Your Name (Kimi no na wa) is not an original story. The equation for it goes something like this: body switch trope + usual Shinkai + dash of heart atypical of Shinkai = YAY And as with most preceding films, television episodes, et al. that feature this plot convention, switching bodies leads to an understanding… Read More Your Name: The Art (and Heart) of Switching Places
While away from the site for the last year and a half, I spent much of my time investing in my Instagram account, Anime Pop Heart, which is now associated with Beneath the Tangles. We have a similar mission on that platform, though of course it’s more about the visual and less about the written… Read More Everyone on Instagram Thinks I’m a Girl (and It’s the Worst)
For such a humble little show, I’ve been surprised at how One Week Friends has kept me at baited breath all season long. I’ve been anticipating that the bottom would fall out, that we would have some big climax, though I wasn’t sure if it would feel contrived or if there would be genuine drama… Read More One Week Friends: Stranger Than Your Empathy
Sometimes you forsake depth for having a breadth of characters. Through eight episodes, that’s been the case with Oreshura, where we have a number of girls vying for Eita’s affections, though we only know a few key points about any of the characters. Paralleling that, the characters also seem to know little about each other. … Read More Don’t Judge Me Until You’ve Walked a Mile in My Shoes (Or Not at All)