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[Review/Analysis] Editorial Depictions & Sekaiichi Hatsukoi/Junjou Romantica

Source: Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, Chapter 2 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (and it’s related series Junjou Romantica) has always been an interesting series to me because…

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Junjo Romantica, Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - The World's Greatest First Love

[Analysis] Black Butler & Aestheticism

Source: Chapter 138 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting To be honest, after completing my Master’s thesis on Oscar Wilde and aestheticism, I never thought I’d revisit the concept of aestheticism again…

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Black Butler

Hatsukoi Monster Review

This is review number four hundred and forty nine. This anime is part of the Summer 2016 lineup, and it’s called Hatsukoi Monster or First Love Monster. It’s…

The Pantless Anime Blogger

Feb 5, 2022 • Subscribe

First Love Monster

Review: Hatsukoi Limited

I just watched the twelfth and final episode of Hatsukoi Limited. This is one of the few recent school life love anime that I have been truly satisfied…

Atama Ga Warui

Jul 8, 2009 • Subscribe

Hatsukoi Limited

[Genre Analysis] Mechas & Military Science Fiction Readings

Source: https://www.hulu.com/series/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet-050e1ebb-3727-4ca7-9d49-c5e3443531b8 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting  This maybe does not need to be stated, but just in case...

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[Analysis Overview] Applying Analysis To Entertainment Media: Cultural Studies & Steven Universe

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Universe By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting In 2016, I was asked to create a presentation introducing the idea of Cultural Studies and applying it to a...

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[Analysis] Happy Hearts & Matching Outfits: A Family Unit

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the season of love than by talking about one of…

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Feb 11, 2023 • Subscribe

[Commentary/Analysis] True Gothic Form & Black Butler: Book of Murder

Source: https://kuroshitsuji.fandom.com/wiki/Kuroshitsuji:_Book_of_Murder?file=Book_of_Murder.png In school, I quite liked the gothic novel. I like a lot of old literature, but the gothic is something...

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Black Butler: Book of Murder, Gosick, Rozen Maiden, The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, Black Butler

[Analysis] xxxHolic & Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Spoilers)

Source: https://xxxholic.fandom.com/wiki/XxxHOLiC_The_Movie:_A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream?file=XxxHolic_movie_cover_dvd.jpg By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting “Nothing in this world is a coincidence....

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[Theory & Concept Analysis] Revenge on the Real One: The Heir and The Spare

Source: https://tapas.io/series/revenge-on-the-real-one/info By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The concept of the “heir and the spare” traditionally refers to the practice of having two potential...

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[Concept Review] Necromancy Skills & Dungeon Break Worlds

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Note: This post is less of an analysis/review and more of me just trying to make sense of all the dungeon breaks with Necromancer Main…

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exception, Solo Leveling

AMP Short Reviews (2019)

In today's update, allow me to make a jump to the past and highlight for you some of the short film reviews I wrote from AMP back…

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Godzilla at the Oscars [Editorial]

Forgive me, but I wanted to make a quick celebratory post about Godzilla Minus One winning an Academy Award for the Best Visual Effects. Ya...

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[Review] Kumoricon 2023: Attendee & Presenter Experience (+Panel Links)

By: Peggy Sue Wood Kumoricon 2023 – DraftBy: Peggy Sue Wood TL/DR This is a small-scale event with lots of people. You could purchase a ticket for one day and tour…

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Nov 25, 2023 • Subscribe

HAIKYU!!

It’s 2021’s favorite shojo with male leads – Kieta Hatsukoi (drama review)

Well, no one is surprised I started watching this. It has Meguro Ren from Snow Man, and Michieda Shunsuke from recently debuted Naniwa Danshi? Count me in. On…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Jan 14, 2022 • Subscribe

Interview with Ottermelon & PapaParfum!

