Though, requires familiarity with Simoun and also with Durarara.


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About six weeks ago, I tried to read Hana monogatari, by Yoshiya Nobuko, for as long as I could before completely getting lost--in, yes, the original Japanese. The first couple of sentences were easy enough: It's an evening in early summer, and seven girls are meeting at this Western-style mansion to trade stories. As you do. It's proto-shoujo. But ( Read more... )

My translation of an actual letter that somebody in Japan once wrote to her American host family:

日本人のよう子さんは アメリカのホストファミリーに てがみをかきました。

Japanese person Youko wrote a letter to her American host family.

こんにちは。私のなまえは よう子です。

Hello. My name is Youko.

日本人です。らい年のなつ、アメリカに べんきょうしに行きます。

I am Japanese. Next summer, I will go to America to study.
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...to record a concept album in which I play 'Centifolia' (the ending theme to Aoi Hana) over and over again while reading various Supreme Court rulings out loud. Much like how the last episode of the show times the crescendo of the music to coincide with the emotional climax of the series, I would time it so that the crescendo coincides with those ( Read more... )

Random man: Mary-san, kissaten de kouhii wo yomimasen ka ( Read more... )

So, to-day I watched what exists so far of Rebuild of Evangelion.

And...

OH. MY GOD. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL SERIES. Less hopeless tone! Better animation! Even better music! More likable characters! A Gendo who's realistically aloof and neglectful and not an over-the-top unfeeling monster! Plots that make sense! Toned-down religious ( Read more... )

All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams. Okay, I'm not jealous of the weird quasi-anti-Semitic-quasi-anti-anti-Semitic stuff that really didn't need to be there, but the rest of the book is just GUH. It's everything that Joss Whedon seems to wish his work could be, if you're willing to indulge the half-century that elapsed between the different corpi ( Read more... )

IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL:

TUM TE TUM

I AM DR HENRICK HIGGINBOTTOM, FOREMOST ROSE CULTIVATOR IN THE WORLD. I AM LOOKING FOR A GOOD PICTURE OF A SPECIES OF ROSE FROM BURMA THAT I WISH TO USE FOR A HYBRID.

TUM TE TUM

'Google Image Search: 'rosa gigantea''

WAIT
WHAT

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

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In this chapter, we get back to everybody's 'normal' life after the interminable business in Karuizawa. Ren is trying a highly unorthodox career move and Yashiro is pissed at him. Kyoko is a breakout star of Dark Moon and now runs the risk of getting typecast as conniving, manipulative, David Mamet-type high school and college girls. And she ( Read more... )

1. Watch the first scenes of the Kara no Kyoukai movie series.

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2. Remember that these characters are, in-universe, allegedly supposed to be architectural draftsmen. Who casually say things to one another like 'Say, Shiki, what sort of feeling do you get when you look down from a height? The impulse that you feel looking down on the world you live in ( Read more... )