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No Disclaimers Tarot Talk
Announcement: You can find my witchy IG that includes lots of anime and manga tidbits and recommendations on the sidebar. Once you go over there, if you’re interested…
The Fox & The Monk – a Dream Hunters review
Yuko Shimizu’s iilustration for one of the covers of the graphic novel edition. You can find more covers on my new Instagram account, @ren.foxwitchling A humble young monk…
Kyoto Animation’s love towards mentors
Clockwise from top right: Taki Noboru, Sasabe Goro, Takigawa Masaki, Mikhail Makarovich Nitori & Azuma Ryuji Kyoto Animation is known for 4 things: moe character designs, attention to…
Far away worlds
“Do you want to fly through the sky? Isn’t that painful? Do you want to go together? …Hey the world is pretty isn’t it? But there’s something I…
Birds in a buzzling city
It’s the weekend. Time to throw worries out of the window and unwind. To breathe some air and dip the toes in the sea. From point A to…
Family: Shelter & Butchershop
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you.…
December Blues
It’s the season of scars and of wounds in the heartOf feeling the full weight of our burdensIt’s the season of bowing our heads in the windAnd knowing…
BLazed Passion Part5
2013 has been a turning point for great Boys’ Love manga to get published. The fruits of that labour are just recently being collected, since the titles we’re…
The Unbearable Lightness of Preaching About Suicide And Depression
Internal reaction EVERY TIME suicide is explored in anime Suicide is an act that, one way or another, is heavily charged emotionally, to the point that until recently…
BABYLON, Colorful, Death Parade, Shigofumi, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
NetLibrary for Witchlings
Perhaps not the first place to go for proper research, but when your wallet needs a money spell to recover from everyday’s needs, there are some useful digital…
Seeking Answers from Death- a Summer Ghost review
The illustration that brought forth a heartwarming film. From left to right: Ryou, Tomoya, Aoi. Title: Summer Ghost (2021)Duration: 40 minsDirector: laundrawScreenplay: OtsuichiMusic: Akira Kosemur…
Illustrated Witchy Fiction from the Margins- a Power & Magic series review
Witchcraft is about reclaiming power, and those who have been oppressed know it the best. This witch anthology, which is drawn and written by WOC and non-binary folks,…
13 books or so to start your Witchcraft Journey unlike others
Follow me in my journey as a non-theist pagan witchling with what I deem the essential readings to get started.
Imagery from the cracks of my soul
A collection of my writings about my experience with depression and anxiety.
Diving Into The Mysterious- Notes on Children of the Sea
Children of the Sea holds a special place in my heart but as it is relatively niche, it’s rarely discussed. Back in the 2010s, the golden era of…
Women supporting women in the manga of Kaoru Mori and Mari Okazaki
We live in a society, where, especially girls, grow up hating their looks because that’s profitable for capitalism. They turn into insecure individuals in a heteronormative model where…
A different kind of dragons – Tea Dragon series review
Kay O’Neill started her comic artist life with Princess Princess Ever After, a lesbian fairy tale, and then continued on with the Tea Dragon Society that was meant…
The art of Mari Okazaki
There are few mangaka that can capture one’s heart wholly, both with their stories and their stunning artstyle, and Okazaki Mari is definitely one of them for me.…
Girls’ & Boys’ Love Shorts Not to Miss
Each year we get more one cour anime with gay or lesbian characters, with some lovely additions from time to time, like Adachi to Shimamura or Given. But…
From Hibari to Yu and beyond – trans* characters in anime
In the previous post, I made some short mention about gender identity representation, but wanted to dedicate more space. Manga in general have faired better and you can…
The shifting landscape of queer narratives -with a focus in the 2010s
We are well into the 2020s and the global situation is more than ever stressful. Yet in difficult moments it helps to stop and remember where we’ve made…
All My Darling Daughters review
All my darling daughters is a collection of five short stories that weave a complex tapestry exploring the important emotional relationships in women’s lives.Leyla Alert, Editorial Manager, V…
Light & Darkness: Feminist Narratives by Tomoko Yamashita
Left: Ikoku Nikki (Different Country Diary, 2017); Right: Hibari no Asa (Morning of the Lark, 2011) Tomoko Yamashita is the kind of writer who writes what she wants.…
Women confronting each other and the system in Jujutsu Kaisen (episode 17)
Clockwise from top left: Momo, Utahime, Nobara, Mai, Mei Mei, Kasumi, Maki Almost 1/2 of Weekly Shounen Jump readership nowadays is female. This is a fact and it’s…
Glorious Love – Part 6
Some of this niche’s best, two of which are already published in English!
