Idle Master

Mizuho is best girl -- That is all that is necessary to be said in my intro this week. Disclaimer: There are two essays preceding this; Just like how the show has built upon itself each episode, my essays thus have ideas that are built upon one another as well that can add a lot of context-flavor. However, since this runs the risk of reading fatigue, I will instead just summarized each of them and leave the final decision to you.  The Human Sandbox (Episode 1): https://zxcaderu.blogspot.com/2021/07/sonny-boy-human-sandbox.html This essay takes an in-depth view on a concept I coined, the 'human sandbox'. It is an analysis focused around how the show's structure and premise removes all sense of survival-concepts and societal associations. This is done so to establish our characters not as human-beings but as a pure manifestation of 'concepts', ideas that the show writers are much more excited to explore. It is also a lot more technique-based, using interesting techniq...

  So I'm going to start a new kind of blog separate from my usual topic-based analysis. I've realized that while I am quite happy being able to craft full essays out for a wide variety of shows, I am still somewhat limited. In every show and every episode, I often have many opinions, likes and dislikes but more often than not, I don't deem it substantial enough for a full analysis. However, I think that itself has begun to limit or censor some of the opinions I have; As if saying: I can only write or express things that needs to be public-worthy. With this mindset, this blog has already diverted from some of my original vision for it: A blog that is a comfortable place where I can jot down and gather various feelings I have. And it also runs counter to my personal philosophy: Any feelings you have of a show, no matter how basic it is, is worthy to be considered and looked at. That is, I don't want an environment where we can only talk about "deep shows" and on...