Fate/stay night and Kinoko Nasu feel like a whole genre on their own. But why aren’t there more Nasu copycats?

To be direct about it, Our Broken World (Sekai vol. 1) is my favourite novel ever written. Here is a review.

Shocker: A political discussion about the movies that used a MAGA hat for a poster. A real “drunk looking for his keys under the same streetlight all night” deal.

Novels and essays are very different things. Yet, Kiyoshi Kasai’s first attempt to write a Dostoevsky mystery novel comes shockingly close to hitting the mark.

Darkness is always out there, lurking in everything we fail to “illuminate” with our sense of understanding, fueling fear, terror, and anxiety.

The word “moe” is synonymous with anime girls and a “cutesy” style. But what if this way of thinking is hopelessly flawed? What else can moe look like?

Attempting to review Barbie invites the question: What does parody mean in the post-ironic era?

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.

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?

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 is a unique piece of art because it does not present answers, it presents a world too contradictory for any such thing to exist.