Stories can have a powerful effect on a person. You can watch A Place Further than the Universe and feel inspired to take a trip around the world or watch I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and realize your lack of fulfilling relationships has left you as a husk gathering dust in the corner. I'm … Continue reading You Oughta Read Vinland Saga
The romantic life of Kazuya Kinoshita isn't the most enviable of romantic lives. He has yet to enjoy the naked company of a woman at the age of twenty, and his first girlfriend breaks up with him after a month of dating to go bang some other guy. Emotionally distraught, Kazuya orders himself one Chizuru … Continue reading Flash Review – Rent-A-Girlfriend (Vol. 1-2)
Worldbuilding is a tricky bronco for some writers to tame. When proclaiming yourself god of a new world, a lot of questions will demand to be stewed. This might not be as much of an issue if you're writing a Japanese romance set in a Japanese high school with Japanese customs and Japanese culture because … Continue reading Worldbuilding Using Danmachi’s Building Block Worldbuilding
Humans are horny. This fact is one Renta Ota is painfully aware of, being a thirty-five-year-old virgin whose nightly activities include and are limited to sticking his hand down his pants. Then one night, a homeless college girl, Saki Michino, collapses outside his apartment in hunger, so he feeds her and lets her bunk for … Continue reading Flash Review – Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight (Vol. 1-3)
There's nothing Kazuki Hoshino wants more in life than normality, and there's nothing irony wants more than raining on people's parades. A mysterious entity calling itself O offers him a genie lamp known titularly as a Box, and despite taking a pass on it, he and his friends get sucked into a number of messes … Continue reading Flash Review – The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria
Cutscenes tend to receive mixed reception among the gaming community. On the one hand, they provide a break from the gameplay by allowing the player to kick back and enjoy storytime, but on the other, they rip control from the player and force them to watch their character pull off the baddest ass stunts and … Continue reading Valkyria Chronicles’s Juxtaposing Approach to Killer Cutscenes
It's that most glorious time of the year, summer vacation, and Fumiya Tomozaki's life councilor Aoi Hinami has given him his harshest challenges yet: befriending dudes and scoring himself a babe. The Cringe: Something this series has pulled off well is Tomozaki's dialogue, but not because he speaks with the most wondrous Shakespearean prose. Quite … Continue reading Flash Review – Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Vol. 3)
For the most part, my main topic of discussion on this blog is light novels, with a foray into the occasional video game, but those are just booty calls. My one true passion in life is Pokémon, and aside from a falling out during the Sixth Generation, the series has always had a place in … Continue reading Reworking Sword & Shield’s Gym Challenge
The teenage blues has plagued Natsuo Fuji like it's 14th century Europe. He's hot for teacher, he loses his virginity to some girl he barely knows, and then his dad gets married to the mother of the teacher he's got it bad for and the human-shaped robot he submitted his V card to, turning the … Continue reading Flash Review – Domestic Girlfriend
There're two types of people in this world: those who become demon chow and those who take revenge for their families by joining the Demon Slayer Corps. Tanjiro Kamado falls into this latter category when he comes home one day and finds his entire family chewed up and spit out by some random passing demon, … Continue reading Flash Review – Demon Slayer
