Why So Kawaii : A Fiction Major’s Attempt to Parse Japanese Media

  • Read CHAINSAWMAN

    February 9, 2021 by

    It’s rare that the style of a manga strikes me. Back when I was young, I can remember BLEACH standing out as something truly unique. There was a maturity to the type of story it was trying to tell and a real sense that manga was the format to tell that kind of story. As… Read more

  • Why So Introductions

    July 14, 2019 by

    “In a thousand years, historians are going to pore over this era of pandering Japanese media, baffled, and wonder–why is shit so kawaii?” Welcome to Why So Kawaii, a blog created with the intent of applying all of the wonderful skills that I learned through six years of formal collegiate education in studying rhetoric and… Read more

  • Why So Hiatus?

    February 9, 2021 by

    When I began this project, I was coming out of the tail end of a relationship that left me with tons of free time to torture myself over how awful things were–I figured it’d be a better to channel that energy towards a fun hobby and creating something that would last. I started watching Urusei… Read more

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