Tag: Anime

Anime Challenge #1: Very First Anime You Watched

I’ve been busy over the last few months and that combined with writer’s block has made me ignore blogging for a while. To fix that, I’ve put together some light posts based on a 30 day anime challenge I came across a few months ago. I won’t be posting every day. Heck no. But I… Continue reading Anime Challenge #1: Very First Anime You Watched

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 write a post after our discussion in the comments section of my Queer la Queer post. R highlights Kill la Kill’s trope play and Senketsu’s vitality to the entire plot. Thanks, R, for writing this! If I told you that I… Continue reading Sentient Sailor Uniforms are Serious Business: Trope-Twisting in Kill la Kill

The Allegory of Giha Village: Platonism in Gurren Lagann

How could I invest so much time and energy analyzing Kill la Kill without watching its predecessor? Though I didn’t react as heavily to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as I did to Kill la Kill, I still have plenty to say about the series. One of those things is its Platonism. At the start of… Continue reading The Allegory of Giha Village: Platonism in Gurren Lagann

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 dismantled.           Kill la Kill presents a very overt metaphor for systematic privilege and disenfranchising. At its core is a dichotomy between nudity and clothing. Nudity represents total shame and disgrace while clothing affords socioecomonic standing… Continue reading Kill la Kyriarchy: Building and Destroying Power Structures

You Pigs in Human Clothing: A Theology of Clothing in Kill la Kill

Part 3 of my Kill la Kill series. Today’s theme: Religion coopted into an oppressive force, blood covenants, crucifixions, and atonements. Now is the part where I get all Christiany. I’ve briefly mentioned before that Kill la Kill presents a dichotomy in which clothing is power while and nudity is shame. This divide is the foundation… Continue reading You Pigs in Human Clothing: A Theology of Clothing in Kill la Kill

Girlhood and Magical Uniforms: Coming of Age in Kill la Kill

Part 2 of my Kill la Kill series. Today’s theme: feminism, magical girls, and growing up.   The mahou shoujo genre of anime is among the more popular genres as it contains many classic series, old and new (Sailor Moon, Precure, Princess Tutu, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica to name… Continue reading Girlhood and Magical Uniforms: Coming of Age in Kill la Kill

Queer la Queer: From Illogical Dedication to Misappropriation

Kill la Kill is one of those rare series that has delivered just about everything I could possibly want in a story and then some. It has impressed me so much that I actively analyzed and took notes on it as I watched/re-watched, which honestly hasn’t happened for me before. Over the next few weeks,… Continue reading Queer la Queer: From Illogical Dedication to Misappropriation

Princess Jellyfish: Challenging Conventional Beauty and Letting Yourself Feel Uncomfortable

Princess Jellyfish is a cute little series that I honestly think is severely underrated, largely because no one seems to pay it much attention. Of course, with all of the big epics and more avant-garde series around, this one does tend to fall through the cracks, but it’s such a treat and easy to marathon… Continue reading Princess Jellyfish: Challenging Conventional Beauty and Letting Yourself Feel Uncomfortable

Is Yuri Anime Decent Representation?

Anime is one of the few mediums where you can really say that there’s something for everyone. Or at least, that’s the idea. Recent anime has scarcely provided anything interesting, but at least this season has something slightly different: Sakura Trick. Representation of anyone other than straight people is rare in media, and anime is… Continue reading Is Yuri Anime Decent Representation?