Baka Laureate, as Affected by SOPA and PIPA

Yes, I am fully aware of my decision to use comic sans as a font for this image. Actually, if SOPA and PIPA pass, that would be pretty much the end of Baka Laureate and anime blogging in general. I’d encourage my readers to voice their complaints to their MPs/senators/etc., but at this point I’m …

12 Days of Anime #2: Clain Gets Molested By Two Older Ladies

Merry Christmas Eve!

Falling Flat: Fractale Series Review

There’s something telling about a series that, when I had first decided to episodically blog it in the beginning of the winter season, started off interesting and full of intrigue and potential, but fell flat enough to lose said blogging interest as soon as the sixth episode. For a person who had (not so) recently …

The Weight of the World: Fractale Episode 4

After a highly eventful episode 3, it is imperative for Fractale to have an appropriate follow-up episode where the characters react to events.  The standard rules of storytelling beat determine that the plot must alternate between events that happen and the reactions of the characters that experience them.  In episode 4, the pace of the …

Choosing Sides: Fractale Episode 3

There are a few things that bug me about spoiler warnings.  Firstly, the mere mention of the existence of a spoiler often feels like a spoiler in itself, since people can often infer the possibilities based on contextual knowledge of the show (when in doubt, a character probably died).  Secondly, selective usage of spoiler warnings …

A Different Kind of Family: Fractale Episode 2, Part 2

In the first part of this series of posts on episode 2 of Fractale, I pointed out the importance of Nessa’s perspective of the world in regards to Clain’s character development, and how he eventually sees her as someone close to him.  It’s a bit strange to accept that he would openly let her into …

Nessa’s Smile: Fractale Episode 2, Part 1

While I feel that the general concept of what I aim to do with my Fractale posts have come across, I was initially amazed at how it required multiple installments.  Each scene in episode 1 was crucial to the development of the plot structure of the episode itself, and episode 2 follows up with another …

Blasting Off Again! Fractale Episode 1, Part 2

On Tuesday, I covered the first two-thirds of Fractale’s first episode, whose plot stood out due to its great usage of storytelling elements to establish a well-structured opening scene.  These scenes add up together to set the viewer up for what will potentially be an interesting story, driven by the Fractale system itself, as well …

An Encounter in a Fractal World: Fractale Episode 1, Part 1

Collins English Dictionary defines the word Fractal best, describing the noun as a figure or shape formed by repeated subdivisions of  a simpler shape or form.  In the way a snowflake is formed by a single triangle, with smaller triangles shaping out of its sides, with smaller triangles shaping out of those, the nature of …