• By the Cover: Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive)

    By the Cover: Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive)

    Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Also been a while since I talked about this series. Today’s gonna be one for nostalgia. Today, we return to analyze another cover in the Stormlight Archive series. Book five is coming this December, so I’ve been re-listening to the audio books at work. A few…

  • Gamera, the Giant Monster: Dark Beginnings of a Friendly Face

    Gamera, the Giant Monster: Dark Beginnings of a Friendly Face

    Ah, Gamera. One of the few kaiju franchises to pose a genuine challenge to Godzilla’s reign over the genre. For decades, this flying fire-breathing turtle competed with the King of the Monsters himself at the Japanese box office. He stands head and shoulders with the titans of the genre, and rightfully so. Yet while Godzilla…

  • The Growth of 3D Anime

    Outside of Japan, 2D animation has become a near extinct medium. Nowadays, it’s all 3D and CGI here in the West. It’s a large reason why anime has become so successful since the advent of streaming. But the thing about animation is that it ain’t easy. It’s expensive, time-consuming, and requires a ton of skill,…

  • Best Boss Battles: Malenia, Blade of Miquella

    Best Boss Battles: Malenia, Blade of Miquella

    From Software is all but legendary at this point for their boss design. Well, for their everything, but mostly their bosses. Name any one of their games, and at least half a dozen names immediately pop into players heads. Orenstein and Smough. The Orphan of Kos. Sword Saint Isshin. So on and so forth. I’ve…

  • On Shounen and Transformations

    On Shounen and Transformations

    *This article contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Z, Naruto: Shippuden, One Piece, and Hunter X Hunter. Got it? Good.* Transformation as a concept is all but synonomous with the shounen genre. Ever since Goku traded his black locks for gold, every series in the genre wanted a piece of that pie. Who could blame them?…