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Still from the title sequence for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, with an assortment of symbols and shapes in the background and a man in a flashy suit and cadet hat, hands in pockets on the left, a very similar looking man with a big lip of hair on his brow in the middle, and a youger person in a school or military uniform on the right

How to Take a Stand // Transpersonal Defiance in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

By Aster Shen • October 4th, 2022

Koichi goes to his death without despair, because he believes that justice will be done. He connects to the idea that what he represents cannot meaningfully be ‘erased’ at all: the heart of justice that defies the existence of Yoshikage Kira.

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Shark Party

By Michael Lee • September 22nd, 2022

The kinds of relationships people form in online spaces can be as meaningful and socially rewarding as physical encounters with human bodies.

The shield hero faces the camera while his anime catboy slaves face away

The Stagnation and Immaturity of the Shield Hero

By Gingy Gibson • August 2nd, 2022

The longer I watched the anime (and I watched it for way too long), the more obvious it became that their pro-slavery was just one facet of a story that promises its viewers the worst kind of Neverland for teenage boys.

two horses facing off against each other. image from IMDB.

Body Image and Self-Loathing in Centaurworld

By Gingy Gibson • May 23rd, 2022

Or, How Horse Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Her Bod

Reconsidering Rotoscoped Animation for its Second Century

By Morgan Galen King • October 28th, 2021

Rotoscoping puts the human body in the spotlight, where the focus on the body and its relationship to the fictional world around it is ever-present.

Eyeing Elsewhere

It Takes a Village

By Phillip Russell • September 24th, 2021

Evangelion has always been interested in cycles, in unpacking oneself through the looping of experience.

A young man and woman stand at a rusty railing, looking towards a distant sun breaking through stormy clouds.

Sheltering Sky

By Autumn Wright • August 26th, 2021

Weathering With You as (post-)sekaikei.

Collision Detection

A medieval castle hallway.

The Role-Playing Television Future of Tomorrow, Yesterday

By Ben Sailer • August 12th, 2021

VR, the hard way. The really hard way.

Here's the Thing

a Hygogg type mobile suit from Mobile Suit Gundam

Getting Back to Gunpla

By Rob Rich • March 29th, 2021

I really like building and customizing Gundam model kits.

Here's the Thing

An anime character smoking a cigarette.

FLCL, 17 Years Later

By Rob Rich • March 5th, 2021

Rob takes another look at FLCL, a brief anime series he used to love, and reflects on how different the whole thing feels almost two decades later.

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