Days of Anime 2020: Goodbye Clementine
This piece has major spoilers for the PARTIZAN season of Friends at the Table! Don’t miss the best mecha anime of the year (a podcast.) PARTIZAN is my favorite season […]
This piece has major spoilers for the PARTIZAN season of Friends at the Table! Don’t miss the best mecha anime of the year (a podcast.) PARTIZAN is my favorite season […]
2020 has been a big year for webtoons in the English-speaking scene. Just this year we’ve seen three anime co-productions between Webtoon (the branch of Korean search company Naver that […]
One of the best books I read this year was Fire and Hemlock, a children’s fantasy written by Diana Wynne Jones. I spent some time after reading it trying to […]
There are moments you remember watching anime season-by-season. Guillotine Gorilla. The magic of Rolling Girls’s premiere. Waiting in anguish after the tenth episode of Madoka Magica for the series finale, […]
I was afraid of Suspiria. Everything I heard about it made me excited: stark production design, ultra-saturated colors, prog rock, witches terrorizing a school. But while I love horror stories […]
It’s been a so-so year for anime in my book, but a pretty good year for opening and ending credits. This year I did an ongoing thread on Twitter listing […]
When I was in middle school, I placed runner-up in a writing contest sponsored by an environmental organization and won a couple hundred dollars. My parents were nice enough to […]
For many fans of SSSS Gridman, Akane Shinjou (disaster, nerd, vengeful god) is their favorite character in the series, and the true protagonist. I agree with this: Akane is great! […]
Over the past few years, I’ve steadily built up a tolerance for superhero comics. They are hamstrung by their tangled continuity, their narrow focus on appealing to thirty-something hardcore comics […]
Ever since I started playing Breath of the Wild last year, it’s been very difficult for me to get into video games. I’ve tried playing a bit of Deltarune, Persona 5, and other games, […]