Are we watching a series in-season? You bet! Thanks to the wonders of legal streaming, I may not need to download a fansub ever again, except to back up my DVDs. This time it is the absurdist comedy that shall ever be referred as "Zvezda", rather than by its Full Titile Competing With An Incest Light Novel, Only With Punctuation Inside.

The Russian references in Zvezda are rather facepalm... They include Natasha (somehow they never use the proper name for Natalias, but they do for Anastasiyas -- nobody knows why), who lived in Ukraine (if her obviously Russian family being persecuted and oppressed by nazi-onalists, it is wrapped in impenetrable surrealism), being read a folk story with hilariously awful grammar. This is not Tundrastar, people!

Peter does pretty decent episodics for Zvezda, so just follow that if you like. But the big picture is one part of Nichijou, one part of Sunred, one part of Joshiraku, sprinkled with a precoccous, crazy loli with magic powers.

P.S. The "conquered" stamp sequence recalls Excel Saga.