Oh the Humanities! Studying Anime in Academia (or how I came about studying magical girls)

(Author's Note: Though I'm sure others have used this phrase before, totally gonna state that Youtuber SolePorpoise is where I found the phrase "Oh, the Humanities".  You should go and visit his page!  The phrase is very fitting, since I studied in the faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria.  Anyway, onto the blog …

Two Years of Magical Girl Studies

Thanks to Facebook's nifty little tool "On this Day", I found out that yesterday two years ago (November 7, 2014), I declared my intention to write my undergraduate honours thesis on Magical Girl series.  But would you believe that I almost did my thesis on creating a fun way to study Japanese using popular culture? …

Magical Girls – An Illustrated Thesis

As much as I thought that I would be posting on this site every day or every other day (ah, how idealistic we are when we start things), I've actually taken time out to figure out where exactly I want to go with this site.  Blogging is not an easy thing to do - my …