Keeping up with the Jones-家: Sora no Woto 8, Gundam Unicorn 1

School has kept me busy lately — you may have inferred this. My recent Super Fanicom activity amounts to 97% administrative, 2% writerly, and 1% other. And I certainly haven’t had time to keep up with anime in the past week or two. Until yesterday, that is, and during this rare breather I’ll do my [...]

Sora no Woto’s violent apotheosis

Never has a show so thoroughly become exactly what I wanted it to be — which puts Sora no Woto in an interesting position. It didn’t surpass my expectations, which is more usual; I had high expectations to begin with (for whatever reason), and Sora no Woto met them with a vengeance. Is the latter [...]

Avenues for loli-haters: on the Handley thing

Let’s talk about Christopher Handley for a minute. I don’t really want to, as I don’t much care to advertise my views on the matter. But there seems to be, as Anime Almanac’s Scott VonSchilling notes, a bit of an imbalance in popular opinion of the Handley case. Which is fine, of course, but it [...]

Cardcaptor Sakura & Cixous: Together At Last

Hello all!  You’ve likely seen me making a few stray comments here & there on the site, but, well, what follows became too much to put in any comment (& what post could I put it in?).  Pontifus was gracious enough to let me take over…er, I mean, to let me post here.  So today [...]

The Structure of Moe

Or, Whence the Urge to Burn and Protect? I’ve been having odd thoughts lately, mostly when I walk to and from class — but also in the shower (both places from which ideas emerge).  Where does moe come from?  That’s the question underlying our work here today.  I’m not going to quibble about the definitions [...]

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