by a larger truck not paying attention! The only reason Asa is alive is that she'd made a quick run to get some things from the store. One of the first scenes we see of her in episode 1 is her sitting on a hospital bench with her grandmother still wearing that same jacket. 😢Most of the show is done in a nice, fairly realistic, mid tone scheme, but its openings and endings are done in bright watercolor! Here, in the opening, we see aunt Makio in her writing chair (with desk and messy home office removed) on one side, and Asa cheerfully running to school on the other. The latest episode has thrown in a bit of mildly spice romance, too! Makio and her ex-boyfriend Shingo Kasamachi seem to be on the road to getting back together. The show doesn't just focus on Asa's grief and coping, it's about Makio forcing herself to be more than the shut-in novelist that she was for the sake of taking in and raising Asa. Maybe stepping out of one's isolated comfort zone has some additional benefits?! Not gonna lie, threw this one in hoping to snag a reaction or a new viewer or two. :p
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