Tag: philosophy
Aika Zero: Yielding to Victory
What defines Aika Zero? The fact that it deliberately imitates fetish porn? The fact that the overarching target for the first story arc is a…
New York Anime Festival 2009, Day 0: Cake
The Dave and Buster’s was crowded. Black-attired waitstaff in crisp uniforms nodded professionally at me as I entered, pointing me up to the third floor…
A Brave New Divergence
I have seen the future, and it is fantastic. Multicolored hair! Massive oppai¹! Quantum everything! Cool robots! Just ignore the bizarre displays of objectum sexual²…
The Philosophy of Being Otaku
With a title like Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, how can you go wrong? Professor Hiroki Azuma’s almost decade-old book by that title has just received…
The Zen of Eureka Seven
Take one gangly kid, one cooldere, and a bunch of heroic rebels who just want to live free. Put them in a dystopian future where…
Strike Witches: The Evil Without
In our roundtable discussion on whether or not anime is art, Ray brought up an excellent point about that infamous scifi-fantasy-loli-pantsu fanservice vehicle, Strike Witches. …