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?
Putting words to that vague idea and (likely) wild claim that Hyouka might the best-directed TV anime of all time.
Something I think is very important to get right has been got rather wrong, in my estimation.
The only righteousness which we can truly claim is to understand the fallibility of our own humanity.
Knight’s & Magic wants you to want to pilot a giant robot more than you want to pilot a giant robot.
A threshold has been crossed in Re:Creators.
If going long weeks between posts is what it takes to put out things I can be this proud of, maybe it’s an okay trade-off…
I don’t know how many of you fair readers have seen your name. (Kimi no Na Wa), but it’s the hot ticket right now like… everywhere. I’ve seen it a couple of times in the last month and finally put together all of my thoughts on it for Crunchyroll. The article’s basically spoiler-free, so even if you haven’t seen it you should give it a read!
In which the practice of taking copious numbers of screenshots justifies itself.
Hand Shakers, unlike K, isn’t about cute boys. And that is where it all went wrong.
Mage in a Barrel 