I don’t know. I guess I just wanted to, like, hear someone say it. Even if they didn’t say it directly.
Taking Comfort from Perspectives on Adults in Yofukashi no Uta and Ikoku Nikki
Analytics and Commentaries
Shiboyugi Is Both Everything I Crave in Anime and Nothing I Want
I don’t like death games, but I do like maids. I don’t like rampant killing, but I do like it when people make anime in interesting ways.
Mineral eyes, you know?
Great Escapes: A Fond Look at Makoto Shinkai’s Disaster Film Triology
As sometimes happens on Discord, instead of Twitter, these days, I was talking with some friends about Makoto Shinkai, director of smash-hit Your Name., regular-hit Tenki no Ko, and not-really-a-hit Suzume. It reminded me that I’ve never really set down my thoughts on the three films, nor on Shinkai’s evolution since he made a it big.
And, hey! Suzume released this year (2023) in the states so this is still timely! Right?
Is “Bocchi the Rock!” Mean to Bocchi?
Something I’ve been considering almost since the start of Bocchi the Rock! is the central source of the show’s comedy and how that intersects with a compassionate understanding of mental health. Whenever you have a story that wants to mine a character’s struggles (in whatever form) for laughs, inevitably it raises the question of whether the humor is coming from a place of understanding or cruelty.
And thus, the question: Is Bocchi the Rock! mean to Bocchi?
By Camera, a World: Inhabiting Hyouka
Putting words to that vague idea and (likely) wild claim that Hyouka might the best-directed TV anime of all time.
Your Body is Not Your Own: Darling in the FranXX and Sexual Agency (or the Lack Thereof)
Something I think is very important to get right has been got rather wrong, in my estimation.
The Sobreity of Self-Doubt in the Politics of Concrete Revolutio
The only righteousness which we can truly claim is to understand the fallibility of our own humanity.
Knight’s & Magic and the Value of Transparency in Wish Fulfillment
Knight’s & Magic wants you to want to pilot a giant robot more than you want to pilot a giant robot.
Re:Creators Remembers Love for Magical Girls and Impresses the Hell Out of Me While Doing It
A threshold has been crossed in Re:Creators.
Mage in a Barrel 