It's over. Thank god it's finally over. Even if this anime ends up getting a season 3 in the future, I won't be jumping on it straight away. I'm sorry, I literally do not give a damn about this series anymore, at least in anime format due to just how much I believe that Clevatess fell off during this season. So after this post goes live, expect me to start posting to…

Unrelated to this post, but Wordpress made the decision that the admin theme that I used to use, Sakura, is getting retired, which I had picked prior to their decision because it's pink and had a Japanese name, which I felt was the perfect aesthetic for me looking at my site. And unfortunately, I'm not really liking any of the themes that are left.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Contains a revelation made in the end of the episode that is likely intended to be something that drives the plot forward from here that you're likely supposed to go in blind to. In layman's terms, SPOILERS! Health update, in case anyone's curious: feeling better compared to the last one!

Update: ugh, I feel worse compared to yesterday. Don't know if this will have any impacts on my writeups when it comes to what time they come out, but it may impact how long my writeups may end up being. As if they weren't short enough already. Before I even get into the plot of the episode, I'd like to discuss how this episode felt like the worst integration of CGI -- assuming it's CGI and not a technology that I dislike but refrain from making accusations about the usage of because I personally don't feel qualified enough to make these kinds of accusations -- because the building crashes we see in the fight between Vordin and Clevatess felt way too realistic compared to what we've seen in the series prior to this point.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 11 OF DETECTIVE CONAN. I don't think it's possible for me to discuss my opinions about this episode without covering the ending of the episode, which also involves me revealing who the culprit is. If you haven't watched Episode 11 yet, even if you haven't watched any other…

Ugh, I'm not feeling my best at the moment. Not only am I in that time of the month for me (though I've got it handled as of my previous simulcast writeup, as my cramps don't feel as bad compared to when I was doing my writeup that goes live on Thursdays), but I feel like I'm starting to come down with something.

Yes, I know that the image I'm using is the same one that I made for last year's post, but since I'm going to be a bit more chill on content this anime season, I figured that I shouldn't take the effort to make a new drawing for the post if I feel like the plans that I'm announcing don't really feel like they equate to needing a new image.

Hey! I know that at the time this post is going up, you would usually get a Meitantei Precure writeup! However, because of issues that are literally outside of my control, I have made the decision to permanently move my Meitantei Precure writeups by 24 hours. Now, what could possibly be causing me to need to move these writeups?

Ughhh, I know that my seasonal simulcast writeups have been shit as of late (which I do have a plan to combat starting next season), but this one's probably going to be more shit than usual. Sorry, it's just that at the time I'm writing this, I'm in that time of the month that people with a uterus experience, so if something that I originally would've just glossed over or hand-waved away is something that I get worked up over here, then my apologies.

Did Detective Conan instill a desire to play soccer, no matter how temporary, in anyone else when they first saw it, or was that just a quirk that 11 year old me picked up while watching? No, literally, I remember that in middle school I would get excited whenever it was my class's turn to do the soccer unit in PE, because then I had the chance to be like Conan.

...okay, so I was off last week with this episode title by two words. But hey, at least I still got the basic parts down, so it's not like I misremembered the entire title. Hell, "The Cat and the Festival" would still be a perfectly serviceable title. Not as specific as the actual title, but still an episode title that would feel right at home in this series.

"Oh wow, I can't wait to watch my simulcast of Meitantei Precure today!" I said with excitement on September 12th, opening the episode page basically the instant it went live, as I have done for this series every week before. "Screw you," said the simulcast page, throwing me a KAT-3002 error because it didn't have the other detective show that I like to watch to interrupt due to it airing a rerun* episode in Japan, which never** gets simulcast on Crunchyroll.

I don't know if it's because of how much effort I put into my previous post compared to usual or what, but I'm struggling to come up with a good way to lead into this post. This is probably going to be an issue for the remainder of the Summer 2026 anime season. Ah, the trials and tribulations of covering a series you're really passionate about on the day before covering a series that I thought was peak at first only for it to end up being more middling at this point in the series.

