And now playing..

Nth rerun of Fruits Basket is on TV every day 2030+, I've been watching that when I have the time.. but mostly on the computer, antisocially enough.

Anime series 'Air' seems to be very big here nowadays judging by the insane amount of fanstuff, and I can understand why. It's typical N-way relationship soap opera drama, except it's very well done. Too bad the series is already finished, time to hope for next season. I've so far watched 6 out of 13 episodes and quitting watching seems difficult. Motto of the day: 飛べない翼に意味があるんでしょうか - 'Is there a reason for wings that cannot fly?'。 (and no, nobody really has wings that I've seen so far).

I've gotten into nasty habit of watching anime without subtitles (I understand most of it it seems), as well as reading manga without furigana (likewise, although the occassional dictionary lookup hurts). We shall see where THIS dark path leads ;) Too bad the inhuman working hours, lack of real bread (see previous rant), and excessive amount of people make sure that I'm unlikely to ever stay long here in future either.

Speaking of bread, the Yakitate! Japan was on the other day, there's apparently already 27 episodes of anime that is solely about baking bread. I bought one book of the manga for laughs, haven't yet looked at it (found also 2 books of manga that was about making ramen.. hrr).