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Arakawa’s Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Studio Bones (Original Work Hiromu Arakawa)

By Ritvik on Aug 14, 2020 • ( 10 Comments )

The theme of duality in MONSTER , Studio Madhouse (original work, Naoki Urasawa)

By Ritvik on Jul 24, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

The Grotesque in Dorohedoro, Studio MAPPA (Original work, Q Hayashida)

By Ritvik on Jul 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Escape in A Whisker Away (Original Work, Studio Colorido)

By Ritvik on Jul 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Reaching for the Stars in TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN!! ( Original Work, Studio Gainax)

By Ritvik on Jul 4, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Growing Up in Spirited Away (Original Work, Studio Ghibli)

By Ritvik on Jun 29, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

Arakawa’s Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Studio Bones (Original Work Hiromu Arakawa)

By Ritvik on Aug 14, 2020 • ( 10 Comments )

The world molded by Hiromu Arakawa is mysterious and intricate, yet there is a familiarity to it. Though the journey of the Elric brothers, our protagonists, may take the guise of fantasy, […]

The theme of duality in MONSTER , Studio Madhouse (original work, Naoki Urasawa)

By Ritvik on Jul 24, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

Monster is an introspective work on the human condition; it challenges our understanding of good and evil through the collection of very personal stories interwoven with our protagonist’s chase of the titular […]

The Grotesque in Dorohedoro, Studio MAPPA (Original work, Q Hayashida)

By Ritvik on Jul 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Anime is an art of the visual, its aesthetics often betray the intention and motifs behind the story. Sometime, breath-taking and grand sceneries work in synergy with vibrant colours to paint pictures […]

Reaching for the Stars in TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN!! ( Original Work, Studio Gainax)

By Ritvik on Jul 4, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (“TTGL”) is a loud and flamboyant story that swirls and spins to the tune of outerworldly robotic battles. It is a tale of rebellion for a humankind that […]

Growing Up in Spirited Away (Original Work, Studio Ghibli)

By Ritvik on Jun 29, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

Beneath the mesh of colours and imagery in the worlds that sprout from the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki is a subtle organic quality. There is an appeal to something truly fundamental within […]

Chasing Sunshine in Weathering With You ( Original Work, CoMix Waves Films)

By Ritvik on Jun 21, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

There is beauty to Makoto Shinkai’s works; colors, sounds, and emotions blend seamlessly into scenes of esotericism at times, and grounded contemplation at others. Weathering with You is no exception in its […]

Writing Insight : Ghibli hits where it hurts

By Ritvik on Jun 14, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

I am going to start this out by being absolutely frank, this piece has been the hardest I have written about so far. Trying to make my way through the cluster of […]

Nature, Development and Princess Mononoke (Original work Studio Ghibli)

By Ritvik on Jun 12, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

What makes Studio Ghibli films so poignant is often the truth of their subject matter. The windows they open into the fantastical worlds they depict are a surreal traverse at times and […]

Conflict and acceptance in Vinland Saga (Studio Wit, original work Makoto Yukimura)

By Ritvik on Jun 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The adaptation of Makoto Yukimura’s seminal historical fiction lays bare the ugliest and the grittiest of a tumultuous time, the Viking conquest of England in the 11th Century. It is a reminder […]

Writing Insight: Narita stresses me!

By Ritvik on Jun 4, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

To preface, turns out that writing that little epilogue as a blog post after my Porco Rosso piece was quite serendipitous. So I’ve decided to make this a quasi-regular thing to give […]

Crisis of Identity in DURARARA!! , Studio Brain Base (Original Work Ryohgo Narita)

By Ritvik on Jun 2, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Like its older sibling Baccano, Durarara!! (“Drrr”) is a mayhem of a story featuring a vast ensemble cast of varied and interesting characters. Ikebukuro, the stage of this story, is a lively […]

Writing about Ghibli is scary!

By Ritvik on Jun 1, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Hi guys, I hope all of you are safe and well out there! Thought it might be interesting to share some of my thoughts about that latest essay I wrote about Porco […]

Peace , Change and Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli)

By Ritvik on May 30, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

Films by Hayao Miyazaki have something special about them, oneiric, mysterious, and deeply personal; they appeal to something fundamental within us. Porco Rosso is no exception. It feels like being gently carried […]

Chaos In Baccano!! , Studio Brain Base ( orginal work Ryohgo Narita )

By Ritvik on May 26, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Studio Brain Base’s adaptation of Ryogo Narita’s light novel is not an easy show to describe. True to its namesake, it is a noisy show set in an equally noisy era. Prohibition […]

Escape in A Whisker Away (Original Work, Studio Colorido)

By Ritvik on Jul 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Life is like a storm. In its winds, we are thrown and whirled in chaotic mayhem. The works of Mari Okada have a flair for pulling on the emotions of lives fraught […]

Writing Insight : Thinking of the future with Miyazaki and Shinkai.

By Ritvik on Jun 30, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

First of all, I probably need to apologize for not having done one of these in a while. I have no excuse besides sheer laziness, I’ll try to be more consistent from […]

The ‘Self’ and The ‘Other’ in Attack on Titan, Studio Wit (Original Work, Hajime Isayama)

By Ritvik on Jun 25, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

The structure of the world we are introduced to in Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan is fascinating. At a glance, humans have been driven to reclusion within the perimeter of the three […]

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