Interview with Ottermelon & PapaParfum – The Anime View Podcast Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing with the creative minds behind Ottermelon and PapaParfum. Joining me today are…

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[Editorial] AniFem Fundraiser Update: July 2019

This month: Concept art, color palettes, and early podcast transcripts! The post [Editorial] AniFem Fundraiser Update: July 2019 appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.

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[Editorial] AniFem Fundraiser Update: September 2019

We spent the past month locked in to fundraiser tasks and made significant progress across all fronts. Onwards to the updates! September Accomplishments Perk Fulfillment We’re hard at…

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Takashi Yamazaki is the GOAT [Editorial]

Even though it has been several months since the premiere of Godzilla Minus One , the fallout dust resulting from warm reception of the film...

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Feb 24, 2024 • Subscribe

Editorial/Rant: I'm an elitist dick.

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The Anime Stock Exchange

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[Event Review] Yama-Con 2024: Attendee Experience & Panelist Experience

Source: Yama-Con Anime-Comic Convention, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3543692772510330&set=a.1518001835079444 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting TL/DR: Overall, Yama-Con is a solid convention....

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Casshern Sins Quick Analysis/Review

Casshern Sins is one of those series that is truly in a realm of its own when compared to most other media. It breathes atmosphere unlike almost anything…

The Illusion of Memories

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Casshern Sins

Getting Into Anime & Manga Studies

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting School is starting back up again, and I thought it would be fun to share with you all a short post about getting started…

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Sep 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Happy Hearts & Matching Outfits! #3

Late post! Sorry--this went up on Wordpress but we forgot to schedule it here. By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting It’s that time of the year again when both lonely…

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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love [Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen]

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Nihon Cine Art

Oct 13, 2023 • Subscribe

[Editorial] Stepping out of the Anime Closet

Midday at a coffee shop. Two hours into the most boring transcription on viral uncoating and mechanisms of anti-retroviral drug resistance in HIV (as if it couldn’t be…

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Mar 20, 2018 • Subscribe

Which anime and manga handle depictions of mental illness well?

Which series focuses on a character’s mental health struggles and does it well? Is there a character whose struggles you’ve connected with, even when the depiction is uneven…

Anime Feminist

May 11, 2020 • Subscribe

Dissertation Planning: Analysing Depictions of Disabled Characters in Contemporary Manga

When discussing how contemporary manga both reflects and contributes towards a growing awareness of disability in Japan, you are forced to carefully select what works you refer to…

Bunka Bento

Apr 23, 2022 • Subscribe

[Review & Recommended Watch] A Belated Look At MAL Expo Lite 2022 + MAL Academy Production I.G / Q&A with WIT STUDIO

Source: Screenshot from MAL Expo Stream, Hosted Feb 25, 2022 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting MAL Expo Lite 2022 Review MyAnimeList’s first-ever Expo was a fun experience, consisting of a small...

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These

New to Sunday: Shinta Harekawa's "Momose Akira no hatsukoi hantanchuu."

Here we go, 'tis the season for new Weekly Shonen Sunday  serials, and this round presented us with some goodies from the giddy up. This wri...

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[Analysis] Framing Of Watashi ga Motete Dousunda & Star⇄Crossed’s Extra | Couples: One Works, One Doesn’t

Source: Watashi ga Motete Dousunda, Chapter 60 (Peggy thinks it is Chapter 60, but can’t remember. 🤦🏻‍♀️) By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Watashi ga Motete Dousunda, also known as “Kiss Him,…

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Kiss Him, Not Me

BIG NEWS! Interview with Ottermelon & PapaParfum!

On Saturday, August 3rd, we’ll be posting a new video and blog post of our Interview with the creators behind Ottermelon & PapaParfum, Megan and Mitchel – Come…

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SOS for Love- My Fave Tokusatsu Heroines [Editorial]

Welcome to a companion piece to my Valentine’s Day special post Too Hot to Handle- My Fave Tokusatsu Villainesses . Obviously, this time I a...

