Loosely translated, it means “grown-up women’s anime time”. 4 vignettes of 4 females at varying stages of life (based on 4 short stories written by award-wining novelists): Kawamo wo Suberu Kaze (The wind that slides over the river): Noriko, 33, married with a 4-year old son Yuuge (Dinner): Mimi, 29, […]
Ode to Friends It’s true, having friends help widen one’s horizons. Someone proposes a crazy idea, another acts on it and then you find yourself being swept along. Buoyed, raised, pushed beyond your boundaries. It’s really good to have friends. I’d never have run a marathon, if not […]
I’ve been wanting to say this from the very first episode: I’m a big fan of Juuni Taisen. With 1 more episode to go, we’re already down to the winner of this war. The anime has been quite consistent, except for Rabbit’s backstory. But I suppose there’s more […]
After Typhoon Lan, a day of perfect weather The gamble paid off. A day earlier, we queued for over an hour at the Kanazawa JR ticket office because some shinkansen lines were stalled due to Typhoon Lan. We were skeptical that the weather would really be fine like mountain-forecast.com predicted but […]
the last word 