Showing posts with label takahashi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label takahashi. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2026

HARUM SCARUM

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 My next mythcomics post concerns a rather atypical "harem comedy," so it behooves me to advance some general rules for the typica...
Monday, March 23, 2026

TSUNDERE, TSUNDERE

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 (Apologies for the above pun to Blur and their nineties song, "Sunday, Sunday") On this blog I've written quite a bit about t...
Friday, March 20, 2026

MIKAMI MEDITATIONS PT. 3

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 The other day I finished reading the last of Takashi Shiina's 1991-99 manga GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI. The series is very much like several ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

MYTHCOMICS: ["KIKYO'S LIGHTS"] INU-YASHA (200?)

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 This analysis of this long arc (18 chapters) is thematically tied to the one I arbitrarily titled KAGOME'S HEART , so reading that essa...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

MYTHCOMICS: ["KAGOME'S HEART"] INU-YASHA (200?)

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 I won't devote any time in this essay to detailing the basic setup of Rumiko Takahashi's INU-YASHA serial. I outlined those basics ...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

OUTSTANDING EPIC FANTASY COMICS

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  I've been thinking about the appeal of epic fantasy-- which usually includes the subgenre of sword and sorcery, and includes at least ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

MYTHCOMICS: "ON THE HORNS OF PASSION" (URUSEI YATSURA, 1980)

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There was a time when I would have deemed Rumiko Takahashi's URUSEI YATSURA "mythic" just because the creator was so skilled a...