Meg Raspberry has given up. And frankly, it’s a pretty rational thing to do—maybe even a healthy thing. After all, she is cursed to die within the year, and acceptance is one of the stages of grief. So, isn’t it right that she just accept reality, come to terms with her mortality, and see what… Read More Once Upon a Witch’s Death, Ep. 3: Meg Raspberry & The Choice Between Life & Death
Meg the apprentice witch gets up in the morning, makes tea for her master, Ms. Faust, and feeds all the pets. Then her master drops this bombshell: “You are going to die in one year.” Apparently, Meg has a curse (which isn’t a hostile attack, but more like a congenital magical health condition), and it… Read More First Impression: Once Upon a Witch’s Death
Christmas happens in the second season of Log Horizon, but it’s just an incidental part of a multi-episode arc (or maybe it’s two parallel arcs, depending on how you look at it). These are “Christmas episodes” only in the sense that the holiday is a background detail—lights twinkle and vendors dressed like Santa hawk strawberry… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Log Horizon’s Resurrections
Yo ho ho, piratical Christmas?! I’ve kind of made it a personal challenge as to how many posts I can write out of “Red Nosed Reindeer,” the third episode of Sword Art Online. (I believe this is my third.) This time, I want to explore the contrasting attitudes toward death displayed in the episode. Death… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Sword Art Online, Death and Birth
Everyone is going to die—everyone on this Earth is going to die. That’s not exactly news. But to have this notion in some corner of your mind is very different from actually seeing the day come, like a spinning roulette in which your number may just come up next. To know that, before the moment… Read More Bokurano: And thus we face Death
Wonder Egg Priority is a beautiful, uncomfortable, moving and confusing series that starts out engaging all the things we don’t talk about—self-harm, abuse, rape, bullying, gender dysphoria, and homosexuality, to name a few. Our silence and blindness to these issues have a weight and pressure to them, and WEP shows how this reinforces the isolation… Read More Wonder Egg Priority, Episode 11: “The Temptation of Death”?
Love is always Like looking through clear water Go to accept it And it leaves Just like you Love is always In a sunshine-filled place Even if I can’t see you Can’t touch you It’s like you’re by my side -“Letter” (Violet Evergarden Special end song) by TRUE Anime has become harder to watch for… Read More Violet Evergarden Special: What God Is Known For
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