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Fate/Zero: Kiritsugu & How to Dream Impossible Dreams

I may have watched Fate/Zero for Yuki Kajiura’s soundtrack, but what stays with me is Emiya Kiritsugu’s journey. Or should I say, his failure to actually take the journey. Because although he devotes his life to training, scheming, manipulating and ultimately fighting for the opportunity to encounter the Holy Grail—the “all-powerful wish-granter”—Kiritsugu forgets to do… Read More Fate/Zero: Kiritsugu & How to Dream Impossible Dreams

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Guest Post: What Philosophy Found Pleasure a Sin? A Response to Gilgamesh

Today’s guest post comes from medical school student, Dimas, and takes a look at how Christianity is sometimes depicted in one of two ways, as through Kirei Kotomine, when it is in fact neither. Christian tone and symbolism in the Japanese media and in particular anime are mostly used as a flavoring so to say;… Read More Guest Post: What Philosophy Found Pleasure a Sin? A Response to Gilgamesh

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First Impression: Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note

Lord El-Melloi is the head of the Modern Magecraft Theories Department of a school of magic called The Clock Tower. Though, he’s only a stand-in or “fake” as he’s called by his colleagues. After cursing them for their insults at his home, he is hit with a counter-curse which makes him hurt his foot (in… Read More First Impression: Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note

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