Recent Posts Tagged With 'editorial'

• Starry Eyes and Rose-Tinted Glasses: Putting the Magic back into Magical Girl

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 21:53 in editorial, clamp, magical girl, cardcaptor sakura, shoujo, mahou shoujo, kobato

  [インマR.] There are many adults in this world who enjoy fiction aimed at children. That isn’t news to anyone, and it shouldn’t need justifying. Be it for the magic and excitement or the hotblooded black-and-white combat, stories that ...

• Robots are in my Blog! 0080 and the Gundam Tradition

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 22:19 in editorial, mecha, mobile suit gundam, real robot, universal century, yoshiyuki tomino, gundam 0080: war in the pocket

  Well, this is quite a turn of events, isn’t it? No matter how diverse or focused a fan’s interests may be, it would be hard to call oneself a dedicated anime fan without exploring the beast known as Gundam. By “beast”, of cou...

• On Setting and Atmosphere

  Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 20:29 in editorial, atmosphere, victorian, yuri, setting, vampire, gothic lolita, milieu, shoujo-ai, tsukuyomi, hazuki, goth-loli

  It can get a little tiring thinking about plot and character all the time, can’t it? The Araragi Theory of Bakemonogatari, the Nasu-ified story of CANAAN, the theme of the value of life (and, well, brotherhood) in FMA: Brotherhood – whil...

• When Subjectivity and Objectivity Clash: Looking Back on Hatsukoi Limited

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 20:38 in editorial, honey and clover, toradora, hatsukoi limited, j.c. staff

  When 99% of the population consumes some form of creative media, we do it from our own perspective. When we think about what we liked or what we didn’t like, our own personal opinions are likely to hold more sway over the quality of the work it...

• The Spiral: Symbolism, Imagery, and a little Direction for Kara no Kyoukai 5

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 21:40 in editorial, analysis, Psychological, yin and yang, shiki, type-moon, kara no kyoukai, ryougi

  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 ...