Coffee&Lights

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So that's my outfit for $21.50 so yeah

And oh, for my new readers this is the first 'look' you see of me but for anyone that already knows me and haven't seen me this is my new look (fresh 20s). I was tired of the red / reddish brown I had for 7 months (too much) and I couldn't let my hair to keep growing with that much damage. After 2 years I decided to step on a beauty parlor. What do you think?





Cheers,

はる~

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Y ese fue mi outfit por $21.50 haha

Oh y para mis nuevos lectores este es el primer 'look' que me conocen pero a los que me conocen y no me han visto, les presento mi nuevo look (Los nuevos 20s). Ya no quería ver más el rojo / chocolate rojizo que tenía (7 meses es más que suficiente) y después de 2 años decidí pisar un salón de belleza y cortarme el cabello. Lo tenía muy dañado y no podía seguir creciendo así. ¿Qué tal?





Saludos,

はる~

[ i n s p i r a t i o n ]

Ugly is...
Broken is...
Different is...
The new beautiful.
You're not weird,
the world's standards are too straight.
We are beautiful.
We can be different, we can go crazy.
Yeah, so what if I act perverse, different, or wrong? (It's okay)
So what if I offend those precious eyes of yours? (It's okay)
So what if I'm attracted to unwelcomed love? (It's okay)
Beautiful, me, me, me. Not you. 

Hey everyone!

I wasn't sure about which would be my first topic to talk about after the introduction. I was about to talk about these past two years and my activities but somehow the title "Natsuyuki Rendezvous" came to my mind. I want to share my thoughts and experiences about this anime.

After so long of being absent from almost all of my hobbies I decided to give it a go at anime once again and started to watch 4 at the same time (including Natsuyuki Rendezvous). I'll be honest: when you proceed to read its description/plot it's kinda tricky and it actually makes you wonder if it's worthy to give it a try or if it's something that follows the same and classic line of romance; all the websites I've read give you just a tiny hint of what the anime is about. I wasn't so sure at first but its art seemed so appealing that I thought "this got to have something" and it turned out to be a good soul wash.

If you look at the review card I made, you can find out that this is about a man and a woman that met randomly; he fell instantly for her. He made sure to visit her shop every single day and one of those days he finds an annoucement outside the shop calling for any part-timers, his golden opportunity, and asked for the job. After being hired, for some reason he ended up visiting her house, just above the shop, and learnt that she was a widow. That and the fact that her late husband's spirit lived in the house, watching over her since he died. Of course she doesn't know, she can't even see him but for some reason he can. Along all the episodes you can see the interactions between he, Hazuki, brushing off awkwardness little by little with her, Rokka. And of course, his late husband, Shimao, interfering as much as he wants with this new relationship they're developing.




In every episode you see the evolution of things and scenarios. You see on one side Hazuki's youthful and unbreakable will to follow his heart and win over Rokka's; there's Rokka, who's entering a more mature age,  who lingers in nostalgia and does things as some people say, in automatic pilot; and there's Shimao, a soul that decided to stay in the World after seeing his wife begging over his dead body for him not to go and leave her behind. When you reach the middle of the anime, there's an unexpected turn of things and Hazuki's body is used as a vessel for Shimao to "complete" and tell Rokka all the things he couldn't while he was alive. This is when there's a lot of flashbacks that helps you understand better about the past of these two and a lot of reflections about the future of the other two. You may wonder, if Shimao is using Hazuki's body then where's Hazuki's soul? Well, he's caught up in some kind of "limbo". Multiple places and at the same time nowhere...a world created by Shimao when he was still sick in the hospital.

In this limbo Hazuki starts to understand Shimao's existence, as a living body or as a living soul. Several questions and thoughts popped up on my mind in this stage:



"He's dead. She must aknowledge this fact and let him go. For him to rest in peace, for her to do so too"
"He must've loved her so much to care in life and to care even in death"
"But there is Hazuki too. He's there even though Shimao's there too"
"But since Shimao found a body he can stay with her and do all the things they couldn't due to his weak body..."
"But they're not in equal levels of comparison. He was her husband, he's dead and Hazuki's just a guy she's only started to know, he's alive. It's not fair"
"What are the morals of love? What can you do about it? Who decides what is right or what is wrong?"

Through several imageries and references to Thumbelina, Snow White and other classic stories you travel up and forth in the lives of three people. You connect with their love, their happiness, their pains and sorrows. It's interesting that the anime begins with Hazuki's point of view, then it changes to Rokka's and at last with Shimao. It's also very interesting that at first the anime is very moody and heavy, colors paint ordinary sceneries and then they slowly turn brighter, prettier and everything turns kind of experimental, philosofical and then it gets you.




I'll not say how this ends up. But it's sure something worth to find out watching this anime.

I leave you one trailer:

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Hello and thank you for visiting my blog.

Coffee&Lights is the second blog I own. My first blog was called "Saikou no Sekai" or 'Supreme World', inspired by NoGoD's song with the same name. I decided to drop off that project sealing it as something that was part of my 16-18 year old self. I took a 2 years hiatus and now I'm back with more ideas. I'm in no way  older at heart, I haven't matured at all and my purpose is not to have a serious approach with this space. Not so long ago I heard the phrase "Adolescents don't mature, they simply grow up" and that's exactly the story of my life. To my 20 year-old self I say: thank you for growing this well, for keeping your inner child, for learning continuosly and it's nice you have a wider vision of the world right now.

To my previous readers: thank you for following me up to here. To the new ones: welcome and I hope we connect in various ways.
I'll keep going through random topics but let us say that I'll mark the difference in C&L with the approach I'll give. Instead of a 100% personal approach, let's say it will be a lot more artistic. Also, I'll be writing both in English and Spanish so people around the globe can read me.

Cheers to our new beginning,
はる~
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¡Hola y gracias por visitar mi blog!

Coffee&Lights es el segundo blog que hago. Mi primer blog se llamaba "Saikou no Sekai" o 'Mundo Supremo' inspirado en la canción de NoGoD que posee el mismo nombre. Decidí cerrar mi antiguo proyecto y dejarlo como algo que caracteriza o formó parte de mi persona desde los 16 hasta los 18 años. Me tomé una ausencia de 2 años y ahora estoy de vuelta con más ideas. Tranquilos, mi corazón no ha envejecido, no he madurado para nada y no pretendo darle un aire de seriedad a este espacio. No hace mucho escuché la frase "Los adolescentes no maduran, ellos simplemente crecen" y esa es exactamente la historia de mi vida. A mi persona de 20 años le digo: gracias por haber crecido así de bien, por mantener tu niño interno, por seguir aprendiendo continuamente y me gusta que tengas ahora una visión mucho más amplia del mundo.

A los que me leían anteriormente: gracias por seguirme hasta aquí. A los nuevos: bienvenidos y espero que nos podamos conectar de distintas formas.
Seguiré manteniendo la misma temática random de antes pero digamos que marcaré la diferencia en C&L con el tipo de acercamiento que le de. En vez de ser 100% personal, digamos que será mucho más artístico. También estaré escribiendo en español e inglés para que gente de todas partes del mundo me puedan leer.

Salud por nuestro nuevo comienzo,
はる~