Tag: Anime
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Castlevania: Nocturne is a Fantastic Sequel
Grab your whips and say a prayer, everyone. Here we go again. I loved the first Castlevania series. Sure, it had it’s problems, especially in the latter seasons. But I’d still say it’s among the best video game adaptations we’ve gotten so far. Question is: does Nocturne have the same spark? I’d say it does.…
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Main Character in Another World: Catarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess)
I kind of appreciate how closely ingrained isekai anime and harem anime have become. It makes finding protags for this series so much easier. Being a harem rom-com, ‘My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!’ (fucking anime titles) leans into the classic isekai trope of ‘everyone thirsts for the protagonist.’ This…
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Mushoku Tensei (Season 1) is Isekai Perfection
Man, I’m super late on this one, aren’t I? Most isekai stories are simple, dumb power fantasies. They focus less on telling a story and more on providing shallow escapism. Which is fine, if that’s what you’re into. But all the potential of an isekai premise is generally avoided by most of the genre. Mushoku…
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Main Character in Another World: Rudeus Greyrat (Mushoku Tensei)
There is a question at the heart of the isekai genre. If you were reborn in another world, what would you do? If you were given a whole new life, how would you spend it? How would you do it differently? Most isekai are happy to ignore this question. “Don’t think, just enjoy the power…
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Breaking the Curse: The Rise of Anime and Video Game Adaptations
We used to live in simple times. If a movie was based on an anime or a video game, it was bad. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. They were bad. Like, to an insane degree. In terms of box office poison, they were the cream of the crop. Keywords in that paragraph being…
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