Recent Posts
The rise of Kinoko Nasu: A cultural autopsy
Fate/stay night and Kinoko Nasu feel like a whole genre on their own. But why aren’t there more Nasu copycats?
Fiction and the world: Our Sekai Breakdown
To be direct about it, Our Broken World (Sekai vol. 1) is my favourite novel ever written. Here is a review.
Barbitecture, or, An Alternate Reading of Parody
Attempting to review Barbie invites the question: What does parody mean in the post-ironic era?
The Painting isn’t the Part You Hate: On Modern Art
The arguments used to reject “abstract” modern art are brazen, but false. I wish to directly address those who take such positions. And those who would ignore the issue.
After Nasu: The consumption of myth as data
Our search for the Nasu copycats means it is time to expand the conversation beyond just him. We came looking for a genre, but what does that even mean?
The Mass Death Theory of Mystery Fiction: Explained
Kiyoshi Kasai’s mass death theory of mystery fiction. Explained directly in one link.
Catch-up: Nine book reviews
Nine book reviews to catch up on what I’ve been reading and enjoying while taking a bit of a break from blogging.
Love & Pop & End
Love & Pop is a unique piece of art because it does not present answers, it presents a world too contradictory for any such thing to exist.
Tsukumojuuku and Symbolic Realities
Tsukumojuuku by Outarou Maijou succeeds in crafting something that seems authentically confessional out of deconstruction and metatext.
An Anthologised Review of Locked Outside of Mystery
A guest post? A review of an entire short story anthology? Now, this is something entirely different from usual…
Shin Godzilla and the Tyranny of Metaphor
It is true that Godzilla and nuclear disaster are deeply linked. But, simply applying the formula that Godzilla=nuclear weapons would pervert our thinking greatly.