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Only Acting: Performativity, Expectations, and Experience
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about “Only Acting”, the lead single off of British pop trio Kero Kero Bonito’s sophomore album Time ‘n’ Place, one of my…
Delta Sleep – Ghost City // ALBUM REVIEW
While Delta Sleep rarely stray outside conventional math rock aesthetics and conventions, their adept hand at lyrical storytelling, ambitious narrative concepts and clever musical-thematic interpla…
Akko, Yoshinari, and the Journey of the Young Creator
Anyone who has ever tried to create something artistic knows that doing so is as far removed from simple and painless as any task can be and is…
I Am a Product of the Streaming Age
At the beginning of February of this year, I decided that I would henceforth sample all of the new music being released each week for the remainder of…
Scattered Thoughts on Multiple Narrative Perspectives in Scum’s Wish
One of the things that I find most interesting about Scum’s Wish is its structure of having multiple narrative perspectives. In the first couple episodes Hanabi immediately seemed…
Youjo Senki: Parallels and the Mistake of Being X
Youjo Senki’s finale was utterly fantastic. It concluded its story in a way that felt like the creators had accomplished everything they set out to do while still…
Scattered Thoughts on Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
A sentiment I see expressed increasingly often in discussions on “slice-of-life” anime is a general disdain for the tropes and trends that have become commonplace for the genre,…
Brief Blog/Life Update
First off, it’s good to be back to regular posting after that brief period of inactivity! So here’s a few quick updates on what I’m working on right…
ACCA’s GENIUS Details (and Less Genius Generalizations)
It was the cigarette detail and others like in the first few episodes of ACCA that first captured my interest. When Lotta tossed Jean his pack of cigarettes…
Flip Flappers: Magical Girls and Thematic Presentation
Flip Flappers is one of the most well constructed shows in its thematic presentation that I’ve seen recently. Everything about it’s conception and structure are brilliantly designed to…