To Your Eternity: Building Character from Scratch

When selecting a slew of 2021 anime to catch up on, I organized my queue and saved the shows I was most interested in for last. The final anime I consumed was Fumetsu no Anata e, or To Your Eternity. While knowing little about it, I was familiar with Koe no Katachi, the more famousContinue reading “To Your Eternity: Building Character from Scratch”

Arcane: Thematic Duality

The best part of Riot’s ridiculously popular League of Legends has always been the anecdotal lore about its wide cast of playable characters. These interesting archetypal stories are hardly on the forefront in the multiplayer game; players can piece relationships and past events together from quips of dialogue as they earn kills, or they canContinue reading “Arcane: Thematic Duality”

Nomad: Megalo Box 2

The follow-up to 2018’s Megalo Box, a loose adaptation of historic manga Ashita no Joe, hits like a truck. The first season of the show is thoroughly enjoyable. While it follows a wild protagonist’s standard underdog journey from slums to world champion, the production elements and weaponized nostalgia win audiences over with ease. The tiesContinue reading “Nomad: Megalo Box 2”