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Fate/stay night in Review: Symbols and Motifs, Tying the Thematic Threads
If there’s one thing I can comfortably say about Fate/stay night, it’s that it’s been quite a ride. At almost 100 hours, my save file is 100% complete, leaving behind an aftertaste that is surprisingly bittersweet. For a story that...
Fate/stay night Heavens Feel route – a Broken Dream and a Broken Girl
The grand finale of Type-Moon’s 50+ hour epic is not quite what one would expect. Coming after the dramatic battle of ideals in Unlimited Blade Works and the story of the fallen warrior and the king of heroes in Fate, it’s hard to imagin...
Idealism and Heroism: Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works route
What is a hero? A miserable pile of ideals? Wikipedia defines the word as a person who selflessly and courageously faces danger for the sake of a greater good, while it defines superhero as a person who protects the weak and innocent by fighting evil...
On Visual Novel Structure
The time it takes to pick up on the structure of the average VN is more or less equal to the time needed to realize that Key will either make you cry or die trying. Whether it’s in the recurring truths of the anime adaptations, where the Little...
The Dual Perspectives of Saya no Uta
I won’t bother praising Saya no Uta outright: a quick glance at its ratings should tell you a thing or two about the quality of the story, without even factoring in its reputation. My Nitro+ experience is currently limited to this game and the ...
A Thematic Analysis of Honey and Clover
When I was still little…one day, riding the green bike I always used to ride, I thought: “how far can I go without turning back?” Life is like a lot of things; a quick google of the phrase “life is like” is enough to dem...
A Fanboy’s Analysis of Akiyama Mio
I was an otaku before an anime blogger, I played my first visual novel before reading The Animanachronism. I collect things that have pictures of attractive 2D females printed on to them just because I can. The acronym of my blog’s name spells ...
The Tripartite of Gaming: Theories on an Overlooked Medium
Pardon me for going off topic - yes, I have no way of justifying this post and claiming its relevance to anime - but as I shift in and out of the mood to pursue Japanese cartoons with unparalleled amounts of zeal and energy, irrelevant ideas occasion...
Politics, Religion, and Paradise - Speculations on Eden of the East
I’ll admit: there will always be genres that I like more than others, regardless of objective quality. If it isn’t already obvious, I’m the kind of person that likes to dissolve into 13 episodes of rabu-rabu or moe-moe, and if not, ...
Of Hydrangeas And Ashes: Socrates in Love
It’s funny how often the greatest stories are about the simplest of things. Love, after all, is nothing new to the human race. It’s been around since the beginning the time, for as long as we’ve been able to think and feel; whether ...
The Truth Beneath The Surface: Clannad, Key, and the Romantic Fairy Tale
In the beginning, my Clannad pictures only involved Nagisa. Then, it was Nagisa and Tomoya. Now…well, you do the math. It was a year and a half ago that the Clannad anime began airing, introducing to English speaking fans the latest of Key̵...
Moé and the Land of Escapism: The Reality Factor
(Part of the Australia project; I’ll respond when I get back) It’s very, very hard to get a good picture of Rika. It all began while I was rewatching Honey and Clover. It’s a beautiful show, really, and I can guarantee that I’...
Fate/stay night Fate route: Innocence in the Shell
Saber was an interesting young lady. With her knights’ armor coating her body and her brilliant golden hair tied humbly back, she could not be so easily defined by the word “beautiful.” And yet, the instant Shirou set eyes on her, h...
The Spiral: Symbolism, Imagery, and a little Direction for Kara no Kyoukai 5
The spiral is a recurring image in the latest installment of Kinoko Nasu’s Kara no Kyoukai, representing the pathway to Araya’s elusive origin of the universe. Mathematics confuse me, to be frank, and I doubt that Nasu was thinking about ...
Key and the Art of Tragedy
Allusions to manly shooting games aside, I have noticed in my travels through anime and visual novels - particularly the romance-centric ones - that the device of tragedy is very common. Whether in male-targetted visual novels like AIR or more gender...
Clannad - Why I Love It, and why it’s probably more than you think
Clannad: the viusal novel about family. We’ve all at least heard of it, many of us are watching it, and a few of us had the pleasure of playing the original 50+ hours VN. By this point, it’s hard for one to call Clannad cliche, or to accu...
5 Centimeters Per Second Re-Watch: A Bittersweet Analysis of a Bittersweet Tale
Makoto Shinkai’s latest masterpiece was a short film that provoked lengthy discussions - discussions about childhood romance, the definition of love, and the use of melodramatic backdrops and sunlight to heighten the impact of a story. However,...
On Rabu-Rabu [part one]: The Beauty of the Conflict
We all know that I’m a romance fan, right? Well, if you don’t, then now you do - it’s no coincidence that Memories of Eternity isn’t exactly the manliest name around. Being the fan that I am, upon reading anime blogger ghostli...
Remembering School Days - The Nice Boat Anniversary
On this day precisely one year ago, the 18th of September 2007, a legend of anime was born. After 11 episodes of mind-bendingly ridiculous “romance”, drama, and character interactions, after witnessing the actions of quite possibly the wo...
