Anime: Mushishi ep 2

The cat woke me up at 5:30 and I was too awake to go back to sleep, and just lying there with all my worries going through my head wasn't working for me, so I got up and watched episode #2 of Mushishi. This one follows chapter #3, I believe, of the manga - the River of Light episode.

( cut for minor spoiler if you haven't read the manga or seen the episode )

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A second entry immediately after I posted the last one, to spare anyone who doesn't want to read the spoiler in the previous. Give me examples of manga/manhwa/manhua based on fiction or history, plzkthx. :) Loosely based is OK. The ones I can think of offhand are:

CLAMP, RG Veda, the Rg Veda
Kazuya Minekura Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, the Journey to the West
Akira Toriyama, Dragonball, Dragonball Z, ditto
You Higiri, Cantarella, the life of Cesare Borgia
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Rurouni Kenshin, looooooooosely based on the events and personages of the Meiji era
Han Seung Hee and Jeon Jin Seok, One Thousand and One Nights, which is a double whammy being based on the Arabian Nights for the containing story, and gleefully ripping off world literature and history for the stories within the story
Takehiro Inoue, Vagabond, based on a historical novel about the youth of the historical figure Musashi Miyamoto

I'm not really talking light novels turned into manga, like Slayers, instead more of a fanfic approach like One Thousand and One Nights, or taking an older, traditional story and retelling it reasonably accurately (I have no idea how close to the source CLAMP's RG Veda is) approaching it from a different direction, like Saiyuki. (Vagabond is a bit weird, but I'm under the impression it was a classic novel before being adapted, and wasn't written with eventual manga/anime in mind.)

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40 min., 6.8 mi.
Total: 151 mi. Still heading east through the frickin' Chetwood.

Why 40 min today? Because I want to EAT things like CHEESE and SUMMER SAUSAGE and it adds 346 calories to the total. :)

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One of the posters over on bentolunch is making theme bento this week, and the theme is Bleach.

And I, er, accidentally* bid on a Nightmare Before Christmas bento box on eBay the other day. None of you yahoos better outbid me, okay?




* ok, not so accidentally