Juuni Kokki notes (ep.6-13)

Happy Halloween. Not that, um, I haven't been entirely ignoring the holiday or anything. XD The concept is wonderful on paper; in practice I'm one of those people who hate cheesy costumes and orange plastic nearly as much as badly-taken photographs, and have neither the time nor the ability to make a nice costume - though T has an admitted knack for it. I used to like trick o' treating as a kid, but more for the festive village atmosphere than for the cheap sweets, so the idea of just buying a bag of candy and treating myself doesn't interest me.

Thus, instead of doing anything inherently Halloweeny, I went over to Erin's place and we marathoned Juuni Kokki. Up to episode 13 now. Will be watching more tomorrow in fact, as I rented the standard three tapes DVDs, forgetting that Juuni Kokki comes a generous five eps to a disc. ^^; But it covers what seems to be the Kei leg of the story, along with lengthy En digression/flashback and what my narrative radar (sensitized by all that Mirage of Blaze water torture) insists are skipped-over chunks of novel. That sinking feeling, I tell myself, is just the creaking of my overburdened bookshelves... ( Completely personal musings on kirin and fruit flavours ensue. )

Part of the rationale behind marathoning Juuni Kokki, by the way, is that it helps keep my mind off Mirage of Blaze. This is how much I'm pwnz0red by Kuwabara Mizuna at the moment: I'm actively trying not to read 5.5, because I know I have to write the summary of book 5 first or I'll never get it done, and it keeps sucking me back for a few more pages. If your name is Aki, know that afterward they went back to the hotel and IT GOT EVEN WORSE.