I liked Kino’s Journey even though the main character, Kino their own self, was so … well … neutral is the best way I can describe them, that the series wanders away to other protagonists – Shizu comes to mind – just to keep things moving. But it’s Pride month – GOOD! Whoever you are, […]
Read more "Character Analysis: Kino"I briefly ran out of reading material … no, that’s not quite right. You all know it’s been a rugged time for a lot of us and I got double rugged when my Internet and cable crashed the Friday night of a three-day weekend. Yeah, talk about sensory deprivation. So I jammed some disks in […]
Read more "The Power of Three: Princess Jellyfish"You know what? I think I may have discovered a whole new trope. Okay, let’s start with this fundamental fact: Anime is a medium largely created by Japanese men for Japanese boys. That’s doesn’t stop the rest of us from liking it, and it’s not completely, 100% true. There are some terrific women working in […]
Read more "Oh, So Tropical: The Look-at-Me Woman"I don’t like to work with relatively obscure works since no one’s seen them, and if no one’s seen them no one can tell me how badly I’ve screwed up. And it’s important for me to know I’ve screwed up, because otherwise I’ll never get any better at this stuff. Is From the New World […]
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Confessions of an Overage otaku 