drama
Welcome to the NHK, Finished
In between the crazy moments of Sato’s imagination, Welcome to the NHK lives in the sober moments of reality, when the soundtrack of lazy drums nudges the guitar along behind Sato’s wallowing, the unwarm sunlight through the window of the half desolate Tokyo train, a full ashtray, and a computer monitor as the light of [...]
Welcome To The NHK, Part One
Welcome to the NHK is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. The main character, Sato, is a 22-year old unemployed college drop-out and a hikikimori, a shut-in. From there it looked as if this might be something like Genshiken, an otaku comedy with a loving backhand. It does kind of start [...]
Finished Kanon
There was a bit of a snag in the last volume of the Kanon (2006) dvd release here in the United States, so I pushed off watching the last disc until I could marathon through the whole series when it was nice and cold. Kanon seems better watched wrapped up in blankets during December than [...]
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
I really enjoyed watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Definitely worth a watch.
The Beatdown Goes On, When They Cry v4
A mid series post on When They Cry – Higurashi, which after about a year on hiatus finally resumes release on DVD.
My-Otome, Finished
Finally got around to finishing My-Otome. I loved it. Pretty cheesy, definitely ridiculous, nudge-nudge-wink-wink, some fighting…
Portraits from Memory: Boogiepop Phantom
I’ve been wanting to write something smart about Boogiepop Phantom for years now, but I’ve come to realize that, no, I really don’t want to. Every six months or so it goes into the dvd player and I sit and take it all in. It has to have been at least ten times [...]
