Idle Master

  You couldn't live with the current season of anime. Where did that bring you -- back to me. Sup, it's ya boy, again. You know back when the anime ended a year ago, I promised myself that I would wait for a second season before I start the novels. I just had to wait, ya know. After all, that's just how much of a masterpiece the anime is. I wanted to simmer in its afterglow, to boil over the announcements, and steam in its eventual airing. But ya know what, I cracked. I did. 86 ruined anime for me, man. Every show I watch nowadays I only do so with grey-tinted glasses. I'll watch a good show like last season's "Tenten Kakumei" and rather than just bask in the yuri, I'll instead sit in my rocking chair and exhale into the drifty skies, asking: "where are the days?" Where are my symbolism? Where are the inner demons, the garterbelts? Anime just hasn't been the same man, it just hasn't... Alright enough of the silly monologue, you guys k...

At the end of their death march, the Spearheads' have seemingly reached true paradise; They are in a just country, with people who will fight for their safety; They have found a real home, a place where they can finally be of their age; And perhaps most importantly, they remain together -- Free from the Legion terrors that once threatened to tear them apart. However, there is something empty about that "home"; They could never fit in with the common people, nor could they ever stomach the opportunities gifted to them. Instead when Kurena said that she has  "seen everything there is to see",  we are greeted with this flower --  White daisies, the Tanacetum Parthenium. Parthenium meaning 'virgin', while Tanacetum meaning 'immortality' -- Virgin immortality. For the Spearheads, that is incredibly fitting. We've talked about how in the purity of their ideals, they have already transcended death itself. Having Shin carry on their name plates is an...