Anime is a great thing. And I don’t mean that purely as a memetic statement, I think it’s great that Japan embraces animation as a means of expression. Cartoons in America are exemplified by Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, with a mainstream focus on kids, rather than adults. Even the animation geared towards adults in America areContinue reading “Some of My Favorites: Five Emotional Anime!”
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Life Is Money: Sensory Deprivation’s Effect on the Brain
It’s obvious: people go to extreme lengths for the sake of cash. Most blatantly, people can rob a bank, a gas station, hold others up at gunpoint, but such desire for money can be shown in other means as well. Questionable business decisions, moral ambiguity, participation in crazy game shows, money is quite often theContinue reading “Life Is Money: Sensory Deprivation’s Effect on the Brain”
Lucid 9: Dissociation, Stress, and Breaking the Mind
Lucid 9. I assume if you’re reading this now, you’ve already played through Lucid 9 and are looking for content on it. But if you haven’t, here’s the rundown: it’s a visual novel centered around one Yama Ishimoto, who is dealing with the fallout of a series of murders, and the effect it is havingContinue reading “Lucid 9: Dissociation, Stress, and Breaking the Mind”
Reading Between Reviews: Lucid 9 Inciting Incident
Imagine for a moment, that you and your friends live a relatively normal high school life. Lucid 9 is a free mystery visual novel released relatively recently: April 14th of this year. Despite boasting rather impressive ratings for a free visual novel, averaging above 80% on Steam, it remains relatively unknown, being…well. A free visual novel, withContinue reading “Reading Between Reviews: Lucid 9 Inciting Incident”
Why YOU Should Read Goodnight Punpun
I was at a loss for what to write about for a while. Should I go back to something something Xenoblade Chronicles, should I talk about another anime I’ve been watching, should I enter the world of visual novels on this blog? After all, this IS still a new blog. But then, I revisitedContinue reading “Why YOU Should Read Goodnight Punpun”
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