I haven’t done a serious kanji repetition for over a year now. I don’t regret the two years I spent using an Anki deck to go through the 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji, ordinary use kanji), but I do wonder whether daily writing in a journal from the very beginning of my studies—23 year...
Comics (manga) are everywhere. There are dozens of weekly manga magazines and everyone under thirty reads them. Some go to the extreme and become mangaotaku, people so completely immersed in manga that it dominates their lives. You detest them and do your best to avoid them. ...
Square Enix Manga publishes the series via Manga UP! in English, describing it like so: College student Tokiwa gets invited to a mixer by his female classmate Suo. But when he arrives with his friends, they’re greeted by three dazzlingly handsome men?! But as the two groups get to know...
The series director is relatively unusual, and the division of duty between the director and series director is not really well-defined and probably varies from production to production. It’s become common-place for Shaft to have Akiyuki Shinbou directing with a series director ...
(supercell) who is also an UGC fame and one of the top young music creators in Japan. Story A huge monster suddenly appears on the top of a building in an ordinary provincial town. The local Defense Forces go into action, and the people of the town are in uproar. A young girl Yuki...
How to Replace This Trope This one’s simple. Depictions of male heroes offer all sorts of dark backstories that don’t include sexual assault. In fact, when Gail Simone rebooted Red Sonja in 2013, she just took out the rape in the backstory and otherwise left most of the event the sa...
He said. “I am sorry to have disturbed you, I am simply taking a walk down to the riverbed to fetch myself a drink of water.” “Indeed,” said the Tyrannosaur, “a fine way to spend what is proving to become a very warm and pleasant day. Might I trouble you to also tell me...
If you want to write good fiction, you need a character who creates tension and who is at odds with the forces of good. Here are some tips and ideas for creating complex villains for your stories: Choose a model for your villain: an ordinary person, a celebrity, or a notorious criminal...
Everything King Bradley uses to fight with is really just ordinary weapons. There is a scene in the brotherhood series (I'm aware you mentioned the manga but your overall question is generic) where he even picks up two dagger and starts to fight the old man with no problem. With the ...
In an effort to increase the dismal television ratings for their space launches, NASA decides to send an ordinary man into space, and Homer is chosen for the task. Homer Loves Flanders (1994) After Flanders invites Homer to a football game, the pair become friends, but Homer's possessivene...