Tag: Shelley Pallis
May 8, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind
By Shelley Pallis. Belying his humdrum title, Hitsuji Gamei’s novel The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind kicks off with an original and exciting double-bluff. Using the language of fairy tales, he chronicles the rise to power of Felmenia Stingray, a nobleman’s daughter who masters many magical arts at a young age, […]
April 23, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: By the Grace of the Gods
By Shelley Pallis. And then he died. In his sleep, because of a particularly powerful sneeze. Ryoma Takebayashi wakes up at tea party in heaven with several gods, and accepts his fate with customary light-novel equanimity. A downtrodden salaryman in a dead-end job, he had seen many of his co-workers die from overwork and a […]
April 11, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: In Another World with My Smartphone
By Shelley Pallis. And then he was struck by lightning, and it was a mistake, but it was too late, and he was dead. Well, that’s not a customer complaint that the Guardian is going to be able to deal with in a couple of phone calls. Fifteen-year-old Touya Mochizuki has indeed just been killed […]
March 23, 2022 · 0 comments
Music: Elfen Lied
By Shelley Pallis. It’s been eighteen years since the Elfen Lied anime finished on Japanese telly, but its imagery and music has become a staple of the anime fan scene, appearing in innumerable AMVs, and emo mixtapes, and also on a 2015 list of 38 anime officially banned in China. The music by Kaiyo Konishi […]
March 2, 2022 · 2 comments
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
By Shelley Pallis. More than twenty years after they were transported as children at a summer camp to a Digital World, the so-called DigiDestined are all grown-up. Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to […]