Category: The Orient

An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.

There’s multiple angles that one can bring to Cross†Channel. But I’d like to focus on masculinity and gender here, rather than the broader readings.

Every conversation about “otaku culture” begins from the assumption that there is nothing at stake. This is wrong to its core.

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?

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?

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

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.

Tsukumojuuku by Outarou Maijou succeeds in crafting something that seems authentically confessional out of deconstruction and metatext.

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