You can do anything!
You can be anything!
Take that shining future of yours, and embrace it with all your might!
Dispelling the Heat Haze: Ashita no Nadja and A Prince’s Shadow
Once upon a time there was a chivalrous knight, of lithe limb and dazzling smile, virtue incarnate. Cutting a remarkably gallant figure, Francis Harcourt emerges from the well-thumbed pages of a storybook, resolved to liberate Nadja Applefield from her imminent doom. Throughout Ashita no Nadja fond and fonder still of the prince sealed deep within girlish reveries Nadja grows, until he eventually assumes a role where he perhaps, becomes more myth than man. Deep within the halcyon throes of an arresting midsummer episode however, the pages are sent flying off into the aether as reality takes hold.
Brand New Theatre Days: The Idolmaster, Million Live, and Passing the Baton
Closing the Underworld’s Gateway: Hunter x Hunter and Avoiding a Developmental Death
The Key to Your Heart: Restructuring the Maeda Ideal Through Clannad and Air’s Theatrical Adaptations
Do I have any agency yet, uguu~.
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“In the Beginning, Woman Was Truly the Sun”: Haikara-san ga Tooru and Emerging Feminism in the Taishou Era
In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person.
Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another’s brilliance.
The time has come for us to recapture the sun hidden within us.
