Welcome to part two in my series of articles about “The Token Foreigner” seen in Japanese animated shows. Last week I defined what exactly is a “token foreigner”, and I left off talking about the use of non-Japanese characters as antagonists or rivals in anime. This week I’ll be focusing on a special category…
As I have probably mentioned before in previous articles, I live in Japan. I am originally from America, but came to Japan to work as an assistant English teacher. Living in Japan has been great, and I truly enjoy it here, but I would be lying if I said there weren’t downsides to being one…
(I did not forget. I just pressed play on the next episode of Trailer Park Boys. I am not sorry.) Five years. 365 days, but five times of that. An avalanche of minutes, hours, weeks, memories, and times that I shampooed my hair twice during a single shower because the act has become so automatic that…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton With the recently announced Just Cause movie starring Jason Momoa, it’s time to reflect on video game movies. Now, here’s a problem- video game movies suck. And movie video games suck. And I think that it might be because they keep trying to adapt the wrong…
It was a big year for Rooster Illusion: we dove headfirst into the salty depths of podcasting and explored long-form writing in addition to our continued ass-kickery in the realm of more traditional movie and show reviews. Our second annual March Madness bracket was a success, in that a bunch of you guys voted and…
Three years. Wow. What a ride. We’ve taken life a quarter mile at a time, and now WE’RE ALL GODDAMN ROCKSTARS. Thanks for reading, you’re the best (hi, Mom, Happy Mother’s Day, you really are the best!). Last year saw a lot of changes. The site got a makeover—the montage was to die for, I…
I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything like that, but I do say with no small amount of smugness that my predictions are better than anyone else’s. Am I perhaps being a wee bit arrogant, considering that I base that statement on only the fact that I predicted last year’s Academy Awards…
