Sei Shonagon again, this time with the focus on her actual romance. This definitely was an episode for dialogue, because the two of them loved making quibs to each other and there were a lot of tongues in cheeks this week, along with nice historical details like how hats played such an important role in [...]
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「末の松山 清原元輔／実方と諾子 藤原実方朝臣」 (Suenomatsu Yama Kiyohara no Motosuke/Sanekata to Nagiko Fujiwara Sanekata Choushin) "Mount Suenomatsu Kiyohara no Motosuke/Sanekata and Nagiko The Honorable Fujiwara Sanekata" Love is a force that ebbs and flows like the tide, following the course of nature rather than the desires of those involved.
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One thing that this series has made clear by now: living in history sucks. Especially for women. The women featured in this series were great poets… and yet most they do is sit in a room and wait for their loved ones who are often gone for years. This episode was all about that. To [...]
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Being the history and sappy romance buff I am, I was naturally attracted to this low-key series about famous Japanese poems, specifically the 100 poems that are related to karuta (which features prominently in Chihayafuru). However, I let the show go out of my radar for quite a few weeks thanks to procrastination. Now, after [...]
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After compiling the preview for the next Fall Season, I just realized how special this current season is. Sure, it may not shine in the quantity department, but what really makes it stand apart is the imagination in its premises, compared to next season in which everything sounds surprisingly similar. And among those series, Uta [...]
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「義孝と源保光の娘／高内侍と道隆」 (Yoshitaka to Minamoto Yasumitsu no Musume/Kou Naishi to Michitaka) "Yoshitaka and the Daughter of Minamoto Yasumitsu/Kou Naishi and Michitaka" Uta Koi's second arc brings two new stories to center stage, both linked by the same sense of loose continuity that punctuated the vignettes in the previous arc.
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和歌之恋 超訳百人一首 うた恋い, Chōyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi is an anime based on the manga by Sugita Kei. It’s an anime that mainly explores the 100 poems in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshi, a collection of Japanese poems chosen and compiled by … Continue reading → Related posts: Summer 2010 Anime Preview Fall = Anime = Preview = Good? Pt 1 Anime: What’s for Fall(Autumn)?
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I’m writing this mostly for the benefit of my younger sister. Every season we both select shows we’d like to watch, aiming to cover as many of them between us as possible, but every season we end up picking one of two shows that are the same, Uta Koi is one such show. Now, apparently, [...]
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Okay, which monkey was the one who introduced crack to the writing staff of this series? What on earth did I just watch for the past 20 minutes?! Seriously though, this was just amazing. Uta Koi already was the single most original series of the season, but this episode was just one giant middle finger [...]
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「うた変。＋」 (Uta Hen +) "Eccentric Poems +" Welcome to the host club.
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Chouyaku Hyakuninisshu: Uta Koi (hereafter Utakoi) is an unusual anime in several respects: the primary subject is the Hyakuninisshu, or 100 poems by 100 poets; it has a very distinctive art style, that uses bold lines, and if you look at the screen cap above you will see something very unusual in recent anime, a nose! [...]
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Chouyaku Hyakuninisshu: Uta Koi (hereafter Utakoi) is an unusual anime in several respects: the primary subject is the Hyakuninisshu, or 100 poems by 100 poets; it has a very distinctive art style, that uses bold lines, and if you look at the screen cap above you will see something very unusual in recent anime, a nose! [...]
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Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi. Uta Koi for short. Hmmm…something really bugs me about this series. You see, I have zero knowledge about poetries. If anyone ask me to name someone famous in literature, I probably name William Shakespeare. His name is the only one I know! He’s famous for being famous. Besides, the only time I ever [...]
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Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi. Uta Koi for short. Hmmm…something really bugs me about this series. You see, I have zero knowledge about poetries. If anyone ask me to name someone famous in literature, I probably name William Shakespeare. His name is the only one I know! He’s famous for being famous. Besides, the only time I ever [...]
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From what I’ve seen of Uta Koi so far, I want to dislike it. I want to watch an episode, feel a familiar pit of vitriolic loathing swell in my stomach, and vomit it through my fingers onto the keyboard to truly express in written form why it’s the scum of the earth, and tangentially [...]
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When I first saw the OP of this series, I thought that every episode or half-episode would focus on a different romance story, based on the 100 poems. I did not expect so many recurring characters. This episode in particular introduced no new ones. Beyond that, this was a really unique episode, in that it [...]
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「東下り 小野小町」 (Azumakudari Ono no Komachi) "Eastward - Ono no Komachi" Regrets – there is not one person in the world who does not have them.
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