Here’s a very cool image from Thomas Romain’s Picasa gallery (the rest of the gallery is cool, too). Read more
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée – 05
If you’re getting tired of hearing me say how great Ikoku Meiro is, you probably want to skip the rest of this post – I’m about to do it again. One of my favorite accolades, “simple, yet profound”, definitely applies to this series. At its heart it’s just a story […] Read more
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée – 04
One of the things I’ve loved about this series from the beginning – and there’s an awful lot of them – is the wonderful way it gets at the cultural differences between Europeans and Japanese without demeaning either. When Claude said, “It would be so much easier if she could […] Read more
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée – 03
Ikoku Meiro is fast shaping up as my favorite series of the Summer, along with Natsume Yuujinchou San. This is clearly a labor of love for everyone involved, from the author Hinata-san to the director to the animators. And it shows. It’s hard for me to remember a series that […] Read more
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée – 02
Ganbare, Yune – don’t lose to cheese! I’m completely smitten with this adaptation after two episodes, but I could totally see where not everyone would feel the same way. Really, we just had an entire episode of eating breakfast, trying unusual food, buying bread, and shopping at the Marche’. I […] Read more
First Impressions – Ikoku Meiro no Croisée
OP: “Sekai wa Odoru yo, Kimi to (世界は踊るよ、君と。)” by Youmou to Ohana From Satelight comes the absolutely delightful Ikoku Meiro no Croisée (La croisée dans un labyrinthe étranger), a series that had me won over from the pre-credit opening and had my hypnotized right through until the end. It’s a […] Read more