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	<title>Iwa ni Hana &#187; Anime</title>
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		<title>[Anime/Manga] Level E by Togashi Yoshihiro</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/23/animemanga-level-e-by-togashi-yoshihiro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/23/animemanga-level-e-by-togashi-yoshihiro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Level E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Togashi Yoshihiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[レベルE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[冨樫義博]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comments with spoilers in no particular order as usual: 1) There are many shadow statements in Level E.  i) Mankind being seen by aliens of advanced civilization as backward and therefore warrants statutory protection under interstellar law -&#62; Aboriginal peoples being seen by developed countries as backward and therefore warrants statutory protection under national law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mawaru Penguindrum / 輪るピングドラム: Ep 01 &#8211; 06</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/21/mawaru-penguindrum-%e8%bc%aa%e3%82%8b%e3%83%94%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%83%a0-ep-01-06/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, random comment with spoilers in no particular order: 1) Initially, I thought the stars in Himari&#8217;s bedroom were just some kind of decoration for cuteness&#8217;s sake. But what was I thinking? Every fan of Utena ought to know by now that in the world of Ikuni&#8217;s animation, nothing (and I mean nothing) ever appears on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime/Book] Tatami Galaxy / Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei / 四畳半神話大系</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/09/11/animebook-tatami-galaxy-yojouhan-shinwa-taikei-%e5%9b%9b%e7%95%b3%e5%8d%8a%e7%a5%9e%e8%a9%b1%e5%a4%a7%e7%b3%bb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tatami Galaxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the name of Yuasa&#8217;s newest series &#8211; Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei [四畳半神話大系] &#8211; I had a faint suspicion that it may be remotely related to Ganso Tai-yojouhan Tai-monogatari [元祖 大四畳半大物語], a vintage manga from the 1970s which is (likewise) about a young man who lives in a four-and-a-half matted room and who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I remember Kon Satoshi</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/29/i-remember-kon-satoshi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/29/i-remember-kon-satoshi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kon Satoshi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The artist of the &#8220;dangerous and beautiful&#8221; and the demonic force A while ago when news reached me that the manga artist Nakamura Asumiko has stopped working due to reasons of health, I was going to write a post on what I call the &#8220;demonic force&#8221; among artists. You just know that &#8220;demonic force&#8221; when [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>[Anime/Manga] &#8220;Arakawa Under the Bridge&#8221;: the Apollonian man and Venusberg</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/08/arakawa-under-the-bridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/08/arakawa-under-the-bridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Hikaru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinbo Akiyuki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村光]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[新房昭之]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the funniest series I came across since Usavich &#8211; only the comedy is obviously a camouflage for a deeper message about life at large and a prelude to a bittersweet ending. I think I made a new year wish some years ago that Director Shinbo Akiyuki (新房昭之) would make a come-back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recently&#8230; (about blogging in Japanese, Nokemono to Hanayome, and Ai no Kusabi)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/11/recently-about-blogging-nokemono-to-hanayome-and-ai-no-kusabi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/11/recently-about-blogging-nokemono-to-hanayome-and-ai-no-kusabi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ikuhara Kunihiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokemono to Hanayome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ノケモノと花嫁]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[幾原邦彦]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[間の楔]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwanihana.info/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1) In the spirit of trying something new in the new decade, I have decided to also blog in Japanese. The address is here. There are many motives behind this. One of them is that I think it makes more sense to talk in Japanese about books (such as most novels of Kyōgoku Natsuhiko) which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[恠] Bakeneko・Youkai studies・Hagiology</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/03/bakeneko-youkai-studies-hagiography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/03/bakeneko-youkai-studies-hagiography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bakeneko (the cat spirit) in film and anime This is purely a guess. If any one film inspired Nakamura Kenji&#8217;s anime Bakeneko (2006), it must be the B&#38;W film directed