Dear Ami I would like to
Somehow it's actually more disturbing to learn that I have something very much in common with Shin than to realize that I am, actually, quite partial to traps.
Anime BGMs :: Non-Mio headphone test drive
I'm still learning to get the best out of my recently acquired ATH-ANC7. For starters, turning on noise cancelling for a fuller sound, regardless of background noise, bears out a common theme in the reviews. Also an excuse to post about the medley of favourite anime BGM tracks which I used for the headphone test drive as well as an aural pick-me-up. I have even less musical knowledge compared to dear sweet slothy Yui so corrections and level-ups will be much appreciated.
Ginme no Majo (Masanori Takumi | Claymore)
This background music track always reminds me Galatea's deliciously wicked musing as she walked off into the darkness of the forest towards the end of Ep 11. And also when Riful intervened against Jean's attempt coup de grace against Duff.
The dramatic drum beats right at the start are a great hook, thereafter the strings carried me to the embarking on a new adventure, announced by a triumphant brass section. The stirrings of mystery and conspiracy are heralded by piano keys against a background of bass notes and eerie synthetic animal-like calls. The various sounds come together, moving in and out, building into a crescendo that made such a great background to the above-mentioned scenes.
Saying, saving and falling from grace
Calawain and Crusader at THAT as well as Minnie and Steve of Hey Say Anime as well as Matteas of Anime Raku gave the thumbs up, overall, for Maria+Holic but, like Totali, I was disappointed.
Strikingly the complaints from Rabbit Poets and Baka Raptor are quite similar. From the former: (1) Not enough Mariya. Too much Kanako. (2) Beating a dead horse. And from the latter: (1) Punchline overkill. (2) Kanako isn't a lesbian.
And all THAT, whatsoever ye shall ask in post, blogging, ye shall receive*
So asked Crusader in his Adoration of Kanako IX (Ep 10):
I so want a gif of this scene. Kanako is indeed tall.
The Urticaria of Miyamae Kanako
Between Kabitzin's current tagline 'Tentacles Are Hypoallergenic' and rewatching Mariya pecking Kanako on the cheek (BGM was lovely, no?), I've been thinking about the issue of Kanako's hives. Initially I leaned towards the psychosomatic (rather than psychological) explanation but then dismissed it as overthinking a dumb plot device, like some of the commenters over at Sea Slugs! But I've arrived at the view that pinning down the cause could majorly influence how the series concludes.
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