When the dust settles, are you living a life you are happy with?
Reviews & Reflections
The Grand, Insubstantial Importance of a Child: Reflections on Alice and Zoroku
Sometimes, the best thing you can say to a child is: “I love you.”
How Concrete Revolutio Redefines the Meaning of Heroism
Crunchyroll’s #HeroWeek continues on, and so does my series on my favorite hero anime of the last few years. With Gatchaman Crowds already tackled earlier this week, now it’s time for a show that made it into my top 25 all-time favorite anime, Concrete Revolutio!
How Gatchaman Crowds Challenges Our Need For Heroes
It’s #HeroWeek over at Crunchyroll, so I’m pitching in with a couple of essays on my two favorite superhero anime of the last few years—Gatchaman Crowds and Concrete Revolutio. Up first, Kenji Nakamura’s Gatchaman Crowds!
BLAME! and the Faces of Hope
The future may not be so dark after all.
You Must Save Yourself Before You Save the World: Tycho Science Leaves Everyone Else in Diebuster Behind and It’s Not Even Close
In the end, neither the genki girl nor the tsundere can keep up with the super idol mecha pilot.
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale Review
I’m not dead! I’ve just been spending a lot of time writing up some egregiously long posts, one of which is finally out! It’s a review of Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, the SAO movie that finally showed in US theatres last week. I’m rather fond of SAO on the whole, so I enjoyed getting to watch the movie and I’m happy I had a chance to review it for Crunchyroll.
On the Garo Movie and the Nature of Visual “Storytelling”
In which the practice of taking copious numbers of screenshots justifies itself.
Defining Gundam Reconguista in G
We muddle through like children, making our way through paths of war and peace.
Mage in a Barrel 