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Mar 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Mirai

Editorial: My most anticipated animated films of 2017

We have just entered the seventh year of the 2010s, and so thus far, it has been a pretty flourishing and fruitful era for animated cinema. 2016 was…

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Mar 8, 2017 • Subscribe

[Event Review & Notes] of C3: Comic Creator Conference | 10 January 2020

The Logistical Review: This conference is well worth twice the $25 ticket price. In addition to meeting some of the greatest creators of our generation at the conference, there…

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[Analysis] Mirai

Mirai (未来 の ミ ラ イ Mirai no Mirai, literally “Mirai of the future”) is the fifth feature film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (細 田 守;…

Hana Ga Saita Yo

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Mirai

[Analysis] Happiness

Happiness (ハ ピ ネ ス, Hapinesu) is a manga written and drawn by Shuzo Oshimi (押 見 修造, Oshimi Shūzō, born in 1981), published in Japan between 15…

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[Commentary] Media Literacy & Iizo Zine, Issue 01

Source: Lindsay Eyink – https://www.flickr.com/photos/leyink/6837528156 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting To be honest with you all, I really enjoy zines. If our blog ever gets to the point where our...

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[Commentary] The Fluidity of Water & Genderless Characters

Source: Spirit King Elquines, Chapter 12 – https://page.kakao.com/content/49361421/viewer/49499204 By: Peggy Sue Wood Water and fluidity are often used as metaphors when discussing some nonbinary or...

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Are Specials, Movies, & OVAs Canon? Maybe not

Source: https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Billy?file=Strong_billy.png By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting This is likely going to be a controversial opinion but I am not a big supporter of specials,...

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Godzilla MonsterVerse Movies: Memories from Cinema and Sofa [Editorial]

For a very long time, I was thinking if I should take up discussion on the MonsterVerse movies. Obviously, these are American productions, s...

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Jun 18, 2023 • Subscribe

GYO: Tokyo Fish Attack

[Editorial] AniFem Fundraiser Update and Site Announcement: August 2019

It’s been a busy month all across the AniFem board. We’ve got fundraiser updates and a September Site Announcement, so please read on so you’re up to speed…

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Hatsukoi Limited: They'd Do Anything For Love (But They Won't Do That)

In the 11+ years of doing The Land of Obscusion, I have never once written something for Valentine's Day, at least not intentionally so. A b...

The Land of Obscusion: Home of the Obscure & Forgotten

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Hatsukoi Limited

Kieta Hatsukoi / My Love Mix-Up (Vol. 1) by Hinekure Wataru / Aruko

If you’re in the mood for a very light, cute romance with an actual love triangle (instead of a love-Y), Kieta Hatsukoi / My Love Mix-Up might be…

MangaKast – A PodCast of All Things Manga

Mar 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: Review and Analysis

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, or When the Cicadas Cry, is one of the best horror mystery anime I've watched despite its age (2008). Adapted from the visual…

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May 1, 2019 • Subscribe

[Things Missed] Anime Expo 2023: Attendee & Presenter Experience

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting July 2023 was a difficult time for me. Originally, this was supposed to go up soon after the AX convention, but I missed…

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Jan 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Writing Prompt: What are your thoughts on depictions of Western culture in anime?

Alright, let’s tackle another question that I think is a pretty good one. It’s been on the list for a while, so it’s about time I chose this…

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Mar 25, 2023 • Subscribe

Character Analysis: Frieren

There are some things to like about Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and some things not to like. For instance, after a couple good ideas the plot jumps the…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

Dec 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Character Analysis: Kino

I liked Kino’s Journey even though the main character, Kino their own self, was so … well … neutral is the best way I can describe them, that…

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Jun 28, 2021 • Subscribe

Kino's Journey

Character Analysis: Ritsuko

One of the ways you can tell what the target audience for some media message is is to look at the main character. Right? As a rule one…

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Nov 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Aggretsuko