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12 Days of Anime Day Seven: Offensive vs. Defensive Meta-ness

March 10, 2015by Josh 5 Comments

As many of you guys are probably aware, I have a long-running love-hate relationship with the idea of meta-ness. And, as you probably can guess, it’s time to revisit that relationship yet […]

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12 Days of Anime, Back of the Envelope, Interpreting Interpretation, Relating Anime to Things

Back of the Envelope: Sometimes I Question our Readership

July 24, 2014by Rebecca 16 Comments

 

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Back of the Envelope: Kill La Kill and “Coming of Age”

March 12, 2014by Josh 3 Comments

For the longest time, I’ve been trying to work out what some of the more symbolic elements in KLK were supposed to symbolize. I mean, more academically-oriented/”high-brow” fans have known about […]

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Back of the Envelope, Kill La Kill, Relating Anime to Things, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Back of the Envelope: Chuunibyou and the Stand Alone Complex

February 18, 2014by Josh 4 Comments

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much in common between Chu2koi Ren and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Or at second glance. While there might not be much in the […]

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Back of the Envelope, Chu2koi, Interpreting Interpretation, Relating Anime to Things

Back of the Envelope: Samurai Flamenco, ENTERTAINMENT, and the Viewer

February 15, 2014by Josh 2 Comments

Samurai Flamenco is a strange show. But it is nothing if not entertaining.

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Back of the Envelope, Relating Anime to Things, Samurai Flamenco

Back of the Envelope: The Infamous Bathroom Scene

October 28, 2013by Josh 11 Comments

Bathrooms (or similar places, like onsens) come up in a ton of anime, so I thought I might as well talk about their possible significance beyond the fact that they’re […]

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Back of the Envelope, Interpreting Interpretation

Back on the Envelope: Kill La Kill Episode 2

October 15, 2013by Josh 6 Comments

Like everyone else cool on the anisphere (look at that peer pressure), I’m watching Kill la Kill  this season. So I thought I’d chip in my two cents on some […]

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Back of the Envelope, Fanboying/Fangirling, Kill La Kill, Relating Anime to Things, Samurai Flamenco

Back of the Envelope: Makoto Shinkai and Weather

September 5, 2013by Josh 4 Comments

Makoto Shinkai is well-known in the anime world for creating visually stunning pieces of art head and shoulders above any of the competition. However, the meaning of his works is […]

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Back of the Envelope, Fanboying/Fangirling, Relating Anime to Things

Back of the Envelope: Anime Jazz

September 4, 2013by Josh 5 Comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz renditions of anime songs recently, and so I got around to thinking about some of the relationships between the two genres.

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Back of the Envelope, Relating Anime to Things

Back of the Envelope: Light Novel Adaptations

July 4, 2013by Josh 7 Comments

Light novel adaptations are interesting things.

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Back of the Envelope, Interpreting Interpretation, Looking Back

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