Directory

Here is a directory of articles I have written so far on my blog and all over the web that are worth reading. Popular and recommended articles are bolded. Posts are always catalogued on my work Twitter.

Let’s Talk About Japanese Books:

• 火花 (Hibana)
• 石黒くんに春は来ない (Spring Will Never Come to Ishiguro-kun)
• 砂糖菓子の弾丸は撃ちぬけない A Lollypop or A Bullet
• Violet Evergarden
• Bitch Magnet
• 火車
• Too Close to Home: More Books on Japanese Queer Literature

Japanese Media Editorials:

• Hirasawa Yui on David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water”
• The Dank Vinci Code
• The Nonexistence of Tsukamoto Shuichi
• The Concept of a Novel
• ちゅーそつ！1st Graduation and the Death of the Author
• Japanese Feminism: Towelket: One More Time
• Wuxia Narratives and Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer
• The 魔王 in Tales of Berseria
• Deconstruction: Looking for Reality in Representation
• The Anti-Library of Kemono Friends: Fans, Theories, and Everything in Between
• To the People Who Read the Violet Evergarden Review and Went Light Novels and Japanese Literature are Bad
• A Delusion Plotted: The Eccentric Case of 有頂天家族 (The Eccentric Family)
• A Way Back into Love: Contextualizing 聲の形 (A Silent Voice) in the Romance Genre
• Kill the Past Trilogy: The Silver Case
• Kill the Past Trilogy: Flower, Sun, and Rain
• The Meaningless, Beautiful Shots of Death Note (2017)
• The Fall of Shin Megami Tensei: The Imagination of Old Chuu2 Narratives
• As the Night is Short, Let Us Ponder About Two Adaptations on a Tatami Mat
• The Yokoo Anti-Games: Drag-on Dragoon 1, NieR: Replicant, Drag-on Dragoon 3
• Alien Nine: Humanity’s Other Future
• Liz and the Blue Bird: A Minor Masterpiece
• Death Crimson (デスクリムゾン): Toward A Creative Kusoge Subculture

Some Small Notes:

• Chuusotsu 1st Graduation

Non-Japanese/Mixed Media Editorials:

• The Normalization Politics of Comedy in the Year 2017: The Last Laugh and さばげぶっ！
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: A Small Heartbeat of Singapore
• Green Island: The Names We Remember (Taiwan/United States)
• Eating Ramen Around the World: Immigrant Food as Fads and Culture
• Playing the Comparison Game: The Dark Souls of Criticism
• The Singapore Political Novels: Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao! and The State of Emergency
• Abridgments in Translated Media
• The Foreigner: The Idolatry of Jackie Chan
• The School of Life: An Education of Ignorance
• Proud to be Queer: Queer Ethnographies and the Art of Failure

Articles for Tanoshimi.xyz:

• A Nice Derangement of Knights and Ladders (Sakura no Uta)
• Crossing the Lights When the Lights Go Green (Cross+Channel)
• Seabed — A Diary Entry
• 新興宗教オモイデ教 — Your Life Changes Everything
• ディスコ探偵水曜日 — You are the Cause by Which I Die
• 響け！ユーフォニアム — I Hear the Silver Strife
• It’s the Only Neat Thing to Do — A Trip into the Japanese World of Western Science Fiction
• イリヤの空、UFOの夏 — Welcome Back to Your Youth
• Danganronpa and the History of Mysteries — A Newer World Order
• Yokoo Tarou’s Eternal Recurrence: Transhumanism in NieR: Automata (More spoilers than the usual post I write)

Reviews/Articles for English Light Novels:

• Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte ii Desu ka?
• Ryuuen Tsukai no Kiba
• Kimi no Na wa. Another Side: Earthbound
• Biscuit Frankenstein
• Sayonara Arurukan
• Run Over
• KonoRano Sugoi 2018 (with Cho)

Elsewhere:

• Atelier: Beyond Practical and Theoretical Lives
• The Quiet Revolutions of Japanese Queer Novels

Miscellaneous:

• Kastel’s Guide to Mahjong for Beginning Saki Players