Work, work, anime, work, work

Not a lot to blog about this week…. I’m in Broomfield, Colorado, doing a ton of interesting but completely unblogworthy work; when I get a chance, I’m reading… work-related books; even the evenings have been working sessions….

However, while waiting for some colleagues to join me for dinner, I dived into a video store and picked up a delightful anime DVD, Makoto Shinkai’s “The Place Promised in Our Early Days”. I’d seen the trailer for it on the Anime Network a couple of weeks ago, and was impressed by the luminous colour – somewhere between “Spirited Away” and “Haibane Renmei”. Some critics are calling the director “the new Miyazaki”. I wouldn’t go that far – he loses the pacing a bit in the final third of the film – but it’s visually stunning and really draws you into his strange alternate history. Recommended. (See also this glowing review.)