Sometimes I have to jazz up the real event for comedic effect, this was not one of those times.  The only part I’m making up here is the generic “ugly mecha” being substituted for all the actual ones shown during the panel.  Because, yes, there is precedent for my mysteriously deciding to pick up a show RIGHT AFTER seeing it spotlighted in this context.

Speaking of which, I could have SWORN I’d already drawn a comic that’s literally just me sitting in this panel, surrounded by people who are all cringing and and shaking their heads, while I’m just taking notes of stuff to go watch later.  Because it’s absolutely a things that’s really happened.  But no.  Unless I just epically failed at tagging the page, I can’t find any trace of such a comic.  Now I wish I’d just drawn THAT, seeing as how THIS comic was more or less conceived as a sort of sequel to that idea.