12 Days of Anime 2018 Day #9: Do You Remember That Promise
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! […]
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12 Days of Anime 2018 #3: NYAH!
READER’S NOTE: This blog post contains some discussion of reading illegal manga scans. Industry folks and comics authors despise those scans, for good reason: artists aren’t compensated when readers solicit […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #2: Pain Split Evenly
High school was a tough time for me. I moved from the Philippines (where I had a small but tight group of friends) to the United States (where I knew […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #1: KISS OF DEATH
Hello, and welcome to 12 Days of Anime 2018! Over the next few days we’ll do our best to write 12 posts about our pop culture experiences of this year, […]
Through the Lens of Female Adolescence in SSSS.Gridman: Rikka Takarada
Who could have thoughtThat this fleeting instantCould be something ILoved so much Fill up the holeIn my heart For all means and purposes, SSSS. Gridman is a Trigger production focusing […]
Mizukami Festival: Planet With and the Eternal Spirit
In preparation for seeing Arcade Fire this weekend, I spent a good couple of days running through to their old albums (We don’t talk about Everything Now!). What originally started as […]
For Those Who Remain Behind; The Third Wheel in Revue Starlight and Revolutionary Girl Utena
One of the most frustrating things about transitionary periods in youth, is coming face to face with inevitable change. It can be as simple as moving from your home to […]
A Splash of Hope; Coming Full Circle in Dive to the Future!
No matter how much your body grows and changes […] but for how long? If I’m a prodigy at ten, and a genius at fifteen, after I hit twenty, I’ll […]
Present Lain, Present Time
I finished watching Serial Experiments Lain a few days ago, just before the 20th anniversary of its premiere on July 6th, 1998. Take a moment to think about how much […]
The Flower That Blooms; “I Love You” in Violet Evergarden.
In the first episode of Violet Evergarden, Violet is visually and verbally presented as a doll. She wears no expression on her face, fumbles for a teacup with her beautiful but […]
