An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

How To Urban Fantasy – Shakugan no Shana (Season 1) Spoiler Review

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a world of magic and monsters exists alongside our every-day world, but most people are unaware of it. The Magic World is full of both dangers and wonders. One day, our main character, an average person, is introduced to the supernatural truth that was hidden from them, encounters a magical figure who will act as a mentor and/or guide to the new world, and ends up getting embroiled in life and death affairs to which others are ignorant. Often, the main character will quickly or slowly come into some special power of their own that makes them highly significant in the magical world when they were a nobody in the human world.

If you wanted to stop me at any point in that, you might have encountered Urban Fantasy at some point.

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Overture – Kagerou Project Review and Analysis Introduction

With a new year, the time has come to talk about what’s probably become my favorite overall media franchise: The Kagerou Project, or KagePro for short. It’s a story that begins – or seems to begin – on a hot summer day, concerning a group of youngsters, tied together on multiple levels and embroiled in strange and supernatural events.

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