Takiawase nominated instead of Mizumono? The latter would even be a contender in a best-of-the-last-5-years let alone 2013-2014.

thumbs up if your last line was a nod to Perfume

I am not sure about the summation of Bert as a fixture rather than a character, relevant largely as comic relief. Sparingly as he might have been used, Bert was, for me, the most dominant personality on the show, consistently the voice of reason and whose opinion was that to which the other characters always…

I like that the knight is pinned in place by the bishop and at the mercy of the pawn.