Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune and Make My Day

The first seasons of two animated Netflix shows.

Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune (Season 1)

After Earth was forced to join a superior alien federation (made up of humanoids with Earth-animal heads just because) a squad of human soldiers find themselves in the muck when deployed to another planet that is on the verge of rebellion against said federation. The CGI art that somehow looks manga-ish is good and there's a ton of violence BUT the entire first season only covers around a day, with most of the "story" coming from flashbacks. The problem with flashbacks is there aren't really many stakes you can put into them so... I dunno. An interesting spectacle I suppose but not much depth. I'm hoping a season 2 will remedy that but until then, not recommended.

Make My Day (Season 1)

The plot for this sci-fi is pretty simple: man has found a new mineral fuel source on a distant planet and after mining it too much (or in dwarven "digging too deep"), they wake up a dormant and hungry alien species. Most of the story focuses on evacuation, and for good reason. Again decent CGI here though not as artsy or nice as Yakitori and the voice acting is also not as good, but the story is definitely more interesting. Violence, gore and death abound but this doesn't really classify as a horror since most of it is in well lit environments (no jump scares). Not sure how they can do a season 2 with this one, but this first season is worthy of a watch.

Decluttering Day 3: Elden Ring rough journal. As some of you know, I take notes when playing games - especially if I'm going to blog about them. Afterwards they really get binned anyway, but this was an easy one for today's entry. :P