The Melancholy of Kiryu Zero: Why We Want Our Characters to Suffer

In an attempt to broaden my anime horizons, my sister convinced me to try out Vampire Knight. While I’m a fantasy/supernatural buff, I tend to stay very far away from vampire shows, especially since the shojo demographic raised my skeptical radar to assume that the show was going to have Twilight-esque overtones. Considering that my […]

Psychoanalyzing Monsters: Gauna, Titans, and Vampires in Knights of Sidonia, Attack on Titan and Shiki

Regardless of parental efforts to protect their children, we’re introduced to monsters disturbingly early in life. For those that are fortunate, monsters are little more than fantastical apparitions conjured up from the fertile soil of boundless childlike imagination. However, it’s an inevitability that at some point in our lives, we either encounter real monsters, monsters […]