Category: Essays, Criticism, and Analyses

Sentient Sailor Uniforms are Serious Business: Trope-Twisting in Kill la Kill

 Today, I’m very pleased to welcome a guest post from R. I invited her to…

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My Little Pony: Diversity is Magic

It’s been a long time since I’ve last blogged exclusively about My Little Pony: Friendship…

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Gurren Lagann’s Immature Masculinity

I enjoyed Gurren Lagann; I really did. It doesn’t replace Kill la Kill in my heart,…

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The Allegory of Giha Village: Platonism in Gurren Lagann

How could I invest so much time and energy analyzing Kill la Kill without watching…

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Baltimore.

It’d be disingenuous to simply allow my weekly blog post queue to continue without commenting…

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My Little Sato: Asami, Rarity, and the Femme Fatale Stigma

I can’t say how or why the comparison between Asami Sato from Legend of Korra…

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Contradiction is Truth: The Divine Illogic in Kill la Kill

It should come as no surprise that I’m talking about Kill la Kill yet again….

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Platonism in Orphan Black

So, I recently took a MOOC about three of Plato’s dialogues (Euthyphro, Meno, and Republic…

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Eschatology in The Legend of Korra

Seasons two and four of Legend of Korra end with some kind of radical, permanent…

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Kill la Kyriarchy: Building and Destroying Power Structures

The last post in this series. Today’s theme: how KLK’s oppressive systems work and how they’re…

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