Before I begin this post I would like to issue a formal apology to Asami, who wasn’t in fact evil, as I had previously supposed, (I’m sorry but women as beautiful as her always turn out to be enemy spies or assassins!) it was her father who was actually evil, so I was, you know, close…
Oh wow, this episode actually made me angry! Not because of regurgitated content, the reason I was so displeased with episode 3 but, because Tsubaki’s possessiveness of Urabe and Oka’s insistence Urabe belonged to him really rattled my inner feminist.
So far I’ve gone with the theme of writing about shows/moments in shows which I believe to be important landmarks in my anime watching career in these Remembering Love posts however, this post focuses on a single character that’s helped define this career rather than a single moment, XXXHOLiC’s Yuuko Ichihara. Yuuko is quite possibly my all-time favourite anime character simply because I have never been in as much awe over another person, fictional or otherwise, as I was (and still am really) Yuuko. So of course I had to write about the show which introduced me to her at some point during this project, it’s just my OCD demanded I write about the shows in the order I watched them! Still lacking the time to dedicate myself to anything more than a two-cour show right now, I picked some of the episodes I believe best help illustrate just how amazing Yuuko is. If you’re scared of a little bit of fangirling I suggest you stop reading now!
Wow, that was something else. I had to give it a couple of days between watching the episode and writing this ‘cause the only thought I had after watching it was: arghwysofnshapd, and I figured that wouldn’t make for a particularly insightful post. Sadly, my thoughts haven’t collected themselves into resembling anything a bit more intelligent since then but, couldn’t put off writing this for much longer!
Thought for my second post I’d write about another show that holds some kind of emotional significance for me. It seems to me that there is some kind of taboo in the blogosphere against professing a fondness for any of the ‘Big 3’ but, I’ve never been reluctant to shout from the rooftops my love of Naruto. Whilst Death Note was my first anime, Naruto was the first one I ever truly fell in love with, (if Death Note were Rosaline, Naruto would be Juliet) therefore, eager was I to use this project as an opportunity to sing its praises once more. But, not having the time to re-watch the entire 220 episode long series in one, or even a few weeks I had to resort to selecting but one of my favourite moments. The few episodes I’m about to focus on were one of many reasons I found myself becoming so emotionally invested in the show.
