Category: Character Analysis
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How Eren Jaeger Became My Favorite Attack on Titan Character
*Spoilers for Attack on Titan ahead! Don’t read if you haven’t read the manga!* By the time this article comes out, the Attack on Titan manga will have released its final chapter. That feels surreal. Attack on Titan has been one of, if not the, biggest name in anime ever since I got into the…
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Zenkichi Hasegawa: Losing Sight of Justice
**Spoilers for Persona 5: Strikers ahead!! If you haven’t finished Jail #5 yet, do not read!** So, I finally finished Persona 5: Strikers. It was pretty good. I’ve got my issues, but that’s a topic for another day. Either tomorrow or next week. Today, I’m gonna focus on the thing I loved the most: the…
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Edward and Alphonse Elric: How to Create Believable Brothers in Fiction
Portraying a realistic familial relationship in fiction can be a lot more challenging than people think. Especially when it comes to the dynamic between siblings. A lot of stories tend to simplify the relationship, with each interaction between the brothers being simple, one-note interactions. Very rare is it that a story can capture the complexities…
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Aoi Todo: How to Create the Perfect Idiot
A lot of people think that cliché = bad. And they’re not entirely wrong. When a story is comprised of nothing but clichés, it can get very tedious and boring. But if those clichés are executed well, it doesn’t matter that they’re cliché. Quality is what matters, not originality. This is part of what makes…
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Kelsier: The Survivor of Hathsin
*Spoilers for the first Mistborn book ahead!* I was originally planning to avoid talking about Mistborn again until we saw something from the movie (oh yeah, that’s a thing that’s happening, apparently). But I’m not a patient man. If you guys didn’t know that at this point, I’d be pretty shocked. The mentor character is…
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