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You know how people say “suspension of disbelief” when talking about fiction? Anime doesn’t suspend it. Anime vaporizes it, launches it into orbit, and waves goodbye from the command deck. That’s why anime and the sci-fi/fantasy genres are made for each other — both demand imagination without apology. 1. Anime…
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The rivalry between Science Fiction and Fantasy is one that has been going on for centuries. Even today, my friend and I have debates on which genre is better. Most of the time though, these discussions simply fall into an argument on personal preference. However, what I’m here to do…
I. The Villain Is Winning — Because We Made Him RelatableModern storytelling has a sickness.We’ve started to love our monsters more than our martyrs. We crave “nuance,” “moral gray,” “complicated villains.” And yes, complexity matters — but somewhere along the way, we began confusing moral ambiguity with depth. We stopped…
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1. Anime Isn’t About Escaping Reality — It’s About Upgrading It People always say anime fans “escape reality.” Buddy, I’m not escaping — I’m evolving. Anime doesn’t take me away from life; it teaches me how to survive it with cooler hair and louder emotions. Every time Goku powers up,…
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According to Statistics Canada, for every dollar an average Canadian makes, a racialized individual earns only 81 cents (Statistics Canada, 2024). This fact is one among many concerning statistics surrounding racism and systemic discrimination. These realities have profound and lasting impacts that shape societies, identities, and an individual’s sense of…
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Open any good fantasy novel, and before the first sentence, you’ll find it: a map. Mountains like teeth, rivers like veins, dotted lines marking “here be dragons.” It’s the cartographic heartbeat of imagination. Tolkien didn’t start The Lord of the Rings with characters, he started with Middle-earth itself. The map…
The fear surrounding Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in the 1980s—often called the “Satanic Panic”—was a cultural phenomenon rooted more in moral anxiety than in reality. During this time, many parents, religious groups, and media outlets became convinced that fantasy role-playing games like D&D could lead young people toward violence, suicide,…
There’s something haunting about a ship that talks back. From HAL 9000’s calm menace to Solaris’s sentient ocean, science fiction has long given machinery a pulse, and in doing so, revealed how deeply human our fears and hopes for intelligence truly are. AI in science fiction isn’t just a tool;…
(Field Notes from the Panam Interplanetary Travel Journal, Vol. 3) Every planet I’ve visited — Earth included — has one thing in common: hotel rooms that look clean enough to trust and suspicious enough to doubt. It’s universal. Cosmic, even. Somewhere in the fabric of spacetime, there’s a law that…
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