Plk Lesiak
The anime market is very much a place of contradictions. On one hand, it offers some of the most creative and unorthodox ideas in popculture and makes them work in ways that would usually be impossible in other forms of media (it’s enough to realize how few live action adaptations of anime proved to be … Read more
Anyone that still remember the now-defunct Vine probably realizes that creating “artificial” limitations for your own work can lead to some interesting and surprisingly fresh results. While most things on a site that only allows 6 second-long videos will obviously be trash or bland iterations of overused memes, some authors were able to create brilliant … Read more
In recent years, visual novels are starting to get a solid foothold in the western markets, with the most famous titles, such as Clannad, Muv-Luv, and Steins;Gate receiving English translations and making their ways to Steam and other distribution platforms. While VNs is a pretty small niche in the US and Europe, when compared to … Read more
Anime can be extremely formulaic and riddled with grotesquely overused tropes – and indeed, in pretty much every season we can find shows so devoid of any original idea or genuine charm that their existence seems like a sad joke (I’m looking at you, In Another World With My Smartphone). At the same time, it’s … Read more