Note: This article is also available at Ideas Without End here. What started out as a plan for a single article has turned by some process into an informal series blog; I won’t be religiously writing about each episode as I watch the series, but as and when sections of it stand out as interesting [...]
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Respect and Peer Relationships in Episodes 3 and 4 of Eureka Seven
Posted by r042 on 17 May 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/05/17/respect-and-peer-relationships-in-episodes-3-and-4-of-eureka-seven/
The Difference Between Credibility and Realism in Episodes 1 and 2 of “Eureka Seven”
Note: This article is also available at Ideas Without End here With regard to science fiction, I hold that setting should not overshadow plot, and exposition should be limited to the minimum necessary for the story. The 2005-06 series Eureka Seven, in its opening two episodes, effectively creates a sci-fi universe that is entirely believable, populated with [...]
Posted by r042 on 17 May 2012
http://superfani.com/2012/05/17/the-difference-between-credibility-and-realism-in-episodes-1-and-2-of-eureka-seven/
Complex feelings about moral complexity (or, A paean to Paptimus-sama)
I got the idea for this post while reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, but knowledge thereof isn’t required, and I’ll try not to spoil it too badly. Suffice to say that I’ll mostly deal with that Japanese stuff I’m always on about, as it’s full of counterexamples to things Scalzi does that I don’t [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 20 May 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/05/20/complex-feelings-about-moral-complexity-or-a-paean-to-paptimus-sama/
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/
Adventures in Criticism: too many for a number!
Actually, it’s the seventh, but I figure now’s as good a time as any to stop numbering them and just admit they’re a (semi-)regular feature. Woo! Anyhow, this time I’m doing an essay called “Coming to Terms” by Gary K. Wolfe. It’s short, so hopefully I can get this entry done before the scourging weather [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 14 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/14/adventures-in-criticism-too-many-for-a-number/
“By silverfish imperatrix whose incorrupted eye…”
If you’re following at home, you’ll already know that I started Aria: the Animation. And I just finished it. I know there’s a bunch more of it, but I dunno when I’ll finish it — if I learned one thing (and I’d like to think I learned several, but still), it’s that I can’t really [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 6 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/06/by-silverfish-imperatrix-whose-incorrupted-eye/
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