Moment the Fifth: “Aniki?”

Yeah, you know what’s coming. In fact, Cuchlann beat me to the punch with this moment. Perhaps needless to say, if you haven’t seen Gurren-Lagann, and you want to, you should not read on. But if you have seen it, let’s revisit that part again.

The Otouto dialogue: an addendum (or, How to avoid working on those daunting drafts)

Pontifus: I’m telling you, the writing process is a learning experience in itself. Otouto-kun: True. Pontifus: I finally realized that the purpose of critical writing isn’t to share a critic’s knowledge, it’s to teach a critic something and give other critics something to bounce their ideas off of. Remember my whole approach: there is no [...]

The Otouto dialogue: a philosophy of criticism

I’ve been meaning to make a fairly straightforward post about criticism and my thoughts thereupon, as that seems to be a step in the average critical aniblogger’s acquisition of internet tenure. But when an alternative presented itself, I resolved to do something a bit different. What follows is an IM conversation between myself and my [...]