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It’s always a supreme effort to blog Katanagatari somehow, but I knew I simply had to blog this episode, all the way back when I watched it.

The nice thing about Katanagatari is this – even blogging this episode now I’m only one episode late :) Still, it somewhat saddens me that we’ve (probably) passed the halfway mark now. I remember shows that climax at this precise mark and fail to rescale the zenith for the rest of the show. However even if Katanagatari finds itself destined to enter this category, we can nonetheless take comfort in one thing: what a climax it was!

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An interesting trend is in place here. Katanagatari started off somewhat as a counter-fairy-tale. Togame and Shichika have a mission to accomplish, and people need to be fought and killed along the way. And people were fought with and killed, swiftly and cleanly. All adversaries, including ones shown to be insane and hateful, and ones deliberately and deftly portrayed as good and admirable, were put to the equal sword. It was cold and simple, Shichika was the slashing blade necessary to clear the path of obstacles, and the way had been smooth and easy due to his incredible competence. Shichika was a blade perfect from tip to hilt. But things appear to be changing.

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*Gasp* It’s friday! A friday where I have just dealt with a bunch of deadlines, and happen to have no classes! Well there’re a bunch more deadlines impatiently waiting for me in the coming week and I am very much aware that not starting on them right now may very well cost me my life, but – it’s blog now or never! So if after this I am never heard of ever again, remember: I did it for j00!! :)

Yknow, I’d really like this to be on wallpaper, with the petals animated..

Anyway, I had watched – and wanted to blog – this episode for a good long time now. While it doesn’t look like it’ll come up to anything really extraordinary, this show is nonetheless proving to be pretty darn great fun, with it’s neat combination of conversation, personality, swords and romance. Anyway, so here goes nothing. Hope this one doesn’t end up taking as long as my last post on Katanagatari…

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Katanagatari 01 isn’t completely brilliant, but it definitely has me intrigued. In fact I was already half convinced that I want to watch this 5 minutes into the first episode. The obvious thematic elements – swords, martial arts, romance in the medieval orient – already evoked thrilling recollections of the Kenshin OVA I watched so long ago (which definitely deserves a good post one fine day). And while the episode itself didn’t really go anywhere (yet), it already has a good number of colourful, potentially promising groundwork laid out. This could be quite a fun ride!

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