Full of Bias

Recently, the ethics and artistry of AI assembled works have been an unavoidable subject of debate, and the subject has been taking up my thoughts for a while now. I am not a critic, but I am a passionate viewer of art, enough to have this blog dedicated to it, and as such it's been fascinating to see this phenomenon call challenges to the ways people interact with art. The subject has gotten me to do a lot of introspection on my relationship to art, and it's currently 2:30 AM, so what better time to go all existential about the nature of art? This is essentially going to be my off-the-cuff ramblings about the subject, the version that comes out after being tired as hell during a moment of insane stress, directly after an 11 hour work day, so I'm not going to think too much about the quality or structure of this and I'm just gonna do whatever my mind decides to go with. Let's get some contextual groundwork out of the way. I have little to say about the ethics of thi...

Hey everyone. 2022 marked a turning point in my relationship to media, and that makes the start of a new year exciting. 2023 is where I interact with my hobby having built a new sense of media literacy and knowledge, and I'm interested to know how I'll think about seasonal anime given all the time I spent writing about the media I experienced this year. That being said, the nature of these first impressions lists aren't changing a single bit. As always, I'll be trying out at least one episode of nearly every single Winter 2023 seasonal anime. I will only be excluding sequels to shows I haven't caught up to, and a few adaptations of video games I want to play and not be spoiled on (so Nier and Trails of Cold Steel). I'll be explaining my thoughts on each of them here, and I'll rank them as well. As always, I want to advise everyone to not focus too much on my rankings, given that this is a first impression of a single episode. If you saw my best of 2022 list,...