idle thoughts.
Eyes - recovers, even if only a little, the imagined vista of suburban powerlines seen silhouetted against an evening sky - a very 2009 kind of vista correlated to the first season of bakemonogatari. for this it deserves all the credit. all that is good in the LN genre is here - the delicate cultivation of the eventlessness of post-historical suburbs. irrupted into, naturally, by violence - this is where it starts to flag. the irruption is not drawn as delicately as the surface it breaks.
Palingenetic Descension - "Hunger. He remembered feeling hungry, once." - atrocious. the gravitas apportioned to a single word by this singling-out ahead of repetition is unmerited this early; the effect is bathetic and resembles bad YA. far more effective would have been simply to remove it and begin with the second line. there is very little historical sense here on the whole, in form and in content. commit sudoku and try again.
more later