Currently reading #3

 Title: Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio

 English: Not available 

 Author: Dino Buzzati

Currently reading #2

 

Title: Stars Above

Series: The lunar chronicles (#4.5)

Author: Marissa Meyer 

The tragedy of caring about anything but the main couple in a fantasy-romance. 

In my defence, the magic system was really cool.

I may have possibly overestimated myself when I started writing these stories (yes, plural) in a language that isn't my own. 

Oh well.

 A few years ago I made a mental list of anime from my childhood that I either remember nothing about (apart from the fact that I liked them a lot), or that for some reason I was never able to watch in their entirety. 

Up until now, I managed to complete ten of them. And without doubt, my absolute favourites from the bunch have been Ace wo nerae! and Kaitou Saint Tail.

Opposite genres for two equally enthralling stories. 

Currently reading #1

The book with which I'm starting the new year.

Title: Winter

Series: The lunar chronicles (#4)

Author: Marissa Meyer

**SPOILER ALERT**

I've always loved that Fruits Basket isn't a story that seeks punishment at all costs. That it takes on a path more secluded, of understanding and acceptance, which can be harder to cross but so much more fulfilling in the end. 

And I find myself at loss for words. 

I truly believe that I'll bring this story with me for my entire life and maybe that's all I need to say about it. 

And now that I've finished the anime, a re-reading of the manga is in order.

**SPOILER ALERT**

I'm almost halfway through the final season and since this time around I don't feel the anxiety of rushing to know how everything's going to wrap up, I can revel in the characterisations as well as the overall writing of the story.

Like, for example, the way and time we are introduced to Rin and Kureno, who are pivotal not only in bringing certain characters' arc to their climax (see Yuki's), but also in raising the curtains to the last act of the story (see Kureno's revelation). And talking of Yuki, it was so poignant that his "confession" to Tohru came barely one episode after Kyo's realisation of his feelings, because of the contrast between the two - which would then be explained a short time later, by Yuki himself. 

Also, can we talk about the relationship between Akito and Shigure?

It's so freaking twisted and passionate and consuming, and oh my don't I live for that kind of shit. 

 Trapp Ikka Monogatari (The Trapp Family Story) is a nice anime for children and people who are fans of the musical and want to relive the story in a different format. It has a couple of nice bits taken straight from the movie, without being a replica of it.

Fourty episodes were a bit much, though. 

**SPOILER ALERT**

Fruits Basket - S02E10-11

The wheel's in motion...