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Okay, so there’s this concept called ekphrasis, which I’ve been reading about. It’s basically writing based on a picture, or more accurately, any kind of description of a visual artwork counts…

The following are some unordered thoughts I recorded while re-reading Battle Angel Alita in preparation for the group discussion I had on the Dai-SOS Brigade Channel. It’s kind of a…

There is no actual sun set in this novel. The title is an inversion of  Japan as “the nation/people of the rising sun.” “The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) is a…

Welcome to my Otaku Life Blog. It’s a slice of life blog where I talk about what I have been up to lately. I’ve been reading a poem called The Waste…

What is an otaku? This is a question that has bothered me for the last four years. I used to run a website called Otaking, but I closed it because…

The British government is currently holding a consultation on banning social media for under-16s. I have several opinions about this. First of all, I don’t take these consultations seriously. I…

I’m at the station waiting for the first train to my first lecture of the second semester. Since I have some time, I might as well discuss some of my…

This post is a response to a video response by a youtuber called n0 thankyou to a blog post by me which was itself a response to a video by…

I wanted to go blind into a story so I randomly picked a volume of a side-story of a spin-off of a light novel series. Now admittedly I didn’t go…

This is not a discussion about Bataille. I have not read Bataille nor is it my intention to tell n0 thanky0u how to run his channel but this is merely…

Review The hero died eight years ago after defeating the demon lord but how did he die? That is the question for the reader and which the main narrator who…

Replays are a type of literature that cannot be replicated by AI. Does this mean that they are a superior form of literature? They are not. At least not by…