Cats!

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Ao no Exorcist 10! Each new episode keeps upping the cute factor. In this episode Fujimoto's cat familiar learns of his death and goes mad with grief. Rin and Yukio, mostly Rin, help calm him down. Gotta love adorable cat mascot characters.

Karigurashi no Arrietty jmovie! This felt more like a Hayao Miyazaki movie than the one directed by his son. The director, Hiromasa Yanebayashi, did an elegant job creating a film based on the novel by Mary Norton. Arriety and her parents are little people who borrow items from human beings whose home they live in. One day a sickly human boy moves in, and sees Arriety. The setting is brilliant and lush. The anime takes place in Japan, but the atmosphere and background music has an old-world European feel. The highs and lows in the plot are very small bumps compared to other stories. I think this mostly resembles My Neighbor Totoro in that aspect. I hope it gets a good reception here in the US. ~8/10 rating~ There's a big, fat, ugly/cute, disgruntled cat in the movie, too. While glad the Japanese Blu-ray has English subtitles, I can't really jump at the price, $60. I'll wait for Disney's release...unless they decide to remix the song with Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus.