Isuzu has a conflict with Nemuru as the festival approaches. Impressions: I think this was a good episode for moving things along. I’ve started to warm up to Isuzu with being a bit uncertain about her at the start. Sure she is pretty forward, but you can see some genuine feelings there. When they were alone you [...]
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It's a bit of a risk, but I've decided upon Ookami Kakushi as the second show I plan to write about. Not because there was anything brilliant about the first couple episodes, but because I want to get in on the ground floor for when Ryukishi the rug out from under everyone and turns it into something special.
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It’s weird: Through most of this episode — and the previous episode — I seemed barely interested in what was going on, even outright mocking it, and yet in both episodes there’s this one thread that serves to make me sit up and think a bit more about what is going on. In this episode, [...]
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Ookami Kakushi's second episode opens with Hiro's father relating an old legend about the "Jouga wolves" which are said to reside on Jouga mountain - It's clearly a story which Hiro and his sister have heard many a time before so they pay it little heed, but it's a tale which is clearly going to be of increasing importance as the series continues.Away from all that, Hiro find himself to be as
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Of course, when I first learned about this new series that was going to be written by Ryukishi07, I was very excited. But Nobuhira Takamoto? God, talk about a double-edged sword. Technically, this is an excellent director: he knows his characterization, he’s excellent at building up, his climaxes are always very exciting with the way [...]
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