its proximity to the manga’s release and kore-eda’s quotes on it seem like it is an adaptation of passion into his chosen medium rather than part of an obligatory media-mix to generate more revenue

i feel i get frustrated by this sort of thing if it’s years after the fact or it jumps straight to live action.

+ look back is a very “manga” work even if it’s not naruto, very invested in its own subculture and it seems impossible to scrub it of that vs other works which manage to seem ashamed

…did manage to sneak in the conclusion to this trilogy though. i love what i’ve read from hobb so far, but this felt distinctly less focused and more circular. still a solid conclusion

what reason could you have for talking about something that recent

i didn’t finish any non fiction this month, but this is where i’d stick that if i had

final entry for May. THE revenge story?

…and also last night finished this. brutal, clinical, dissociative. enjoyed it much more than high-rise

coming to the conclusion that Mishima’s prose is like having waves washing over you, totally subsuming you

reading Dazai always has the power to make me feel as though i’m climbing into his hole with him

brutal, disorienting and unrelenting.

i can definitely see the parallels to kafka people highlight, but to me lacks some of the emergent black comedy in those stories

“who came up with this” as a first reaction to a faithful retelling of a 102 year old film, itself adapting a 127 year old book is mind numbing

gridman sweep