A couple of days ago I watched that Genshiken episode where Kasukabe goads Madarame into investing in his outward appearance. The Genshiken crew were a little on the deep end as far as minimizing all other expenses, such as skimping on clothing, to be able to afford otaku gear.
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 through already. Ten viewings seems like a crazy amount of time to spend with a story. It is, but sometimes a story or the personal luggage that one brings to the story can support that kind of thing.
I can’t shake Five Centimeters Per Second. Toono’s experience as an adult — I identify with it. Feel it as my state. The details of how we got there are very different and appear far less breathtaking, but we wind up in a similar place, going through motions, not knowing how long we’ve been on auto-pilot. It’s a common story. That wont sit well with some viewers who look for extraordinary things in the stories they watch and/or read. The rest of this might be spoilerish.
