Posted on July 2, 2025
Detectives These Days Are (driving me) Crazy
I’ve been watching less and less anime as it airs these days – perhaps because I prefer watching things once they’re complete, or maybe it’s because of hype fatigue… whatever the core reason, taste-testing my first show of the summer 2025 season certainly did not fill me with confidence that my viewing habits would change any time soon. if you’ve been round these parts for any amount of time, what piqued my interest about this show should be immediately obvious – a past-his-prime, ex-teen detective, aging out of precociousness while taking on a high school girl as his assistant? sounds like themes I’m interested in as a baseline, certainly, so I was bound to check it out. which, with hindsight, I rather wish I hadn’t! what left me feeling so sour about Detectives These Days Are Crazy? read on to find out!
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Posted on June 30, 2025
old project, new resolve
recently, while digging through the convoluted, gnarled (and frankly, precarious) organizational system I call my computer to find an image to explain some tangent or other, I stumbled on the scattered remains of a project that I started several years ago which never came to fruition. later, while brushing the dust off and checking out what was there, I felt quite fond of the work I had done – so I’ve decided to try my hand at it again! I can’t say when I’ll have anything to show for it – restarting something where you left off before often leaves you with a lot of effort wasted just trying to understand your own shorthand – but I’m hoping to have the beginnings of this new (old) long-form project out sometime soon!!
I’m excited to be working on it again, but I know how foolish posts like this are. so, you can either picture me behind the scenes as quietly diligent, or – in the event that the project comes to nothing again – boisterously overconfident (as below) ;^)
Posted on June 26, 2025
edogawa ranpo covers part 6 – curse of the fiend with twenty (five) poplars
while trawling the web for more edogawa ranpo covers (as I am often known to do), I stumbled on a puzzling cache of detective novels shrouded in mystery – was ranpo among the illustrious authors? were the rip-roaring covers eerie… or eerily familiar? and what will I do when confronted with an actual phantom novel?! read on to find out!
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Posted on June 23, 2025
edogawa ranpo covers part 5 – the edge of kodansha-hunting
as I’ve been looking for various versions of the edogawa ranpo boy detective series, there’s one edition that stood out from the rest – read on to learn more about this hair-raising kodansha selection, their unreal cover illustrations, illusive authorship and perhaps… a connection to kamen rider?!
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