Next Thursday (December 12th for those reading this in two weeks) is election day in the UK. The fate of the country will be decided by its citizens (or the ones who can be bothered to vote). Will we be governed by a less charismatic Donald Trump or a far less charismatic Bernie Sanders? Who knows? Are we doomed either way? Probably.
So, I’ll go vote and then I’m going to go do something which means I can’t possibly hear anything about the election for a couple of hours: I’m going to watch a subtitled Japanese movie! KonoSuba: Legend of Crimson is coming to UK cinemas on the 12th and I’m a sucker for KonoSubs so… I have never in my life gone to a cinema to watch a subtitled movie, so this should be interesting. Who am I kidding: it’s Megumin yelling ‘EXPLOSION!’ while wearing her school uniform. I’ll enjoy it (certainly more than election night coverage).
If you’re interested and want something pleasant to do while waiting for the world to end, check your local Odeon or Vue cinemas to see if they’re showing it. There’s an enormous list of which places have screenings on the Crunchyroll web site.
Witches and Ray-Guns 
I have not heard about this. How have I not heard about this?
The movie or the screenings?
If it’s the movie, then I don’t know. It’s been blabbed about for a few months.
As for the screenings… Well, I found out about it purely by accident. I was reading an unrelated news item on the Crunchyroll web site and saw a pop-up about UK showings of the movie. So, it’s not exactly being massively advertised.
Good luck with your election, hope you get a better result than we did in Oz. I have seen a subtitled movie in the cinema, Princess Mononoke. It was good to see the original Japanese version back then.
Sad that it can be boiled down to “a less charismatic Donald Trump or a far less charismatic Bernie Sanders.” The world needs more diversity than that.
Well, there are more in the race. I couldn’t tell you who any of them are (except for the leader of the Brexit Party, who I won’t name because naming him gives him power, like Voldemort), and they have no real chance of gaining power.
Plus, to be fair to the current parties, there is actually a visible difference between Labour and the Conservatives at the moment. For a long, long time (maybe even most of my life) the two parties were basically reskinned versions of each other. The problem now is that they’re different, but neither of them is really any good.
That… does sound like a problem.
For those interested:
Konosuba was good fun. Possibly the best time I’ve had in a cinema in years, actually.
Unfortunately, we voted in budget Trump. By a pretty major margin too. Then again, I wasn’t exactly expecting a ‘good’ result…
I went to see the Konosuba movie on election day at the cinema, it was good.