Want a mystery/thriller that doesn’t feel like every other John Grisham airport novel? Take a look at “Death Note”. Tired of typical medieval European epic fantasies? You have “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood”, “Magi”, and “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba”, three wildly different shows with wildly different settings that are like virtually none of the cookie cutter door stopper epics made by western authors nowadays as a rule. It opened me up to a whole new world of storytelling possibilities. Anime made me see and recognize just how much I was missing. It happens with certain authors I recognize the genius of Gene Wolfe too, but I don’t really like reading him most of the time.Īnime is different. Burroughs and Howard just didn’t excite me.Īgain – to be clear – it really has nothing to do with them as far as the quality of their work, their influence, or any specific issues. I liked the bit of Conan I read but I didn’t love it – ditto Solomon Kane. I have no specific criticism and nothing against it it’s just that the style didn’t resonate with me personally. I never connected with the pulps I still can’t get through “A Princess of Mars”. I know a lot of the Castalia crowd came to the realization that modern media was missing something when they read the pulps. It is pretty obvious that modern media has lost something that the pulps had. Since then, similarly iconic characters and stories have become few and far between. Many of the most iconic stories and characters ever written were created in the pulps or during the era of the pulps. Pulp appealed to everyone, because pulp was good. The whole idea behind the pulp revolution and the “Regress harder” mantra is that modern entertainment has lost a lot of what makes media…well, enjoyable. The answer is quite simple, really: Anime is my pulp revolution. I want to explain why my posts have become almost exclusively anime focused lately. Better superhero content than anything put out by Marvel or DC
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