While perusing past Penny Arcade posts, I noticed a brief mention by Tycho of Le Chavalier d'Eon, which reminded me of a recent proverbial cold day.
I'm not an anime fan by any means. I never made it through Akira, and I can't deal with Full Metal Alchemist. So when Michelle returned from the library with the first episodes of d'Eon, I purposely stayed in the room with the intent of briefly looking up from my own business at regular intervals to ridicule absurdity as I am wont to do.
It turns out the thing was freaking awesome. It's historical fiction, based in 18th century France, and places a fantastical twist on characters and events during the pre-Revolution. I convinced Jenny to watch the first episode and it didn't take long till she was hooked too, and together we burned through the series in no time.
It's still anime, bogged down with excessive weirdness, and at the end I still didn't really know what happened. But it was intriguing...
And so, with true diplomacy, we decided to give a chance to other Japantastic shows. That's when Michelle returned again from the library with Paprika...
Well, we watched that -- and while it was artfully beautiful to look at, when the credits rolled, my sentiments were summed up with a well-placed quote from Mr. Greg Blacik's assessment of Vune's Jabberwocky-esque middle school extra credit composition:
"Makes perfect sense to me. 1000 extra credit points."
At least the theme song rules.
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