Okay, not really medium, since there are two Fruits Basket anime, and anime is just one medium. But there ARE two Fruits Basket anime and you don’t have to look at either of them for very long to see that the two anime have chosen to tell the same story in two different ways. Okay, […]
Read more "Medium Matters: Fruits Basket"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"You know what Wonder Egg Priority reminded me of? Interviews with Monster Girls. Let me tell you why. The deal with the demi-human girls of Interviews is that while they are explicitly monsters, deep down they actually represent common high school stereotypes: The girl with ADD, the girl who gets her boobs first, the girls […]
Read more "How to Cook a Series: Wonder Egg Priority"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"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"I’m a writer so I can say this: There are a lot of gimmicks writers use to keep the story moving. For instance, the great crime writer Raymond Chandler said, “When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.” Sure. Why not? I wrote a whole story with […]
Read more "Oh, So Tropical: The Convenient Stomach Rumble"Isn’t Kotaro Lives Alone so cute you just can’t stand it? That brave little boy, living alone, living up the ideals of the noble knight, making all the people around him better because of his faith in them, is an almost perfect hero. Of course, it all revolves around Kotaro, and Kotaro is a character […]
Read more "How to Cook a Series: Kotaro Lives Alone"What is it with Japanese anime boys and kinky fetishes? First we get Yamazaki from Welcome to the NHK, who prefers his women 2-D, and now there’s Kuruya from Sankarea who gets off on zombie girls. Maybe it’s like a defense mechanism. You know, “I’ll never get a real babe so I’ll lust for a […]
Read more "Medium Matters: Sankarea, Undying Love"Okay, it shouldn’t be news to anyone that there’s a live action Cowboy Bebop series on Netflix. Everyone has an opinion on the matter and the opinions are certainly mixed. Me, I kinda liked it, although the anime is better BUT … watch my lips now … That’s not what I do. I’m an analyst, […]
Read more "Medium Matters: Cowboy Bebop I"I don’t talk enough about Samurai Champloo. I guess that’s because it’s Shinichiro Watanabe’s second series, and let’s be honest: Once you’ve made Cowboy Bebop there’s only one way your career can go. Which not to say that Watanabe’s a disappointment or anything remotely like that. He’s a brilliant anime director with a tremendous sense […]
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Confessions of an Overage otaku 