Articles

List all articles in reverse chronological order. The most recent appear first.

• dAIa-log 004: Shibuya in Anime — Why an Unfinished City Feels Like a Narrative Core

  11 Jan, 2026

  Exploring how Shibuya’s unfinished cityscape comes to function as a narrative core in anime, through works like Jujutsu Kaisen, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Oshi no Ko, and Hi Score Girl.

  dAIa-log • structural-context • narrative-style

• Is Frieren a "Loli-Babaa"? — Rethinking the Term and Its Boundaries

  3 Jan, 2026

  Reexamining the term “loli-babaa” through Frieren, this essay explores how age, appearance, and character coding shape its meaning within Japanese character culture.

  co-laborAItion • cultural-context • media-form

• “Osorezan Le Voile”: How Fan Creation Completed Shaman King

  15 Dec, 2025

  Tracing how Kapitaro’s “Osorezan Le Voile” grew from Nico Nico and Vocaloid-era fan creation into *Shaman King*’s most definitive anime ending—through Reiwa remakes, Japanese era-name intuition, and a thought on what generative AI can’t replicate.

  autograph • fan-creation • anime-history

• dAIa-log 003: Reimagining “Wa”: How Anime Curates and Transforms Japanese Aesthetics

  9 Dec, 2025

  How anime reimagines the Japanese concept of Wa (和) across eras — from Ribbon no Kishi to Mushishi and Suzume — and how emptiness becomes a vessel of meaning.

  dAIa-log • cultural-context • wa