The manga Heaven’s Design Team gets itself hyped with the blurb, “Does for zoology what Cells at Work! does for human biology.” I know this for a fact. It says so right on the back cover. Except it doesn’t. A lot of people like Cells at Work! and I’m one of them. It’s a neat […]
Read more "How Not to Start a Story: Heaven’s Design Team"Haruko from FLCL is another character who is really easy to analyze. She’s a Look at Me woman. Boop. That’s it. That doesn’t make her a bad character, or, even worse, a forgettable character. One hundred percent the opposite! Haruko is without question the single most UNforgettable character from the entire FLCL franchise, and the […]
Read more "Character Analysis: Haruko Haruhara"The breakout success of My Dress-up Darling made the Powerz That Be say, “Hey, ya know what? There’s moniez to be made in this Cosplay stuff.” So I submit for your approval, in the manner of Rod Serling, a story about a female cosplayer (who happens, through sheer, raw, naked coincidence (See what I did […]
Read more "Same Stage, Different Show: My Dress-up Darling and 2.5-Dimensional Seduction"Okay, yeah, I know you never heard of Toshiko Tamura. Let me lay down some backbeat here. If you ain’t heard of Osamu Tezuka, you’re probably reading the wrong blog. I mean, he’s the dude Mangajin magazine called “The God of Manga,” because they decided other titles he’s also been given, like “The Father of […]
Read more "Character Analysis: Toshiko Tamura"Yeah, I started spelling it Trope-ical. There’s no point in a pun no one gets. But yeah, there are a lot of tropes in storytelling. That’s not an accident. Tropes are tropes because they work. I’ve said that – tropes are tropes because they work – a few dozen times, and not just in the […]
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Confessions of an Overage otaku 