The Eternally Scarlet Moon

As long as it lives, I can kill it, even if it’s God himself!

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I hope that you are having fun this night, no matter where you might be….Or state that you are in. After all, on a night like this, who can tell the dead from the living? Heeheehee…..

Live life to the fullest. Like Erwin the Cat.

Many thanks to Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri and TOR. You can also find the earlier episodes here

A number of news really raised my spirits the last week.

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Okay, so the news is not exactly new. The details themselves were released last week, and i’m only posting about it now. Talk about lag time. >.<

BUT STILL–! The passing of time has not served to dampen the excitement I felt when I first heard about the news.

More after the jump.

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I’m sure that most of you would have been following Umineko no Naku Koro ni. I was pretty excited about it when I first heard that it was going to be animated, and with a brilliant cast to boot, featuring the likes of Daisuke Ono, Yui Horie and Kugimiya Rie. Having played the sound novel and having thoroughly enjoyed the game, I eagerly anticipated its coming animation.

I however, was disappointed at how the entire thing was done. With so many things going for it, like a strong background story and a great cast, the way Chiaki Kon portrayed the characters just rubs me the wrong way. Far from the headstrong, stubborn but strong young man that he was in the novels, Battler became more like a stubborn, whiny kid in the animation, going around with his hands over his ears and yelling “Lalalala I can’t hear you~~!!!” whenever Beatrice does one of her “magical” murders.

But that’s not the topic for this post. If you have been watching the anime, you would notice that the title of the episodes come from certain moves in chess. The grisly “game” between Battler and Beatrice can, likewise, be modeled after a game. Like, for example, have you noticed how Kinzo always dies in fire? There’s got to be something there. So I shall be looking at how the episode title can related to what’s happening in said episode.

Well then! Lets get right into the heart of things! First up, we have Act 1-I, “Opening”, right after the jump.

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