Introducing Unnecessary Terminology: Storytelling vs. Storycrafting
I had a thought the other day about types of fantasy that I thought I’d hash out and share. This is a bit on settings that applies more to short-form stories than it does to franchises. Examples are...
View ArticleIntroducing Unnecessary Terminology: The Fake Genius Zone
There’s a scene in Naoki Urasawa’s Happy! where the main character Umino, who’s gotten herself matched up against a player who should be by all rights an easy win, gets mixed up in a match-fixing gig....
View ArticleIntroducing Unnecessary Terminology: The Takeaway and The Moment
Different anime and manga, and really all works of entertainment, have different ways of captivating their audiences. Some of them create mental mementos so strong that they last forever whether you...
View ArticleIntroducing Unnecessary Terminology: Creative Constraint
How do you create the ultimate anime? Buy the best director and the best writer and give them infinite time and infinite money? Seems like that’d be obvious, right? Obvious, but wrong. Leaving aside...
View ArticleIntroducing Unnecessary Terminology: Pacing and Energy Level
Arata Kangatari’s 7th episode was delayed this week thanks to a pan-Asian Table Tennis tournament, so I was going to write a post celebrating rapid-fire tennis comedy Teekyu. But a certain phrase kept...
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