"Surely it hasn't been that long since the last Sara Watches Detective Conan post," I naively say. I was then crushed with the realization that my last Sara Watches Detective Conan post was made on Valentine's Day. Look, I'm sorry, I've been busy with other stuff that I've had the motivation to make. However, I think I've found a good way to be able to balance those things with this.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers for the ending of the episode. I believe it'd be impossible for me to discuss this episode without bringing up the ending. While one could argue that the title already discusses what I'm calling a spoiler, this classification is just to be on the safe side. I was considering whether this should be a content warning for the actual contents of the ending or if I should just mark it as a plain old spoiler warning.

I'm not even going to add the spoiler warning that I usually add with these episodes, mainly because I feel like I've been a bit too frequent with those in this series as of late. Besides, the thing about this episode that I want to talk about was already revealed in the title, so even if the context isn't fully there, I still think that if you put the pieces together yourself with the context that once a new cure gets introduced they need a handful of episodes where they have the spotlight, you can figure it out on your own.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers, both from this episode and that build upon spoilers introduced in Episode 7. Currently trying to wrap my head around everything, because there was just...a lot in this episode. I don't know if I even know where to start with talking about this episode. There was just...a lot. Look, I'm not sure how to describe this myself, alright?

Please note that I'm going into this writeup with the knowledge that a second season and a special episode, as well as a recap episode, are confirmed to be coming. Based on the reporting by Anime News Network, it appears that the recap episode and the special episode are two different things, and as I've already expressed my dislike of recap episodes…

Look, I know that you probably didn't expect a delay on this post, but since one of my simulcast had issues (the earliest of my simulcasts and the only one of those that I don't do standard simulcast writeups for), I decided to do a delay just to give Crunchyroll time to fix it and give them some grace time in case my other simulcasts were having that issue.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: I am carrying over the major spoiler warning from Episode 30 due to this episode concluding the plotline opened up in that episode. *sigh* Okay, this was certainly an episode of all time. Not one of my favorites, but certainly an episode. I'll be honest, this rambling is just meant to prevent episode details from leaking out into social posts.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers. (I talk about the ending of the episode in more depth than I feel comfortable posting without a spoiler warning.) This was one of the episodes of all time. Holy moly. /pos /pos /vpos Look, that's literally the only thing that I can think of to be able to lead into this post.

Oh boy, we're truly in the endgame for this series now. This is the penultimate episode. Holy shit. I'm sorry, just like the previous episode, I cannot think of anything major to lead into this post, but at least I have something. After all, there is always only one penultimate episode in a series. We find out at the beginning of the episode that Victoria (and Nonna!) have headed to the kingdom of Randall, now living under the identities of Maria and Lyle.

What is up with me and being unable to think up of lead-ins for posts for episodes of this series? I genuinely hope that it's not a sign of my brain starting to lose interest in this series, but I genuinely want to try and finish this series, as kitties! Cats! I love felines! :] This episode is a continuation of the story started in Episode 5.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR MEITANTEI PRECURE. There is only one show that I get to post a writeup for this week that doesn't include the dreaded "major spoilers" content warning. And this show is not one of them. Congratulations to Meitantei Precure for continuing the streak I've been on with my writeups so far.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE. LIKE, I GENUINELY BELIEVE THAT I CAN'T MAKE THE POINTS THAT I WANT TO MAKE WITHOUT BRINGING UP THESE SPOILERS. This is the second time that I've had to include a major spoiler warning in a content warning this week. I'm not even going to do the joke I usually do when things occur twice here.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE SERIES THAT I CANNOT AVOID TALKING ABOUT IF I WANT THIS WRITEUP TO MAKE SENSE. You know that shit's getting serious if I have to include that in a post. Like, I genuinely believe that if I don't include these spoilers, this writeup literally would not make sense.

Screw Wordpress for going from the "you automatically get to see your text in its rem and can edit it to your liking" back to the "preset font size that you can toggle to be custom though you don't get to see the default value" thing it had before. I don't even know when they did the change due to just how infrequently I actually pay attention to that side of the screen, but I guess they saw the good praise I gave them back in July and were like "shoot, we've got to reverse that default back to what it was", or if I was misunderstanding something on my end, but just...augh!

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers (both for the episode and future episodes via discussion of visuals of the second ending theme--which premiered in this episode--and the preview for the next episode), Sara getting way too heated at decisions made in a show intended for children. (Okay, that last one isn't a serious content warning, just a heads up before you inevitably point that out.)

