Not actually a review of Baccano!, episodes 1-13.

The series basically ends here, but there are three more episodes; I will watch them later.

I consider it possible that the story was originally Nero Wolfe fanfic that got distracted in the process of explaining why Wolfe and Archie are apparently immortal. Unless the last three episodes disabuse me of the notion, I'm going to assume that the process had something to do with the undeniable fact that Vino hired Wolfe to find Chane for him.

Considering the tone of the rest of the show, Czeslaw's Kaori Yuki-colored backstory was a little startling.

I have not read all the annoying epic fantasy series.

I'm trying to educate myself culturally. What are the classic annoying fantasy series that I need to have read, as a nerd?

Notice that I'm talking about annoying fantasy series - like, stuff where every single book has the same plot, or the cast of characters grows by six or seven people every book and every book gets longer because they all need to have stuff to do, or the last eight books have pretty much just been about the author's hat bondage fetish, or whatever.

I have read Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books and Raymond Feist's Magician books.