An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Seasonal Selection – In/Spectre Episode 2 (Late Update)

Apologies for the tardiness of this entry; real life ensued. All is well and future In/Spectre episodes should run closer to their air time.

Here we get the first real “Investigation” of the series, as it’s being presented here – What the Guardian Serpent Heard. By the end of this episode, I feel like you should know if you’re going to like In/Spectre, because while perhaps not as impressive or dramatic as the main plot, the time this episode is spent doing what In/Spectre mostly does for its Manga run: attempt to explain a mystery to the satisfaction of the characters in the scene through a mixture of deduction and hypothesis.

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Seasonal Selection – In/Spectre Episode 1

It’s a new season of anime, so it’s time to go through a new set of seasonal episodes! This time, I’m going to be watching along with In/Spectre (aka Kyokou Suiri). Now, this one… I’m not exactly going in sight unseen. I’m caught up with the manga (through volume 10, which is past anything we can expect to see out of this season), and I know the anime is going to be following that fairly closely since I got to see Episode 1 at last year’s Anime Expo rather than for the first time today.

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