One of my friends hates the Chimera Ant arc and it hurts me deeply because it has now moved me to tears in both the anime and manga.

Unfortunately still inferior to definitive edition by a fair deal. It's a good time though!

I would say most of the audience for the Oscars is in that range though

I've not started but I intend to take the journey. I'm weird about super popular series but it seems like I really enjoy them when I give them a chance. For instance, I put off HXH for yeeeears and I just adore that shit now.

Your enthusiastic review has told me I've made the right decision tracking this bad boy down

I'm kind of out on wrestling as a whole right now, but if they gave Shelton Benjamin a serious singles push, I would be back. Especially if, somehow, a Joe/Shelton title match happened on a PPV.

Unrelated but I just remembered your seething hatred of Eureka Seven made me avoid the series entirely and I feel like I owe you a debt of gratitude for that.
Excited to hear the goty stuff!

Yeah, same here. He's like "well hold on there buddy, did you think you could go to ice land there WITHOUT going to the volcano first?"
Kinda curious what happens if you go Northeast first because that point isn't accessible at all without most of the power-ups! At least you could enter ice zone!

This baffled me too. Was retro just gambling on everyone choosing to go southeast first?

Yeah the snow level is when it becomes trickier. I don't think it's too hard, it's just a lot less fun...it hurts that Wario already feels kinda slippery before the big ramp up.

I had no idea it was the best selling one ever! Gaming is just much larger now than during his prime now, it seems. Kinda depressing.