Does the Gender Matter in Correlation to the Plot?: The Case of Isekai/Virtual World Protagonists

Now that the drama from the winter 2020 first episodes is over, let's talk about them. This is inspired by Karandi's post on whether Bofuri would work if Maple wasn't a cute high school girl. I mentioned in the comments of that post that sometimes the gender matters, such as CGDCT (because it's in the...

Magical Girls, Media and Maturation [OWLS Feb. ’20 Blog Tour]

Various magical girl series play with the concept of “magical girls passing on their duties”. This is Aria of the Spellbook, as you guys probably know by now…then again, you never know when a new reader will come along, which is why I have to keep finding new ways to introduce myself on my blog....

Fate/Stay Winter: More Questions Than Answers

Synopsis F/SN UBW 10 - 15: More of the mystery behind Archer unfolds as Rin and Shiro get closer to each other. Is Shiro some alternate universe Archer or vice versa? Well, only the people who've finished this anime would know...and I'm not one of them. (Not at this stage of the project, anyway.) Impressions...

Fate/Stay Winter: Halved Again

Yup...sorry, this is what happens when I make a sincere effort to get out of the situation that caused me to postpone this project in the first place. Update So I'm out of the program and for the next month or so, I'll be under the pump because I have to wrestle with the consequences...

It’s the Little Things That Count: About a Single Moment in In/Spectre

Okay, whose idea was it to mention Harlequin novels in anime subs??? If you didn't read the post I linked above the cut for whatever reason, the subs for In/Spectre's first episode mention Harlequin novels. There's a particular connotation I've assigned to Harlequin novels, as I mention in the notes for In/Spectre. Note "trashy" is...