Technically, we’re a year old. Whoopee.

You may be wondering why I didn’t bother with an official commemoration of this blog’s first birthday (which came and went without a single new post on 03 December 2007). Here’s why: I didn’t start actively blogging until 03 June 2007, exactly six months after my launch post.
Expect more fanfare towards the middle [...]

God rest ye merry, gentlemen

I wish you all a very happy Christmas.

Discovering テレビドラマ, Part Three – “Kekkon Dekinai Otoko”

結婚できない男 (Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, Summer 2006)
DramaWiki / Wikipedia / JDorama.com
Kuwano Shinsuke is a successful architect with a knack for building nice houses, even though he has absolutely no interest in the people who will live in them. At 40, he is a contented loner, living a solitary lifestyle in a nice urban flat where [...]

The silence is broken

Across the pitch-black screen, a line of characters appears.
YUKI.N> これをあなたが読んでいる時、わたしはわたしではないだろう。
If you’ve read the fourth book in Tanigawa Nagaru’s Suzumiya Haruhi novel series, you’ll probably recognise this as an important line from Chapter 3.
A very important line.

Last Exile, Volume 1: “First Move” (review)

Today the spotlight falls on the first volume of Geneon’s 7-disc Last Exile R1 DVD collection.

TokiKake licensed by Bandai

There’s a wonderful opportunity here for me to drop a bad pun. But since I’m feeling unusually merciful today, I’ll let that one slide. You’re free to guess what I had in mind, though. (Hint: It has something to do with my frustration at having to wait so long for this [...]

Last Exile – Complete Box Set (initial write-up/review)

This week, I’m rolling out a new format for my DVD box set reviews. Instead of tackling the whole thing all at once like I did with most of my previous acquisitions (e.g. Haibane Renmei), I will now cover each set in installments: first, an initial write-up on the contents of the box [...]