So as it happens, the plan was for me to start making many more posts at a much quicker speed with summer along and all.  That’s definitely what I’d intended and if it were up to me, I probably would’ve gotten this post done days ago.  Sadly, however, fate is a cruel thing, as I happen to have gotten quite atrociously sick this week.  Around Tuesday and Wednesday I somehow or another ended up with a fever (at one point my temperature was about 104 and a half degrees, ick), headaches, a sore throat, coughing, a clogged stuffy nose, and even a tendency to have nosebleeds from both nostrils (which, truth be told, has never before happened in my life).  As I’m sure you can imagine, those seriously wore me out and the fever in particular took away any energy I had to get anything done, and while I still don’t feel good, I guess I’m at least feeling decent enough to get back to the blog at last.  And with that, it seems I’ll be writing about Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai, a series I finished quite a while ago given it was one of those one-cour fall series.  Scary to think that it’s essentially been half a year since I watched it (senior year was truly most unfortunate) and there might be quite a bit I’ve forgotten since then.  What I can say is that Machine-Doll is a pretty enjoyable series, though terribly limited by its 12-episode runtime.  It has some interesting ideas and I was certainly entertained week after week, though I can’t help but feel that it either lacked the necessary time to expand on some details or didn’t spend enough time on them to begin with. Continue reading →