Essay

When the world hits a downturn, people's tastes gravitate toward escapism or tragedy. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 balances the two expertly.

Anime has a tendency to pull some weird concepts out of its collective hat. But among them, One Week Friends…

It's hard for me to consume stories about war; they're simply too far removed from my own experience. Enter VA-11…

Stars Align is available on Hulu and on Funimation’s website. Everybody loves a comeback story. Someone gets up and fights…

Untitled Goose Game is the best role-playing game I played in 2019. Sure, it's billed as a puzzle and a…

Pokémon: Twilight Wings is available to watch for free on YouTube. The very first thing to excite me about Pokémon:…

Xenogears was ahead of its time in a lot of ways; crucially, that its development cycle reads like that of…

Stock characters are, generally, delightful. The exception tends to be protagonists, and for all I love anime, it suffers a…

It always kind of astounds me whenever someone says that they’re a fan of the Final Fantasy series. Not because…

The kind of people who will read a media blog are, on the whole, the kind of people who consume…