Forum: Older Series
2014-01-23, 10:57
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
My thanks as well. A fascinating video.
I...
My thanks as well. A fascinating video.
I also appreciated the commentator's remarks on physical and mental training. Her point about training oneself to have positive internal thoughts and...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-09-29, 13:15
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
Yes.
My favorite scene was Benten and...
Yes.
My favorite scene was Benten and Yasaburou together at the shrine. Yasaburou's reflections on what he wanted were wonderful and acutely perceptive. We get a happy ending on so many levels...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-09-22, 16:57
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
Yes, I loved the train too. A shout-out to the...
Yes, I loved the train too. A shout-out to the Totoro Caterbus? Or even Night on the Galactic Railroad? Or, less extravagantly, the bus from Harry Potter?
Loved Benten sticking out her tongue at...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-09-05, 12:17
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Replies: 1,619
Views: 423,523
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Forum: Older Series
2013-09-02, 09:00
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
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Forum: Older Series
2013-08-29, 10:47
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
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Forum: Older Series
2013-08-12, 09:19
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
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Forum: Older Series
2013-08-07, 10:36
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Replies: 491
Views: 138,016
Benten is in love with Yasaburo. Her fate is...
Benten is in love with Yasaburo. Her fate is therefore set--both not to have the person she loves (Yasaburo, while also in love with her, seems to shy to do anything about it), and to lose him...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-07-04, 08:41
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
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Forum: Older Series
2013-07-03, 10:32
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
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Forum: Older Series
2013-07-01, 15:09
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Replies: 1,028
Views: 242,450
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-30, 11:48
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
The final title poem is #4. Here is Joshua...
The final title poem is #4. Here is Joshua Mostow's translation:
As I set out on
the beach of Tago, and look,
I see the snow constantly falling
on the high peak of Fuji,
white as mulberry...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-25, 09:12
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
Players have their own personal styles of play...
Players have their own personal styles of play that correspond to their characters. You can see this very simply with the minor characters: Kana groups her cards according to poetic themes, Sudo...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-24, 11:59
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
#66
Let us think of each
other fondly, ...
#66
Let us think of each
other fondly,
O mountain cherries!
for, outside of your blossoms,
there's no one who knows my feelings.
I love the mixture of feelings here, the lonely...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-24, 08:59
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-22, 12:39
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-18, 12:44
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Replies: 1,028
Views: 242,450
Yes. That scene was beyond brilliant. The show...
Yes. That scene was beyond brilliant. The show has a penchant for long slow walks through this ugliest of towns. The effect is overwhelming, powerful. The background music was wonderful too.
I...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-17, 08:12
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
Oh, absolutely. This is one of the principal...
Oh, absolutely. This is one of the principal themes of Chihayafuru, after all--that karuta, childhood dreams, and shared memories bind friends together, beyond the power of distance and time to...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-17, 01:00
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
At the start of the fourth episode, Arata's...
At the start of the fourth episode, Arata's parents worry that he will be estranged by distance from his friends in Tokyo. For his part, Arata is unconcerned: he is sure his friends will not forget...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-16, 00:08
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
If Suetsugu treats Taichi's match briefly, she...
If Suetsugu treats Taichi's match briefly, she may not consider it to be as important as we might suppose. Reaching A class may be a minor step in Taichi's overall story. Also, so far that the match...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-11, 13:52
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Replies: 1,028
Views: 242,450
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Forum: Suisei no Gargantia
2013-06-11, 10:13
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Replies: 183
Views: 45,320
They may have both evolved to become...
They may have both evolved to become symbiotically defined by the other's aggression. In this case war is their life. Peace would be mutual death, and victory, suicide.
They are the bad guys,...
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Forum: Suisei no Gargantia
2013-06-11, 08:51
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Replies: 183
Views: 45,320
Gen is playing on our instinctual responses to...
Gen is playing on our instinctual responses to the Hideauze's appearence: we fear them (what big teeth they have!) and love them (so cute! just like babies! ). Perhaps a logical assessment, free of...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-10, 07:55
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
Chihaya and Shinobu carry on the conversation...
Chihaya and Shinobu carry on the conversation from their first match, where she congratulated Shinobu on her Snowmaru tshirt.
This time there was never a moment Shinobu thought Chihaya might...
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Forum: Older Series
2013-06-09, 12:06
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Replies: 1,560
Views: 396,871
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