![[Loz's 2023 Wrap-Up-20240102105730873.png]] **Unicorn Warriors Eternal**  Ever since I saw the poster for this show many months back, I was obsessed. Genndy is cooking again!! And possibly doing a Tezuka!! The first season exceeded my expectations and now I'm hungry for news about season 2 (And if there isn't one, then I'm going to (REDACTED) HBO Max). They also gave me a new white haired elf man to obsess over and I need more fanart of him. Also, I love that the protag has big ol' eyebrows. It's cute!! **Pluto**  When Pluto was confirmed to have a release this year, I had a friend on Twitter gush about it so much that I had to check the manga out before the adaptation dropped. And boy was that gushing warranted! I would devour chapters before bed, going past my bedtime, and even sleeping teary eyed just from the sheer impact. And the adaptation captured it all of it perfectly. In fact, I still have one episode of Pluto left that I have to get around to because EVERY episode has left me crying and I had to space them out. I very rarely give things a pure 10/10 but this was something I cannot recommend enough to everyone. Honorable Mentions: - Gundam Witch from Mercury: The show concluded this year, but I only ended up starting to watch it all in 2023. I fell in love with it so much it got me back into slightly more serious gunpla building. I adore Suletta and glad she got her happy ending! Starts off strong, but unfortunately you can tell the 12 episode a season pacing really screwed with it in the end. But at least our tanuki got hitched to her wife now. - Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: I don't care what the chuds say, I enjoyed this, LMAO. As I said before, the focus going off Scott and onto Ramona and the rest of the characters was to the series' benefit. The final conflict didn't super grab me but, eh. I'll forgive it since at least characters like Roxy got her justice. **Games**  Another thing I've long waited for also dropped this year and equally blew my expectations out of the water. BRC is dripping with style and eerily feels like something that absolutely was made during the height of Y2K design and fashion, but no, just the people who worked on it truly had a passion for that time and really understood it. The OST has been a repeat for me lately, it's not one to be slept on. I wonder if Team Reptile dropping this is what got Sega to wake up with JSR...  Not too much to say, it's a Theatrhythm game, it's on Switch, and it's a lot of fun. I ended up dropping money on the DLCs because I was dying to play the Nier, TWEWY, and Chrono Trigger and Cross tracks. If it's on sale and you like these kinds of games, I definitely recommend it and had a ton of fun with it this year. Honorable mentions: - We Love Katamari Reroll: A remaster, but one I wanted for a while. This is THE best Katamari game in the series and deserves to be widely available. I even streamed it a few times and had a good ass time with it. - Dave the Diver: Anyone who knows me knows that I fucking hate the deep ocean, something that this game makes you interact with! (It was fine.) The rogue-like elements of the Blue Hole changing were interesting and my favorite part is the restaurant management with the sushi. And Dave is such a sweetheart, I would defend him with my life. - Vampire Survivors: I know it didn't come out this year and everyone and their mom was playing it last year but I'm late to everything. A bunch of the DLCs came out in 2023, I have since gotten them all and 100%ed the achievements. Very interested in what the show of this game is going to be like, lol. And I think that covers it! Lots of good hits this 2023 and 2024 looks like it's going to have even more. Thanks for sticking around be it for my personal account or art one, and let's make next year a good one :)