For now, allow me to be irreverent.

One of the lessons in Yotsuba& is to learn from everything. I’m trying to do just that.

I am currently celebrating the gifts of a four-day weekend: aside from the regular weekend, there are also two consecutive holidays, thus the absence of classes. It has been quite some time since I have been able to enjoy free time such as this: because of the break, I have been able to pick up on my reading and watching anime.

I don’t often exhibit brevity in my posts, but the Maison Ikkoku manga was awesome, even more than its anime counterpart. The transition from friends to true lovers was more visible, and it helped that there was a confirmation of love for both parties. Of course, if you’ve read the manga, you’d know who I was talking about; if you hadn’t, however, you should read it right now. The scenes that were unsuitable for showing in television also helped in moving the plot forward as well as making it more smooth: this is, however, only a highly personal taste of mine. All in all, this work of Rumiko Takahashi was simply a masterpiece.

Even when I was still in high school, there was something in Maison Ikkoku that I found to be highly inviting. I was just a budding anime fan back then; still, there was something inexplicable in that series that drew me to it. I decided back then to download it, but it would have had occupied about 16 GB (the entire thing) of my low-spec desktop computer: I did not have the space, so I kept on postponing on downloading (and consequently watching) it.

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