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Great review of Garden of Words

well thank you my dude
the artist is called Jon Juarez if you would like to check out his other pieces

I do agree that the writing was somewhat inconsistent, but not necessarily in that episode. My problem with the writing stems more from its thematic endeavors. I think that's a big burden that works that go the thematic-oriented route have to assume and reconcile. The wind for example, and some of the other setups that the show introduces but never really goes anywhere with, beyond just shrouding it in more ambiguity. I think that's also fine but even so, there's got to be some grounding factor which I think the show didn't do that well on achieving. Other than that, I think it was great. On the contrary, I thought the expressions were pretty great for many reasons (and just the art style in general). I'll write more about that later. In terms of rating, I don't particularly spend too much time on it. I'm not a super critical person when it comes to anime, so I tend to overlook a lot of details/problems and try to award more for its holistic achievements (given how little innovation there tends to be within this medium nowadays), and Fuujin Monogatari falls in that camp of things that I want to award more than critically dismantle. Though, I generally stray away from evaluating things based on its pieces/parts (in isolation) approach anyways, which is the dominant approach most people on MAL take. It's absolutely absurd to me to do that.

Hey - yes I did recently watch it. I was actually thinking of writing something about it because it's so unique and seems to have faded into obscurity.

Overall, I enjoyed it greatly. I think the visual direction was impeccable and utilized what it could. That was probably my favorite aspect of the series. The story itself was quite interesting since it wasn't bound by any kind of plot or even character, but rather some loosely defined ideas surrounding the element, "wind". The wind manifested as various themes that each episode tackled, but always dealt with some kind of inevitable change and growing accustomed to that change, especially in the lives of the characters. It was interesting to see some of the more mystic elements they added with the village, wind manipulators, and whatnot and the more I ruminate over it, the more interesting it becomes. Ultimately, it's a story about change at a pivotal time and shaping one's worldview, but the way it explores that is genuinely unique. I think it also had its share of problems from a narrative perspective, but those were fairly minimal that I kind of overlooked them.

Clever and timeless masterpieces!

Oh, nice nice, guess I got another post-WW2 Classical composer on my list, heh heh. Thanks for sharing btw, I do want to dig into more classical soon (along with many other genres) so this info share about Olivier is very helpful :)

Yeah, same. :)

Thanks, someone told me to check out some Bossa Nova releases and that was one of the top albums on RateYourMusic, good to know it was since it was a good listen.

Nice to meet you too. EDH is pretty much all I play these days but it's a lot of fun. :P I did get the new Edgar Markov deck and made my own modifications. So far it's really good. I've won more times than I lost. I wanted to get the Atraxa deck too but it got too expensive so I ended up getting the Saskia deck, although recently I broke it down and turned it into a Abzan deck. Ahh I envy you lol. Atraxa is pretty OP.

You're welcome. I'm sure you will. :)