You Must Obtain the Answers to the Riddle of the Penguindrum!

Listen up you lowlives that will never amount to anything! Today is the day that the penultimate episode of Mawaru Penguindrum is released to your undeserving eyes. With so many twists and turns in this series we are curious what your puny minds incorrectly assume will happen in the final episode. Give us your mongrel howling in the comments below and we shall see exactly how incorrect you are next week. And just because some of you are foolish fools who foolishly fool themselves into ignoring how foolish you really are remember that there will most probably be spoilers in the comments below. Now go forth and obtain the answers to the riddle of the Penguindrum!

Petite Fille Japonaise Contre La France

When I was watching Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth I started playing a little game where I would give my own title to the episodes. In fact I began to look forward to watching the episodes so to see what my own unique sobriquet for the episode would be. I figured I would gather them all in one post for anyone who cared. The actual name of the episode is in parenthesis next to my far better names.

Episode 1: Little Japanese Girl vs. French (Entrance)

Episode 2: Little Japanese Girl vs. Cheese (Cheese)

Episode 3: Little Japanese Girl vs. The Rain (Japanese Labyrinth)

Episode 4: Little Japanese Girl vs. A Weeaboo (Water Light)

Episode 5: Little Japanese Girl vs. Cynicism (Lost)

Episode 6: Little Japanese Girl vs. Fashion (Crinoline)

Episode 7: Little Japanese Girl vs. A Cold (Skylight)

Episode 8: Little Japanese Girl vs. Childhood Memories (A Child’s Room)

Episode 9: Little Japanese Girl vs. Social Stratification (Secrets)

Episode 10: Little Japanese Girl vs. The Origins of Animation (Phantasmagoria)

Episode 11: Little Japanese Girl vs. A Cruel God (A Prayer)

Episode 12: Little Japanese Girl vs. Loss (Cat on the Roof)

Hisui Dream Diary #1

I don’t regularly remember my dreams or keep any sort of dream journal but I have learned the trick to remembering your dreams is  to repeat what happens in the dream to yourself out loud as soon as you wake up. It commits the dream to a longer term part of memory. And so I do not know how often I will be able to write posts like this but I consider this part one of an irregularly updated ongoing series. It is all dependent on when I remember dreams that are worth talking about on the blog. Continue reading