Golden Week
What’s so golden about Golden Week? In Japan, company employees often work overtime due to social pressures and expectations. Students also go to school year-round (and Saturdays are often half-days,...
View ArticleIse Jingu, women, and terminology
Ise Jingu (known as Grand Shrine of Ise) is an ancient shrine in Japan, at Ise, described in the texts of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. The Kojiki is the older text, having been compiled and dated to...
View ArticleAnime Boston Part Two
Now with 100% more detail! To hear some of this, check out the Anime Boston podcast on Otaku in Review – I’m one of the guests in that particular podcast. As I said earlier, I enjoyed Anime Boston. But...
View ArticleHeroism
I’m preparing a panel on heroism and femininity, using the series of Revolutionary Girl Utena along with Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Hopefully, this panel will debut at Otakon 2013. In the meantime,...
View ArticleIndependence.
So July 4th is upon us in the United States, and along with your ‘traditional’ cookouts and fireworks and whatnot, it’s supposed to be a day to celebrate independence. And here I am, talking about...
View ArticleConvention Survival.
Okay, okay, there’s a ton of information about how to survive an anime con; from making sure you drink plenty of water (many US conventions take place in the summer) to don’t overpack. But there’s also...
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Preparing a Panel.
The spiral staircase from Revolutionary Girl Utena (used for edu/personal reasons, see post) In my last post I talked about why I do panels. But people usually see the end result – the finished panel,...
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Anime USA: Or how I told stories and learned of ponies
Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. So, Anime USA 2013 had some problems; and I wore myself down Saturday night, but doing panels and taking part in the storytelling event would...
View ArticleYay?
I was going to post about Halloween (sorry), but due to some conversations I had recently, wanted to talk about something more than panels, or even folklore. I once wrote a post on getting the...
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Narrative and Power.
Coming from my previous posts concerning Excrucio Eternum, let me shift gears a bit. Mortis, in Excrucio Eternum. Words have power. So do images. We play games, sometimes because we want to ‘escape’...
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