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Originally Posted by musouka
Which, again, always seems to end in "so, plan on joining us yet?"
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Huh ... I thought it always ended in, "Let's have some more sake."
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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Finally, these two episodes strike me as candidates for the perennial "what is slice-of-life" debate. Overall Five Leaves will probably best be classified as a drama, but it so far spends a lot of time showing us the daily lives of a group of kidnappers. Most of the drama so far has been internal and largely limited to Masa's personal struggles. This style of story-telling seems very uncommon in the West. I'm probably showing my lack of knowledge of literature, but the closest work I can think of in the American canon is Melville's Moby Dick, with its many extended discussions of whaling and the whalers' craft.
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I like the inclusion of Moby Dick on that basis, as I like the "process description" version of slice of life. Others have mentioned Faulkner, but I'm not familiar with his work.