Poor old Gloomy Gus. All he really wants is to drink. To forget. The shame of being drunk.
Watching this for the second time did not do anything to lessen the impact of the arc–probably as perfect and cohesive an arc since Yin’s, and we have Onishi Shinsuke to thank for the superb script. Shinsuke, whoever you are, should that fateful day come where you pick up directorial responsibilities, I shall be waiting and ready to cheer you on. In the meantime, bless your soul.
The calm before the storm, and by storm I mean the next arc which I can’t stop referring to in a veiled manner since it’s so awesome.
But so is this one (in an understated way), and as pictures of Kenji and The Nameless Doll That Could are in scant supply–in fact, they’re not in supply at all–I shall do what Okamura most likely intended to do, and adorn the header of this post with a more familiar couple instead. It’s a story told in parallel anyway, so it’s all good!
Poor, poor, misunderstood Amber.
People do crazy things in the name of love, but you take the cake.
Poor Mina. Admirable attempts at portraying a woman of Indian ethnicity (as the Bindi on her forehead, name, and skin tone will attest to) aside (she looks waaaaaay too Japanese, and by Japanese I mean the general anime-ish look of wide-eyed innocence), she’s one of my favourite characters for being so damn sweet, and one of the more solid one-off characters that exude brevity by their mere presence.
For the record, I have a bone to pick with inexplicably obtuse reviews or statements that utterly miss the point and fail as a result, and as ANN’s take on the third DVD which contains this arc falls into that category, as does digitalboy’s comment about it on Twitter, you could say that I’m also doing this for personal reasons.
Everybody loves Misaki in a Qipao.
C’mon, everybody! Say it with me one more time.
Everybody loves Misaki in a Qipao!
What can I say? I’ve been so tied up with Darker than Black.
*insert your own bondage joke here*
Ah, the first of three arcs that develop the regulars, namely Mao, Yin, and Huang–in that order, each one greater than the last. You’ve certainly got to hand it to BONES for attempting understated development of what is essentially a talking cat, although I wouldn’t exactly call this filler as much as I would the careful laying down of a precedent for a later arc.
Hindsight? What’s that? Is it edible?
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