Critic's Agenda

And at last, we came upon the last blog about Kino's Journey. Here we are going to cover the last remaining chapters of this Anime. So, continuing from the previous blog, let's start - Episode 9: Land of Books-Nothing is Written - Plot - Kino and Hermes encounter an escaped man in the desert who gives Kino a book that she can use to exchange when she arrives at the Land of Books, which gathers together all the books in the world. However, they find out that the Department of Reading and Welfare locks away books considered 'harmful' inside the Castle, leaving only the 'harmless' ones out on display to read in the library. The librarian recognizes Kino's book as a being from her boyfriend, who left the country. The librarian is part of the Publication Syndicate - a resistance group that seeks a secret passage into the Castle to rescue their comrades who have been caught by the Department of Reading and Welfare. Stumbling upon a key and a manuscript, Kino cross...

This is the continuation of the previous blog, so without further adieu, let us start - Episode 4: Land of Adults-Natural Right - Plot - When Kino was eleven years old, she never knew her name before meeting the mysterious traveler Kino. While in the Land of Adults, he stayed at her family's inn for a few days. Where he repaired an old motorcycle in the basement, and they name it Hermes. She explained that children on their twelfth birthday undergo an operation to become hardworking adults in the country. Having doubts about the adult operation, he opened her eyes to other possibilities, and the townspeople turned on him. So, he decided to leave. However, when her parents prepared to kill her for challenging their customs the original Kino stepped in front of her to protect her. But in the process, he got killed instead. As her father pulled the knife from the original Kino's lifeless body to kill her, Hermes suggested that she should ride away. After fleeing to a field of crim...

I hope you are all having a great time through October. As Puja vacation already made us aloof with proper enjoyment and a little enchantment of happiness, the morbid times of late corona lit up with the everchanging earth and its power to overcome a dire plague. With times to come, we will accommodate our living style as it fits this post Pandemic situation. So without losing any more time on unnecessary words, I am going straight into the declaration of this month's topic. Early alert for the book enthusiasts as I am not continuing my book reviews this time, so sorry for that. But, it is a happy hour for those who were long anticipating and waiting for my insights. Yes, this time, it is going to be an Anime Review by the critic itself. I know it is a long wait. But it is difficult for me to create one. Remember presenting a good insight always takes a great time and a lot of work. I had to be aware of maintaining the balance between the audience's needs and the quality altoge...

At the end of September, I came again with my blog post. And this time, I have chosen 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov to give my views and understanding of the book. 'Lolita, the light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul. Lolita, the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap at three on the teeth, Lolita.' So those are the opening lines of the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and these lines I think are very representative of what it is like to read this novel. Those lines are considered one of the greatest opening passages in the literary world. And for the good movement of it, it is really beautiful - the construction of the sentences is just really good. However when you remember that Lolita is a twelve-year-old girl and our narrator, the person who is saying these lines is a middle-aged man, it kind of changes the way you interpret life. You have this really beautiful description of love and lust in this very repulsive situation, ...