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Isekai and its Pervasiveness in Anime

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Published: October 17, 2024 07:06

From Digimon to That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime, isekai is a genre of anime that holds a...

The Quietly Subversive Poems of Gwen Harwood

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Published: October 16, 2024 13:23

When people mention the sonnet––the classical form of poem with fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, names that come to...

…But is it ‘Art’?

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Published: October 11, 2024 08:48

There has been a long-standing debate whether certain practices or pieces of work should or shouldn’t be called art. First...

Wicked: Book vs Musical

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Published: October 5, 2024 22:46

With the Wicked movie coming out, it’d be nice to see an analysis of how wildly different the Broadway musical...

Studio Ghibli and the Perfect European Aesthetic

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Published: October 5, 2024 09:17

Analyse Hayao Miyazaki’s use of picturesque European-inspired aesthetics in his movies. Think “Howl’s Moving Castle”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, and “Porco...

The Rise and Fall of the Narnia Film Series

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Published: October 4, 2024 12:17

Between 1950 and 1956, Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis published his famous Chronicles of Narnia septet. Partially based on Lewis’ own...

Anime Influence and Comparison to Cartoons

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Published: October 4, 2024 07:49

is anime much better than cartoons ? but how you can explain in the old times that cartoon much have...

The Accuracy of Book-To-Movie Adaptations

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Published: October 4, 2024 07:06

Book-to-movie films (and—more regularly, now—shows) are especially common in young adult franchises such as The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games,...

Night School Studio Uses The Supernatural and Absurd to Creates Games With Deeply Human Stories

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Published: September 27, 2024 15:15

While many video games focus on tight combat or pixel perfect platforming, communication and conversation has been Night School Studio’s...

Parallel Worlds and Feminist Dystopias: Rediscovering The Heads of Cerberus in Modern Speculative Fiction

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Published: September 19, 2024 04:58

The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens is one of those early speculative gems that somehow slipped under the radar,...