Eeeeee, House of Five Leaves! I love it beyond all reasoning, even though the second volume of the manga has been sitting unread on my shelf for several weeks. I love Ono's drawing style and I love how the animators adapted it and I love the colours in the anime and I love the music (except for that ED, which is very what the fuck). I'm not sure if I like Otake as much as I do just because she's awesome (hello, stabbing Yaichi with her jewelry pin) or because I really liked her voice actress.

I actually didn't notice the flashback in the first episode when I first watched it, I just thought 'oh, it's some more characters we'll meet later', and I think that helped me not get impatient with it later on.

Also now I need to go rewatch Samurai Champloo and marvel at everything again. HOW IS THAT SHOW SO AWESOME.