Tag: Anime
Four days plus change of When they Cry, End
The final post of my Higurashi readathon. With the Questions before us, time to theorise an Answer.
Four days plus change of When they Cry, part 4
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Keiichi Maebara! You are the culprit! Higurashi races towards an exciting mid-story climax.
Four days plus change of When they Cry, part 3
Chapter 3 of Higurashi is not a wholesale break with what has come before by any stretch of the imagination, but it does make a pretty decent departure from the status quo.
Four days plus change of When they Cry, part 1
Both of the major entries in the When they Cry franchise, Higurashi and Umineko, have been on my radar for a while. And so, I am going to read Higurashi.
An abridged stylistic history of Japanese mystery fiction
All human stories have two eternal subjects: sex and violence. These, combined with the two primordial genres of Ancient Greek theatre, grant us a basic vocabulary with which we can categorise some of the “raw material” which makes up basic storytelling — all human societies create stories about romance, tragedy, war, comedy, and crime.
Zaregoto, the Debut Novel and the Nihilism of Failure
‘Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle (The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User)’ was the debut novel of the Japanese mystery and young-adult fiction author Ishin Nishio. It is a novel that has something to say, and is successful in saying it, while still being a viscerally satisfying work of fiction.