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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The Structure of Moe
Posted by cuchlann on 5 February 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/02/05/the-structure-of-moe/
Adventures in Criticism: Taking Root
Augh. Obviously, if you bothered paying attention to my efforts to engage in the now-traditional “12 moments” project, you know I failed. Mostly I blame my too-busy semester, during which I watched almost no anime. As my professor (who sometimes reads my blogs — hello, if you’re reading this one!) said, it was indeed true [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 26 December 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/12/26/adventures-in-criticism-taking-root/
Multimedia adaptation and the act of consumption: an outline
Like Cuchlann, I find myself mired in schoolwork and related things. It’s Thanksgiving break, yes, but it’s still difficult to blog when I know I should be writing an essay about Darwinian rhetoric in Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, or researching transversal poetics and presentism. But fortunately, my research interests being what [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 24 November 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/11/24/multimedia-adaptation-and-the-act-of-consumption-an-outline/
“Fate:” Owen, IKnight, and Haruki Murakami
I’ve had my say on Fate/stay night, the visual novel that has, evidently, rendered me too jaded to enjoy VNs with a certain abundance of moe proclivities. But what of the sphere? Allow me to examine the reactions (and the general thoughts on visual novels) of bloggers more popular than I am, one F/sn route [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 21 August 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/08/21/fate-owen-iknight-and-haruki-murakami/
A Terrible Darkness addendum: on Lorelei and Love
As the title indicates, this is an addendum of sorts to my last post, which you can find over here: ["A Terrible Darkness"]. At Ghostlightning‘s (sort-of) request, I’m revisiting Shin Mazinger and the Gothic in light of the thirteenth episode, “First Love? The Beautiful Lorelei!”
Posted by cuchlann on 9 July 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/07/09/a-terrible-darkness-addendum-on-lorelei-and-love/
A Terrible Darkness
You should probably expect this from me every once in a while — that is, in this post I am going to trace some of the Gothic tropes in Shin Mazinger Z. The Gothic is sort-of my thing — or it’s becoming so. Seriously, though, it all makes sense. Trust me.
Posted by cuchlann on 28 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/28/a-terrible-darkness/
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