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 …

Spark Science Podcast – Magical Girls & Melissa Meyer

First of all, please forgive me for being so quiet around here.  I've working at a breakneck pace to submit my thesis next month so I've been devoting my time to just that.  We're hoping for an August defence and it has been very stressful but I relish the idea of finally being done with …

Ake Ome! – State of the Majokko Address

First of all, allow me to apologize for the silence.  I think I hinted at it in the Magical Girl Raising Project Episode Twelve review, but I took a break until the end of December for the holidays and to spend time with my son.  But now that we are preparing to head back to …

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? …

Why Magical Girls? pt. 1

A few weeks ago, I had a pleasure of attending GeekGirlCon in Seattle, a con that celebrates women involved in various aspects of geek culture, including science and technology, animation, comics, graphic novels, and the like.  While I came to Seattle with no idea of what to expect, when I got there, it felt like …