On the 7th Day, Lily Awaited

When you think about someone’s favorite anime, one of the first factors you consider might be bias. Someone’s favorite anime might be Toradora!, and yet you, the reader, run away from romantic comedies like the Apocalypse is actually real and “romcoms” are Satan, or his minions, trying to make your brain melt out of pure, horrifying boredom.

Since our interests might be conflicting, let me attempt to explain the circle of hell that I presently guard. Or, as you’d call it, my taste.

Adulthood Syndrome

“I think… that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.”

― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

Technicolor World

「 What are girls made of? 」

The Spring of Adulthood in the Forest of Firefly Lights

With a simple story that could fit as a one-or-two episode arc in Natsume Yuujinchou, the short movie Hotarubi no Mori e, based on a one-shot story by Natsume author Yuki Midorikawa, may be brief, but carries its message and sentiment across with charm.