Why are the Pokémon games so popular? Because it’s a game of hierarchies, and humans love climbing hierarchies. — Pokémon is easily one of the most popular video game series of all time. It has transcended multiple gaming generations and has created millions of loyal fans. However, if you look at the core set of games through each generation, the concept still remains the same, and the basic story…

Nathan Drake has the most important contributor to any feeling of long-term life fulfilment: good companions. — Nathan Drake, the athletic, adventurous, bold, charming lead of the Uncharted video game series, is an excellent example of what an exciting life can look like. His life is filled with twists and turns, ups and down, excitement, emotion, and a few periods of normalcy and boredom. All in all…

Why is there a countermovement against the modern culture in favour of traditional masculinity? How does this trend demonstrate why masculinity is so needed? — Ask many young men in the world today about the state of masculinity, manliness and manhood in today’s age, and they will say that it’s dying. When one looks at the world today, they see women’s rights, feminism, LGBTQ, and other movements that seek to suppress the natural masculinity within…

Bruno is a perfect representation of a common archetype within fiction and culture: the Magician. — In the 2021 Disney movie “Encanto”, we see several characters that fit well into various archetypes that have been expressed at various times within fiction. …

The face of an entranced penguin is a metaphor of our relationship to awe, greatness, beauty and transcendence. — Meme culture is always filled with memes, some of them impactful, and some of them only good for a laugh. However, some memes have a deeper meaning behind the humor, or the visual. Such memes have a meaning that is easy to overlook, and are even a metaphor for the…

The better your breathing, the more powerful you are. Does this translate to how we breathe in our daily lives? — The Hashira, or “Pillars”, are the most powerful warriors within the Demon Slayer Corps. The Demon Slayer Corps are an organization that fights against dark warriors of the night known as Demons, within the world of the anime Kimetsu No Yaiba, or “Demon Slayer”. To combat the demons of the…

What is the significance of the technique known as Hollow Purple, and why purple? — Gojo Satoru is well known as one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, character in the hit shounen anime Jujutsu Kaisen. His skill as a sorcerer and his tremendous expertise in the use of cursed energy is what makes him so deadly in combat. Many curses and…

The traits that made Scar, a lion, able to inspire devotion to him in hyenas; the natural enemy of lions. — In Disney’s The Lion King, one of the main events of the film is Scar taking over the Pridelands with the hyenas at his back. He becomes king with a move that utilizes the use of a clan of hyenas, which are natural enemies to lions. He unites all the…

The Twelve Kizuki, infused with the blood of the first demon, Muzan Kibutsuji, are a representation of the primal and devastating power of innate, natural talent and ability. — In the anime “Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba)”, the protagonist Tanjiro Kamado, along with his intrepid and plucky companions, face off, with the power of breath and swords in hand, against powerful supernatural creatures of the night known as “demons”. …