Maybe a Camera: The Epistemology of Alienation, Hallucination, and Communication in The Ancient Magus’ Bride

Q: 'Yamazaki-san, do you have a gift you'd like to give to Chise or Elias?'   A: 'Maybe a camera? A camera is a tool that lets you objectively capture something subjective. I'd like them to learn the difference...Yeah. I'd like them to both get their hands on a camera, so that they could each …

Suspended in Dreams on the Mitakihara Loop Line – A Nietzschean Reading of Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story

"...to experience is to invent..." - DB 119 The first time I saw Rebellion was in a movie theater in December of 2013. I had a pretty intense emotional reaction to the end of the film: I left the theater feeling incredibly angry, and to shake the feeling out I jogged insanely to a bus I …