Featured image: “Saint Tail” by SubaruSumeragi
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m finishing up a graduate program, which is why the posting is infrequent here, but I haven’t forgotten about you.
I am still slowly working on cleaning up the blog and organizing the content. I removed a “currently reading” widget that I never kept updated, but replaced it with one from Goodreads, which will be easier for me to keep current, since I simply have to remember to scan book covers with my phone. I’m still planning to give fiction, essays, and reviews their own pages with a menu at the top, so stay tuned for that as well. Leave comments on any other features you want to see, or recommendations for layout.
Also, since a reader recently asked for a discussion of Christian-themed magical girls, I am currently looking into Saint Tail and Phantom Thief Jeanne, the two Christian magical girl cat burglars who steal for Jesus. As I frequently mention here, works in the magical girl genre often come in pairs: someone produces something with a certain theme, and someone else replies by taking that theme and reversing it. Thus, Phantom Thief Jeanne can be interpreted as a deconstruction of Saint Tail, and it also features a plot twist that makes it a precursor of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
But we’ll get to all that later. Soon. I promise.