by Shindō Kaneto [新藤兼人] dated 1968 and entitled Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko [藪の中の黒猫]. Shindō Kaneto is best known for the film Onibaba (1964), of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>[Anime] Aoi Bungaku Ep 9-10: Hashire Melos / 走れメロス</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/06/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-9-10-hashire-melos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/06/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-9-10-hashire-melos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hashire Melos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mouryou no Hako]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Ryōsuke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村亮介]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[太宰治]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[走れメロス]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[青い文学]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[魍魎の匣]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has any of you seen it yet? It has been ages seen I saw something this mind-blowingly good. Wow, just wow. It is stylishly directed, full of angst and emotional tension &#8211; not to mention the beauty and sadness&#8230; 1) I was initially curious as to how they were going to stretch a story so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If &#8220;Revolutionary Girl Utena&#8221; were a novel of the Hyakkiyagyō series&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/04/if-revolutionary-girl-utena-were-a-novel-of-the-hyakkiyagyo-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/04/if-revolutionary-girl-utena-were-a-novel-of-the-hyakkiyagyo-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just want to do a quick post on a fanciful thought I suddenly had. If Revolutionary Girl Utena were a novel of the Hyakkiyagyō series, I think the whole concept of &#8220;the prince&#8221; would probably be considered a tsukimono (ie. a “spiritual thing that attaches itself to an individual”), which only someone like Chūzenji Akihiko [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime] Aoi Bungaku Ep 5-6: In the Woods Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom / 桜の森の満開の下</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/11/15/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-5-6-in-the-woods-beneath-cherries-in-full-bloom-%e6%a3%ae%e3%81%ae%e6%a1%9c%e3%81%ae%e6%ba%80%e9%96%8b%e3%81%ae%e4%b8%8b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/11/15/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-5-6-in-the-woods-beneath-cherries-in-full-bloom-%e6%a3%ae%e3%81%ae%e6%a1%9c%e3%81%ae%e6%ba%80%e9%96%8b%e3%81%ae%e4%b8%8b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was saying, Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita [桜の森の満開の下] by Sakaguchi Ango [坂口安吾] was my most anticipated storyarc in the anime series Aoi Bungaku produced by Madhouse. I have read the original story and also watched the 1975 film adaptation by Shinoda Masahiro [篠田正浩]. I sometimes think of that story as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World of Things: Oshii Mamoru&#8217;s film &#8220;Innocence&#8221; and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko&#8217;s novels &#8220;Onmoraki no Kizu&#8221; and &#8220;Loups=Garous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/11/14/the-world-of-things-oshii-mamorus-film-innocence-and-kyogoku-natsuhikos-novels-onmoraki-no-kizu-and-loupsgarous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/11/14/the-world-of-things-oshii-mamorus-film-innocence-and-kyogoku-natsuhikos-novels-onmoraki-no-kizu-and-loupsgarous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oshii Mamoru&#8217;s film &#8220;Innocence&#8221; and the world of things One of the most iconic features of Oshii Mamoru&#8217;s film Innocence is a sequence of festival parade lasting approximately 5 minutes. The parade was extravagantly animated with a myriad of ornate details, but at the same time the sequence did not really advance the story in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A word on Madhouse&#8217;s upcoming anime series Aoi Bungaku (青い文学)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/09/24/a-word-on-madhouses-upcoming-anime-series-aoi-bungaku-%e9%9d%92%e3%81%84%e6%96%87%e5%ad%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/09/24/a-word-on-madhouses-upcoming-anime-series-aoi-bungaku-%e9%9d%92%e3%81%84%e6%96%87%e5%ad%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my mind, there is a spectrum of Japanese authors. On one extreme end there are those I understand and admire tremendously and they are the likes of Natsume Soseki (夏目漱石) and Kyougoku Natsuhiko (京極夏彦). And then there are others whose works I unfortunately can never quite understand and cannot bring myself to like, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eden of the East and the hunger for answers</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/07/04/eden-of-the-east-and-the-hunger-for-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/07/04/eden-of-the-east-and-the-hunger-for-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite in spite of its illustrious pedigree with Kenji &#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221; Kamiyama as director, the general impression the 11-episode anime series Eden of the East gave me is that it is like a game of bingo. The story and the marketing are all about hitting certain sets of keywords that you know you [...]]]></description>
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