Translucent Thoughts

  • Austin’s anime fans find community at Kōmori Con

    https://thedailytexan.com/staff_name/nirvika-dhanasri/ Artists, maid dresses and colorful wigs crowded the rooms of the Edder-Harbin Alumni Center on Saturday, Feb. 7, for Austin’s annual Kōmori Con. Cosplaying as their favorite anime characters, students and eventgoers purchased merchandise and bonded over their love for anime and manga. Emily Nguyen and Hanming Li, UT graduates and current medical students,…

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion & Losing Adolescence

    At its surface, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a story about children in robots. Dig a bit deeper, it is a story littered with religious iconography and isolation. And at its core, it is a tale about adolescence, specifically losing it. Many people watch NGE and jump straight into the Freudian-ness of it all. I won’t…