Tag: Character Analysis
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Piccolo: The Coolest Character Left Behind
It has been 60 0 days since Jonah last talked about Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball has a bad habit of leaving cool characters in the dust as the heroes and villains get stronger. Every human character is so weak by the end of DBZ that you start to wonder why they even show up in…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Dungeons and Dragons Characters
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while (thank you!), then you’ll know just how much I love Dungeons and Dragons. Seriously, I’ve managed to fit it into pretty much all of the major categories I have. I just need to find a way to talk about a D&D anime and I’ll be all…
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Tadashi Yamaguchi: Karasuno’s Spear
Haikyu!! is back and so am I. Anime loves to present the audience with extraordinary characters. People who can achieve the greatest of feats, despite the odds being stacked against them. They take that one special trait that they started with, be it some kind of special ability or talent or just sheer determination, and…
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The Importance of Background Characters
There are three types of characters in a story. There are your main characters, your protagonists and antagonists, the guys that drive the story. Then there are your side characters, those that add flavor to the story and either aid or hinder our heroes/villains. And then there are those that fill the rest of the…
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Inigo Montoya: How a Single Line Can Perfectly Capture a Character
In storytelling, there are three important things you need to do to establish your characters. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, a movie, a video game, or whatever. If you don’t do these three things, your character isn’t destined to last. They are: Give the audience their name Establish their backstory Establish their goal…
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