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.

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A quick rundown of what happens in Beck volume III: Koyuki meets The Dying Breed; Beck cuts a demo; imagine John Lennon as a garbage man; and, things get screwed up with the ladies. Oh yeah, and finally, via Momoko we find out that Saku isn’t gay for Koyuki, I think.

Ever since Maho’s introduction in the first or second episode, I’ve been dreading the impending romance stuff hijacking Beck for a while. I breathe a sigh of relief in that it’s not overly dramatic and mostly we see it from the outside instead of living inside the character’s heads.

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