Category: Anime

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected and Oregairu seems to be far away from lending any fictional insight into the plight of middle-aged men. After all, the anime has its focus in the title: teen. SNAFU explores the difficulties of first love, one of…

Kill la Kill, released in 2013, follows the Hero’s Journey template, as Joseph Campbell outlined in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces with interesting tweaks to the timeless formula. I’ve already written about how Kill la Kill satirized and leverages fan service quite a while ago. I decided to revisit this work after a…

For the past decade or so, moe has dominated. Moe designs seek to create a feeling of attachment with the audience, eliciting desires to protect a character. Moe character designs achieve this through various techniques, chief of which are the eyes. Moe eyes are large and dominate most of a character’s face. Eyes are the…

Anime girls are horny because they are written by men who want to fulfill male fantasies. /EndTopic. See references below. Nah, there’s a lot more to the true answer, but the above statement is also one of the answers. Views on female sexuality has shifted across cultures and time periods. Many researchers view the suppression…

Darling in the Franxx was hyped when it released in 2018. Animated by Trigger and Cloverworks, the anime had a simplistic style the supported moments of intense action. Most of the story focused on the characters as they struggled to survive, understand their purpose, and grow up. As a mecha, Darling in the Franxx leans…