Dear Lord...

xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream is like Spirited Away on both crack and acid, mostly acid though. This definitely falls under the horror genre a bit more than I originally thought.

Animation-wise, there are a lot of CG put in as scenery. The characters are all very lanky like in CLAMP's recent style. I'm not sure if it's just the copy I'm watching, but the enlargement/elongation of hands and certain limbs is really taken to the extreme. There's also a lot of contortions in body and scene. I suppose the effects of this movie do rest mostly on visual distortions. The plot isn't that complicated. Hell, I got most of it on my pretty nonexistent Japanese (yeah, only available as a raw right now). The crossover with the Tsubasa movie at the end was just...lol...

Man, Watanuki, I know you're used to seeing really weird and eerie things, but doesn't that mansion just take the cake? The blind obedience in following those notes and signs is a bit unnerving. The trip to the bathroom was very...special...

Doumeki = robot. I know he's supposed to be outwardly pretty unemotional, but he's downright inhuman with that sort of voice and affliction.

It was very interesting to say the least. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the anime for this one is going to be like.

*headdesk*

Dear China, WTF, mate?!

In other news, today's physiology exam slain me, hard. What I would give to have chapter exams again... Testing 8/9 chapters at once is just too much of a load for me. There's only two exams in this course and the final cumulative final. God/some deity save me...

Hopefully, March will be a better month. For one, there's the Oscars with Jon. Prison Break is also back (omg!thesuspense!). Only one more month to the new xxxHolic anime. And I'll get to know if I get accepted for an internship or not.

BTW, thanks to dm_san, I got my hands on the first 30 minutes of the xxxHolic movie subbed in simplified Chinese. Once again, I voice my frustration with Chinese people encoding in rmvb. Shitty ass format that makes it hard to convert/encode to some more useful format like avi. My question is where is the last half an hour of the movie gone? I may hate simplified but I can read a fair amount of it. I wonder if I should do some translating into English. Dude, Chinese pirates are really just that good. xDD