Here's one of the things that struck me as nice about Toradora 'sending:

Many ordinary romantic comedy animes have endings that could immediatelybe followed with 'and then complications ensue' (with 'stay tuned forthe second season' being optional). While the leads have gotten togetherand the show has ended, things have not really concluded .

Toradora's ending is not like this. It stretches events out long enoughafter the climactic events to make it clear that things really areconcluded and that complications

Author recently asked about opinions on Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo (hereafter 'Sora Kake'), withspecial concerns over Moogy's comments calling it the successor to My-Hime since he had had a bad reaction toMy-Hime's thematic changes (to summarize Author's entry very briefly and not very well). So let metake a shot at it, from the perspective of someone who's so far watchednine episodes.

I would summarize Sora Kake as entertaining but fluffy, something thatis

Let us suppose that you are a well meaning driver who wants to help outbicyclists, but you don't bicycle yourself (or at least not anywherewhere you're sharing the road with cars) so you don't have directexperience to draw on. So, what can you do to help?

Paradoxically, one of the best things that you can do to help is tonot do us bicyclists any special favours; to treat bicyclists justas you would any other vehicle (which is what they legally

Someday I will probably put together a 'stalker's guide toChris' page to have all of this sort of information in onespot, but in the mean time here is my Flickr photostream . My major useof it is for Project 365 , which I am onmy second year of.

Disclaimer: contents contain bicycles.

(It has no snazzy name-based URL because, as I may have mentioned,I am bad at coming up with names and Flickr doesn't let you changeyour

In theory, when I started writing WanderingThoughts it was going tobe for anything that I wanted to write about. In practice, it rapidlydeveloped into what I've called a techblog, a blog for writing abouttechnical computer stuff, and no longer felt like an appropriate placeto write about other topics.

(I've admired people who mixed topics in their blogs, and I think ingeneral it's a good thing, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.)

But I

One of the things I've found is that I learn more about my tastes fromthe anime that I strongly dislike than from the anime that I like. Itcan be hard to figure out why I like something, whereas with stuff thatI dislike there's often something in specific that I can point at andsay 'that, I can't stand it'.

(Reviewers are familiar with this; I've read many comments thatit's much harder to do an informative positive review than