Skip to content

Confessions of an Overage otaku

Let's talk anime and manga, shall we?

  • Home
  • About

Recent Posts

  • How Not to Start a Story: Heaven’s Design Team
  • Character Analysis: Haruko Haruhara
  • Same Stage, Different Show: My Dress-up Darling and 2.5-Dimensional Seduction
  • Character Analysis: Toshiko Tamura
  • Oh, So Trope-ical: The Sexually Aggressive Gal

Recent Comments

Lynn on Same Stage, Different Show: My…
The Overage Otaku on Same Stage, Different Show: My…
Lynn on Same Stage, Different Show: My…
The Overage Otaku on Character Analysis: Justy Ueki…
Adam Zey on Character Analysis: Justy Ueki…

Archives

  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018

Categories

  • Uncategorized
  • Writing

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Month: October 2022

The Power of Three Plus Two: O Maidens in Your Savage Season

When you’re dealing with characters in writing, I mean seriously, do I have to say this? The more you have, the harder it is to keep them straight. This is especially true in the ensemble comedy, where each of the characters is supposed to carry their own share of the weight. It starts to get […]

Read more "The Power of Three Plus Two: O Maidens in Your Savage Season"

Medium Doesn’t Matter?: Joshi Kausei

There’s something we keep coming back to here, and that is that manga and anime are very different media, and the ways they are different influence the ways they can be used to tell stories. Manga has a lot of text. It can tell slower, deeper stories because there is room, and time, for explanation […]

Read more "Medium Doesn’t Matter?: Joshi Kausei"

Character Analysis: Toph Beifong

There’s a meme making the rounds these days that says – and this is an exact quote – “If a show was released today where a disabled girl dominated 90% of the fights she was in, was never a love interest to anyone, and actually taught the male protagonist 25% of his combat skillset, they’d […]

Read more "Character Analysis: Toph Beifong"

Medium Matters: Welcome to the NHK

In the beginning, there was a novel called Welcome to the NHK. I haven’t read it. Now that it’s a collector’s item you have to pay like $60 for, that’s not happening. On the second day (actually, about a year later) a manga adaptation was created. The gods of anime looked down upon it and […]

Read more "Medium Matters: Welcome to the NHK"

The Power of Three Minus One: Spy X Family

One of the things that gets me about Spy X Family is how layered it is. It operates at so many layers of reality in its fictional world that it’s hard to keep track of them all. I think I’ll try to figure that out one of these days. But today isn’t the day for […]

Read more "The Power of Three Minus One: Spy X Family"
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Confessions of an Overage otaku
    • Join 268 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Confessions of an Overage otaku
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar