Hikaru no Go

Ad Mundo Exteriore,

Thanks to tryogeru, I have now watched three episodes of the HikaGo anime. Reactions:

1) Not really well animated, especially when compared to, say, .hack//SIGN or even X TV.
2) Akira's hair is green?! It clashes with his skin color! Nooooo, poor Akira-kun.
3) #R-F is good at karaoke.
4) Their voices! The seiyuu are perfect! Even though Hikaru really sounds like a girl.

You know, it was really funny that they showed Hikaru and Akira staring at each other just as the background music sings out, "It's fantasy!"

Enough of my immaturity. Chesterton quote of the day, from "Homesick at Home":

"One, seeming to be a traveller, came to me and said, 'What is the shortest journey from one place to the same place?'

"The sun was behind his head, so that his face was illegible.

" 'Surely,' I said, 'to stand still.'

" 'That is no journey at all,' he replied. 'The shortest journey from one place to the same place is round the world.' "

Currently taking a break from the complexities of Babel Tower and the utterly inscrutable The Waste Land by reading Diana Wynne Jones. Eliot by the way is incorrigible. Footnotes to his own poem in untranslated foreign languages? Oh dear. No wonder Dr. Miller actually allows us to look at other critical essays this time. I don't even understand the poem on a literal level. Which reminds me that I should look at the cross-referenced chapter of The Golden Bough some time this weekend.

...Tari