Durarara! certainly is an interesting puzzle, in more ways than one. The thing is, DRRR is definitely starting to click for me, but the funny thing is I can’t say exactly why. It’s almost impossible for me to look at my positive reactions after an episode and my indifferent ones […] Read more
Well now, this is getting rather interesting. I must confess things took rather a different turn in this episode than I expected, though it was certainly a fascinating and tense one. Rather than a full-on focus on Eijun and Chris, they were merely the sideshow – the real story was […] Read more
This is starting to smell quite strongly of a tragic ending, at least for the principal characters. I’m sure the Sl-apologists will find a way to write off his actions this week just as they have all the others, but it’s hard to see much good left in Slaine at […] Read more
That certainly answered some big questions. Way back after Episode #4 I raised the “Universe is kind of an asshole” question. That is, that it seemed quite reasonable to me that the average person would look at goes on at Quindecim and say it was a bloody awful way for […] Read more
The well of wonders runs deep in this town. If you dropped a stone, I don’t think you’d ever hear it drop. I’ve said almost as much about Kyoto on this blog as I have about Hunter X Hunter, but I just can’t stop. My feelings for the city are […] Read more
Perhaps the most important thing I can say about that ep is that it was a lot better than I feared it was going to be. I’ll admit I was pretty pessimistic watching the first few minutes of this episode of Tokyo Ghoul √A. I really didn’t want to see […] Read more
Another check-mark on the Kansai bucket list. I love whisky, and so do the Japanese. If you don’t I doubt anything about this post will interest you much – though to be fair, Yamazaki itself is a lovely little town with canals and Shrines and water so good that Sen […] Read more
This week’s lesson from Kiseijuu: people die when they are killed. Uwah – that was certainly a mother of an episode. It pretty much ran the gamut of the human experience both primal and philosophical, took a stylistic turn around the track and threw in beheadings and a massive and […] Read more
Spring? Well, not quite – but we’re getting there. It’s an all-Shinto day today, with some miscellaneous Higashiyama shots sandwiched on either side. And a chocolate-almond pancake from Cafe Rhinebeck pancaked in the middle. I’ve been to many Tenjin Shrines, including this one, Kitano Tenmangu (the head Shrine) but given […] Read more
Who knew it was so creepy when goldfish smile? Thus might just have been my favorite episode of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! yet, at least in terms of consistent laughs: Is saying someone is “air” really a compliment? Rigor mortis Great villain this time, and a great comic performance […] Read more