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Kok Xiang Wei
Episode 4 of 'Sugar Apple Fairy Tale' is the best episode of this anime season in handling its conflicts. When it comes to conflicts in story-telling, I'm sure many people are familiar with the conflict graph.It begins like this: An incident occurs at the beginning. The characters move to counter...
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I think character chemistry has always been a slightly vague term for me. It's an easy term to use and we often find it handy to label a delightful cast of characters as a cast with good chemistry. However, for me, that has always been done on an instinctual basis; A gut feeling born out of a...
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I think 'Otonari no Tenshi' has my favorite written dialogue this season. I usually attribute dialogue into two categories: Overt and indirect. Overt dialogue can be seen from a recent manga I read called 'Kaoru Hana no Rin to Saku'. Its dialogue style is overt in the sense that every chapter is...
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Why does Odd Taxi's dialogue sound "natural"? This question seemed dubiously simple to me when I first considered it. I attributed it to be a similar situation as Your Name, whereby many of the voice actors including our main leads, are amateurish and have little experience in creating that 'anime...
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I think the sound design in 'Aharen-san' is phenomenal.That might be a strange statement to make for a slice-of-life anime. Phenomenal is a powerful word and it's not like there's a Hiroyuki Sawano track dropping when Raidou was at the claw machine. In fact, when we actually consider what sounds...
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Entry #03: Date A Live has justified its existence to me (11th April)I do not like 'Date A Live'. I think it's a harem show that is outdated and past its prime. It uses the trite formula of "collect girls like you would collect Pokemon". Granted while its one of the earlier pioneers of that genre,...
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It goes without showing that what characterizes Jordan Peele's horror, is in its poignant themes of racism and inequality. This can be seen from every aspect, from the casting contrasts of white and black people to its not so obscure commentary on racial conflict. However, that is not what I want...
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Mushoku Tensei has always been a show with morally debatable characters. In the second episode, we see a man disregard his parent's funeral to masturbate at home. In the fourth episode, we see a man cheat on his wife and impregnate his maid. And in the sixth episode, we see a man who molests a...
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So I'm going to start a new kind of blog separate from my usual topic-based analysis. I've realized that while I am quite happy being able to craft full essays out for a wide variety of shows, I am still somewhat limited. In every show and every episode, I often have many opinions, likes and...
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Isekai has always been a genre that fascinates me. It is just such an egocentric genre; The protagonist is by default the chosen one out of all 7.7 billion human beings on earth, so as to fight the battle in this new world. They will be inherently special as compared to the beings of this new...
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'Remake our life!' has been a surprising delight and is definitely one of my favorite premieres that came out this season. It has an interesting premise similar to Re-life with the protagonist reliving loss time; It has set itself in a college setting focused around the arts, lending it more...