Live from the snowpocalypse

[starlady]

Gingerbread persons
Decorating the tree
Holiday cards - in process
Two grad school apps

Well, half finished ain't bad.

DTB: Ryuusei no Gemini 09-11
So I was so busy three weeks ago that I had no time to watch 09 and 10 until last...Monday? And I didn't have time to watch 11 until now. Man, this anime is so good. And still so willing to kill characters. I like both of these things.

I have to say, the sequence at Haneda Airport when Hei kidnaps Youko was probably one of the prettiest, best sequences in the anime to date. I think the introduction of clones into the story highlights something that seems to be becoming a theme in these later episodes (though sex is still a theme; witness what's his face, the golemist contractor, making risqué remarks to Suou at the end of 11), which is the importance of identity, and how easy it is to mistake identity. Misaki calls Hei "Li-kun" twice, but doesn't get a response, because she doesn't have the right name; he told her two years ago that Li Suisheng was dead. Suou and Shion's mother calls Suou Shion, because she knows that Suou is dead, though Suou doesn't know it herself; Madam Oreille calls Mao by his full name, though he hasn't been human for nearly a decade, and he rejects the apellation. The Pavlichenko that Hei killed was a clone; people keep calling Suou Shion, and mistaking her for a boy, because she was cloned from Shion. And Hei thinks that Yin is Izanami, though Mao says that Izanami is a different person completely--and that mistake may just get Hei killed, for a murder he didn't commit.

So Madam Oreille's allies have managed to weaponize the anti-contractor device, the CIA is riding in where they're not wanted, and the full moon is rising. Interesting times in Tokyo ahead.