Recent content by Mandragoras

Yeah, it blew my mind when I found out, too. Here's hoping the guy keeps pacing himself and stays healthy and happy. And speaking of which: That new chapter, hot damn. The spread of the mouth of the Seventh Layer… as usual, entrancing, and a pretty funny chapter when it's not being quietly ominous.

You ever read, I dunno, Bertrand Russell? Maybe Richard Rorty? They're very readable, actually, and pretty direct in their ideas. I'd also say that Michel Foucault is way more accessible than people make him out to be because a lot of people who translate contemporary French stuff tend to make...

…has anyone here bothered to point out that what the video at the beginning is describing isn't actually deconstruction in the first place? Like, people on the Internet bandy that word about to describe that particular school of subversion of expectations or recontextualisation of genre tropes...

Setting aside weird outliers like Mars of Destruction which barely count, Pride of Orange was simultaneously incredibly tedious and sporadically really uncomfortable in ways I'm not sure that the writers actually understood.

Tsukushi has gone on record saying that aside from one high school buddy who does some part-time assistant work, he makes Made in Abyss entirely on his own. The amount of labour that sort of work requires boggles the mind, particularly given the level of detail he puts into his artwork. He's...

It would honestly be lovely if someone would translate more of this. I would if I could…