File under "you know you watch too much anime when..."

So I'm watching Mirage of Blaze, because sai I mean fable (>_>) is watching it, which reminded me that I should finish the anime. And all I could think in episode 9 was, "Hey, I know where that is! That's Sudou Kyouichi's turf! Hey look, see, it's one way!" _O_ It wasn't even the name that did it, mind you, but the view of the highway. Thank you, Initial D, for leaving me the ability to recognise anonymous stretches of road in a country where I've never been!**

(And of course that poor woman was like "my brother was driving at night and hit the guardrail, and then HIS SOUL GOT EATEN", and I... I'm really lame, aren't I?)

** Well, okay, not so anonymous that the tourism board doesn't have a webpage for it, but still.

Tonight's movie, and Honoo no Mirage

( Mirage of Blaze novel, something of a page-turner, but at least Remiel is in Russia and not available to snerk at me I think )

( Dark Water: vague spoilers )

To wrap it up, reading Mirage of Blaze gave me the perfect vocabulary word to describe Dark Water: ジメジメ。 --Damp, dank, gloomy, morbid. Dank probably comes closest in its connotations.