Once upon a time, I tried to tackle a multi-post blog series analyzing the music of anime openings. That fizzled out for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that I lost sight of what I was originally arguing. However, my argument from the first post is pretty easy to conceptualize. There, I noted… Continue reading Attack on Music: Is Shingeki no Kyojin’s First Opening Iconic?
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Lessons from Attack on Titan: How to Write a Shonen Series Without Throwing Women Under the Bus
Several years ago, I was venting my frustrations about Naruto to a friend of mine. My biggest complaint was that there are too many underdeveloped characters and all of the women are ultimately sidelined no matter how powerful other characters say they are. His response was “Well, it’s shonen. It’s supposed to focus on the… Continue reading Lessons from Attack on Titan: How to Write a Shonen Series Without Throwing Women Under the Bus