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 [...]
All posts for the month February, 2010
Keeping up with the Jones-家: Sora no Woto 8, Gundam Unicorn 1
Posted by Pontifus on 27 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/27/keeping-up-with-the-jones-%e5%ae%b6-sora-no-woto-8-gundam-unicorn-1/
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 [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 21 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/21/sora-no-wotos-violent-apotheosis/
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 [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 19 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/19/avenues-for-loli-haters-on-the-handley-thing/
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 [...]
Posted by TheKittymeister on 17 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/17/cardcaptor-sakura-cixous-together-at-last/
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 [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 5 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/05/the-structure-of-moe/
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