For this being all about Shinso, the story actually says more about his teacher.
My Hero Academia Episode 99 (Season 5, Episode 11)
An adaptation of Issues 214, 215, and 216 of the manga, available from Viz
My Hero Academia is available to stream on Crunchyroll and Funimation
Spoilers up to My Hero Academia No. 317, the spinoff Vigilantes No. 103, and the film Heroes Rising
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I’ve been writing about struggles I’m having returning to my dissertation to try to address questions I keep having, especially about the final chapter on Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. To continue that discussion, I want to talk about how I was trying to position Twain’s postbellum against the antebellum writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne–as I thought that Twain’s stark realism against Hawthorne’s romanticism can best be understood how Twain tries to show a gritty murder scene in a barely lit house, while Hawthorne thinks he can romanticize by talking about how moonlight in an abandoned room lends something mystical to the setting.
(And, yes, at some point, I need to address how Hawthorne, along with his contemporaries, was building his idea of the romance out of some mysticism he was associating with indigenous people–chiefly in the form of arrowheads Hawthorne talks about stimulating the imagination and conversations he had with Thoreau about indigenous “relics” at Walden.)
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Recently nominated for an Eisner Comics Award, this manga by Tatsuya Endo is not only well written, funny, heartwarming, tense, and beautifully illustrated. It also succeeds from a marketing perspective, by knowing how to cater to various markets: if you like gag comics, if you like adorable children doing adorable things, if you like spy thrillers and political intrigue, or if you want to stare at the pretty spy and the pretty assassin being awkward around each other.
Spy x Family (2019-present, 47 chapters and bonus chapters), available from Viz
(more…)By this point, students in all three classes are working on their next major essays, so I want to revise the schedule to allow for more in-class workshopping and discussion of topics.
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A good story needs plot and characters, not just stapling together comic book references. Even Megas XLR understood that!
“Inhumanity,” My Hero Academia: Vigilantes No 103
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There is such a thing as having too competent an antagonist.
“Your Turn,” My Hero Academia No 316
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I wonder if Horikoshi hit the reset button, because the implications of his story were stretching beyond the limits of the plot–like how Izuku’s multiple Quirks are breaking the constraints of his body.
“That Which Is Inherited” My Hero Academia Episode 98 (Season 5, Episode 10)
An adaptation of Issues 209, 210, 211, 212, and 213 of the manga, available from Viz
My Hero Academia is available to stream on Crunchyroll and Funimation
Spoilers up to My Hero Academia No. 316, the spinoff Vigilantes No. 103, and the film Heroes Rising
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Children’s introduction to all things Poe.
“Every Poe Has a Silver Lining.” Time Squad (2001-2003, 26 episodes). Available for streaming nowhere.
(more…)I return to my dissertation, trying to make sense out of Mark Twain dropping the corpse of a dead man in the middle of the kind of house he kept trying to escape.
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