A few months ago I saw an animated GIF on some website. It was a terrified-looking girl in a bunny outfit shooting an AK-47. Clearly it was from some hokey cartoon, and I dismissed it out of hand.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is one of those titles that goes a long way towards validating the often-insipid world of anime blogging and the overwhelmingly-crass world of imageboards like 4chan and iichan. Were it not for sites Blog 好き and the blogs that it chronicles (Anime なの didn’t exist at the time), I would have never given this series a real chance.

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The “Curse Killing Chapter” (Tatarigoroshi-hen) was a bit of a turn away from what I had come to expect from the first two Higurashi no Naku Koro ni plot arcs. Keiichi may well have been a victim of a curse in this version of the story, but he’s most assuredly not the target of a psycho-killer.
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I somehow caught episodes 11 through 13 of Ergo Proxy all in a flurry. Previous concerns that my original suspicions were correct gain ground steadily. I think the term “raison d’être” is used at least 30 times between these and the previous episode.
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