For the second in a series of twelve anime things I’ll remember from 2007, I’m going to discuss Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, a film I saw back in July that took me on an emotional journey. It started out with mundaneity, expanded with childlike optimism, and then gradually decayed into gloominess and desperation until it reached an acceptance of life’s unforgiving realities. All of those were projected by a combination of great looking visuals, framing, and voice acting.

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For the first day of my twelve-part series of anime-related things that affected me in 2007, I’m writing about something that I saw as a part of a regular anime club screening involving Lovely Complex.
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Over the next two weeks starting tomorrow the 14th up to Christmas Day, I will posting a daily reflection on a particular event in anime or manga that had a lasting effect on me in the past year. (Look for the tag ‘12daysofchristmas‘.) This effort will be part of the general ABC postings Owen mentioned in his post yesterday. I might include some of the anime I watched into the list but in recent brainstorming sessions, I’ve come up with more things I did than things I saw so I’m proceeding more down that path.
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