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		<title>[Anime/Book] Tatami Galaxy / Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei / 四畳半神話大系</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The hunger, wolfishness and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko&#8217;s novel &#8220;Loups=Garous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/28/the-hunger-wolfishness-and-kyogoku-natsuhikos-loupsgarous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I got my copy of that novel a week ago and just finished reading all 753 pages of it. True to reviews in the Japanese blogosphere, the novel is &#8220;Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Lite,&#8221; which explains why I finished it much faster than I anticipated. Now I just want to write a spoiler-free post of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Manga] Yamakawa Naohito: &#8220;Choukoudou Shujin&#8221; and &#8220;Koohii mou ippai&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/13/manga-yamakawa-naohito-choukoudou-shujin-and-koohii-mou-ippai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choukoudou Shujin [澄江堂主人] News reached me that the manga artist Yamakawa Naohito [山川直人] is launching a new series entitled Choukoudou Shujin [澄江堂主人] on the monthly manga magazine Comic Beam. When I looked at the illustration on the left, my gut reaction was: &#8220;This is just what Chūzenji Akihiko would look like if Yamakawa-sensei were to [...]]]></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 tsukimono (ie. a “spiritual thing that attaches itself to an individual”), which only someone like Chūzenji Akihiko [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Book] Mouryou no Hako / 魍魎の匣</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/10/21/book-mouryou-no-hako/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/10/21/book-mouryou-no-hako/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post is not a plot summary or general book review of Mouryou no Hako, a novel written by Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (京極夏彦), but spoiler discussion assuming prior knowledge of the book. This is also not a review of the anime adaptation by Madhouse either, though it may or may not be useful reference information. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Book] The Summer of Ubume / Ubume no Natsu / 姑獲鳥の夏</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/10/10/book-the-summer-of-ubume-ubume-no-natsu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/10/10/book-the-summer-of-ubume-ubume-no-natsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post is not a plot summary or general book review of The Summer of Ubume, a novel written by Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (京極夏彦), but spoiler discussion assuming prior knowledge of the book. The version I read is the Japanese bunko edition published by Kodansha. There is also a translated English version published recently by Vertical [...]]]></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>[Books] The Hyakkiyagyō series (百鬼夜行シリーズ) by Kyōgoku Natsuhiko (京極夏彦)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/09/13/books-the-hyakkiyagyou-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/09/13/books-the-hyakkiyagyou-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can read Japanese (preferably some archaic Japanese and a lot of difficult kanji at that), and if you are ever in the mood for something like Umberto Eco&#8217;s erudite thrillers with shocking endings like The Name of the Rose and Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum, broad literary canvas of interlocking individual lives captured in a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[妖しい] The creepy and beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/08/17/the-creepy-and-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/08/17/the-creepy-and-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire second quarter at work was crazily busy, but recently I finally got more time to rest and recharge. Some part of my brain was yearning for period drama plus some sort of supernatural detective story (summer is traditionally the season for supernatural thrillers in Japan), so I went down to a bookstore and [...]]]></description>
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