long-form writing
A collection of older musings on anime.





Kyoto Animation: A Chronology of Emotion
Attack on Titan and Bidding Past Favourites Farewell
The Key to Your Heart:
Restructuring the Maeda Ideal
in Clannad and Air’s Theatrical Adaptations
A Monstrous Force:
Darling in the FranXX’s Suppression of Female Sexuality
A Hideous Thing Inside:
Pruning the Lily Garden with Yuri Kuma Arashi and Flip Flappers
Kyoto Animation, Mental Health, and Me
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes:
Go! Princess Precure and The Subjectivity of a Princess
Weathering the Adolescent Storm:
A Place Further Than the Universe and Liberation
Dispelling the Heat Haze:
Ashita no Nadja and A Prince’s Shadow
“In the Beginning, Woman Was Truly the Sun”:
Haikara-san ga Tooru and Emerging Feminism in the Taishou Era
Closing the Underworld’s Gateway:
Hunter x Hunter and Avoiding a Developmental Death

Brand New Theatre Days:
The Idolmaster, Million Live, and Passing the Baton

Choosing the Highest Bidder:
Generational Gaps in The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls

So Hang High, Soft Star:
The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls and Embracing Idiosyncrasies

Go on Throw This Stone, into This Halfway Home: Shibahime Tsubasa’s Family Portrait

“How Do People See Me?”: Miyazawa Yukino and the Looking-Glass Self

“Tranquil Days That Felt Empty”: Arima Souichirou and Incongruous Blossoms

“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”:
Koe no Katachi and The Anxious Classroom Environment Kyoto Animation, Mental Health, and Me
Across the Universe: A Glimmer of Hope in Land of the Lustrous’ Sea of the Unconscious “Death gives meaning to life itself”: Land of the Lustrous’ Quiet Sense of Mortality Ice on the Horizon, Skyline Folding In: Omens and Foils in Land of the Lustrous The Persistence of Memory?: Land of the Lustrous and a Metaphysical Death This Was the Land’s End: The Butterfly Effect, Making History, and Purpose in Land of the Lustrous
If I Could Only See You, from Hope Eternity Would Be Born:
Beginnings in Yuri on Ice and Welcome to the Ballroom
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A Lost Adolescent Reverie:
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko’s Transmission
of Disaffected Youth and Social Withdrawal
Hugtto! Precure and A Future Worth Fighting For
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
The Sonnet of Ichinomiya Fukiko When Doves Cry:
Dissolution in Onii-sama e…
Osomatsu-san and A Lifetime Moratorium The World Ends with You:
Osomatsu-san and Semiotic Reimaginings
Sentimental Journey and Reminiscing Through Music
“My Only Feeling Heart”:
To Heart and The Anatomy of First Love
“A living fragrance from the shore, of flowers yet fresh with childhood”:
Yosuga no Sora and Resisting the Tide
A Hype by Any Other Name… and by That I Mean Your Name
A Hideous Thing Inside:
Pruning the Lily Garden with Yuri Kuma Arashi and Flip Flappers
Spinning with the Stars Above:
Beyond ‘Bury Your Gays’ with Yuri Kuma Arashi and San Junipero
A Garland for Girls:
Blossoming Shoujo Imagery in Ace wo Nerae