Of Swords and Parasols

Cannot stop reading Harlequin Historical Romances. (Mills & Boon Historical Romances to some of you.)

Send help.

(No, seriously, cannot stop. That and making icons is apparently all I want to do.)

Also, I recently rewatched Baccano and watched the first season of Spice and Wolf for the first time.

I remain amazed that i love almost every character in Baccano. Possibly, I should worry about that. I forgot how prone the young men in this series are towards falling in love at first sight (mind you, it works pretty well) and am appalled that I forgot that episode 12 basically starts with Rachel rescuing half the cast members who are on the train. Also, it will never ever get old that the show literally uses whether or not a character likes/rescues Isaac and Miria as the determiner of whether or not we should like a character.

I also didn't figure out until this rewatch that the way immortality works here is that, opposed to just healing or not dying when wounded, no matter what you do to an immortal's body, it will return to the exact state it was in when the person became immortal. Wounds don't heal so much as kind of...forcibly rewind the damage? Even if you get cut up with your body dangling from a speeding train, and the blood (and anything else you lost) just rushes to catch up with you. Though, I do wonder if they can get haircuts. (Actually, I think Huey did?)

Spice and Wolf follows the first two books pretty closely, with a filler arc that flows pretty smoothly and you wouldn't know it was filler unless you knew they threw it in. The anime emphasizes the romantic undertone to Holo and Lawrence's relationship, though I don't think it really adds to or detracts from the series over all. They do dwell a bit on "Look! Nekkid wolfgirl!" a bit much early on, but they also do an excellent job conveying her (deserved) arrogance.