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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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 will [...]]]></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>
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		<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 which Yabu [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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 short [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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 youkai that is like a tsukimono (ie. a “spiritual thing that attaches itself to an individual”), which [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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 any [...]]]></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>
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		<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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