The design of the world in Wonder Egg Priority & the symbolism behind it (ep. 1-6)
Analysis over tea time Wonder Egg Priority has set everyone on an early Easter egg hunt with its mysterious world and the symbolism around every other corner. Cloverworks…
“I can be fine on my own” – a Will I Be Single Forever? review
Available in English digitally by VIZ Valentine’s Day is an open wound for people who unwillingly remain single, reawakening their insecurities and intensifying their craving for romantic hum…
Everyday love in everyday things
The world loves to talk about love and especially in February romantic love is the one topic everyone’s very concerned about, whether they try to make special arrangements…
Words, Touch, Growth & Love
Romantic and sexual relationships have been brought up on this blog in the past, but there’s always something to learn and a lot to remember to put into…
The paths they chose – a Snow White with Red Hair review
That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this…
Coming of age in Asatte no Houkou
Asatte no Houkou, translated as Living for the day after tomorrow in English, is a manga by J-ta Yamada, that was also made into an anime. The anime…
Studying the bug – a DECAdence analysis
Fitting gaming aesthetics in the the opening sequence DECA-dence (2020) is an original anime by Yuzuru Tachikawa, a person who’s not new in the industry but surprised us…
Challenging the social expectations- a Delta of Midsummer review
Everything from how the characters are placed towards each other to who’s in the shadows to what they’re holding is symbolic. With just one image you can decipher…
Growing Into an Adult
IN THIS HOUSE WE RESPECT AND LOVE NANAMIN When I was a teenager, I was looking forward to being an adult, since I was longing for independence and…
Land of the Lustrous, The Promised Neverland, Terror in Resonance, Eden of The East
Oblivion – pausing to take it all in
When you come across something profound to the point of tears, there’s only one thing to do: share. My reviews here stem from this feeling of being in…
Dancing in Music Videos
Music videos started becoming an important part of the music industry with the birth MTV in the 80’s, although their birth was even before the 20’s. There’s no…
My Taste Journey
Itadakimasu! It’s such a wonderful word, really, if you think about it. “I will receive” Japanese utter before they start eating, putting their palms together as in a…
Food & Morality: thoughts on plant-based diets
Both are fish dishes. The difference is that you don’t see the fish as a whole in the first, so it’s easier to distance yourself from the reality…
When men want to cry
Every November you will spot in most English speaking countries a lot of men sporting a moustache. In 2003 a couple of friends in Australia started this trend…
What’s in a foodie?
Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori (available on crunchyroll) There’s more to a foodie than an Instagram account full of carefully curated mouthwatering food pictures selling a lifestyle. Foodies are…
Lessons in teaching
Teaching is the profession that people either talk down as just a content-dumbing babysitter or glorified as the enlightened authority. Of course, as it happens with almost everything,…
Breathing in Demon Slayer
When someone gives you an advice, you might doubt it, dismiss it or just forget to apply it. It certainly depends on the charm and the power this…
The Age of the Calm Evening – a Yokohama kaidashi kikou review
Alpha cradling her precious camera Mangaka: Ashinano HitoshiVolumes: 14Publication: 1994- 2006Awards: Afternoon magazine’s Four Seasons award for debut work  …
Gratitude – a stop on the road
Over a cup of tea, with the nose filled with splendid aroma and the tastebuds tickled, the mind wonders. When the memories start flooding in, nostalgia isn’t the…
Promare: burning for justice and survival
Promare is.. … brilliantly beautiful! … flamboyantly fun! … incredibly intriguing!
BLazed Passion Part 4
When you’re all alone, a bit low and horny, what’s better than reading some Boy’s love with an ounce of peppery playfulness, a pinch of drama and tablespoons…
Gentle pointers from 2D worlds to a happy path
Like colourful candy drops falling from the sky, anime can speak to us in a uniquely unmediated way. The colours, the sound, the movement, the intensity of a…
The sea is the womb of the Universe- a Children of the Sea review
There are times that as fans of a manga we know that its aesthetics and its plot turns and curves aren’t easy to translate into animation- taking in…
Tamayura, Shutter Love and Photography
Photography changes everything. What printing was for the letters, photography became for the visual corpus of the world – in the sciences, in exploration, investigation, the arts and…
Violet Evergarden & the art of writing a letter
Violet Evergarden, the 2018 series, focuses on war trauma, PTSD, and the journey of Violet into becoming functioning in society. This also meant her development into her own…