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…
From the moment when a desperate band of survivors beat down on zombie hordes in an English pub in time to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” in his 2004 directorial debut Shaun of the Dead, it was clear that director Edgar Wright had a rare knack for combining clever cinematography with needle drop pop songs. That same…
It has been a while since I marathoned a show, but this past week, I watched all that I could of the anime known as My Hero Academia. So far this anime is still in the midst of its second season, with likely more to go after it and I’m certainly interested in seeing more…
Disclimer: I know it is not in my usual style to talk about a non-animated film, but since it is so similar to an animated film that I previously wrote about, I figured it would count. This article contains spoilers for Perfect Blue and Black Swan. Read with caution. Also note that the following video…
Tsuritama is a show about fishing in the port town of Enoshima, Japan… No wait, that’s not entirely right. Er, let’s go with this: Tsuritama is about a young boy named Yuki who suffers from severe social anxiety and learns to open up with the help of an eclectic group of friends through fishing in…
The first James Bond movie I saw starring the late and dearly missed Roger Moore was Live and Let Die in high school. I grew up with Sean Connery’s classics in heavy rotation on VHS at home and the adventures of Pierce Brosnan playing out in theaters and on my Nintendo 64, and while popular logic dictates…
