Last Night’s Dream

 was about an modern-day anime entitled 1929. I can recall nothing of the plot but the look of the show was very striking — black-and-white, and the character designs very deliberately a back-formation from the work of Osamu Tezuka. The flapper heroine moved like old-school rubber-hose animation, but her simplified lines still allowed for little details like a bobbed haircut that was short even by the standards of the period in which the story was set, and an aquiline nose similar to Chiaki Kuriyama’s.

Cue Max Raabe’s Cover of “Oops, I Did It Again”

“I told you he’d be stubborn,” said Lohmann to the driver. Turning back to Hoffmeister, he said: “She’s a Valkyrie, you know.”

1939

Currently listed as #3 in the series “The Bureaucracy of the Otherworld Was Surprisingly Generous When It Came to Transportation,” although chronologically it ought to be second.

I feel pretty powerless at the moment so I keep writing escapist fic.