Favorite:
Grotesque & Out by Natsuo Kirino
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Manga:
Death Note, Monster, D-Gray Man, Reborn, Naruto, Angel Sanctuary, Chrono Crusade, Godchild, Fairy Cube, Afterschool Nightmare, Fairy Tail, All works by Junji Ito, One Piece, Honey and Clover, High School Debut, Kyo Kara Maoh!
Heroes
"I’ve been consistently undergoing “un-genre-lization” since my debut. Isn’t genre just pressure against your personality and against music? it’s been my mission to take my music in a direction so it feels like it doesn’t have a genre....In the context of "un-genre-lization", "Utada Hikaru" itself has become a genre. But I even want to get away from that."
“I just don’t care. It’s not that I’m in despair, or that I’m lying to myself, or like a young person going “I don’t care if I die tomorrow!,” really, I don’t care if I live until 100, I don’t really care if I’m in an accident tomorrow and I lose my legs. Tomorrow, if I lost my eyesight, I wouldn’t be like “Why me?!” I would be “Oh, I see, I can’t read books anymore,” probably just something like that. Even in the world…the energy for the mass media and those who are interested in what’s going on in the world is that they want to see what they find embarrassing, they want to know what they don’t want known, they want to see someone they don’t like getting their pride damaged.”
"Your mouth is a very important part in connecting to the world, isn’t it? Breathing and talking and eating and stuff like that. Also, that’s where your voice comes from…..So, when I’m truly singing, it’s like what I said earlier about “being right in the middle and wanting to connect to everything around me.” You’re connected to everyone so you’re suspended in the air, or like a floating feeling. You completely lose all sense of reality. It feels like you’re flying and really feels good."
-Utada Hikaru
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn/Koizumi Yakumo, for breaking my rules
"A director once referred to film as a form of collective dreaming shared with strangers. Using that analogy, horror films are nightmares. Nightmares shared with strangers. And when the film is over, everyone awakens from the nightmare together. " -Hideo Nakata