Bokurano: tragedy, connectivity

Good literature, I think, makes us feel our membership in the human race. It engenders within us an empathy and a love for living things that can be hard to come by during the natural course of our everyday lives. That’s no small feat, and it’s one of the reasons I’m so averse to selling [...]

And all the men and women merely players

It’d be a shame if I went through this season without writing something about Aoi Hana. So, here you go. Shame averted! How about those sketchy, pastel, storybook-looking backgrounds? They began to stand out to me during the ninth episode, but seeing a traffic light illustrated in that manner toward the beginning of the tenth [...]

Who is an otaku?

I have not forgotten about pontif.us again. In fact, I redesigned it; see? Marvel at the simplicity! Anyway, I’ve been reading Bakuman — I’ve read all that’s currently available, actually. It is, in a word, good, and it stands out in its self-referentiality in terms of art itself more than fandom. I could talk about [...]