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November 2015 News

This is the November 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, October 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.

Writings

  • Nothing completed (due to work on researching Craig Wright for Wired)

Media

Books

Fiction:

Nonfiction:

Film/TV

Anime:

  • Hanamonogatari/Tsukimonogatari (disappointments, coming after Second Season. Neither had a particularly compelling story—Hana was interesting but could not support that many episodes and Tsuki’s ending with Tadatsuru was bafflingly idiotic and incompetent an anticlimax with apparently the whole thing being mostly wasted time on developing yet another one of the worst & overused archetypes in anime)

Music

Touhou:

  • “Night Sakura of Dead Spirits” (彩音 〜xi-on〜; Quartet -カルテット- {C88}) [classical]

  • “Desire Drive” (あかみ/彩音 〜xi-on〜; Quartet -カルテット- {C88}) [classical]

  • “敢闘 -little bravery-” (漉餡; 水古譚 -suikotan- {C88}) [orchestral]

  • “蒼月夜 (Instrumental ver)” (漉餡; 水古譚 -suikotan- {C88}) [orchestral]

  • “夕暮れ色のカップ” (夕暮れ色のカップ; 喫茶白玉楼 {C88}) [classical]

Doujin:

  • “City Cycle” (tigerlily; AD:PIANO VIVACE {C88}) [classical/instrumental]

  • “‘Love’” (en;Dolphin Records; 夏と原稿用紙 {C88}) [acoustic]

  • “You again my love” (CYO Style feat. henohenomoheji; CY {201312ya}) [pop]

  • “Shoulda Known Better” (DJ Noriken; HARDCORE SYNDROME 9 {C88}) [hardcore]

Vocaloid:

  • “NEW YEARS[Long Version]” (Miku; ATOLS; ATOLS/MIKU 0 {VM28}) [trance]

  • “YUMEGIWA LAST BOY” (Ia; FLARE; VOCALO COVERS {201312ya}) [electronica/Jpop]