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Tag Archives: Neon Genesis Evangelion

Kill La Kill: A Love Story

April 6, 2014by Josh 42 Comments

In the weeks following the Kill La Kill (KLK) finale, I’ve seen a lot of people weighing in on the show. Given it’s popularity, over-the-top theatrics, and symbol-heavy plus textually-dense narrative, this isn’t anything too surprising. […]

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Interpreting Interpretation, Kill La Kill, Looking Back, Rants, Reviews

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

Germanic Influence in Anime

January 4, 2014by Josh 23 Comments

Cultural flows between nations are extremely interesting phenomena. They represent the inter-connectedness of our world and the people who inhabit it while also providing alternate channels for nations to exert […]

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General, Rants, Relating Anime to Things, Soft Power

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

Colloquium: A Defense of Harems. Or…Whatever.

August 3, 2013by Josh 33 Comments

In this next guest post, I teamed up with misfortunedogged from over at Things in the Fridge to defend one of our most beloved anime genres: the harem. While it […]

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General, Guest Posts, Interpreting Interpretation, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, Rants, Relating Anime to Things

Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): A Whirlwind Tour of Kyoto (with random otaku moments) [Part 1]

July 27, 2013by Josh Leave a comment

After finishing up our day in Nara, we grabbed our bags and hopped on the train up to Kyoto for the evening, where we’d be spending the next couple days. […]

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My Summer in Japan

Notes on “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”: Part 3 – Theory of Narrative Consumption

July 9, 2013by Josh 5 Comments

These are a series of notes compiled over time concerning Azuma’s Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, what I think is one of the most insightful books in the absolutely enthralling subfield that is anime(-related) […]

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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): My (not so) Little Bookstore Can’t Be This Cool!

July 2, 2013by Josh 12 Comments

I’ve gotten a little bit behind on chronicling my time here in Japan due to a combination of getting engrossed in research (I forgot about how much time I throw […]

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Fanboying/Fangirling, My Summer in Japan, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Life, Motivation, and Sakurasou (among other things)

November 28, 2012by Josh 6 Comments

Happy post-Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope you all had a good break. I got a nice break from school, and now and getting run over by deadlines. As Douglas Adams used […]

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General, Rants, Sakurasou

Interpreting Interpretation: Part 1

November 21, 2012by Josh 9 Comments

So here’s a brief digression before anything Kara no Kyoukai related, and my second post! Here goes… Interpretation in media and art has always been an interesting question, and especially […]

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Interpreting Interpretation

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