(Check out my profile for a link to my personal site containing more up-to-date reviews and bonus media!) Originally written on September 11, 2016 7:38 pm EST Three special episodes of A Traveler’s Diary. The first one has Tortov eating a strange fruit and getting high off of his ass as he hallucinates, acting uncharacteristically unrefined with a pretty funny ending. The art style is noticeably different here, with much more saturated colors and a bit of a different face on Tortov. It may be different staff, given the three-year break. The second episode is an instrumental music video that uses appropriate clips from the series in chronologicalorder. It makes a decent recap of the series, but who needs a recap for something that’s only 16 minutes? Just rewatch it. The song is great though and in the style of the rest of the series.

The third is a very surreal short that displays the sudden invasion of giant apples throughout the city. No one knows where they came from or what’s making them suddenly appear. I don’t know why this is associated with A Traveler’s Diary because it has a completely different tone and doesn’t have Tortov anywhere in it. This goes for a mix of the humorously absurd and the inexplicably creepy, and may end up being the most memorable thing of this trio even though it’s so insubstantial in the end.

The music is a discordant off-key string piece that sounds like something out of an underground horror movie. This is an okay set of bonus material, not highly recommended even for Tortov Roddle fans but there’s enough creativity on display here in a short space to admire it a little bit.