I want to preface this entry by clarifying my position on ‘anime blogging’. Personally I see next to zero merit in writing entries about each episode I watch, summarising what happens and adding a crapload of screenshots. I just don’t see the point. If I’ve already seen the episode then I probably don’t need to read a summary of the episode. Conversely, if I haven’t seen the episode then I’m not going to read your summary because I’d prefer to watch it myself. I’d prefer to be getting some actual information - opinions, theories, etc, rather than just reading a picture-ridden summary. I guess this means that I don’t quite align with the rest of the anime ‘blogosphere’ or whatever Web 2.0 term they’ve come up with now. Whatever.
Some time back I wrote a crackbrained entry about the first two arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. I’m actually a bit behind in this now - I have 16 and 17 (the first two episodes of the first ‘answer’ arc) stashed, but haven’t watched them yet. Primarily this is because of a lack of spare time over the past few weeks. My spare time has gone to the two traces you will see below this entry (if you’re looking at this in chronological order), a little bit of anime, and doing my part of Mirror Moon / Revolve’s Tsukihime beta. I’m not going to talk about the beta here though, beyond saying that they’ve done an excellent job, and the release isn’t very far off.
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