Timeskips are among my favorite narrative devices in anime. In fact, if I were ever to write an anime myself, I’d definitely have a timeskip in there somewhere. Hell, maybe even two. Timeskips are a [...]
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Time for Cooking With Manaka! Given the way this show has gone, I have a hard time remembering that this is a 2-cour series. It’s really setting up to have a big crisis over the ‘last’ three or four episodes to get to 12 or 13. And maybe we will have that big crisis, and […]
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「知らないぬくもり」 (Shiranai Nukumori) "Unknown Warmth" The scenery porn just gets more and more beautiful every time I come back to this series.
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Lord Uroko calls all of the adults to a secret meeting, sending the kids to the surface until further notice. Hikari and the others decide to do the Ofunehiki on their own. They set to work repairing the Ojoushi-sama and procure a boat from Tsumugu’s Grandpa. Manaka cooks dinner, but when Chisaki and Kaname return […]
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The appearance of saltflake snow on the surface is certainly unusual, but seems like little more than a novelty to most.  Is it, however, portentous in signifying a forthcoming calamity? Meanwhile on that surface, Hikari finds himself privately worrying about his father while publicly stating that he has no interest in returning home - a thought process pushed to the back of his mind by a
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