The ‘greed’ of Grell and bisexuality in anime
Grell Sutcliff, the supposed Burnett butler who unveils his true sexual identity in a brilliant red rush of flamboyance, would probably be considered gay by most. That is, if [...]
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New Game! and the trouble with women in tech
Fresh out of high school, Aoba Suzukaze lands a dream job at the game studio she’s admired since childhood, Eagle Jump. Clearly the studio saw a spark of the exceptional, [...]
Replies to regret: accepting our remorse through anime
We each go through life burdened by our own experiences; carrying our guilt like a sack of chains behind us. It clouds our outlook of the future, and is a murky lens through [...]
Living in the database: the appeal of the unreal
Ever since the Wachowskis repackaged the themes and imagery of Masamune Shirow’s cyberpunk staple Ghost in the Shell for western audiences in 1999, the notion of living in [...]
Stemming social anxiety in Soul Eater
Soul Eater’s vision of Death City, a fictional Nevada metropolis, is as much inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Halloween Town as the dark and whimsical depths [...]
Perfect Blue and the fallacies of fandom
Perfect Blue presents a hallucinatory puzzle box that’s at once a disparaging, Hitchcockian exploration of celebrity culture, a look at fragmented identity and the nature [...]
Fear of children in From the New World
So binary is our design, that in order to quell the innate anger, aggression and violence at the centre of our species, a failsafe was written across the infinite tides of [...]
Bakuon!! and sisterhood as seen through shonen
Not all viewing seasons are created equally; the flurry of excitement surrounding one isn’t necessarily going to carry over to the next. And if we’re being completely [...]
Myriad Colours Phantom World: rejoicing in innocence, discovery and acceptance
I think by now we’ve all scrolled over someone’s disappointed wailings on Myriad Colours Phantom World. Maybe you were even one of those left feeling deflated, because [...]
Growing stronger with Gon and Killua: my return to Hunter x Hunter
Hunter x Hunter is one of those shows that I’ve come back to in the last year, and realised how much I’ve grown since I was watching the ’99 version in 2011. I loved [...]