Alrighty! It's Clevatess writeup time! This one is late, and for that, I apologize! Watching this episode literally slipped my mind on the literal day of the simulcast since there was already so much that I was trying to keep up with on that day, and by the time I did remember that I still needed to do this, I felt like it would be too late in the day for me to do the writeup to the quality I wanted it to be at.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS! I'm sorry, it's literally going to be impossible for me to talk about this episode without talking about the ending of the episode more in depth than I usually do. That's literally where my brain has latched onto for this episode, and if I'm going to talk about this episode, I'm going to have to talk about the ending, but because the ending is technically spoilers...yeah, I think I'm fully justified with this warning.

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers that I don't feel comfortable talking about without this warning. Okay Nijee, move over, you've officially be dethroned as "my #1 Meitantei Precure hear-me-out", because Decchi Agein? Oh yeah, he is 100% taking that spot. His age hasn't been stated at the time of writing this post, but unless it turns out he's been a minor this entire time (which I doubt considering the disguise he used here), I'm gonna treat him like he's an adult.

Kitties! :3 I'm sorry, I tried to think of a better way to lead into this post, but I literally can't think of anything that would really work to lead into this. Sorry. 😦 I'll have to do my best to give you guys the writeup that you deserve, considering that, despite the fact that the time this goes up likely won't reflect it at all, I have had…

I feel like this season keeps on getting better and better. Maybe it's just a case of "I've already watched a season of this show, so I already know exactly what to expect for this series", compared to the other shows that I'm regularly reviewing here, where I'm trying to get a grasp of the feel of the series as I'm watching it.

This is the episode of all time. Good enough for me to take back part of what I said in my post about the previous episode of this series. Trust me, when you read this, you'll understand exactly why I'm saying that when you read further into the post. All I will say before I begin covering the episode proper is that a statement that I made in my post about the previous episode gets rendered to be…

...okay, I'm not even going to do the "Well, the subtitles/metadata title says (blank) but the Japanese text shows (blank)" thing for this post. Do you realize how many of these episodes I've had to be like "screw the subtitles/metadata, I'm going to stick closer to the Japanese text!" just because I want to be more accurate to the Japanese? Too many, man.

I know that for people who haven't been paying close attention to the blog, this post coming out now seems odd when these usually come out in the evening. However, due to plans that I have on the actual simulcast day for this show, which shares it with the simulcast day for the show whose post usually goes up at this time, due to it actually being a…

Okay, wow. Sorry, trying to find more ways to express my bewilderment than just the same ways I have been doing. This was an episode. I know I straight up just locked in on my post about Episode 4 of Victoria of Many Faces, which even I can't tell you what about that episode in particular just made me strap myself down and write.

Wordpress did another change regarding how it editor looks but...I don't completely hate it, if I'm being honest. Yes, there's still something about it that I dislike, being that the header from the other pages for my behind the scenes stuff is now being dragged to the editor when I had already gotten used to it not being there, but the rest of it I feel is actually pretty good.

Another episode of the kitty show! And yes, it's technically the kitty and dragon show due to the fact that there's also a dragon that's a main character, but since 3 out of the 5 episodes so far had a cat take more of the spotlight than the dragon, that just makes it the kitty show by default. Anyway, it's episode time!

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?"CONTENT WARNING: Spoilers because I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT THE ENDING OF THIS EPISODE. I've probably done this bit enough times, but I am being 100% serious when I say the following: please pardon my swearing, but what the fuck. /pos I know I can say that quite often about the episodes of shows that I watch, but I think it's genuinely needed here this time.

First of all, before I even start this post properly, I want to give a bit of a "screw you" to the person who wrote the metadata for this episode's title. Village of Origin makes a lot more sense for the episode title than "Town of Beginnings". I'm pulling what I did with my Kaya-chan Isn't Scary writeups and trusting the subtitlers over the metadata, as the subtitlers usually feel like they have the more accurate title.

Mom (you know who you are), if you're reading this post before watching the episode yourself since we didn't watch the episode together, stop. Watch the episode. Even make sure your writeup for it is fully finished before reading my post. I want you to have fully processed everything about this episode before engaging with my post. This feels like the time I told my mom last season not to read my post about the at-the-time latest…