• My Review Academia S5 E3: Making Children Fight

    My Review Academia S5 E3: Making Children Fight

    Uh… something about that seems wrong. Like, morally. We’re sure they’re allowed to do that? This is another table-setting episode. Most of the runtime is spent placing all the pieces onto the board for the action of the arc. We get a brief taste of it towards the end of the episode, but doesn’t last…

  • The Complexity of the Tutorial

    Contrary to what the American school system has led me and many others to believe: learning can be fun. If the information is presented by someone who cares about it in an engaging manner, it becomes much easier and even more enjoyable to take in information. When that happens, the student could come to really…

  • Edward and Alphonse Elric: How to Create Believable Brothers in Fiction

    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…

  • The Man in the Brown Suit: A Totally Not Toxic Relationship

    Aw… no Papa Poirot this time. Damn. Oh well. I’m sure our new main character can command the spotlight like he did. Anne Beddingfeld, our new protagonist, is made an orphan after her archeologist father’s sudden death. Yearning for adventure, she makes her way to London, where she works to pay her bills. One day,…

  • Giants (Part 1): General Lore

    Boulders assailed our walls and cast them down, leavin’ gaps through which the giants strode, weapons in hand. Captain Dwern Addleston’es partial account of the Siege of Sterngate Ah, giants. Another staple of the fantasy genre. Which means that, once again, we’re doing a multiparter! Cause guess how many varieties they put into this one…