Kuzu no Honkai: A somber visit to love’s graveyard

A disease (or rather, trend) that most modern day romance (and romance-comedy) anime have these days is that they avoid the “darker” issues of infatuation. To them, infatuation is like that first crush in high school: bright, mellow, sometimes bittersweet. The male and female protagonist will end up together, their love made clear by their […]

Plastic Memories: Of Robots and Love

With all these advances in technology, why haven’t we been able to build a robot with an AI on the same level of a human? If we could, then could we build robots that can seamlessly integrate with society, feel emotions, and actually cry? And what would be the future of human-synthetic relationships? Those are […]

ANIME THEORY: A Dark Decoding of 5cm Per Second

Hey there people, welcome back to ANIME THEORY! After a long absence (you can blame my thesis for that), I’m finally back to interpreting anime, if only for a while. I still have a lot of stuff to do in college. To celebrate Ahotaku39’s second birthday, I’ve decided to re-watch a certain anime that brought […]

ANIME THEORY: Psychology of a Tsundere – Why They’re Attractive

First off, let me thank my girlfriend for helping me out with some of the information used in this THEORY. Much love to you! I would also like to thank my coworker for providing me access to the journal article written by Aronson and Linder. You’re the best, man! And this THEORY goes to my good […]

Calling (A Sequel to Partings)

This is another piece of short fiction I’ve written for my campus magazine. It is the direct sequel from my previous piece titled “Partings”. Hope you enjoy! *** “Who is this? How did you get this number?” A loud crackling sound was all I heard. “Hello?” “zzhhh… *crackle*… Mi…ya” My legs felt limp. Cold sweat […]

Partings

This is a piece of fiction I submitted to my university magazine, and I feel it’s time to make it accessible to the whole world. This story is inspired by supercell’s “Sayonara Memories”, a song I used to play during the worst of my breakup period. Please enjoy! UPDATE: Here is the link to the […]

Boku no Kanojo wa Cyborg [2008]: Human and Machine Love Story

I raided my friend’s external hard drive a couple of days back and copied most of his anime, games, and movies. I must have copied this movie by accident. I had nothing to do last Saturday, so I decided to watch Boku no Kanojo wa Cyborg also known as Cyborg She. It was released in […]