I ended up downloading Kuroshitsuji II. I pretty much had to. It wasn't easy, mind you, because this computer was second-hand more than four and a half years ago and can't even handle having two programs open at once anymore. I had to keep pausing and unpausing in order to keep the animation moving along. That's how run-down my computer is. I ( Read more... )

This was Sunday's "Season" column in the Asahi Newspaper. A poem by Kamo no Mabuchi (賀茂真淵).

橘のもとに道ふみゆきかへりもとつひとにもあひにけるかも真淵は江戸時代半ば、今の静岡県浜松の人。四十歳にして郷里を出て江戸の人になった。この歌は久しぶりに帰郷したおりの歌のようだ。橘の花咲く道を行って帰り、また君と再会できた。香り高い橘の花は遠い昔から追憶を誘う花だった ( Read more... )

I swore I would get it done tonight and I did:

Kuroshitsuji Musical Review

There will be mistakes. I sped up towards the end because it's almost midnight. But it's DONE now and I mostly avoided all the ranting over Grell. :)

Night all.

Anime news:
Code Geass GAIDEN Boukoku no Akito (provisional title), part of the New Code Geass Project. I presume that the title translates to something like "Code Geass EXTRA: Akito and a Dead Country".

Meanwhile, a nice post full of images of steam-powered travel in Japan: hereWill be writing up the Kuroshitsuji musical any day now. Was ( Read more... )

( VUW stuff )

Finally, something good and new came out for Kuroshitsuji. Unsurprisingly, completely unconnected to the anime:

Toboso-sensei's musical illustrationWhen we first saw William in the comic, it seemed to indicate the shinigami world was a very formal, bureaucratic place and that Grell was a blood-crazed aberration. That is, she was violating the ( Read more... )

Obscura Day: Tokyo DO WANT.

How to make (historically-accurate) punch.

Here's a trainAlso, I might have missed this on my flist, but Toboso-sensei mentioned[*] in her diary that Ronald Knox (Romanisation?) will be appearing in the musical after all. He'll be played by Luke C ( Read more... )

Copy-paste-translating from this post by fencer_x☆ミュージカル「黒執事−The Most Beautiful DEATH in The Worldー千の魂と堕ちた死神 ( Read more... )

First of all, can anyone beta my yuletide fic for me? Can't really say the fandom publicly, but I'll probably know if you know it if you offer. General beta offers welcome too. :)

There is a WEISS KREUZ meme going around, so I can't resist that.

Which songs remind you of pairings and characters from WK?

( Which songs make you think of pairings and characters from WK [and other anime]? )