Checkmate: A Review of Overshoot By Autumn Wright • October 3rd, 2024 It may feel like we are checked, but the missiles are still in the air, the destruction of in development fossil capital is still unrealized. It’s checkmate.
Always Autumn Hoplophobia By Autumn Wright • July 17th, 2024 In the great tradition of obscuring the true big bad of its story, the ostensible antagonist of Chainsaw Man is a compelling kaiju.
Always Autumn The Worst Case Scenario By Autumn Wright • June 11th, 2024 It’s worth asking whether people in the past thought they lived at the end times. It’s worth more to realize that despite the recurring sentiment, we do.
A Duet of Anime and Jazz: An Interview with Director Yuzuru Tachikawa By Autumn Wright • May 21st, 2024 “My intent was to especially treat live performances like what would be done for an anime action scene.”
Feature Excerpt It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024 Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.
Exploits Feature The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes By Autumn Wright • January 2nd, 2024 While The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is a coming-of-age drama without any action – all its conflict is psychological – it still invokes all these tropes.
Always Autumn When the Fire Falls From on High; Or, the Meteor Is Not a Metaphor By Autumn Wright • October 10th, 2023 Comparing the animation in scenes that appear both in its 2020 reveal trailer and the final product, it’s obvious that three years of something bad happened to Goodbye Volcano High.
Always Autumn A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part II: The Ones Who Stay and Fight By Autumn Wright • July 13th, 2023 What does it mean to be born of the dead?
Always Autumn Last Night I Went to a House Show By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023 Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”
Always Autumn A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part I: Whose Apocalypse Is This? By Autumn Wright • February 9th, 2023 What does the beauty of a world born anew look like from the depths?
