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Long essays, slow reads, usually too late to the discourse. I write about what I can't stop thinking about.
5 reviews
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs · Published unpublished
Umineko is not a mystery. It is a book about what it costs to refuse a mystery's terms. Beatrice's game is a trap, and the trap is that accepting any answer — magical or mundane — means giving up on the people the game is ostensibly about. Battler's arc across the four question…
CLANNAD · Published unpublished
Clannad is two books. The first is a school-life ensemble about Tomoya learning to be in a place he thought he'd already rejected. The second is After Story — a book about adulthood, the thing the first half was preparing you for without saying so. What After Story earns, it…
Fate/stay night · Published unpublished
Archer is the best antagonist Nasu has written, because he is Shirou's own answer. UBW's middle chapters are a debate between two versions of the same ideal — one that has not yet paid the cost, one that has paid it and is furious about it. Heaven's Feel is where the book stops…
Amnesia: Memories · Published unpublished
Orion is the game's real protagonist and it takes the Joker route to admit it. The four-suit routes are each the heroine negotiating a relationship she does not remember choosing; Orion is the only figure present in all of them, and he is the one the game cannot let you forget.…
Steins;Gate · Published unpublished
What the game is actually about — underneath the microwave and the CRT tube — is the cost of refusing to let anyone go. Okabe's mad-scientist bit is a coping posture, and the story strips it down one iteration at a time. By the back half you're no longer watching a time-travel…
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