The seasons change...
Sep. 15th, 2012 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsWell, it is feeling Not Summer Anymore (and finally raining, thank God), but I'm being more geeky than that...
Another season of anime is winding down. Kind of amazing it was only last season that I took it in my head to start watching current stuff, but suffice to say I'm enjoying it (even if I'm SO behind on Kuroko's Basketball...).
One of the shows I was watching this season, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, ended Thursday. Most of the time it was sweetly good for a cry, although they could have ended it better. The "picture book" thread was more abandoned than resolved, and the penultimate episode felt like mood whiplash even if it did kind of make sense (whoa, being haunted by the still-obsessed ghost of your crush's dead husband got creepy all of a sudden, WTF!?). They pulled out a very sweet ending, though, and it's not on my all-time-favorites list, but if "romantic drama with a ghost in" interests you, it's definitely worth a look.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Hyouka ending tomorrow. I love that show.
The other one I'll miss after this season is Hakuouki Reimeiroku, which finally compelled me to find the rest of the Hakuouki anime --- watched it, loved it, want the game. Reimeiroku might have been a good place for me to start, though, as it kind of eased me into the otome-game-with-vampires bits. (The last time I tried to watch an anime based on an otome game I bailed because it was just too obvious; I have nothing against reverse-harem fantasy, but it has to maintain a certain level of subtlety/classiness for me to enjoy it.)
I'm also planning to do Yuletide again. Looking at last year's prompts for anything I might want to do as a last-minute New Year's Resolution story got me started re-watching Moribito, and I had forgotten how awesome it was. This was also my first time re-watching it since reading the translated novels, which added some bonus. In the first episode or so, Chagum looks at the earring his mother gave him, and Balsa tells him "That's luisha, take care of it" --- if you haven't read the second novel, that line has more resonance than you would ever imagine. (Luisha is a glowy blue gemstone from Balsa's home country; the rest is literally a book unto itself and I won't spoil it because it's even more mind-blowingly awesome than book one.) It's enough to make me wonder what I'd catch if I'd read the whole series. (grumblegrumbleScholasticonlytwovolumes... reason to work harder on my Japanese...)
Another season of anime is winding down. Kind of amazing it was only last season that I took it in my head to start watching current stuff, but suffice to say I'm enjoying it (even if I'm SO behind on Kuroko's Basketball...).
One of the shows I was watching this season, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, ended Thursday. Most of the time it was sweetly good for a cry, although they could have ended it better. The "picture book" thread was more abandoned than resolved, and the penultimate episode felt like mood whiplash even if it did kind of make sense (whoa, being haunted by the still-obsessed ghost of your crush's dead husband got creepy all of a sudden, WTF!?). They pulled out a very sweet ending, though, and it's not on my all-time-favorites list, but if "romantic drama with a ghost in" interests you, it's definitely worth a look.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Hyouka ending tomorrow. I love that show.
The other one I'll miss after this season is Hakuouki Reimeiroku, which finally compelled me to find the rest of the Hakuouki anime --- watched it, loved it, want the game. Reimeiroku might have been a good place for me to start, though, as it kind of eased me into the otome-game-with-vampires bits. (The last time I tried to watch an anime based on an otome game I bailed because it was just too obvious; I have nothing against reverse-harem fantasy, but it has to maintain a certain level of subtlety/classiness for me to enjoy it.)
I'm also planning to do Yuletide again. Looking at last year's prompts for anything I might want to do as a last-minute New Year's Resolution story got me started re-watching Moribito, and I had forgotten how awesome it was. This was also my first time re-watching it since reading the translated novels, which added some bonus. In the first episode or so, Chagum looks at the earring his mother gave him, and Balsa tells him "That's luisha, take care of it" --- if you haven't read the second novel, that line has more resonance than you would ever imagine. (Luisha is a glowy blue gemstone from Balsa's home country; the rest is literally a book unto itself and I won't spoil it because it's even more mind-blowingly awesome than book one.) It's enough to make me wonder what I'd catch if I'd read the whole series. (grumblegrumbleScholasticonlytwovolumes... reason to work harder on my Japanese...)
