An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Seasonal Selection – In/Spectre Episode 8

I love In/Spectre. I really do. The manga does an excellent job of blending detective-style mystery with urban fantasy and giving it a unique twist with Iwanaga’s ultimate disregard for the truth and disinterest in judgment, how she instead seeks solutions or uses the truth for her own ends. But every week this show just reinforces my thought that it shouldn’t have made the transition from text and still images on a page to a medium that has an unavoidable element of time.

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